This retrospective cohort study was conducted to investigate whether operative treatment of patients with a pertrochanteric femoral fracture outside working hours is associated with an increased risk of complications and higher mortality. During the study period 165 patients were operated on outside working hours and 123 were operated on during working hours (08.00 to 17.00). There was no diffe...

Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing a total number of working hours over a year) permits companies to adapt capacity to fluctuations in demand, thus reducing overtime, temporary workers and inventory costs. Since annual hours can lead to a worsening of the staff’s working conditions, many laws and collective bargaining agreements contain constraints that...

OBJECTIVE Working long hours is a potential health hazard. Although self-reporting of working hours in various time frames has been used in epidemiologic studies, its validity is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine the validity and reproducibility of self-reported working hours among Japanese male employees. METHODS The participants were 164 male employees of four large-scale ...

BACKGROUND Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a proven therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. However, outcomes associated with primary PCI may differ depending on time of day. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease, a clinical data-collection initiative capturing all cardiac catheteris...

Although distinctions between full-time and part-time work are vital for understanding inequalities at home, consensus critical reflection lacking in how employment status should be defined. Full-time often represented as a binary split those working under or over specific number of hours. However, this paper, using exploratory mixed methods, evidences problems with assumptions based on working...