Workus interruptus five times an hour
26th July 2013
By Paul Smith
Doctors in emergency departments are interrupted at least five times every hour, most often by a colleague at a work station, new research shows.

The findings come from a Swedish analysis of emergency department clinicians — including doctors and nurses — who were observed while doing hospital clinical work.
Doctors were interrupted more often than nurses, and were apparently the "recipients of interruptions induced by others" rather than victims of the so