- Title
- Inattentional blindness and pattern-matching failure : The case of failure to recognize clinical cues
- Creator
- Al-Moteri, Modi; Symmons, Mark; Cooper, Simon J.; Plummer, Virginia
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166158
- Identifier
- vital:13347
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2018.07.001
- Identifier
- ISBN:0003-6870
- Abstract
- Eye-tracking methodology was used to investigate lapses in the appropriate treatment of ward patients due to not noticing critical cues of deterioration. Forty nursing participants with different levels of experience participated in an interactive screen-based simulation of hypovolemic shock. The results show that 65% of the participants exhibited at least one episode of non-fixation on clinically relevant, fully visible cues that were in plain sight. Thirty-five percent of participants dwelt for sufficient time (>200 ms) on important cues for perception to take place, but no action followed, indicating they had pattern-matching failure. When participants fail to notice what, they should notice in patient status until it is too late, this can have serious consequences. Much work needs to be done, since these human perceptual limitations can affect patient safety in general wards.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Applied Ergonomics Vol. 73, no. (2018), p. 174-182
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1116 Medical Physiology; 1203 Design Practice and Management; Attention; Eye tracking; Inattentional blindness; Notice; Nursing; Patient safety; Pattern matching
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