From the Divisions of General Internal Medicine (JMR, RK, EB, DWB), Sleep Medicine (CPL, JWC, SWL, CAC), Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (JWC, CML), Cardiology (PHS), and Infectious Disease (JTK), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine (CPL), Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and Division of Sleep Medicine (CPL, JWC, SWL, CAC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
This study was presented in part at the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Orlando, FL, February 2004.
None of the authors have any financial interests that represent a potential conflict of interest.
This project was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; RO1 HS12032), affording data confidentiality protection by federal statute (Public Health Service Act; 42 U.S.C.), and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (R01 OHO7567), which provided a Certificate of Confidentiality for data protection, and the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; the Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Landrigan is the recipient of an AHRQ career development award (K08 HS13333); Dr. Cronin is the recipient of an AHRQ National Research Service Award (NRSA; F32 HS14130) and a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute fellowship in the program of training in Sleep, Circadian and Respiratory Neurobiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (NHLBI; T32 HL079010); Dr. Lockley is the recipient of a traveling fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, UK (060018/B/99/Z); and Dr. Czeisler is the recipient of a Team Leadership Award from the National Space Biomedical Institute.
