ReviewThe western journal of emergency medicine2020
Wellness: Combating Burnout and Its Consequences in Emergency Medicine.
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- To the Editor: Re: "A National Longitudinal Study of Wellness Curricula in US Family Medicine Residency Programs and Association With Early Career Physician Burnout".Journal of graduate medical education · 2025Article
- Burnout in the Emergency Department: Survey of Prevalence and Modifiable Risk Factors.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluating Billing Code Distributions in the Emergency Department Following the Implementation of the New Documentation Guidelines.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- Restructuring the role of emergency departments in the healthcare systems: a vector to improving physician resilience.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Factors influencing emergency medicine worker shift satisfaction: A rapid assessment of wellness in the emergency department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Barriers in Opting for Emergency Medicine as a Career in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study.Cureus · 2024Article
- Cancer Center Staff Satisfaction: Descriptive Results of a Canadian Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Emergency physician professionalism versus wellness: A conceptual model.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2023Article
- Emergency Department Virtual Happy Hour: A Novel Approach to Peer Group Support During a Pandemic.Cureus · 2023Article
- A qualitative exploration of the National Academy of medicine model of well-being and resilience among healthcare workers during COVID-19.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Defining well-being: A case-study among emergency medicine residents at an academic center: A qualitative study.AEM education and training · 2021Article
- Equanimity in the time of COVID: The past ameliorates the present.Journal of clinical anesthesia · 2020Article
- Physician Path to Wellness. A Qualitative Investigation of Self-Reported Strategies to Shift from Detrimental Health to Optimal Wellness.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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Abstract
Medicine recognizes burnout as a threat to quality patient care and physician quality of life. This issue exists throughout medicine but is notably prevalent in emergency medicine (EM). Because the concept of "wellness" lacks a clear definition, attempts at ameliorating burnout that focus on achieving wellness make success difficult to achieve and measure. Recent work within the wellness literature suggests that the end goal should be to achieve a culture of wellness by addressing all aspects of the physician's environment. A review of the available literature on burnout and wellness interventions in all medical specialties reveals that interventions focusing on individual physicians have varying levels of success. Efforts to compare these interventions are hampered by a lack of consistent endpoints. Studies with consistent endpoints do not demonstrate clear benefits of achieving them because improving scores on various scales may not equate to improvement in quality of care or physician quality of life. Successful interventions have uncertain, long-term effects. Outside of EM, the most successful interventions focus on changes to systems rather than to individual physicians. Within EM, the number of well-structured interventions that have been studied is limited. Future work to achieve the desired culture of wellness within EM requires establishment of a consistent endpoint that serves as a surrogate for clinical significance, addressing contributors to burnout at all levels, and integrating successful interventions into the fabric of EM.
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