The association of long working hours and short sleep duration on mental health among Japanese physicians.

This cross-sectional study investigates the association between long working hours, short sleep duration, and mental health among Japanese physicians. We enrolled 232 Japanese physicians. We used the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire to assess high-stress status, and the Japanese version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale to assess depressive status.

Working hours of full-time hospital physicians in Japan: a cross-sectional nationwide survey.

Background: The culture of excessively long overtime work in Japan has not been recently addressed. New legislation on working hours, including a limitation on maximum overtime work for physicians, will be enforced in 2024. This study was performed to elucidate the working conditions of full-time hospital physicians and discuss various policy implications.

Annotation Guidelines for Medication Errors in Incident Reports: Validation Through a Mixed Methods Approach.

At present no adequate annotation guidelines exists for incident report learning. This study aims at utilizing multiple quantitative and qualitative evidence to validate annotation guidelines for incident reporting of medication errors. Through multiple approaches via annotator training, annotation performance evaluation, exit surveys, and user and expert interviews, a mixed methods explanatory sequential design was utilized to collect 2-stage evidence for validation.

How do healthcare practitioners use incident data to improve patient safety in Japan? A qualitative study.

Background: Patient incident reporting systems have been widely used for ensuring safety and improving quality in care settings in many countries. However, little is known about the way in which incident data are used by frontline clinical staff. Furthermore, while the use of a systems perspective has been reported as an effective way of learning from incident data in a multidisciplinary team, the level of adaptability of this perspective to a different cultural context has not been widely explored.

How to facilitate a rapid response system in Japan: a promotion course based on TeamSTEPPS.

Aim: In Japan, the number of facilities introducing a rapid response system (RRS) has been increasing. However, many institutions have had unsuccessful implementations. In order to implement RRS smoothly, a plan that meets the needs of each hospital is needed.

Association of lung function with atherosclerotic risk factors among Japanese Americans: Seattle Nikkei Health Study.

1. Impaired lung function has been reported to be associated with mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV). The aim of the present study was to examine the association between impaired lung function and atherosclerotic risk factors, including PWV, blood pressure, lipids, smoking and alcohol intake, among Japanese Americans.