Association between sick leave prescribing practices and physician burnout and empathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Torres, Oriol Yuguero ^a   Areste, Montserrat Esquerda ^b,c   Mora, Josep Ramon Marsal ^b   Soler Gonzalez, Jorge ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Borja Bioethics Institute ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; WORKPLACE; CITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CITIES; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; SICK LEAVE; SPAIN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84941248047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133379     Document Type: Article

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