Improving Doctors' Working Lives

A small-scale study by Roehrs, Greenwald & Roth, published in the US journal Sleep, has shown that sleepiness can lead to poorer decision-making. Co-author Thomas Roth, PhD, told the National Sleep Foundation: "Everybody assumes that sleep loss causes car accidents because people fall asleep while driving. Our study is the first to show that accidents also can occur because (sleepy) people make bad decisions."
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