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Understanding and Cultivating Well-being for the Pediatrician

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This chapter considers physician burnout, how that condition relates to physician well-being and mental health conditions, and explores the importance of these conditions on physicians, health systems, and patients. The epidemiology of burnout, including identification of subgroups with increased risk, how burnout changes across the physician training and career continuum, and historical secular trends are explored in detail. Consequences of burnout to physicians including patient turnover, patient care parameters such as quality and safety, and health care systems costs are described. Finally, individual and organizational drivers of burnout are presented in the context of potentially modifiable circumstances which could be improved through interventions targeting systems and individual level changes.

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  1. Pediatrics – Neonatology, Global Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Maneesh Batra

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Batra, M. (2023). Physician Burnout. In: Webber, S., Babal, J., Moreno, M.A. (eds) Understanding and Cultivating Well-being for the Pediatrician. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10843-3_7

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