Addressing clinician moral distress: Implications from a mixed methods evaluation during Covid-19.

ABSTRACT: Clinician moral distress has been documented over the past several decades as occurring within numerous healthcare disciplines, often in relation to clinicians' involvement in patients' end-of-life decision-making. The resulting harms impact clinician well-being, patient well-being, and healthcare system functioning. Given Covid-19's catastrophic death toll and associated demands on end-of-life decision-making processes, the pandemic represents a particularly important context within which to understand clinician moral distress. Thus, we conducted a convergent mixed methods study to examine its prevalence, associations with clinicians' demographic and professional characteristics, and contributing circumstances among Veterans Health Administration (VA) clinicians. The study, conducted in A

SUBMITTER: Palmer JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503769 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature