Consultants' hours of work: a new perspective

ACGME work hours regulations: a perspective from neurology program directors.

Background Resident duty hour regulations developed by the ACGME went into effect in July 2003 and were preceded by much debate among medical educators. The regulations have forced change in the structure of many residency programs. All programs, regardless of specialty, have been forced to re-evaluate the structure of patient care systems in the academic setting where the resident role in serv...

Hours of Work

Estimation of Working Hours of Nursing Staff in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Work Sampling

Background: Human resources are considered the most valuable capital of every healthcare system, and the quality of care is closely related to the quantity and skill of this group. Therefore, the proper estimation of the required nursing staff in different wards can help improve the quality of nursing care. The purpose of this study was to determine the hours of provided care by nursing staff i...

Trainee fatigue: are new limits on work hours enough?

Employment and Hours of Work

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and hours of work is determined as part of a search equilibrium. Each firm chooses the demand for working hours and the number of vacancies, and the hourly wage rate is determined by Nash bargaining. A firm increases the demand for hours as recruitment becomes more costly. Labor market...