Physician wellness: a missing quality indicator

Publié le 04 janvier 2010 • Catégorie(s) : Conditions de travail et santé psychologique • Mot(s) clef(s) : médecins

Auteur Jean E Wallace

Auteur Jane B Lemaire

Auteur William A Ghali

Résumé When physicians are unwell, the performance of health-care systems can be suboptimum. Physician wellness might not only benefit the individual physician, it could also be vital to the delivery of high-quality health care. We review the work stresses faced by physicians, the barriers to attending to wellness, and the consequences of unwell physicians to the individual and to health-care systems. We show that health systems should routinely measure physician wellness, and discuss the challenges associated with implementation.

Publication Lancet

Volume 374

Numéro 9702

Pages 1714-1721

Date Nov 14, 2009

Abréviation de revue Lancet

DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61424-0

ISSN 1474-547X

URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914516