Table 6.

Sources of interruptions among the four specialties.

Specialty	Source of interruptions
	Interruption by patients or their relatives: % (N)	Interruption by colleagues: % (N)	Interruption by phone: % (N)	Interruption by equipment/system/network failure: % (N)	Interruption by others: % (N)
Internal medicine	65.3 (64)	7.1 (7)	12.3 (12)	8.2 (8)	7.1 (7)
Surgical medicine	75 (36)	4.2 (2)	16.6 (8)	2.1 (1)	2.1 (1)
Pediatrics	65.6 (42)	14.1 (9)	10.9 (7)	7.8 (5)	1.6 (1)
Neurology	71.8 (79)	9.1 (10)	16.4 (18)	0.9 (1)	1.8 (2)

N, number of interruptions.