Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2020
Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the US.
Many clinical disciplines report high rates of burnout, which leads to low quality of care. Palliative care clinicians routinely manage patients with significant suffering, aiming to improve quality of life. As a major role of palliative care clinicians involves educating patients and caregivers regarding identifying priorities and balancing stress, we wondered how clinician self-management of burnout matches against the emotionally exhaustive nature of the work. ⋯ Burnout is a major issue facing the palliative care clinician workforce. Strategies at the discipline-wide and individual levels are needed to sustain the delivery of responsive, available, high-quality palliative care for all patients with serious illness.