> how is this relevant though? most serious errors crop up during shift changes. nurses forget to check a box, or get distracted and leave something out, doct

> how is this relevant though? most serious errors crop up during shift changes. nurses forget to check a box, or get distracted and leave something out, doctors don't do a follow up, etc. over millions of hospital hours across the US -- the 3rd most populous country in the world -- each shift change causes dozens of errors, and people sometimes die from that. increasing them to 12 or 24 hour shifts does increase the likelihood of fatigue-based poor decisions and errors, but at a lesser amount than shift change-related errors.