Assessment of Physician Well-being, Part One: Burnout and Other Negative States

Can Shared Decision Making Improve Physician Well-Being and Reduce Burnout?

There are many causes of physician burnout in today's health care environment, including an ever increasing administrative workload, pressure to do more work in less time, and a drive to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. Importantly, lack of meaning in work is a crucial documented driver of physician burnout. Clinical encounters perceived as meaningful by physicians could therefore pot...

Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being

These are challenging times for health care executives. The health care field is experiencing unprecedented changes that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. To successfully navigate these challenges, health care executives need committed and productive physicians working in collaboration with organization leaders. Unfortunately, national studies suggest that at least 50% of...

The well-being of physician relationships.

Stress, burnout, and maladaptive coping: strategies for surgeon well-being.

Practicing physicians and surgeons, medical and surgical residents, and medical students dedicate their lives to providing optimum patient care, but doing so places them at significant risk for personal and professional stress and, ultimately, burnout. Of great concern is the fact that unrecognized stress and unmanaged burnout are more prevalent among residents than previously believed. Researc...

Assessment of Fetal Well-being

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Assessment of Fetal Well-Being Variant 1: Low-risk pregnancy. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US pregnant uterus biophysical profile 2 O US pregnant uterus modified biophysical profile 2 O US duplex Doppler velocimetry 2 O US echocardiography fet...