OMFS: Work time restrictions

Effect of work hour restrictions on fellows.

present for days, or alternatively that patients who have delays in receiving antibiotics are substantially different with respect to important comorbid illnesses. While administering antibiotics promptly is desirable, the real key to improving outcomes lies in understanding why patients who have a delay in antibiotic therapy are more likely to die. Although an enforceable time limit satisfies ...

How the ACGME Work-Hour Restrictions Have Affected Orthopedic Residents.

Driving Restrictions That Work? Quitos Pico y Placa Program

Programs to reduce tra¢ c congestion and air pollution by restricting use of motor vehicles on working days have generally not met with success, given existing studies of such programs. We conduct the …rst study of Quito, Ecuador’s three-year-old Pico y Placa program and …nd that it has reduced ambient concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), a pollutant primarily emitted by vehicles, by 9-11% d...

Burnout and internal medicine resident work-hour restrictions.

BACKGROUND Burnout is very common in internal medicine residents. Effective July 2003, all residents were restricted to work less than an average of 80 hours per week and no more than 30 hours of continuous duty for patient care and educational obligations. We evaluated rates of burnout in internal medicine residents before and after the implementation of the new work-hour restriction. METHOD...

Job Search, Hours Restrictions and Desired Hours of Work

We present a structural empirical job search model in which job offers are characterized by a wage rate and the length of the working week. The unemployed accept a job if the direct utility leve1 of the wage-hours combination is higher than the reservation utility level. The latter is determined by the direct utility of being unemployed (depending on the value of leisure and the benefit level) ...