Indicators of Workplace Burnout Among Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians, and Staff in Small to Medium-Sized Primary Care Practices

Differences in Occupational Burnout Among Primary Care Professionals

“…18 A study that recruited a large sample of primary care professionals and deployed logistic regression models to account for clustered data and confounding variables (ie, work hours, practice size, type of specialty practice, located in underserved areas) revealed that physicians were 1.75 times more likely than staff to report overall burnout. 19 It is challenging to generalize from these studies given variation in settings (VA only and/or clinics in a specific region/city), measures (emotional exhaustion domain only or general burnout question), statistical techniques (descriptive analysis, univariate analysis, multivariable analysis), and job roles (combining distinctly separate roles under 1 category) to get the full scope of burnout expression by role in primary care. Few if any studies have used more robust statistical techniques that include confounders to examine differences in burnout expression across the domains among primary care professionals.…”

La seguridad de los profesionales como condición indispensable para la seguridad de los pacientes

“…La carga asistencial, cuando aumenta a niveles que hacen imposible atenderla adecuadamente con los recursos disponibles, es una importante causa de ansiedad y agotamiento profesional. Esta ansiedad duplica el riesgo de síndrome de burnout entre el personal de los CAP, cifra que llega al triple en el caso de los médicos de familia 19 .…”

COVID-19 and primary care physicians: adapting to rapid change in clinical roles and settings

“…Sleep deprivation, keeping excessively long hours, and insufficient recovery has threatened clinician well-being by creating and perpetuating burnout conditions among physicians (5). Given that burnout has recently been found to affect more than 31% of PCPs (6,7). this is of particular concern in the context of organizations' responses to COVID-19.…”