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Barbara Schuster, MD

Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(14):1453-1455.

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In the well-planned and well-executed study delineating faculty member reflections on the effect of the 80-hour maximum work week on resident patient care, education, professionalism, and well-being, Reed and colleagues¹ are careful to sample internal medicine faculty from diverse residency programs affiliated with US schools of allopathic medicine. Though probably unable to capture the full scope of community and university faculty opinion, the authors conclude that program size and National Institutes of Health funding of the affiliated school of medicine (a surrogate for more traditional vs community-based medical schools) are not associated with differences in faculty member views.

Most faculty members perceived an association between duty-hour restrictions and worsening continuity of patient care, communication with patients, and quality of overall care and little change in the number and severity of patient care errors. Faculty members also believed that the restrictions on duty hours correlated with a decrease . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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