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| Laura K BargerSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Validation of a questionnaire to screen for shift work disorderLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sleep 35:1693-703. 2012..We sought to develop and validate a questionnaire to screen for high risk of SWD in a shift working population...- Learning to live on a Mars day: fatigue countermeasures during the Phoenix Mars Lander missionLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sleep 35:1423-35. 2012..We evaluated the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of a fatigue management program to facilitate synchronization with the Mars day and alleviate circadian misalignment, sleep loss, and fatigue... 
Neurobehavioral, health, and safety consequences associated with shift work in safety-sensitive professionsLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 9:155-64. 2009..Comprehensive fatigue management programs that include education, screening for common sleep disorders, and appropriate interventions need to be developed to minimize these negative consequences associated with shift work...- Daily exercise facilitates phase delays of circadian melatonin rhythm in very dim lightLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 286:R1077-84. 2004..73, P < 0.05) such that the closer to the DLMO(25%), the greater the phase shift. These data suggest that exercise may help to facilitate circadian adaptation to schedules requiring a delay in the sleep-wake cycle... 
Effects of the accreditation council for graduate medical education duty hour limits on sleep, work hours, and safetyChristopher P Landrigan
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 122:250-8. 2008..Our goal was to determine whether work hours, sleep, and safety changed after implementation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education standards...- Effective implementation of work-hour limits and systemic improvementsChristopher P Landrigan
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:19-29. 2007..Implementation of evidence-based work-hour limits, scientifically designed work schedules, and infrastructural changes, such as the development of standardized handoff systems, are urgently needed... - Effects of health care provider work hours and sleep deprivation on safety and performanceSteven W Lockley
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:7-18. 2007..To reduce the unacceptably high rate of preventable fatigue-related medical error and injuries among health care workers, the United States must establish and enforce safe work-hour limits... 
Impact of extended-duration shifts on medical errors, adverse events, and attentional failuresLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 3:e487. 2006..These results have important public policy implications for postgraduate medical education...- Sleep disorders, health, and safety in police officersShantha M W Rajaratnam
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 306:2567-78. 2011..Sleep disorders often remain undiagnosed. Untreated sleep disorders among police officers may adversely affect their health and safety and pose a risk to the public... - Extended work duration and the risk of self-reported percutaneous injuries in internsNajib T Ayas
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 296:1055-62. 2006..04; 95% CI, 1.98-2.11). CONCLUSION: Extended work duration and night work were associated with an increased risk of percutaneous injuries in this study population of physicians during their first year of clinical training... - Interns' compliance with accreditation council for graduate medical education work-hour limitsChristopher P Landrigan
Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group, Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 296:1063-70. 2006..The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced duty-hour standards in 2003 to reduce work hours... - When policy meets physiology: the challenge of reducing resident work hoursSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 449:116-27. 2006..An evidence-based approach is needed to minimize the well-documented risk that current work hour practices confer on resident health and patient safety while optimizing education and continuity of care... - Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort studyAmy M Fahrenkopf
Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMJ 336:488-91. 2008..To determine the prevalence of depression and burnout among residents in paediatrics and to establish if a relation exists between these disorders and medication errors... - Classifying performance impairment in response to sleep loss using pattern recognition algorithms on single session testingMelissa A St Hilaire
Analytic and Modeling Unit, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Accid Anal Prev 50:992-1002. 2013..Pattern recognition algorithms should be further tested for their ability to be used in conjunction with other assessments of sleepiness in real-world conditions to quantify performance impairment in response to sleep loss... - Extended work shifts and the risk of motor vehicle crashes among internsLaura K Barger
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 352:125-34. 2005..These results have implications for medical residency programs, which routinely schedule physicians to work more than 24 consecutive hours... - Assessment of circadian rhythms throughout the menstrual cycle of female rhesus monkeysLaura K Barger
Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Am J Primatol 70:19-25. 2008..Heart rate was significantly (P< or =0.05) delayed in the luteal phase. Albeit non-significant, analysis showed a trend toward decreased circadian amplitude of body temperature in the luteal phase...