Veille documentaire MTPH

Auteur     John J. Squiers
Auteur     Kevin W. Lobdell
Auteur     James I. Fann
Auteur     J. Michael DiMaio
Volume     104
Numéro     4
Pages     1117-1122
Publication     The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
ISSN     1552-6259
Date     Oct 2017
Résumé     Despite increasing recognition of physician burnout, its incidence has only increased in recent years, with nearly half of physicians suffering from symptoms of burnout in the most recent surveys. Unfortunately, most burnout research has focused on its profound prevalence rather than seeking to identify the root cause of the burnout epidemic. Health care organizations throughout the United States are implementing committees and support groups in an attempt to reduce burnout among their physicians, but these efforts are typically focused on increasing resilience and wellness among participants rather than combating problematic changes in how medicine is practiced by physicians in the current era. This report provides a brief review of the current literature on the syndrome of burnout, a summary of several institutional approaches to combating burnout, and a call for a shift in the focus of these efforts toward one proposed root cause of burnout.