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Study Shows No Increase In Patient Death Rates After Cutback In Resident Work Hours

Sleep-deprived physicians may be more prone to make mistakes. So in 2003, the organization in charge of physicians-in-training, or residents, reduced the number of hours they could work to eighty hours a week. New research says reducing those work hours has not increased patient deaths, and may have even improved patient care.

Icyou | January 29, 2008Watch more videos from Icyou

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