ArticleFuture healthcare journal2025
Healthcare staff fatigue: The unrecognised risk for patient safety.
Article in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Associations of Insomnia, Fatigue, and Overtime Work With Self-Reported Medication Errors Among Perianesthesia Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.International nursing review · 2026Observational
- Neonatal nurse practitioners' perspective on fatigue, safety, and collaboration during 24-hour shifts in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Assessment of Well-Being Among Healthcare Workers and Identification of Possible Improvement Measures Using the NIOSH Well-Being Questionnaire.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Article
- Leading, Connecting and Coping: Nurses' Responses to Sustaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis-A Qualitative Study.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
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Abstract
Fatigue among NHS staff is rarely acknowledged as a risk to the quality of healthcare delivery and patient safety. Other safety-critical industries have systematic approaches to managing and accounting for the known risks of staff fatigue within their organisations. These provide individual staff with clear expectations, and require an organisation-wide approach to fatigue risk management and national oversight by a regulatory framework. Fatigue in health and social care is not managed in the same way. This paper describes why fatigue is a risk to patient safety and the core components of fatigue risk management systems, and includes reflections from the authors' experiences in healthcare. This paper makes the case for healthcare organisations to acknowledge and seek to pragmatically manage the risk of fatigue among healthcare staff to support patient safety.
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