Every year an estimated 400 U.S. physicians take their lives. Numerous global studies involving every medical and surgical specialty indicate that approximately 1...

The following blog post from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement discusses the need to examine how to design and prioritize quality improvement initiatives....

The Triple Aim—enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs—is widely accepted as a compass to optimize health system...

The Moral Distress Education Project is a media project at the University of Kentucky in which core multidisciplinary experts on moral distress from across the...

The following study, published in the Journal of Nursing Management, examined the influence of empowering work conditions and workplace incivility on nurses’...

The following blog post from AHRQ Views discusses strategies to reduce physician burnout as well as AHRQ’s efforts in this area. The blog post notes that since...

Published in Modern Healthcare, this news article provides commentary on the worsening of clinician burnout, how health IT can influence burnout, and how...

In the following narrative, published by Health Affairs, the author, who is a physician, researcher, and lifelong patient, reflects on her truncated career and why...

There are unique stressors faced by health professionals that begin during the educational process and continue throughout training and into practice. While stress...

In this article, published in Medical Teacher, author Hedy Wald proposes a refined definition of “reflection” as it pertains to professional identity formation...