Design and Recruitment of the Randomized Order Safety Trial Evaluating Resident-Physician Schedules (ROSTERS) Study

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• Personal Author:
  Barger LK ; Blackwell T ; Czeisler, Charles A. ; Halbower AC ; Kriesel DR ; Landrigan CP ; Lockley SW ; O'Brien CS ; Poynter SE ; Rahman SA ; Stone KL ; Sullivan JP ; Vittinghoff E ; Viyaran NC ; Wright KP Jr. ; Yu PL ; Zee PC
• Description:
  Introduction: While the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limited first year resident-physicians to 16 consecutive work hours from 2011 to 2017, resident-physicians in their second year or higher were permitted to work up to 28 h consecutively. This paper describes the Randomized Order Safety Trial Evaluating Resident-physician Schedules (ROSTERS) study, a clustered-randomized crossover clinical trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of eliminating traditional shifts of 24 h or longer for second year or higher resident-physicians in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). Methods: ROSTERS was a multi-center non-blinded trial in 6 PICUs at US academic medical centers. The primary aim was to compare patient safety between the extended duration work roster (EDWR), which included shifts >=24 h, and a rapidly cycling work roster (RCWR), where shifts were limited to a maximum of 16 h. Information on potential medical errors was gathered and used for classification by centrally trained physician reviewers who were blinded to the study arm. Secondary aims were to assess the relationship of the study arm to resident-physician sleep duration, work hours and neurobehavioral performance. Results: The study involved 6577 patients with a total of 38,821 patient days (n = 18,749 EDWR, n = 20,072 RCWR). There were 413 resident-physician rotations included in the study (n = 203 EDWR, n = 210 RCWR). Resident-physician questionnaire data were over 95% complete. Conclusions: Results from data collected in the ROSTERS study will be evaluated for the impact of resident-physician schedule roster on patient safety outcomes in PICUs, and will allow for examination of a number of secondary outcome measures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Randomized Health Care Personnel Long Work Hours Medical Errors Patient Safety Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Physicians Sleep Deprivation Work Hours Work Schedules
• ISSN:
  1551-7144
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Colorado ; Illinois ; Massachusetts ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22-33
• Volume:
  80
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056450
• Citation:
  Contemp Clin Trials 2019 May; 80:22-33
• Contact Point Address:
  Terri Blackwell, San Francisco Coordinating Center, Mission Hall Global Health & Clinical Sciences Building, 550 16th Street, 2nd Floor, Box 0560, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
• Email:
  tblackwell@sfcc-cpmc.net
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20130901
• Source Full Name:
  Contemporary Clinical Trials
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:473aa904ed25a32478b7f30abcaeb8ad9e2804ea2da45f9e3189bf94bb2b1451870640f92dcef3875e9cff5b4eadc7a1015cb22e85c24655a6bf9ca045d9897b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214056/cdc_214056_DS1.pdf
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