Studies: long shifts may contribute to medical error
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Medical school interns routinely work 30-hour shifts, but two new studies say the workload is both dangerous and excessive, and are calling for interns&#39; hours to be cut in half.
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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. hospitals that switched from using doctors&#39; handwritten prescriptions to computerized drug ordering systems had a 66 percent drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that looked at the results of 12 studies.
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The more time college students  spend on the computer on a particular day, the more likely they  are to suffer from musculoskeletal problems during that 24-hour  period, a new study shows.
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A new study finds that cancer casts a long shadow on the lives of survivors, harming their ability to work and perform daily chores more than a decade after diagnosis.
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Rules designed to prevent doctors in   training from having to work hours on end with little sleep   have failed to reform the practice, researchers said on   Tuesday.
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America&#39;s doctors-in-training are committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work more than 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the US medical community has
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Mental ill health the second largest cause of sick leave Mental ill health is the second largest cause of time lost due to sickness absence in UK organisations with stress, depression, and anxiety accounting for over 50 per cent of these mental health problems, according to a report published this month.â¦
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Jet lag isn't just caused by time zone shifts.
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WASHINGTON The World Health Organization says one in ten hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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The morning after the night before is the main reason in Britain for employees calling in sick, a study published Wednesday showed.
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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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Many caregivers perform CPR incorrectly  and fail to restart stopped hearts by not adhering to strict  guidelines governing the frequency and force of chest  compressions, a pair of studies said on Tuesday.
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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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Primary care doctors, who sometimes review hundreds of test results each week, reported in a new study that delays in reviewing results for patients are common, and many said they are unhappy with how they manage these crucial pieces of information.
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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High-pressure work deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of suffering a heart attack in the following 24 hours, a study has suggested.
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When a person is first  diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may  suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer  work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study  findings show.