SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Physician's Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Burnout before and during COVID: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 48 698 trainees.Medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Indicators associated with job morale of physicians in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID- 19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Electronic Health Record-Related Burnout: A Systematic Review.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Pooled it
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- Predictors and contributors of burnout among hospitalists in central Michigan.Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management · 2026Article
- Spiritual Integrity as a Mediator Between Workload and Burnout: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Physicians in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Surgeons' Burnout During the Medical Crisis in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Temporal Trends in Physician Burnout During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of general and family medicine · 2026Article
- Burnout, PTSD, and Medical Error: The Medico-Legal Implications of the Mental Health Crisis Among Frontline Healthcare Professionals During COVID-19.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Burnout among Catalan general practitioners. A repeated cross-sectional study, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.The European journal of general practice · 2025Article
- Burnout, wellbeing and defensive medical practice in obstetricians and gynecologists in the UK before and after the COVID pandemic: A repeated cross-sectional survey study.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- Prevalence of burnout and impact of workload on physician wellness: A cross-sectional survey of hospitalists in British Columbia, Canada.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Article
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- Burnout, wearing thin, and the courage to walk away.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- Burnout Trends Among US Health Care Workers.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Exploring Burnout Trends: A Longitudinal Comparative Study of Lebanese Oncologists in Response to Socioeconomic and Pandemic Challenges.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Article
- A mixed method exploration of job morale of physicians working in public healthcare settings in Kazakhstan during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Examining shift duration and sociodemographic influences on the well-being of healthcare professionals in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Burnout syndrome in resident physicians: A study after the third COVID-19 wave in two tertiary hospitals of southeastern Brazil.PloS one · 2025Article
- Empathy fatigue among physicians and its influencing factors: a cross-sectional survey from Southwest China.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
The burnout rate among physicians is expected to be higher during COVID-19 period due to the additional sources of physical and emotional stressors. Throughout the current COVID-19 pandemic, numerous studies have evaluated the impacts of COVID-19 on physicians' burnout, but the reported results have been inconsistent. This current systematic review and meta-analysis aims to assess and estimate the epidemiology of burnout and the associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic among physicians. A systematic search for studies targeting physicians' burnout was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Cochrane COVID-19 registry, and pre-print services (PsyArXiv and medRχiv) for English language studies published within the time period of 1 January 2020 to 1 September 2021. Search strategies resulted in 446 possible eligible studies. The titles and abstracts of these studies were screened, which resulted in 34 probable studies for inclusion, while 412 studies were excluded based on the predetermined inclusion criteria. These 34 studies went through a full-text screening for eligibility, which resulted in 30 studies being included in the final reviews and subsequent analyses. Among them, the prevalence of physicians' burnout rate ranged from 6.0-99.8%. This wide variation could be due to the heterogeneity among burnout definitions, different applied assessment tools, and even cultural factors. Further studies may consider other factors when assessing burnout (e.g., the presence of a psychiatric disorders, other work-related and cultural factors). In conclusion, a consistent diagnostic indices for the assessment of burnout is required to enable consistent methods of scoring and interpretation.
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