Key result
End-of-shift radiologist fatigue is linked to serious medical errors and missed imaging abnormalities.
Why the study?
Fatigue in radiologists may be responsible for a large number of medical errors.
Fatigue in radiology is a significant contributor to medical errors, highlighting the need for future research on interventions and objective fatigue measures.
End-of-shift fatigue may heighten radiology error risk; leaves open which interventions reduce misses pending RCTs.
Fatigue in radiologists may be responsible for a large number of medical errors. This review describes the latest research on fatigue in radiology. This includes measurement methods, and recent evidence on how fatigue affects accuracy in laboratory test conditions and in clinical practice. The extensive opportunities for future research in the area are explored, including testing interventions to reduce fatigue-related error, and further understanding of which fatigue measures correlate with errors. Finally we explore the possibility of answering these questions using large population-based observational studies and pragmatic integrated randomised controlled trials.
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Taylor‐Phillips et al. (2019) conducted a review in Fatigue in radiology. Fatigue in radiologists, particularly towards the end of a long shift, contributes to serious medical errors and increases the risk of missing abnormalities on imaging.
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