Association of Intrinsic Motivating Factors and Markers of Physician Well-Being: A National Physician Survey

The well-being of physician relationships.

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...

A national survey of physician-industry relationships.

BACKGROUND Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical, medical device, and other medically related industries have received considerable attention in recent years. We surveyed physicians to collect information about their financial associations with industry and the factors that predict those associations. METHODS We conducted a national survey of 3167 physicians in six specialties (...

Physician Work Environment and Well-being: A Call for Papers.

In themiddle of the last century, the profession of medicine consolidated its identity firmly around an ideal: physicians were expected to be dedicated to thewelfare of their patients above all other considerations, committed to thepublicgood,and impervious to financial temptation or other self-interest. The insular training and longworkhours that set theprofessionapart frommostpeoples' experie...

Patient Satisfaction with Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, and Physician Care: A National Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries

• Objective: To assess the extent to which the experiences of older patients vary according to type of primary care provider (ie, physician assistant [PA], nurse practitioner [NP], or physician). • Design: National, cross-sectional survey. • Participants: Medicare beneficiaries completing the 2000 and 2001 Medicare fee-for-service Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey who identified a prim...