ArticleJournal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)2018
Quantifying the costs of interruption during diagnostic radiology interpretation using mobile eye-tracking glasses.
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- Interruption in visual search: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Reading Room Interruptions are Less Disruptive When Using Asynchronous Communication Methods.Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 2024Observational
- Research on re-searching: interrupted foraging is not disrupted foraging.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Active visual search in naturalistic environments reflects individual differences in classic visual search performance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Working from home in pediatric radiology: to be or not to be, it's not a simple question.Pediatric radiology · 2022Article
- Performance of Pediatric Neuroradiologists Working from Home during a Pandemic at a Quaternary Pediatric Academic Hospital.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2022Article
- A global and local perspective of interruption frequency in a visual search task.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Characteristics of expert search behavior in volumetric medical image interpretation.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2021Article
- Eye Tracking for Deep Learning Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Networks.Journal of digital imaging · 2019Article
- What do we know about volumetric medical image interpretation?: a review of the basic science and medical image perception literatures.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2019Review
- Eye Movements in Medical Image Perception: A Selective Review of Past, Present and Future.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
What are the costs and consequences of interruptions during diagnostic radiology? The cognitive psychology literature suggests that interruptions lead to an array of negative consequences that could hurt patient outcomes and lead to lower patient throughput. Meanwhile, observational studies have both noted a strikingly high rate of interruptions and rising number of interruptions faced by radiologists. There is some observational evidence that more interruptions could lead to worse patient outcomes: Balint et al. (2014) found that the shifts with more telephone calls received in the reading room were associated with more discrepant calls. The purpose of the current study was to use an experimental manipulation to precisely quantify the costs of two different types of interruption: telephone interruption and an interpersonal interruption. We found that the first telephone interruption led to a significant increase in time spent on the case, but there was no effect on diagnostic accuracy. Eye-tracking revealed that interruptions strongly influenced where the radiologists looked: they tended to spend more time looking at dictation screens and less on medical images immediately after interruption. Our results demonstrate that while radiologists' eye movements are reliably influenced by interruptions, the behavioral consequences were relatively mild, suggesting effective compensatory mechanisms.
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