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Harvard Work Hours Health and Safety Group

A Scheduling Toolkit for Medical Professionals

This research is supported by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Partnerships in Patient Safety, Grant no. U18 HS15906

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Designing Schedules for Improved Resident Performance

Reduction of health care provider work hours has proven challenging for a variety of reasons. Few data exist on precisely how to reschedule a limited number of providers, or alternatively, how to train and hire more providers in order to safely reduce work hours. Traditional 24-hour work shifts represent an urgent risk to patients and providers alike, many concerns remain about how to change existing systems. This website provides a toolkit for designing modified resident schedules to combat fatigue and improve resident performance.