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.
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.
