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It is not known whether extreme fatigue compromises trainee safety in the healthcare workplace, but evidence of such a relationship would inform the current debate on trainee work practices. Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between fatigue and workplace injury risk among medical trainees and nontrainee healthcare workers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700045586_abs2\"><jats:title>Design.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Case-crossover study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700045586_abs3\"><jats:title>Setting.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Five academic medical centers in the United States and Canada.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700045586_abs4\"><jats:title>Participants.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Healthcare workers reporting to employee healthcare clinics for evaluation of needlestick injuries and other injuries related to sharp instruments and devices (sharps injuries). Consenting workers completed a structured interview about work patterns, time at risk of injury, and frequency of fatigue.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700045586_abs5\"><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 350 interviewed subjects, 109 (31%) were medical trainees. Trainees worked more hours per week (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&lt; .001) and slept less the night before an injury (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&lt; .001) than did other healthcare workers. Fatigue increased injury risk in the study population as a whole (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 1.40 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.03-1.90]), but this effect was limited to medical trainees (IRR, 2.94 [95% CI, 1.71-5.07]) and was absent for other healthcare workers (IRR, 0.97 [95% CI, 0.66-1.42]) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= .001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700045586_abs6\"><jats:title>Conclusions.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Long work hours and sleep deprivation among medical trainees result in fatigue, which is associated with a 3-fold increase in the risk of sharps injury. 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