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Burnout in healthcare: a sign of death by overwork for doctors in China
BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5582 (Published 20 September 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l5582
This article has a correction. Please see:
- C Yang, professor1,
- Z-L Chen, associate chief physician2,
- L-Y Chen, professor3,
- J-X Jiang, professor1
- 1State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Army Medical Centre of PLA, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
- 2Reproductive Medical Centre, the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- 3Department of Anaesthesiology, Army Medical Centre of PLA, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
- sepsismd{at}126.com
Montgomery and colleagues say that burnout is associated with sleep deprivation, medical errors, poor quality of care, and low ratings of patient satisfaction.1 It is a sophisticated social problem and a sign of karoshi (death by overwork) for exhausted doctors, especially in China.
Growing evidence shows the escalation of karoshi in Chinese doctors. Between …
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