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Burnout among doctors in China through 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Burnout among doctors in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Occupational Stress, Burnout, and Fatigue Among Healthcare Workers in Shanghai, China: A Questionnaire-Based Cross-Sectional Survey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Burnout crisis in Chinese radiology: will artificial intelligence help?European radiology · 2025Article
- Transesophageal echocardiography: Revolutionizing perioperative cardiac care.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Review
- An important issue of burnout among pre-hospital emergency medical personnel in Chengdu: a cross-sectional study.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Effective analysis of job satisfaction among medical staff in Chinese public hospitals: a random forest model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Latent profile analysis of burnout, depression, and anxiety symptoms among Chinese medical staff with frontline anti-epidemic experience in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The occupational burnout among medical staff with high workloads after the COVID-19 and its association with anxiety and depression.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Trajectories of Job Burnout among Bus Drivers in China: A Three-Year Follow-Up Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of burnout among stay-behind healthcare workers during the current Omicron wave of COVID-19 in Taizhou, China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Evaluating implementation preparedness for suicide screening and referral in a Nepali emergency department: A mixed-methods study.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze surveys measuring the prevalence of burnout among Chinese doctors and reveal the overall prevalence, characteristics, timeline, and factors related to burnout. Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted on China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WANFANG, PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO and Cochrane Library databases from their inception to 28 February 2021. Random-effects meta-analyses, meta-regression and planned subgroup analyses were performed, and the standardized mean difference was adopted for comparisons between subgroups. Egger's and Begg's tests were performed to evaluate publication bias. Heterogeneity across the studies was tested using the I Results: In total, 3,210 records were reviewed; 64 studies including 48,638 Chinese doctors were eligible for meta-analysis. The prevalence of burnout increased continuously from 2008 to 2017 and decreased significantly from 2018 to 2020, a little increase from 2020 to 2021. The overall prevalence of burnout was 75.48% (95% CI, 69.20 to 81.26; I Conclusions: The results showed that the total prevalence of doctor burnout in China is very high. The prevalence of burnout varies by location. Gender, marital status and professional title all affect burnout scores.
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