Clinician Burnout and Professional Well-being —Reply

In Reply Our Viewpoint was a summary of a comprehensive National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report. Time pressure and high workload are work system factors that contribute to clinician burnout and affect patient care; however, many other work system factors can also increase clinician burnout. The review of the evidence in the NASEM report showed that there is not a single root cause of burnout among clinicians, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and other health care professionals who provide direct care to patients.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research