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Attention Among Health Care Professionals: A Scoping Review
Annals of Internal Medicine
Jun 18, 2024
Mark J. Kissler, MD, and five CU Anschutz colleagues are the authors of a paper that evaluates medical literature on the role of attention in the clinical environment. They identified 6 categories of literature related to attention: the clinical environment and its effect on attention, personal factors affecting attention, relationships between interventions or factors that affect attention and patient outcomes, the effect of clinical alarms and alarm fatigue on attention, and health information technology’s effect on attention.
The authors propose that a well-functioning environment enables good care without overtaxing the clinician’s cognitive or emotional resources. But simply creating a “sterile cockpit” for a distraction-free environment is unrealistic in most health care settings. They conclude that to be effective, health care quality improvement efforts need to transition from siloed quality improvement interventions to multidisciplinary efforts that understand that health care is composed of complex and overlapping environments. Read article>>
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