Researchers looked at 2,078 non-emergent gallbladder surgeries performed by 331 surgeons who had operated the night before and 8,312 non-emergent gallbladder surgeries for which the surgeons had not performed a surgery the previous night.
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Error rates for each group of surgeries were under 1 percent, and deaths were rare in both groups, suggesting concerns about sleep and surgical outcomes are unfounded.
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