Becker's Healthcare September 30, 2022
The burnout rate among U.S. physicians spiked from 38.2 percent in 2020 to 62.8 percent in 2021, an increase of 24.6 percentage points, according to a Sept. 13 analysis from Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Based on the association of physician burnout with quality of care, job turnover, and reductions in work effort, these findings have profound implications for the U.S. healthcare system, according to researchers from the American Medical Association; Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care; and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.
2020 marked the end of a six-year period of decline in the overall rate of work-related burnout among physicians. In 2021, the physician burnout rate climbed to a new height that was greater...
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