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Rotating shift work, sleep, and accidents related to sleepiness in hospital nurses.

Author(s) -

Diane R. Gold,

S Rogacz,

Nina Bock,

Tor D. Tosteson,

Tom Baum,

F E Speizer,

Charles A. Czeisler

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.7.1011

Subject(s) - shift work , evening , odds , work (physics) , occupational safety and health , night work , sleep (system call) , psychology , odds ratio , medicine , medical emergency , psychiatry , logistic regression , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , pathology , astronomy , computer science , operating system

A hospital-based survey on shift work, sleep, and accidents was carried out among 635 Massachusetts nurses. In comparison to nurses who worked only day/evening shifts, rotators had more sleep/wake cycle disruption and nodded off more at work. Rotators had twice the odds of nodding off while driving to or from work and twice the odds of a reported accident or error related to sleepiness. Application of circadian principles to the design of hospital work schedules may result in improved health and safety for nurses and patients.

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