Australian study looks at 40 emergency room doctors for 210 patients . Interruptions led doctors to spend less time on the tasks they were working on . In nearly a third of cases they caused them to give up on the task altogether .
Australian study looks at 40 emergency department doctors for 210 hours . Interruptions led doctors to spend less time on the tasks they were working on . In nearly a fifth of cases interruptions cause them to give up on the task altogether .