A little sleep cuts errors by doctors, study finds
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WASHINGTON -- Young doctors made far fewer mistakes when their hours were restricted to let them get some sleep, according to the first study to directly examine the issue.
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Most doctors are afraid to take responsibility for medical errors, but studies have shown that physiciansâ apologies may protect against litigation.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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Eighty percent of U.S. doctors and  half of nurses surveyed said they had seen colleagues make  mistakes, but only 10 percent ever spoke up, according to a  study released on Wednesday.
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Physicians are among the most trusted professionals in America, but a new survey shows that when it comes to dealing with colleagues' mistakes or incompetence, many doctors abandon the high standards they espouse.
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Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies.
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When woken numerous times throughout the night, healthy volunteers had trouble regulating their blood sugar.
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Death rates among elderly U.S. patients have shown little change since the long hours worked by doctors in training were cut in 2003 under a major effort to reduce hospital errors, a study said on Tuesday.
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British companies should help employees doze off by installing beds in the workplace in a bid to increase productivity, a study published in The Guardian daily showed.
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More studies show that short periods of sleep during the day increase productivity and creativity while reducing stress.
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Taking a blood pressure pill at bedtime instead of in the morning might be healthier for some high-risk people.
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Putting aside time in the early afternoon to nap appears to help older adults compensate for the sleeping problems that tend to occur with age, new research shows.
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Many people who take sleep medications think they work far better than laboratory measurements show they do.
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From prescribing overdoses to sticking a tube in the wrong vein, doctors-in-training made one-third more serious mistakes during typically long shifts than they did during &quot;short&quot; 16-hour ones, a Harvard study found.
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NEW YORK  - The dreaming reported by many patients during surgery, in most cases, does not mean the anesthesia is wearing off, Australian researchers report in the journal Anesthesiology.
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While many a parent will lament there  are not enough hours in the day, the simultaneous use of  several technologies is allowing families to cram in 43 hours  worth of activity from one sunrise to the next, a new study  claims.
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A new study shows that many doctors waste patientsâ time in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves.