Take a break: should breaks be enforced during digital breast tomosynthesis reading sessions?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can improve diagnostic accuracy compared to 2D mammography, but DBT reporting is time-consuming and potentially more fatiguing. Changes in diagnostic accuracy and subjective and objective fatigue were evaluated over a DBT reporting session, and the impact of taking a reporting break was assessed.

Materials and methods

Forty-five National Health Service (NHS) mammography readers from 6 hospitals read a cancer-enriched set of 40 DBT cases whilst eye tracked in this prospective cohort study, from December 2020 to April 2022. Eye-blink metrics were assessed as objective fatigue measures. Twenty-one readers had a reporting break, 24 did not. Subjective fatigue questionnaires were completed before and after the session. Diagnostic accu

SUBMITTER: Partridge GJW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853356 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature