Inattentional blindness in medicine.

Connor M Hults; Yifan Ding; Geneva G Xie; Rishi Raja; William Johnson; Alexis Lee; Daniel J Simons

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Inattentional blindness in medicine.

April 17, 2024

Hults CM, Ding Y, Xie GG, et al. Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2024;9(1):18.

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Inattentional blindness occurs when a person is focused so intently on one task that they miss other important information. This review identifies studies of inattentional blindness in healthcare, from radiology to surgery to nursing. The authors make recommendations on how to improve designing and reporting studies of inattentional blindness.

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