Improving Health Care Quality Measurement to Combat Clinician Burnout

Anthony M DiGiorgio; Jesse M Ehrenfeld; Brian J Miller

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.15512

Improving Health Care Quality Measurement to Combat Clinician Burnout

JAMA. 2023 Sep 26;330(12):1135-1136. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.15512.

Authors

Anthony M DiGiorgio^{1

2}, Jesse M Ehrenfeld^{3

4}, Brian J Miller^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
² Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
⁴ Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, Milwaukee.
⁵ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC.

PMID: 37656453
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.15512

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint explores a critical source of administrative burden and physician frustration—the explosive growth of health care quality metrics—and how improving these metrics could combat clinician burnout.

MeSH terms

Burnout, Professional* / prevention & control
Burnout, Psychological / prevention & control
Humans
Physicians* / psychology
Quality Indicators, Health Care*
Quality of Health Care*