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.
Williams
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Department of Management and Marketing, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
Konrad
T R
TR
Scheckler
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WE
Pathman
D E
DE
Linzer
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M
McMurray
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JE
Gerrity
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M
Schwartz
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M
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