Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study.

By Colin P. West, M. Huschka, P. Novotny, J. Sloan, Joseph Kolars, T. Habermann, Tait D. Shanafelt. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2006

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Family Practice, General Health Professions

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Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors (2018, positive): “The odds of error increased by 5% for each 1-point increase in EE (on a 54-point scale, consistent with prior studies reporting 5%-7% increases), by 10% for each 1-point increase in DP (on a 33-point scale, consistent with prior studies reporting 9%-11%), and by 5% for each 1-point decrease in PA (o”
Single Item Measures of Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization Are Useful for Assessing Burnout in Medical Professionals (2009, methodology): “All entering categorical and preliminary internal medicine trainees in academic years 2003 through 2008 at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Internal Medicine Residency program were invited to participate in the Mayo Internal Medicine Well-Being (IMWELL) Study, in which they were surveyed quarterly on issue”
Healthcare Staff Wellbeing, Burnout, and Patient Safety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “West and colleagues’ study[3] attempts to clarify this, with a circular relationship between burnout and error being reported.”
Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students (2008, methodology): “The Maslach Burnout Inventory has also been used extensively in studies of both physicians (20,21, 25) and medical students (13, 14, 26–28).”
Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons (2010, background): “Prior studies demonstrate both that medical errors lead to significant physician distress(19,20) and that distress may contribute to future errors.(24,25) It is also unknown how distress and/or errors influenced the likelihood of participating in the survey and whether the prevalence of recent error”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “Personal distress may also be associated with the ability of professionals to relate well with those whom they serve (Riggio & Taylor, 2000) and with frequency of clinical errors and speed of recognizing errors in practicing professionals (Larson, Fair, Good, & Baldwin, 2010; West et al., 2006).”
Exhausted Parents: Sociodemographic, Child-Related, Parent-Related, Parenting and Family-Functioning Correlates of Parental Burnout (2018, positive): “Beyond affecting the individuals concerned, burnout also impacts the organization and its clients by increasing the frequency of errors (West et al., 2006) and augmenting neglectful behaviors (Pillemer & Bachman-Prehn, 1991) and even abuse (Borteyrou and Paillard, 2014).”
Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care (2017, background): “Burnout may also increase health care expenditures indirectly via higher rates of medical errors [14,16,17] and malpractice claims [14,15], absenteeism, and lower job productivity [12,44-47].”
Teamwork in Healthcare: Key Discoveries Enabling Safer, High-Quality Care (2018, background): “Similarly, medical residents’ involvement in medical errors is associated with decreased quality of life, increased burnout, and increased odds of screening positive for depression (odds ratio 3.29, 95% CI [1.90, 5.64]; West et al., 2006).”