Summary
In many safety-critical environments, including healthcare, operators need to remember to perform a deferred task, which requires prospective memory. Laboratory experiments suggest that extended prospective memory retention intervals, and interruptions in those retention intervals, could impair prospective memory performance.
Content
The aim of this study, published in Human Factors journal, was to examine the effects of interruptions and retention interval on prospective memory for deferred tasks in simulated air traffic control. This can be translated into a healthcare environment.
Human Factors: Prospective memory performance in simulated air traffic control: Robust to interruptions but impaired by retention interval (September 2019)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0018720819875888?journalCode=hfsa
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