Open AccessThe impact of non-medical reading on clinician burnout: a national survey of palliative care providers
Author(s) -
Daniel Marchalik,
Ariel N. Rodriguez,
Amalia Namath,
Ross Krasnow,
Simone Obara,
Jamie S. Padmore,
Hunter Groninger
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2224-5839
pISSN - 2224-5820
DOI - 10.21037/apm.2019.05.02
Subject(s) - burnout , depersonalization , emotional exhaustion , medicine , logistic regression , empathy , clinical psychology , descriptive statistics , palliative care , reading (process) , family medicine , psychiatry , nursing , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
Clinician burnout in hospice and palliative care (HPC) has potentially widespread negative consequences including increased clinical errors, decreased professionalism, decreased staff retention, and decreased empathy. Reading non-medical literature has been associated with increased empathy, but no studies on the effect of reading on burnout have previously been conducted. We wished to assess reading patterns of practicing HPC clinicians and determine associations between non-medical reading and burnout.