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

• Main Authors: Soichi Koike (Author), Hiroo Wada (Author), Sachiko Ohde (Author), Hiroo Ide (Author), Kenichiro Taneda (Author), Takeshi Tanigawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract 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...