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
