Impact of the 2003 ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reform on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: A National Retrospective Analysis

摘要

BackgroundThe Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education reforms in 2003 instituted an 80-hour weekly limit for resident physicians. Critics argue that these restrictions have increased handoffs among residents and the potential for a decline in patient safety. “Never events” hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are a set of preventable events used as a quality metric in hospital safety analyses.