First, resident work hour rules have decreased attendance at traditional afternoon conferences at many residency programs by as much as one-third [ 63].
Overall then, this lack of an effect on patient safety is probably the result of intrinsic effects of the work hour rules themselves, not limited evidence or insufficient reductions in fatigue.
Unique features of this curriculum include the fact that it is mapped to the core ACGME competencies and provides ways to address new challenges presented by U.S. resident work hour rules, racial and ethnic diversity among residents, and an emerging new model of primary care.
(Bloomberg News) Work-Hour Rules Revised The Transportation Department issued revised work-hour rules for highway truck drivers, keeping provisions of earlier regulations that a federal court threw out last year.
Those fears have not been realized, according to a new study, and the work-hour rules have resulted in better care for patients.
Over two years, researchers at Yale-New Haven Hospital gatheredatata on length of stay, 30-day readmission rates and medication errors before and after the new rules were instituted — both on teaching services, where the new work-hour rules apply, and, as a control, on nonteaching services where the rules did not change.
They are also excluded from normal minimum-wage laws and rules on working hours.
The latest figures show Foxconn's Chinese factories are not alone in working staff beyond the legal limits, with fewer than one in three supplier factories obeying the rules on working hours.
A mountain of red tape that has scarcely modernised since the 1940s, the CLT restricts wage cuts, contains draconian penalties for sacking employees and implements paternalistic rules around working hours, to name just a few of its nightmarish provisions.The untenable labour laws are an appalling incentive for firms and workers.
Proposed new rules on pilots' working hours could lead to air crews flying while "dangerously fatigued", union officials have warned ahead of a key vote by MEPs.
