ACGME

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

Research

• Cost Analysis

List of Expert Testimonials

Compendium of June 2009 Duty Hours Congress Testimony