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Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
How fatigued is too fatigued to effectively provide patient care?
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
How fatigued is too fatigued to effectively provide patient care?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Field, Taylor and colleagues who explored clinicians' perceptions of workplace fatigue and its impact on clinical practice. And they uncovered a problematic paradox. While participants acknowledged that fatigue had an impact on clinical performance, they were reluctant to acknowledge any negative impact on patient care. As the authors suggest, successful implementation of fatigue risk management in healthcare hinges on explicitly addressing this paradox. And there's much to learn from other high reliability industries.
Full citation:
Field, E., Lingard, L., Cherry, R., Van Koughnett, J. A., DeLuca, S., & Taylor, T. (2021). The fatigue paradox: Team perceptions of physician fatigue. Medical Education.
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