Healthcare Finance News September 14, 2023
The strongest predictors of burnout include workload, census divisions, age, specialties and practice settings.
Burnout among doctors and nurses has been well documented in recent years, but physician assistants are also susceptible to this trend, with a National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants survey showing that 30% have at least one symptom of burnout, while almost 8% say they plan to leave the profession within the next year.
The strongest predictors of burnout included workload, census divisions, age, specialties and practice settings. Having one or more burnout symptoms was associated with more than three-and-a-half higher odds of PAs planning to leave their jobs within the next 12 months.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT
Exposure to burnout was linked to a few...
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