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Rotating shift work, sleep, and accidents related to sleepiness in hospital nurses.
Abstract
A hospital-based survey on shift work, sleep, and accidents was carried out among 635 Massachusetts nurses. In comparison to nurses who worked only day/evening shifts, rotators had more sleep/wake cycle disruption and nodded off more at work. Rotators had twice the odds of nodding off while driving to or from work and twice the odds of a reported accident or error related to sleepiness. Application of circadian principles to the design of hospital work schedules may result in improved health and safety for nurses and patients.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gold, D. R., Rogacz, S., Bock, N., Tosteson, T. D., Baum, T. M., Speizer, F. E., & Czeisler, C. A.
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1992-07
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1011-1014
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
- OpenAlex
- W1972482311
- Cited by
- 516
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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