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To tackle an "epidemic of burnout"-exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic-that has threatened the US health care workforce for years, the National Academy of Medicine has launched a national plan to improve health worker well-being. The NAM's ambitious National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being grew out of work by the Clinician Well-Being Collaborative, a network of more than 200 organizations in the public and private sector, including organizations in the medical, nursing, and pharmacy communities.Burnout, defined as a workplace "syndrome characterized by high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization (eg, cynicism), and a low sense of personal accomplishment," has led a substantial number of clinicians to leave or contemplate leaving their positions. According to the American Medical Association-funded Coping With COVID study, in the first year of the pandemic, driven by burnout, nearly 24% of the more than 9000 physicians from various disciplines in the study and 40% of about 2300 nurses planned to leave their practice in the next 2 years.The NAM said that its new plan complements a May 2022 advisory from the US Surgeon General, which noted that health care workers were experiencing burnout that exceeds even the "crisis levels" present before the pandemic and called attention to COVID-19-related tensions resulting in bullying, harassment, threats, and violence against health workers both in the workplace and online. As a result of these stresses, health care workers have been experiencing physical and mental consequences associated with chronic work-related stress, such as emotional exhaustion, sleep disruptions and insomnia, anxiety, depression, and other problems.

A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy "from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management," including a condition that developed before or during pregnancy and was worsened by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.

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