“It Is Like Heart Failure. It Is Chronic … and It Will Kill You”: A Qualitative Analysis of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 901-910.e1

  Kavalieratos, Dio ^a   Siconolfi, Daniel E ^b   Steinhauser, Karen E ^c   Bull, Janet ^d   Arnold, Robert M ^a   Swetz, Keith M ^e   Kamal, Arif H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Four Seasons   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burnout; focus groups; health workforce; palliative care; qualitative research; resilience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; SOCIAL WORKER; WORKLOAD; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL WORKERS;

EID: 85014228204     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.12.337     Document Type: Article

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