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How does burnout affect physician productivity? A systematic literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
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4 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
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8 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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Title
How does burnout affect physician productivity? A systematic literature review
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-325
Pubmed ID
Authors

Carolyn S Dewa, Desmond Loong, Sarah Bonato, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Philip Jacobs

Abstract

Interest in the well-being of physicians has increased because of their contributions to the healthcare system quality. There is growing recognition that physicians are exposed to workplace factors that increase the risk of work stress. Long-term exposure to high work stress can result in burnout. Reports from around the world suggest that about one-third to one-half of physicians experience burnout. Understanding the outcomes associated with burnout is critical to understanding its affects on the healthcare system. Productivity outcomes are among those that could have the most immediate effect on the healthcare system. This systematic literature review is one of the first to explore the evidence for the types of physician productivity outcomes associated with physician burnout. It answers the question, "How does burnout affect physician productivity?"

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Bangladesh 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 741 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 122 16%
Student > Bachelor 75 10%
Researcher 70 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 61 8%
Other 59 8%
Other 192 26%
Unknown 169 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 269 36%
Psychology 87 12%
Social Sciences 40 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 39 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 30 4%
Other 83 11%
Unknown 200 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2023.
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#785,755
of 24,307,517 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#181
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#7,739
of 233,277 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#5
of 128 outputs
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