[barry-cotter]

I would be surprised if it did. I believe the reduction in doctors’ overtime was a wash for parent safety as more shift handoffs and less sleep deprivation more or less canceled except in surgery where it increased mistakes.

[mattkrause]

Those studies are silly though—-the “reduced” schedule is often still something like 24 hours on-duty (vs 28).

Hand-off is also something that could, in principle, be improved whereas long shifts are just butting up against the limits of human physiology.