Can acute care surgeons perform while fatigued? An EAST multicenter study
Schuster KM, Hazelton JP, Rattigan D, Nguyen L, Kim D, Spence LH, Turay D, Luo-Owen X, Perez JM, Dayal S, Blatt M, Hill C, Bhattacharya B. Can acute care surgeons perform while fatigued? An EAST multicenter study. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2018, 85: 476-484. PMID: 29787535, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000001975.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care surgeonsMajor morbidityPatient outcomesAcute care surgery serviceEAST multicenter studyPatient-level factorsEmergency casesFour-level ordinal scaleHours of sleepHierarchical logistic regression modelsImpact of fatigueLogistic regression modelsPatient factorsFemale patientsSurgery serviceMulticenter studyLevel IVImmediate operationPrognostic studiesSleep timePatient volumeSimilar outcomesMorbiditySurgeonsMortality