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An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will examine the scientific evidence regarding the causes of clinician burnout as well as the consequences for both clinicians and patients, and interventions to support clinician well-being and resilience.
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Consensus
·2019
Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It i...
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An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will examine the scientific evidence regarding the causes of clinician burnout as well as the consequences for both clinicians and patients, and interventions to support clinician well-being and resilience. The committee will examine components of the clinical training and work environment that can contribute to clinician burnout in a variety of care settings, as well as potential systems interventions to mitigate those outcomes. The committee will identify promising tools and approaches to support clinician well-being, identify gaps in the evidence base, and propose a research agenda to address areas of uncertainty. In developing its report, the committee will consider key components of the health care system, including:
factors that influence clinical workflow, workload, and human-systems interactions; the composition and function of care teams the ongoing movement toward outcomes-based payment and quality improvement programs; current and potential use and impact of technologies and tools such as electronic health records (EHRs) and other informatics applications; and regulations, guidance, policies, and accreditation standards that define clinical documentation and coding requirements, as well as institutional expectations and interpretations of those requirements.
The committee may develop a conceptual framework that encapsulates their findings and will issue a report with recommendations for system changes to streamline processes and reduce complexity, minimize the burden of documentation requirements, and enhance workflow and teamwork to support the well-being of all clinicians and trainees on the care team, prevent clinician burnout, and facilitate high-quality patient care.
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Laura Aiuppa Denning
Staff Officer
Sponsors
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
American Hospital Association
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Association of American Medical Colleges
BJC HealthCare
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Doctors Company Foundation
Duke University Hospital
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
Medical College of Wisconsin
Montefiore Medicine
Ohio State University
Private: Non Profit
The Mont Fund
Tulane University
University of Florida
University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
University of Massachusetts Medical School
University of Michigan
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Utah Health
University of Virginia Medical Center and University of Virginia School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Washington University School of Medicine
Yale New Haven Health System
Yale School of Medicine
Staff
Laura Aiuppa
Lead
Marc Meisnere
Heather L. Kreidler
Rajbir Kaur