Resource topic: Rules and Regulations
Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress

Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their...

Report
Breaking the Culture of Silence: The Role of State Medical Boards

The following National Academy of Medicine Perspective offers a powerful narrative on how state medical boards can and should prioritize wellness and health of...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
Stress and Medical Malpractice: Organizational Risk Assessment and Intervention

Published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the following article provides findings and conclusions from four studies that were conducted to examine both the...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
A Journey to Construct an All-Encompassing Conceptual Model of Factors Affecting Clinician Well-Being and Resilience

Why are so many clinicians experiencing burnout? The answer is complex but this discussion paper from the National Academy of Medicine aims to shed light on the...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Nurse Suicide: Breaking the Silence

Nurse suicide threatens the sustainability of our health system and the care and safety of our patients. But no one is tracking it. Although burnout, depression,...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
The Immediate and Long-Term Impact on New Zealand Doctors Who Receive Patient Complaints

Published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, the following study aimed to analyze the impact of receiving a medical complaint on doctors in New Zealand. 221...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care

The US health care system is rapidly changing in an effort to deliver better care, improve health, and lower costs. While many of these changes positively impact...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Own Work

Healing the Wounds, a biographical novel, covers the everyday life of a physician. Drawing from his rural and urban experiences, he breaks the code of silence and...

Personal Stories
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) “Physician Health First” Plan

American Academy of Family Physicians provides an overview of burnout and a model of the ecosystem that family physicians live in. The model serves as a holistic...

Briefs and Summaries
Patient Safety: The Ethical Imperative

Published in MEDSURG Nursing, the following paper discusses nurses' ethical obligation to prevent and manage medical errors. Ethical theories for justification of...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication