General practitioners prefer to work in cooperatives for out of hours work

Emotionally exhausting factors in general practitioners’ work

BACKGROUND Emotional exhaustion is central in burnout syndrome and signals its development. General practitioners' (GP) work is emotionally challenging but research on these aspects is lacking. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of emotional exhaustion among GPs and to evaluate how their characteristics and work experiences are associated with emotional exhaustion. DESIGN AND METHODS A quest...

How hard do general practitioners work?

assessment of the so called "avoidable factors" as in the Confidential Inquiry into Maternal Deaths.'4 This raises two problems. Firstly, the concept of avoidability, like that of causality, is highly subjective. Secondly, no one can know whether the absence of the "avoidable" factor would have prevented the death; indeed, the Northern region working party abandoned its search for "avoidable" f...

Hours of Work

Association between general practice characteristics and use of out-of-hours GP cooperatives

BACKGROUND The use of out-of-hours healthcare services for non-urgent health problems is believed to be related to the organisation of daytime primary care but insight into underlying mechanisms is limited. Our objective was to examine the association between daytime general practice characteristics and the use of out-of-hours care GP cooperatives. METHODS A cross-sectional observational stud...

Do Women Prefer a Co‐operative Work Environment? Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our baseline treatment, but women and ...