{"id":5075,"date":"2022-09-23T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emrsystems.net\/blog\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:13:49","slug":"the-covid-19-pandemic-has-increased-clinician-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrsystems.net\/blog\/the-covid-19-pandemic-has-increased-clinician-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID-19 Pandemic has increased Clinician Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a study<\/a> published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the clinician burnout rate has reached a new high among healthcare providers in the US during the first two years of the pandemic after six years of decrease. The research was conducted by researchers from AMA, Mayo Clinic, and Stanford Medicine at consistent intervals between 2011 and 2021.<\/p>\n

What is clinician burnout?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Clinician burnout is when the physician is experiencing a high degree of emotional exhaustion and a lack of sense of personal accomplishment at work. The high pressures and a work-life imbalance create burnout which can result in reduced quality of patient care.<\/p>\n

Key findings from the study<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The study revealed that physician burnout was higher in 2021 as compared to 2020. The burnout level in 2021 was 62.8% whereas in 2020 it was 38.2%. The studies that were conducted at intervals also found that clinician burnout was relatively higher in the United States.<\/p>\n

The research also discovered that depersonalization scores and mean emotional exhaustion scores were higher in 2021 in analogy with the previous year. Average scores of depression also increased by 6.1% from 2020 to 2021.<\/p>\n

The study also found out that providers practicing emergency medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics were at a high risk of burnout after adjusting for personal and professional characteristics.<\/p>\n

The new data also suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased emotional exhaustion in clinicians and aggravated women\u2019s increased risk for clinician burnout.<\/p>\n

Tips to combat physician burnout<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When physicians experience burnout it can have serious consequences on patient care as there are greater chances of diagnostic errors. Healthcare organizations should take the right steps to reduce burnout among clinicians.<\/p>\n