Special report: suicidal ideation among American surgeons.

By Tait D. Shanafelt, C. Balch, Lotte N. Dyrbye, G. Béchamps, T. Russell, Daniel V. Satele, T. Rummans, K. Swartz, P. Novotny, J. Sloan and 1 more. Archives of Surgery, 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2016, background): “…are negative eﬀ ects on patient care, 7–9 professionalism, 10,11 physicians’ own care and safety (including diverse issues such as mental health concerns and motor vehicle crashes), 12,13 and the viability of health-care systems, including reductions in physicians’ professional work eﬀ ort.”
Teamwork in Healthcare: Key Discoveries Enabling Safer, High-Quality Care (2018, background): “…for physicians in the United States when compared with the population as a whole or other professions, and suicidal ideation among surgeons is almost twice as likely (odds ratio 1.87, p .001) in the 3 months following involvement in an incident of preventable patient harm (Shanafelt et al., 2011).”
Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors (2018, positive): “Conversely, depression and suicidality are well described among physicians in general and conceptually likely to affect job performance and predispose toward subsequent errors.(10,11) Depression among internal medicine residents and surgeons has been linked to a 90% to 220% increase in the odds of s”
Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014. (2015, result): “These questions have been used extensively in other studies and allow ready comparison to the prevalence of suicidal ideation in other studies of the US population(36-38) and US physicians.(1,39)”
Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review (2018, background): “[27,28] Suicidality and two-fold increase in the risk of suicidal ideation was suggested.”