BOND, Raymond R., Tomáš NOVOTNÝ, Irena ANDRŠOVÁ, Lumír KOC, Martina ŠIŠÁKOVÁ, Dewar FINLAY, Daniel GULDENRING, James MCLAUGHLIN, Aaron PEACE, Victoria MCGILLIGAN, Stephen J. LESLIE, Hui WANG and Marek MALIK. Automation bias in medicine: The influence of automated diagnoses on interpreter accuracy and uncertainty when reading electrocardiograms. JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY. PHILADELPHIA: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS, 2018, vol. 51, No 6, p. "S6"-"S11", 6 pp. ISSN 0022-0736. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2018.08.007.
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Original name Automation bias in medicine: The influence of automated diagnoses on interpreter accuracy and uncertainty when reading electrocardiograms
Authors BOND, Raymond R. (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, guarantor), Tomáš NOVOTNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Irena ANDRŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lumír KOC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martina ŠIŠÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dewar FINLAY (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Daniel GULDENRING (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), James MCLAUGHLIN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Aaron PEACE (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Victoria MCGILLIGAN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Stephen J. LESLIE (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Hui WANG (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Marek MALIK (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
Edition JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, PHILADELPHIA, CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS, 2018, 0022-0736.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30201 Cardiac and Cardiovascular systems
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.166
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/18:00105777
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2018.08.007
UT WoS 000454674000002
Keywords in English Electrocardiogram
Tags 14110211, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Introduction: Interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) is normally assisted with an automated diagnosis (AD), which can facilitate an 'automation bias' where interpreters can be anchored. In this paper, we studied, 1) the effect of an incorrect AD on interpretation accuracy and interpreter confidence (a proxy for uncertainty), and 2) whether confidence and other interpreter features can predict interpretation accuracy using machine learning. Methods: This study analysed 9000 ECG interpretations from cardiology and non-cardiology fellows (CFs and non-CFs). One third of the ECGs involved no ADs, one third with ADs (half as incorrect) and one third had multiple ADs. Interpretations were scored and interpreter confidence was recorded for each interpretation and subsequently standardised using sigma scaling. Spearman coefficients were used for correlation analysis and C5.0 decision trees were used for predicting interpretation accuracy using basic interpreter features such as confidence, age, experience and designation. Results: Interpretation accuracies achieved by CFs and non-CFs dropped by 43.20% and 58.95% respectively when an incorrect AD was presented (p < 0.001). Overall correlation between scaled confidence and interpretation accuracy was higher amongst CFs. However, correlation between confidence and interpretation accuracy decreased for both groups when an incorrect AD was presented. We found that an incorrect AD disturbs the reliability of interpreter confidence in predicting accuracy. An incorrect AD has a greater effect on the confidence of non-CFs (although this is not statistically significant it is close to the threshold, p = 0.065). The best C5.0 decision tree achieved an accuracy rate of 64.67% (p < 0.001), however this is only 6.56% greater than the no information-rate. Conclusion: Incorrect ADs reduce the interpreter's diagnostic accuracy indicating an automation bias. Non-CFs tend to agree more with the ADs in comparison to CFs, hence less expert physicians are more effected by automation bias. Incorrect ADs reduce the interpreter's confidence and also reduces the predictive power of confidence for predicting accuracy (even more so for non-CFs). Whilst a statistically significant model was developed, it is difficult to predict interpretation accuracy using machine learning on basic features such as interpreter confidence, age, reader experience and designation. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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