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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 5/2018

01-05-2018 | Editorial

Should all ICU clinicians regularly be tested for burnout? We are not sure

Conceptual considerations that precede screening for burnout syndrome in ICU clinicians

Authors: Meredith Mealer, Marc Moss

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 5/2018

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Excerpt

The Intensive Care Medicine editors assigned us the unenviable task of explaining that we are not sure whether all ICU clinicians should be regularly screened for burnout syndrome. We will defend this position by posing four questions that should be answered before determining whether screening for burnout syndrome is beneficial or not for ICU clinicians. …
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Metadata
Title
Should all ICU clinicians regularly be tested for burnout? We are not sure
Conceptual considerations that precede screening for burnout syndrome in ICU clinicians
Authors
Meredith Mealer
Marc Moss
Publication date
01-05-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5169-x

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