title: Overload, autonomy, and burnout as predictors of physicians' quality of care.
abstract: A model in which perceived overload and burnout mediated the relations of workload and autonomy with physicians' quality of care to their patients was examined. The study was based on data from 890 specialists representing six medical specialties. Including global burnout as well as its three first-order facets of physical fatigue, cognitive weariness, and emotional exhaustion improved the fit between the structural model and the data relative to an alternative model that included only global burnout. Workload (number of work hours) indirectly predicted quality of care through perceived overload. Additionally, the authors found that the paths from the first order factors of emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, and cognitive weariness predicted quality of care negatively, positively, and nonsignificantly, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. ashirom@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shirom
authors.forename: Nurit
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nirel
authors.forename: Amiram D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Vinokur
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D005791:Patient Care; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012737:Sex Factors; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*