Research: (medical residents) Reduced duty hours do not affect quality of care

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"Restructuring work hours for first-year medical residents to accommodate a 2011 duty hour limit of no more than 16 shift hours substantially increases patient handovers, but doesn't significantly affect efficiency and quality of care among medical inpatients, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study has found.
A separate Vanderbilt research report also shows that the reduced duty hours don't negatively affect the quality of the intern's education.....