Burnout Among Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians and Staff in Smaller Primary Care Practices

Burnout Among Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians and Staff in Smaller Primary Care Practices



David Meyers, M.D., AHRQ’s chief medical officer, highlights the Agency’s ongoing efforts to address the challenge of physician burnout. Through the agency’s EvidenceNOW initiative, AHRQ is using its expertise in practice improvement research to explore how to support primary care practices in building clinician well-being.  A new paper in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) from EvidenceNOW’s national evaluation team indicated that, in a survey of more than 10,000 primary care team members in over 1,350 primary care practices  nationwide, burnout was reported by over 20 percent of respondents.  AHRQ is a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience and recently contributed to a NAM discussion paper on establishing a research agenda on clinician burnout. Dr. Meyers was among authors of a recent paper that provided practical suggestions for health care systems in choosing appropriate tools for measuring clinician burnout. Access the blog post

Burnout Among Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians and Staff

in Smaller Primary Care Practices

Samuel T. Edwards, MD, MPH

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, Miguel Marino, PhD

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, Bijal A. Balasubramanian, MBBS, PhD

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Leif I. Solberg, MD

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, Steele Valenzuela, MS

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, Rachel Springer, MS

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, Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD

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William L. Miller, MD, MA

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, Thomas E. Kottke, MD

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, Cynthia K. Perry, PhD, FNP-BC

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, Sarah Ono, PhD

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and Deborah J. Cohen, PhD

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Section of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs (VA) Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA;

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Division of General Internal Medicine

and Geriatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA;

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Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University,

Portland, OR, USA;

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Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA;

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Biostatistics Group,

School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University – Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA;

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Department of Epidemiology, Human

Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA;

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HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN, USA;

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Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA;

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Department of Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley

Health Network, Allentown, PA, USA;

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School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA