Manage staff fatigue to improve patient safety.

Patrice Spath

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Manage staff fatigue to improve patient safety.

August 2, 2010

Spath P. Hospital peer review. 2006;31(5):70-2.

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The author discusses three steps for reducing staff fatigue. Part I of this article discusses how to identify and evaluate worker fatigue.

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