Work hour rules and contributors to patient care mistakes: A focus group study with internal medicine residents Part of this data was presented at the national Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, April 2005, at the national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, May 2005, and at the regional Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, September 2005.
dc.contributor.author | Fletcher, Kathlyn E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Parekh, Vikas I. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Halasyamani, Lakshmi K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kaufman, Samuel R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schapira, Marilyn M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ertl, Kristyn | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Saint, Sanjay | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-01T14:11:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-04T19:09:20Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2008-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Fletcher, Kathlyn E.; Parekh, Vikas; Halasyamani, Lakshmi; Kaufman, Samuel R.; Schapira, Marilyn; Ertl, Kristyn; Saint, Sanjay (2008). "Work hour rules and contributors to patient care mistakes: A focus group study with internal medicine residents Part of this data was presented at the national Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, April 2005, at the national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, May 2005, and at the regional Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, September 2005. ." Journal of Hospital Medicine 3(3): 228-237. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60234> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1553-5592 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1553-5606 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60234 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=18570333&dopt=citation | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: The “Swiss cheese model” of systems accidents is commonly applied to patient safety, implying that many “holes” must align before an adverse event occurs. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) instituted work hour limitations to fill one such hole by reducing resident fatigue. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine how residents perceive the impact of the ACGME rules and other factors on patient safety. DESIGN: The study was designed as a focus group study. PARTICIPANTS: Participating in the study were 28 internal medicine residents, of whom 13 were from a university-based program that includes both an academic medical center and a Veterans Affair (VA) hospital, 9 were from a community-based program, and 6 were from a freestanding medical college that includes a large private teaching hospital and a VA hospital. MEASUREMENT: Grounded theory analysis was used to examine transcripts of the focus group discussions. RESULTS: A model of contributors to patient care errors emerged including fatigue, inexperience, sign-outs, not knowing patients, “entropy” (which we defined as “overall chaos in the system”), and workload. Participants described the impact of both intended and unintended consequences of the work hour rules on patient care. Residents reported improved well-being and less fatigue, but had concern about the effect of reduced continuity on patient care. CONCLUSION: Our focus group participants perceived that the ACGME work hour limitations had minimized the impact of resident fatigue on patient care errors. Other contributors to errors remained and were often exacerbated by methods to maintain compliance with the rules. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2008;3:228–237. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Hospital Medicine | en_US |
dc.title | Work hour rules and contributors to patient care mistakes: A focus group study with internal medicine residents Part of this data was presented at the national Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, April 2005, at the national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, May 2005, and at the regional Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, September 2005. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan ; University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Fax: (414) 382-5017 ; Primary Care Division, Clement J. Zablocki VAMC, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53295 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | St. Joseph Mercy Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 18570333 | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60234/1/288_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhm.288 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Hospital Medicine | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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