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Work Hour Reductions, Medical Errors, and Intern Well-Being at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Intensive Care Unit

NCT00996320 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2009-10-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether reducing intern work hours and eliminating extended shifts in the intensive care unit will reduce prescribing errors and improve intern well-being.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Reduced work hour schedule

Interns on the intervention schedule work an average of 60 hours per week over 4 weeks, with maximum shift length 16 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Providence St. Vincent Department of Medicine

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Providence Center for Outcomes Research and Education

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Providence Health & Services

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michelle L Schoepflin Sanders, MD · Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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