Color vision deficiency among doctors: Can we make useful adaptations to the color codes used in the clinical environment?
| Autor: | Peter B M Thomas, John D. Mollon, Nisha Nesaratnam, Prannoy Chaudhuri-Vayalambrone |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Mollon, John [0000-0001-8533-033X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Blindness
genetic structures Leadership and Management Color vision education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Color Vision Defects medicine.disease United Kingdom Patient safety Variation (linguistics) Normal color vision Commercial aviation medicine Optometry Humans Medicine medicine.symptom Psychology Aviation Confusion |
| DOI: | 10.17863/cam.39004 |
| Popis: | Color vision deficiency (formerly known as color blindness) is common as a congenital and as an acquired condition. Some professions, most famously commercial aviation, require their members to demonstrate normal color vision. In the United States and United Kingdom, no restriction is placed on the ability of the color-deficient doctor to practice medicine, although there is evidence that certain clinical discriminations are harder for such doctors. Generally ignored has been the difficulty and the potential for error that arises from the use of color codes in clinical equipment. In this review, we introduce the basic concepts of color deficiency, summarize evidence for the challenges it poses to the doctor, examine global variation in policy, show the potential for confusion among clinical color codes, and suggest how the current situation could be improved to enhance both patient safety and the well-being of the color-deficient doctor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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