Background: Physician wellness has become a popular topic with reports of burnout among 50% of hospitalists nationwide. Evidence shows that managers directly impact employee engagement with up to half of provider burnout attributed to the leadership style of a physician’s immediate supervisor. While 360 feedback is a common method used to evaluate employers in the [...]

Background: Patient record form one of the most important part of clinical care as the primary source for patient information for primary team, consultants, nurses and other paramedic staff and help in providing a higher quality of care, as well as monitoring patient safety. Incomplete patient records are a source of gaps in patient care [...]

Background: Physicians increasingly utilize electronic health records (EHR) to deliver healthcare, and the EHR has been identified as leading source of physician burnout and frustration [Shanafelt et al]. Studies report up to 52.6% of hospitalists exhibit symptoms of burnout [Roberts et al]. However, there is no data to inform how hospital medicine physicians spend their [...]

Background: Medicine is complex with extraneous workload impacting the daily flow of physicians. This may contribute to an increased risk of burnout (BO). Cognitive load from complex systems can decrease performance and increase risk of error. This study aims to evaluate the physician cognitive load (PCL) of a clinical workday in a national sample of [...]

Background: Over 60% of physicians report burnout. This is associated with poorer quality of care, more medical errors, increased physician turnover, substance abuse and increased suicidal ideation. Both physician-directed and organization-directed interventions have shown to improve burnout, with organization-directed providing the most benefit. Activities promoting community-building and physical activity have both been shown to reduce [...]

Background: Healthcare organizations are increasingly seeking to improve physician well-being to combat rates of physician burnout. The Stanford Wellness Framework details a multi-pronged solution which includes three domains: personal resilience, culture of wellness, and efficiency of practice. Enhanced communication skills can improve patient-provider relationships and foster personal resilience, while improving efficiency in practice and contributing [...]

Background: Burnout is the syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal efficacy that occurs in individuals working in the human services field. Recent data suggests that 50% of physicians are experiencing at least one symptom of burnout. Factors that contribute to physician burnout include lack of efficiency and lack of input.There is growing concern [...]

Background: Physician burnout is a persistent stress reaction which can include emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and feeling of decreased personal accomplishment. Burnout affects all specialties and all practices, but burnout rates are higher among women physicians as compared to men (56% vs 41%). Gender disparities in burnout have many causes, including inequities in recruitment, pay and [...]

Background: In recent years, in large part due to reimbursement incentives, the healthcare industry has shifted focus from volume to quality of care, with patient satisfaction being a crucial part of the evaluation. There is growing recognition that patient satisfaction is at least in part linked to clinician satisfaction and burnout(1). Thus, there is a [...]

Background: Burnout is prevalent among healthcare workers (HCW) within the United States and has only increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.1,2,3,4 Approximately 52% of HCWs–including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists–reported burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Social isolation is an important factor associated with burnout among HCWs.5 Despite the rise in burnout, interventions to address burnout [...]