Rules set by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2011 limited the number of consecutive hours a doctor-in-training could work. Some in the medical community worried the new rules might be detrimental to patient health because doctors-in-training were not spending enough time with patients. The studies determined the new rules had no effect on patient risk within 30 days of treatment.
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Resident Work Limits Don't Offer Extra Patient Safety: Study
Two new studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that limiting the number of hours a medical resident works does not improve patient safety. So reports the LA Times.
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