Radiologists make more errors interpreting off-hours body CT studies during overnight assignments as compared with daytime assignments.
Patel AG, Pizzitola VJ, Johnson CD, et al. Radiologists Make More Errors Interpreting Off-Hours Body CT Studies during Overnight Assignments as Compared with Daytime Assignments. Radiology. 2020;297(2):374-379. doi:10.1148/radiol.2020201558.
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.