title: Tired in the Reading Room: The Influence of Fatigue in Radiology.
abstract: Commonly conflated with sleepiness, fatigue is a distinct multidimensional condition with physical and mental effects. Fatigue in health care providers and any secondary effects on patient care are an important societal concern. As medical image interpretation is highly dependent on visual input, visual fatigue is of particular interest to radiologists. Humans analyze their surroundings with rapid eye movements called saccades, and fatigue decreases saccadic velocity. Oculomotor parameters may, therefore, be an objective and reproducible metric of fatigue and eye movement analysis can provide valuable insight into the etiology of fatigue-related error.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. Electronic address: Stephen.waite@downstate.edu.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Waite
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Srinivas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kolla
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jeudy
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Legasto
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology, and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Stephen L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Macknik
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology, and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martinez-Conde
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Krupinski
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Reede
mesh_terms: D001248:Asthenopia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000072177:Radiologists; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance
keywords: Fatigue; error; eye tracking; fixations; saccades