The Effect of Workplace Health Care Worker Stress and Burnout on Patient Outcomes

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 119-131

  Williams, Eric S ^a   Halbesleben, Jonathon R B ^a   Manwell, Linda Baier ^b   McMurray, Julia E ^c   Rabatin, Joseph ^d   Rashid, Ayesha ^e   Linzer, Mark ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Meriter Medical Group   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/b11219-16     Document Type: Chapter

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