article_snippet: Hospitals and other health settings are busy and complex places to work in.
article_snippet: Doctors are often subject to distractions while working; receiving telephone calls, cardiac monitors bleeping, taking questions from colleagues, patients and Doctors relatives – the clinical environment can be very challenging.
article_snippet: The 'distraction effect' was greater for older and female students.
article_snippet: Minimising distractions is also particularly important.
article_snippet: During the critical phases of a flight, pilots must refrain from all non-essential conversation to avoid unnecessary distractions.
article_snippet: Such cockpit rules, and other strategies lend Such cockpit rules, and other strategies well to healthcare.