Abstract

House officers' work hours are the stuff of legend and urban myth. Prompted by the recent mandate from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that limits work hours for residents, researchers prospectively measured interns' work and sleep hours, attentional failures, and error rates during two different work schedules. Interns at a Boston teaching hospital worked one intensive care unit rotation on a traditional schedule (every third night …

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