Wellness: Combating Burnout and Its Consequences in Emergency Medicine.

ABSTRACT: Medicine recognizes burnout as a threat to quality patient care and physician quality of life. This issue exists throughout medicine but is notably prevalent in emergency medicine (EM). Because the concept of "wellness" lacks a clear definition, attempts at ameliorating burnout that focus on achieving wellness make success difficult to achieve and measure. Recent work within the wellness literature suggests that the end goal should be to achieve a culture of wellness by addressing all aspects of the physician's environment. A review of the available literature on burnout and wellness interventions in all medical specialties reveals that interventions focusing on individual physicians have varying levels of success. Efforts to compare these interventions are hampered by a lack of consistent

SUBMITTER: Stehman CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7234720 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature