Understanding physicians' intentions to withdraw from practice: the role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical health.
Health care organizations may incur high costs due to a stressed, dissatisfied physician workforce. This study proposes and tests a model relating job stress to four intentions to withdraw from practice mediated by job satisfaction and perceptions of physical and mental health.
Department of Management and Marketing, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
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Konrad
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Scheckler
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Pathman
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Linzer
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McMurray
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Gerrity
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Schwartz
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload