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Re:Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Colli... by mattkrause on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:42PM (#15385368)
You also have to look at the baseline in these papers. Many of these studies do daft things like compare 24 and 28 hour shifts, neither of which is likely to be anywhere near optimal performance.

Hand-off also seems like a thing that could be improved in many different ways, while fatigue is driven by fundamental limits of human physiology.

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Re:Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Colli... by logfromblammo on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:58PM (#15386179)
Seems like a patient handoff/briefing is something technology could improve, with automatically generated digests, AI-flagged indications, and well-designed infographics, whereas no machine on Earth is currently capable of getting 8 hours of sleep for you.
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Re:Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Colli... by arkades on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:41PM (#15386600)
Technology doesn't help because many of the issues that are "lost" in handoffs exist only in a physician's head. And since digital documentation is both (1) incredibly inconvenient and (2) a legal liability, it's likely to stay there.

The issue with hand-offs comes down to trying to transfer too much information, too quickly. Fixing this is primarily a funding issue - everything else is trying to make up a fundamental resource scarcity with operational improvements.

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