Physician Well-Being: Expanding the Triple Aim

Physician and Patient Views on Public Physician Rating Websites: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…Physician burnout is a real problem that is leading to threats to patient safety, as well as physician turnover, and other challenges to the delivery of high quality care. 13 As health systems seek to make patient experiences of care data publicly available, careful attention must be paid to establishing resources to support physicians in change management. This should include allowing physicians to become comfortable with the likely positive nature of these data before they are published, 14 as well as permitting physicians to play an ongoing role in how the data are released and displayed-responding to negative comments, advocating for removal of inappropriate comments, and agreeing on a minimum number of reviews required per physician in order to publish reviews online.…”

Influence of patient multimorbidity on GP burnout: a survey and register-based study in Danish general practice

“…The findings of this study call for actions to reduce the future workload from an ageing population, which will possibly increase the number of patients with multimorbidity, and to prevent the sickest patients with the most complex health needs having their needs met by burned-out GPs who may perform suboptimally. 33…”

Improving Lives: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Physician Burnout and Patient Outcomes

“…These pressures lead to greater stress among health care workers, particularly physicians (Rabatin, Williams, Manwell, Schwartz, Brown & Linzer, 2016). Several scholars are now calling for a Quadruple Aim, which calls for improving the work environment for health care workers (Sikka, Morath & Leape, 2015;West, 2015). In theory, this would improve patient lives by improving health care worker lives.…”