Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons

By Tait D. Shanafelt, C. Balch, G. Béchamps, T. Russell, Lotte N. Dyrbye, Daniel V. Satele, P. Collicott, P. Novotny, J. Sloan, J. Freischlag. Annals of Surgery, 2010

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine, General Health Professions

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Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2016, background): “8,9,12,15 Additionally, the cutoﬀ s between average and high burnout scores span narrow ranges.”
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Assessment of relationships between work stress, work-family conflict, burnout and firefighter safety behavior outcomes (2018, background): “Workrelated stress, and particularly burnout, have been associated with a variety of diminished outcomes including health behaviors, medical errors, musculoskeletal disease and injury in a variety of work groups (Halbesleben et al., 2008; Honkonen et al. 2006; Moustou et al., 2010; Nahrgang et al., ”
Executive Leadership and Physician Well‐being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout (2017, background): “This support can be formal(95,96) or informal(97) and encompasses a wide range of activities, including celebrating achievements (eg, personal and professional milestones), supporting one another through challenging experiences (eg, loss of a patient, medical errors, a malpractice suit), and sharing”
Healthcare Staff Wellbeing, Burnout, and Patient Safety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “Studies reporting that both burnout and poor wellbeing were independently associated with poorer patient safety suggest the importance of both variables on their own [31, 33, 37].”
Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors (2018, neutral): “The support systems for second victims remain underdeveloped in many practice settings, and our findings suggest that increased support may be needed for physicians involved in medical errors.(19,58,59) Conversely, depression and suicidality are well described among physicians in general and concept”
Prevalence, severity, and nature of preventable patient harm across medical care settings: systematic review and meta-analysis (2019, background): “125 On the other hand, surgery and intensive care units deal with high risk patients to whom complex medical procedures are implemented.”