Empathy and burnout of emergency professionals of a health region

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 96, Issue 37, 2017, Pages

  Yuguero, Oriol ^a,b   Forné, Carles ^b,c   Esquerda, Montserrat ^b,d   Pifarré, Josep ^b,e   Abadías, María José ^a   Viñas, Joan ^c  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^d Fundacion Institut Borja de Bioetica   (Spain)

^e University Hospital Santa Maria   (Spain)

Author keywords

bioethics; burnout; doctor patient communication; emergency department; empathy; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; JEFFERSON SCALE OF PHYSICIAN EMPATHY; MALE; MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY; MENTAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; WELLBEING; DYSTHYMIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SPAIN;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPAIN;

EID: 85029762894     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000008030     Document Type: Article

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