Overview

The TIRED study sought to examine the Need for Recovery score in ED doctors in the UK & Ireland. The Need for Recovery score measures the feeling of needing to recuperate from the physical and mental demands of work. It was run as a pilot single-site study then as a large-scale multi-centre study.

We collected the Need for Recovery score for all emergency medicine doctors working in the UK & Ireland. We also examined individual and departmental factors that were thought would impact upon this score.

This research showed the highest group Need for Recovery score ever recorded in the literature. Factors associated with a higher score were poor access to study leave, annual leave, and a higher proportion of out of hours work.

The results of the first survey and the full manuscript are were published (see below) and widely disseminated across a range of media (see more below).