Advisory Board September 19, 2022
Burnout among physicians is associated with job dissatisfaction and poorer quality care for patients, as well as an increased number of safety incidents, according to a new meta-analysis published in The BMJ.
Study details and key findings
For the meta-analysis, researchers examined 170 observational studies that included 239,246 physicians, primarily from the United States or United Kingdom.
According to the researchers, burnout was defined as “a feeling of overwhelming emotional exhaustion, feelings of cynicism and detachment from job defined as depersonalization, and a sense of ineffectiveness and little personal accomplishment.” Physicians self-reported their feelings of burnout through the Maslach Burnout Inventory or an abbreviated version of it.
The studies assessed both career engagement and patient care outcomes. Some measures of...
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