duty hour

Time spent at work in a health care institution providing direct patient care, performing administrative functions, or attending meetings and conferences.

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* Terms related to working hours: duty hour, work shift, shift length.

Physicians' working time restriction and its impact on patient safety: an integrative review/A restricao da jornada de trabalho do medico e seu impacto na seguranca do paciente: uma revisao integrativa

In June 2013, Canada's National Steering Committee on Resident Duty Hours released its recommendations for a nationwide approach to resident duty hour reform and concluded that the status quo of 24 or more hours without restorative sleep should be avoided.

Urology residents on call: Investigating the workload and relevance of calls

(http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1672284#AuthorInformation) In a paper published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, a team of researchers led by University of Michigan Medical School scientists compared the performance of more than 2,300 first-year medical residents that served at 51 different residency programs before and after the new duty hour requirements went into effect.

Reducing Young Doctors' Work Hours May Not Reduce Patient Risks: Studies

The ACGME 2011 Duty Hour Standards: Enhancing Quality of Care, Supervision, and Resident Professional Development .

Going beyond the resident duty hours in Pakistan

* Many academic programs began focusing on meeting the duty hour restrictions, perhaps at the expense of education.

Resident duty hours to be reduced in first year

The council's "common duty hour standards" call for a 24-hour limit on continuous duty, with an additional 6 hours allowed for continuity and the transfer of care, as well as an 80-hour weekly limit averaged over 4 weeks.

IOM panel revisits issue of resident work hours

Students should complete courses during nonduty hours unless supervisor approval allows for duty hour completion.

Army Acquisition Support Center (March 2005): Army Acquisition professional development system (AAPDS)

The council said it has issued citations to individual programs for duty hour violations and has done resident surveys that demonstrate a compliance rate of 94%.

Resident work hours reviewed by IOM

Impact of duty hour limits on resident training in otolaryngology.

Surgical training and duty-hour limits: an oxymoron or an idea whose time has come?

The police personnel and volunteers will not be allowed to use mobile phones during duty hours. A control room has also been set up under the Special Branch to monitor the situation.

Installation of walk-through gates, CCTV cameras at Imambargahs directed

Openly eating and smoking is banned during duty hours, officials said, and police are also barred for sitting in vehicles or on chairs at their site of duty.

SOP prepared to protect police officials deployed at pickets

The altercation took place when havildar Joshi found the rifleman was not alert on duty and penalised him for his lazy attitude during duty hours.