Physician burnout is a hot topic of discussion.
We explore the topic of physician burnout in hospital epidemiology, a nuanced subject worthy of greater scrutiny. Our research brief was just published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, available here (PubMed Indexed here).
Hospital epidemiologists face different pressures than front-line physicians, these may drive burnout. On the flip side, our demands for infection prevention standardization, checklists, time-outs, audits and feedback may drive burnout in colleagues, by way of a perceived erosion of autonomy.
Further studies are needed.
