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Sleep Deprivation & Medical Errors
Host: Barbara Lewis
Interview: Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH
Director, Sleep and Patient Safety program
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
This year, the nation’s teaching hospitals instituted new rules that limit the number of consecutive hours that first year medical residents may work without sleep.
Our first guest, a Harvard sleep expert, says the rules do not go far enough, and anyway, they aren’t being implemented consistently.
The bottom line, says Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH, is twofold: patient safety and the high costs we all have to pay when hospital errors occur as the result of sleep deprivation.
Dr. Landrigan directs Sleep and Patient Safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where Harvard Medical residents do their final year of medical training.
Additional Resources:
- For more on the topic, read the paper Landrigan helped author: "Implementing the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations on resident physician work hours, supervision, and safety."
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