I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. It is a pleasure for us to bring you EM literature reviews each day and package them into morsels you can digest…kind of like slices of pumpkin pie. Happy Thanksgiving!

This study found no difference in effectiveness between an N95 respiratory and common medical mask in preventing transmission of influenza or other viral respiratory illnesses in a healthcare workplace.

Day sleepers slept 23% less compared to those sleeping during evening and nighttime hours .

Showing compassion to patients in the ED with a life threatening emergency reduced the odds of PTSD at one month.

Helping impaired physicians is part of our profession’s self-regulatory duty. The goal is to ensure patient safety, help physicians get help, and restore them to practice whenever possible.

Burnout is complex - with individual and systemic causes and solutions. Here are five systems and organizational-level ways to reduce it.

Physician (all healthcare worker) burnout is very costly to organizations, which means small investments to reduce it produce big returns financially and for clinicians’ quality of life.

There was no difference in patient safety between standard resident duty hour restrictions and a more flexible schedule that allowed for longer shifts and no mandated time off between shifts.