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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Workers today "sleep less and perform worse"
A new Demos survey reports that over the past 100 years, workers have lost 90 minutes sleep a night - down from 9 hours a night to 7.5 hours, with a massive effect on work performance. The report suggests daytime naps may be useful in counteracting this problem. (HR Gateway)
A letter to the Canadian Medical Association Journal about the reality of overwork and sleepless nights for physicians, provoked responses from Christopher Parshuram and Steven Howard. "Health care is a hazardous industry where we do risky things to patients", Howard argues. "Practitioners owe it to their patients to be optimally alert and able to perform. No health care professional would find it acceptable to arrive at work impaired by ethanol, yet many of us similarly impaired by chronic loss of sleep continue to care for patients."
The Guardian has a Q&A on the Working Time Directive.
Indiana's Purdue University is planning to launch a center which will use engineering and manufacturing principles to change healthcare delivery, time & resource management. (AMed News)
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A letter to the Canadian Medical Association Journal about the reality of overwork and sleepless nights for physicians, provoked responses from Christopher Parshuram and Steven Howard. "Health care is a hazardous industry where we do risky things to patients", Howard argues. "Practitioners owe it to their patients to be optimally alert and able to perform. No health care professional would find it acceptable to arrive at work impaired by ethanol, yet many of us similarly impaired by chronic loss of sleep continue to care for patients."
The Guardian has a Q&A on the Working Time Directive.
Indiana's Purdue University is planning to launch a center which will use engineering and manufacturing principles to change healthcare delivery, time & resource management. (AMed News)
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