Resident Duty Hour Reform & Patient Safety

Effects of Resident Duty Hour Reform on Surgical and Procedural Patient Safety Indicators Among Hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Patients. 06/22/09. Improving patient safety was a strong motivation behind duty hour regulations implemented by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education on July 1, 2003. We investigated whether rates of patient safety indicators (PSIs) changed after these reforms. Medical Care via PubMed