Research and Testimony
Monograph of the ACGME Task Force on Quality Care and Professionalism
- The ACGME 2011 Duty Hour Standards: Promoting Quality of Care, Supervision, and Resident Professional Development
- Erratum
The Monograph is also available for download by individual chapters.
- Chapter 1 - A Comprehensive Approach to Ensure Safe Care for Today and The Future
- Chapter 2 - A Brief History of Duty Hours and Resident Education
- Chapter 3 - The 2003 Common Standards and Their Effect
- Chapter 4 - The Process for Developing the 2011 Duty Hour Standards
- Chapter 5 - New Duty Hour Limits: Discussion and Justification
- Chapter 6 -New Supervision Standards: Discussion and Justification
- Chapter 7 - New Standards for Resident Professionalism: Discussion and Justification
- Chapter 8 - New Standards for Teamwork: Discussion and Justification
- Chapter 9 - New Standards for Transitions of Care: Discussion and Justification
- Chapter 10 - New Standards for Addressing Fitness for Duty, Alertness Management, and Fatigue Migration
- Chapter 11 - Going Beyond Duty Hours: A Focus on Patient Safety
- Chapter 12 - The Need for Flexibility in the New Standards
- Chapter 13 - The Graduate Medical Community's Responsibility for Producing a Fully Trained Physician
- Chapter 14 - Promoting Compliance with the Standards to Advance Patient Safety and Physician Competence
- Chapter 15 - A Research Agenda to Assess the Impact of the 2011 Standards and To Identify Opportunities for Refinement
- Appendix A - Potential Cost Implications of Changes to Resident Duty Hours and Related Changes to the Training Environment
- Appendix B - Systematic Review of the Literature: Resident Duty Hours and Related Topics
- Appendix C - Systematic Review of the Literature on the Impact of Variation in Residents' Duty Hour Schedule on Patient Safety
- Appendix D - Conceptual Frameworks in the Study of Duty Hour Changes in Graduate Medical Education: An Integrative Review
- Appendix E - Comparison of the ACGME 2003 Standards, The Institute of Medicine Recommended Limits, and the ACGME 2011 Standards
Literature Reviews
- Conceptual Frameworks in the Study of Duty Hour Changes in Graduate Medical Education: An integrative review
- Systematic Review of the Literature on the Impact Variation in Residents' Duty Hour Schedules on Patient Safety
- Systematic Review of Literature: Resident Duty Hours and Related Topics