Radiologists make more errors interpreting off-hours body CT studies during overnight assignments as compared with daytime assignments.

Anika G Patel; Victor J Pizzitola; C. Daniel Johnson; Nan Zhang; Maitray D Patel

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Radiologists make more errors interpreting off-hours body CT studies during overnight assignments as compared with daytime assignments.

September 9, 2020

Patel AG, Pizzitola VJ, Johnson CD, et al. Radiology. 2020;297(2):374-379.

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The authors analyzed CT interpretation errors committed by radiology fellows working off-hours over a four-year period and found that interpretation errors occurred more frequently at night and in the latter half of night assignments.

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