Erschienen in:
01.01.2008 | Editorial
Burnout in the ICU: Potential consequences for staff and patient well-being
verfasst von:
Thomas W. Reader, Brian H. Cuthbertson, Johan Decruyenaere
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2008
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Intensive Care Medicine, Verdon and colleagues [
1] investigated staff
burnout within the intensive care unit (ICU). They found that a substantial proportion of ICU caregivers report symptoms of burnout and that organisational factors predict levels of stress. Staff burnout appears a particularly important issue for critical care, as along with having serious consequences for individual caregiver well-being, burnout may also have serious implications for quality of care and patient safety within the ICU. …