SynthesisIntensive care medicine2023
High-level burnout in physicians and nurses working in adult ICUs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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A Mixed Epidemiological Study of Moral Injury Among Healthcare Professionals in Psychiatric Facilities in the PACA Region
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
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- European Society of Intensive Care Medicine guidelines on end of life and palliative care in the intensive care unit.Intensive care medicine · 2024Guideline
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- STOPTHEBURN: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Death Cafés for Burnout Prevention in Intensive Care Unit Employees.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Trial
- Intensive Care Nurses' Experiences and Attitudes Towards Family Involvement in Delirium Care: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Reimagining the Intensive Care Unit as a Complex Adaptive System: A Systems Thinking Perspective.Cureus · 2026Review
- Bolstering wellbeing and mitigating burnout in critical care: a mixed-methods exploration.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Article
- Burnout among healthcare professionals in Bangladesh: a narrative review.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- [Resilience in the intensive care team: its significance, determinants, and strategies for enhancement].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Review
- The ICUPASS Study: Variability, Influencing Factors, and Clinician Stress in ICU Admission Decisions.Cureus · 2026Article
- Evaluating an interprofessional team coaching program to promote a human-centered ICU environment.ATS scholar · 2026Article
- Survey-based longitudinal analysis of burnout and behavioral profiles in a single Brazilian pediatric intensive care unit during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Well-being in intensive care: reflections from a multinational survey.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2026Article
- The role of emotions, stress, learning stage, and cognitive load on learning in emergency events: a mixed methods study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Prevalence of professional fulfillment, and intention to leave and its risk factors among academic physicians at Ain Shams University, Egypt.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Beyond the pilot analogy.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- A national survey of factors leading to health care worker turnover in Canadian intensive care units.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 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
- Occupational burnout and the protective role of sports viewing among male ICU physicians in China: a nationwide survey on influencing factors and pathways.BMC health services research · 2026Article
16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeThe prevalence of burnout in intensive care unit (ICU) professionals is difficult to establish due to the variety of survey instruments used, the heterogeneity of the targeted population, the design of the studies, and the differences among countries regarding ICU organization.
methodsWe performed a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the prevalence of high-level burnout in physicians and nurses working in adult ICUs, including only studies that use the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) as a tool to evaluate burnout and involving at least 3 different ICUs.
resultsTwenty-five studies with a combined population of 20,723 healthcare workers from adult ICUs satisfied the inclusion criteria. Combining 18 studies including 8187 ICU physicians, 3660 of them reported a high level of burnout (prevalence 0.41, range 0.15-0.71, 95% CI [0.33; 0.5], I
conclusionAccording to this meta-analysis, the prevalence of high-level burnout is higher than 40% in all ICU professionals. However, there is a great heterogeneity in the results. To evaluate and to compare preventive and therapeutic strategies, there is the need to use a consensual definition of burnout when using the MBI instrument.
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