Article Text
PostScript
Letter
Working the night shift: evidence-based practice?
Statistics from Altmetric.com
The emergency department is a 24 h environment and shift work has been a fact of life for junior emergency department doctors for decades. The European Working Time Directive, rising numbers of patients and the desirability of more senior medical cover overnight means that a junior doctor wishing to specialise in emergency medicine (EM) faces the prospect of nearly a decade of full-shift working. There is a wealth of evidence regarding best practice for working night shifts, mainly from non-medical …
Footnotes
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Linked Articles
- Primary survey