Becker's Healthcare August 9, 2024
While addressing clinician well-being is important, publicly reporting measures of burnout could be counterproductive, according to two physicians.
Measuring clinician well-being is crucial for identifying contributing factors and understanding how they have changed over time, wrote Jonathan Ripp, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Tait Shanafelt, MD, of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine in an Aug. 8 article published in JAMA.
Some also suggest that using this data to rank hospitals for their clinical well-being could encourage other systems to prioritize well-being. However, negative effects could arise if the measurements are shared publicly in an effort to be transparent, the authors...
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