Emergency medicine clinics of North America
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Aug 2020
ReviewStrategies for Provider Well-Being in the Emergency Department.
A variety of operational and administrative factors have the potential to decrease wellness and negatively impact emergency physicians, in terms of both their on-the-job performance and their long-term career satisfaction. Among these are the issues of workload balance, physiologic and circadian stresses, and larger issues of malpractice risk and institutional support. This overview covers both emerging research on how these problems affect emergency physicians and strategies to help mitigate these challenges.