H&HN September 21, 2017
The goal is to develop national benchmarks to help health systems gauge and lessen physician burnout
When Stanford Medicine started focusing on physician wellness, leaders knew they needed to get a handle on the scope of the problem within the academic medical center and among the approximately 300 community physicians in its University HealthCare Alliance.
Stanford’s first Physician Wellness Survey, conducted in 2013, found that 26 percent of participating physicians reported a symptom of burnout. That could have been cause for celebration; the national physician burnout rate was 46 percent in 2011, according to Mayo Clinic researchers.
“But when we took it to our boards and to our CEOs and our dean, they all said: ‘This is still way...
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