From the ∗Program for Patient Safety and Quality
†Emergency Medicine
‡Institutional Centers for Clinical & Translational Research
§Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
∥Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
¶Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Correspondence: Kate E. Humphrey, MD, MPH, Boston Children’s Hospital, Longwood Center 5418, Mailstop: BCH 3024, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]); Melissa Sundberg, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Main South B, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]).
K.E.H. (0000-0002-2148-3895), M.S. (0000-0001-6249-8260), C.E.M. (0000-0001-6280-8417), D.A.G. (0000-0002-1526-547X), C.P.L. (0000-0001-8386-4100).
All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare the following: Dr Landrigan reports grants from CRICO during the conduct of the study, personal fees and other from I-PASS Patient Safety Institute, personal fees from Midwest Lighting Institute, and personal fees from Missouri Hospital Association/Executive Speakers Bureau, outside the submitted work. In addition, Dr Landrigan has received monetary awards, honoraria, and travel reimbursement from multiple academic and professional organizations for teaching and consulting on sleep deprivation, physician performance, handoffs, and safety, and has served as an expert witness in cases regarding patient safety and sleep deprivation. Of note, by design Dr Landrigan did not have direct access to the data and was not involved in the classification of cases, to avoid any potential bias related to his competing interests. There are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. The remaining authors disclose no conflict of interest.
Authorship Criteria and Contributions: K.E.H. was responsible for substantial contributions to the design of the work, the data acquisition, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, and revision and final approval of the work for publication. The corresponding author attests that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. M.S. was responsible for substantial contributions to the design of the work, the data acquisition, data analysis, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, and revision and final approval of the work for publication. C.E.M. was responsible for the data analysis, data interpretation, and manuscript revision. D.A.G. was responsible for the data analysis, data interpretation, and manuscript revision. C.P.L. was responsible for substantial contributions to the design of the work, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, and revision and final approval of the work for publication.
Disclaimers: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and not an official position of Boston Children’s Hospital or CRICO.
Data Sharing: All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. Ethics statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Boston Children’s Hospital Institutional Review Board, IRB-P00018647.
Ethics Statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Boston Children’s Hospital Institutional Review Board (IRB-P00018647).
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