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Resident duty hours around the globe: where are we now?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, December 2014
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Title
Resident duty hours around the globe: where are we now?
Published in
BMC Medical Education, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-14-s1-s8
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Authors

John Temple

Abstract

Safe and appropriate health care, especially in urgent or emergency situations, is the expectation of the public throughout the developed world. Achieving this goal requires appropriate levels of medical and other staff, appropriate training, and sensible working hours. Too often the brunt of such care, especially in out-of-hours situations, is borne by medical residents, who - to make matters worse - are frequently poorly supervised by more senior and experienced staff. Many jurisdictions have been alerted to this problem and are striving to correct it. However, the variation in attempts to restrict the actual hours worked by residents to "safe" levels is enormous, and all too often there is no consensus as to what should be put in place to achieve safe patient care. This paper sets out the current position for Europe, North America, and Australia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 115 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Student > Postgraduate 10 9%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 23 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 61 53%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 27 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2023.
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