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Help Us Help You: Engaging Emergency Physicians to Identify Organizational Strategies to Reduce Burnout
Help Us Help You: Engaging Emergency Physicians to Identify Organizational Strategies to Reduce Burnout
- Source :
- Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 22, Iss 3 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- eScholarship Publishing, University of California, 2021.
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Abstract
- Introduction: Burnout is a major threat to patient care quality and physician career longevity in emergency medicine. We sought to develop and implement a quality improvement process to engage emergency department (ED) faculty in identifying sources of burnout and generating interventions targeted at improving the work environment. Methods: In this prospective interventional study conducted at a large, urban, academic medical center, we surveyed a 60-person faculty group using the Professional Fulfilment Index (PFI), as well as burnout-relevant questions from the American Medical Association’s Mini-Z survey and the Maslach-Leiter framework for organizational burnout, in order to identify organizational sources of burnout. We assessed the relationship between burnout scores and responses to the Maslach-Leiter framework using univariate regression analysis. In a two-hour facilitated session, we shared survey results and led the group in a process using the six Maslach-Leiter domains to develop a rank-ordered list of interventions to reduce burnout in each domain. Results: In total, 47 of 60 faculty (78.3%) completed the survey and 45 faculty (75%) attended the discussion session. Of the 47 survey respondents, 14 (30%) met criteria for moderate to severe burnout. The respondents’ answers to the Maslach-Leiter organizational burnout domain questions were significantly correlated with their burnout scores (P
- Subjects :
- Medicine
Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
RC86-88.9
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19369018
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.6460d7e449149ad9cca856dfa68d161
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.49180