Evidence Relating Health Care Provider Burnout and Quality of Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether health care provider burnout contributes to lower quality of patient care is unclear.

Purpose

To estimate the overall relationship between burnout and quality of care and to evaluate whether published studies provide exaggerated estimates of this relationship.

Data sources

MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCO), Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO), EMBASE (Elsevier), and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), with no language restrictions, from inception through 28 May 2019.

Study selection

Peer-reviewed publications, in any language, quantifying health care provider burnout in relation to quality of patient care.

Data extraction

2 reviewers independently selected studies, extracted measures of association of bu

SUBMITTER: Tawfik DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7138707 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature