Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists

Eisenberg, Ronald L.; Sotman, Timothy E; Czum, Julianna M.; Montner, Steven M.; Meyer, Cristopher A.

doi:10.1097/rti.0000000000000540

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“…Within radiology, studies of subspecialty cohorts of radiologists have consistently demonstrated a high prevalence of radiologist burnout. These include musculoskeletal radiologists [10], neuroradiologists [11], pediatric radiologists [12], breast radiologists [13], and cardiothoracic radiologists [14]. These surveys are potentially prone to response bias.…”

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How Radiology Leaders Can Address Burnout

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2021

Journal of the American College of Radiology

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How Radiology Leaders Can Address Burnout

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2021

Journal of the American College of Radiology

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“…An electronic survey was sent to the entire membership of the STR, a voluntary professional society of practicing cardiothoracic radiologists. 6 Two separate email messages were sent to the email addresses on file for each member, separated by 10 days. The survey was closed 7 days after the second email.…”

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“…The thresholds for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and perceived low personal accomplishment were MBI subscale scores of 27 or higher, 10 or higher, and 33 or lower, respectively. 6 Statistical analysis was performed using Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), the open-source statistical computing packages pandas 9 and SciPy 10 for Python, and Jupyter Notebook, 11 an open-source interactive computing platform.…”

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“…2 Burnout and job dissatisfaction have led physicians to reduce their work hours or leave the profession 3 and are associated with medical errors, 4 and patient dissatisfaction. 5 In a previous survey of burnout among members of the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR), 6 85.6% of respondents reported the presence of one or more components of burnout-emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment. Burnout was reported by 84.3% of cardiothoracic radiologists in academic practice and 92.5% of those in private practice, 84.1% of men and 88.1% of women.…”

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Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists

Eisenberg

Sotman

Czum

et al. 2022

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

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Purpose: We investigated the impact of modality-specific volumes and other potential stressors on burnout and career-choice satisfaction. Materials and Methods: An anonymous survey of 36 questions was sent by email to all 875 faculty members of the STR. These included 11 multiple-choice questions, 23 Likert questions, and 2 free-text questions. The Maslach Burnout Index was used to assess the prevalence of the 3 components of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low professional accomplishment), and we assessed variations among the potential sources of stress with respect to the respondent sex, career stage, and practice setting. Respondents were asked to estimate daily work volume as if interpreting only chest radiographs (CXRs) or only chest/cardiac computed tomography (CT). Statistical analysis was performed using Excel (Microsoft), open-source statistical computing package pandas and SciPy for Python, and Jupyter Notebook, an open-source interactive computing platform. Results: Although financial concerns (49.3%), lack of input into decisions (48.6%), and inadequate staffing (45.2%) were additional stressors, the major sources were work-life balance (67.4%) and workload (66.8%), which were more frequently cited by women than men (78.9% vs. 60.8%, P=0.001). Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were related to higher CXR volumes. Although 83.2% were satisfied being a diagnostic radiologist, 18.8% had thought of leaving medicine. More than half of all radiologists interpreted ≥150 CXRs daily (51.1% vs. 53.6%); more in private practice read ≥200 CXRs (23.2% vs. 14.7%). Of the academic radiologists, 80.2% interpreted 21 to 49 CTs; twice as many in private practice read ≥50 CTs (25.5% vs. 12.7%). Conclusions: The contributing factors to cardiothoracic radiologist burnout vary by sex, career stage, and practice setting. Several stressors, especially work-life balance, were associated with higher burnout prevalence. Most respondents expressed career-choice satisfaction. Defining threshold work volumes associated with higher rates of burnout is an important first step in defining burnout prevention guardrails.

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“…In a previous survey of burnout among members of the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR), 4,5 85.6% of respondents reported the presence of 1 or more of the 3 components of burnout: emotional exhaustion (EE); depersonalization (D); and low personal accomplishment (LPA). Burnout was reported by 84.3% of cardiothoracic radiologists in academic practice and 92.5% of those in private practice and in 84.1% of men and 88.1% of women.…”

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Cardiothoracic Radiologist Workload, Work Capacity, and Burnout Post-COVID

Meyer

Klein

Liubauskas

et al. 2023

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

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In this report and analysis of the results of a late 2021 post-COVID pandemic survey of members of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, we compared cardiothoracic radiologist workloads and burnout rates with those obtained from a prepandemic survey of society members. The more recent survey also asked respondents to provide a subjective assessment of their individual workload capacity should they be required to read cases at a section average daily case work volume, and this assessment was correlated with burnout rates. To measure nonrelative value unit workload, we requested data on non–case-related work responsibilities including teaching and multidisciplinary conferences that were not assessed in the first survey. In addition, we asked respondents to provide information on the availability of support services, personnel, and hardware and software tools that could improve work efficiency and reduce radiologist stress levels thereby mitigating burnout. We found that postpandemic case workload and cardiothoracic radiologists’ burnout rates were similarly high compared with prepandemic levels with an overall burnout rate of 88% including a 100% burnout rate among women which had significantly increased. The range of radiologists’ workload capacity is broad, although 80% of respondents reported that reading at an average sectional case volume was at or above their capacity, and the perceived capacity correlated with burnout measures. The presence of fellows and computer-aided diagnosis/artificial intelligence tools were each associated with significant decreases in burnout, providing 2 potential strategies that could be employed to address high cardiothoracic radiologist burnout rates.

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Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists

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How Radiology Leaders Can Address Burnout

How Radiology Leaders Can Address Burnout

Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists

Cardiothoracic Radiologist Workload, Work Capacity, and Burnout Post-COVID

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