Mandating limits on workload, duty, and speed in radiology.

Robert Alexander; Stephen Waite; Michael A. Bruno; Elizabeth A. Krupinski; Leonard Berlin; Stephen Macknik; Susana Martinez-Conde

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Mandating limits on workload, duty, and speed in radiology.

July 6, 2022

Alexander R, Waite S, Bruno MA, et al. Radiology. 2022:212631.

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To reduce medical errors caused by fatigue, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) adopted duty hour restrictions for ACGME-accredited residency programs; however, other healthcare fields have not yet done so. This review presents the limited existing evidence for regulating duty hours for radiologists and proposes that additional research needs to be completed before implementing restrictions.

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