{"id":1869,"date":"2016-02-03T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2016-02-03T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:00:19","slug":"study-finds-no-harm-in-allowing-surgeons-in-training-to-work-longer-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds No Harm In Allowing Surgeons-In-Training To Work Longer Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Patients suffered no extra harm when doctors training to be surgeons were allowed to work longer shifts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1515724?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\">a study released Tuesday<\/a> concludes, adding to a push to relax the strictest limits on resident hours.<\/p>\n<p>The New England Journal of Medicine study comes as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acgme.org\/acgmeweb\/Portals\/0\/PDFs\/NascaLetterCommunity_1_7_16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reassessing requirements<\/a> that prevent residents from working extremely long stretches or back-to-back shifts. Those rules were enacted in 2003 and strengthened in 2011 amid concerns that sleep-deprived residents were more likely to make serious errors. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/study-finds-no-harm-in-allowing-surgeons-in-training-to-work-longer-shifts-3\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25873772&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mYQ7rlScfcy-_5ohHDRqDi51nyifG4bNJo8fQLHcGXe2jaCc14tz2-5CFa8pMf6vk2mP583SCdJVhX002p6cKyq4X_w&amp;_hsmi=25873772\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News) Patients suffered no extra harm when doctors training to be surgeons were allowed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}