Burnout causes many problems in the lives of all people. But physician burnout especially impacts the well-being of patients, caregivers, and practices. Often not all organizations and practices provide such a good atmosphere for their physicians to work with. And this creates friction between personnel and results in stressing physicians which could directly impact patients’ safety and the quality of care delivery. The need for increased care coordination is important when it comes to the management of physician burnouts. Tasks like non-clinical which are associated with care coordination can add to the workload of the clinical team. A great solution for this problem is using a non-clinical team to carefully coordinate care, connect patients with community resources, and complete the non-clinical outreach requirements of value-based care. This allows the clinical team to focus on clinical care alone. read more : https://www.vozo.xyz/blog/the-effective-role-of-patient-portals-in-value-based-care/

1. PHYSICIAN BURNOUT
TOP 5 EFFECTIVE WAYS
TO REDUCE IT IN 2022
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2. INTRODUCTION
 Burnout causes many problems in the lives of all
people. But physician burnout especially impacts the
well-being of patients, caregivers, and practices.
 Often not all organizations and practices provide such
a good atmosphere for their physicians to work with.
And this creates friction between personnel and
results in stressing physicians which could directly
impact patients’ safety and the quality of care delivery.

3. Physician Burnout- What Is It?
 According to a source, “burnout is a form of exhaustion caused by
constantly feeling swamped. It’s a result of excessive and
prolonged emotional, physical, and mental stress. In many cases,
burnout is related to one’s job”.
 Burnout happens when you are overwhelmed, emotionally
drained, and unable to keep up with life’s incessant demands.
 Physician burnout is the same thing that happens with
physicians.

4. What Are The Causes For
Physician Burnout?
In this chaotic world, everything can turn out to be a reason for stress.
Clinical/physician burnout can be caused by many factors like,
Family responsibilities
Time/target pressures
Crowded and unpleasant environment
Low control pase
Managing platforms like EHR
Work overload
Stress by losing control
Dysfunctional workplace dynamics

5. We Saw The Causes And Now Let’s Look
Into The Symptoms/Signs Of Burnout
Studying and researching burnout isn’t enough to overcome them. We
need to find the causes and should know when to react to and deal with
them using the following signs.
You might be experiencing burnout if you feel exhausted
If you feel like you do not feel enthusiastic and have negative
feelings toward your work
There might be times when you feel like you are unable to
perform your job

6. The Top 5 Effective Ways To
Reduce/Handle Physician Burnout In
2022
There are many pieces of research and studies being
done to help physicians to cope with burnout. These
points are given below when followed both on an
individual and organizational level can bring out the
adverse effects of burnout to control.
We present you the top 5 effective ways to
manage and reduce physician burnout in
2022.

7. 1. Creating a positive work
environment helps
 Health care organizations have a vitally important role in creating and
maintaining positive work environments that clinicians find to be safe,
healthy, and supportive and that foster ethical and meaningful
practice, say reports.
 To prevent and reduce burnout, these organizations must focus on
redesigning their work systems on one side, and on the other, they
should simultaneously encourage well-being.
The organization can work on improving the atmosphere
of the workplace, can conduct engaging programs and
activities to relax the staff, etc.

8. 2. Technological burdens-
should be cut down
 The one thing that has constantly been developing in this era is
technology. Technological development is the main source of all
industries’ growth. With the new inventions of the internet of things
(IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology in healthcare, the
technological burden for physicians has been increasing lately.
Difficulties in sharing information among team members and poor
integration into the workflow can become reasons for physician burnout.
The advent of healthcare software platforms such as electronic health
records (EHR), Practice Management, etc, which helps them to reduce
manual work, creates the burden of handling them.

9.  Handling this software needs professional training and time to invest
in them. Time is again not to be found for physicians who work extra
hours. Many physicians despite all the improvements in health IT
designs, find these technologies to be confused sometimes and
challenging.
 The organization may want to collect feedback from the physicians
about systems like electronic medical records (EMR). Because
physicians often say that clerical tasks and technological burdens as
the causes of burnout.
2. Technological burdens-
should be cut down (cont..)

10. 3. Reducing administrative
burdens
 The leading cause of burnout and the barrier to quality care turn out
to be administrative burdens in the U.S. The regulations, policies,
healthcare laws, and standards in the U.S. are so complex and being
forced by many bodies.
 The only problem in this process is that they don’t always allow the
physicians to engage in the discussion. Their feedback can help the
entities to alter some to avoid burnout.

11.  The need for increased care coordination is important when it comes
to the management of physician burnouts. Tasks like non-clinical
which are associated with care coordination can add to the workload
of the clinical team.
 A great solution for this problem is using a non-clinical team to
carefully coordinate care, connect patients with community resources,
and complete the non-clinical outreach requirements of value-based
care. This allows the clinical team to focus on clinical care alone.
3. Reducing administrative
burdens (cont..)

12. 4. Extending support to
clinicians/physicians
 Finding the causes and talking about them won’t solve problems. It
needs action. Listening to the physicians and getting feedback on their
issues alone doesn't help organizations to find solutions for burnout.
 Then what should they do? Let us answer that question. They should
provide both mental and physical support to the clinicians and
learners. Keeping physicians’ emotional and mental health well
cherished is always very important.

13.  Many physicians don’t even know that they are suffering from
burnout. There should be people arranged for speaking with them.
Private counseling sessions must be arranged for them at least once
every 3 months.
 Privacy must be ensured for them to come up and talk more freely
without any hesitations.
 Barriers to help-seeking must be eliminated as they are vital for
improving the well-being of the physician and reducing burnout.
4. Extending support to
clinicians/physicians (cont..)

14. 5. Invest in personal activities
 Last but not least method or way to reduce physician burnout is by
immersing themselves in some physical and mindfulness activities.
 Physical activities have been proven to be stress busters. A simple run
or a walk can make you feel relaxed and distracted from the burdens.
Even yoga is becoming extremely popular among workers.

15. Developing hobbies, going out with friends and family, singing out,
reading books, meditating, spending time in the museum, hitting the
gym, etc, are good ways to be happy and relaxed.
These can be done alone. However, these activities
when combined with a partner, family members, or
friends, create social interactions that can contribute
well to the relaxed nature of these activities.
5. Invest in personal activities
(cont..)

16. Final Thoughts
 Burnout can be the reason for a physician’s personal and professional lives,
and it might get out of hand when not treated properly.
Patients’ safety is in the hands of physicians. And because of that,
organizations and legal bodies force physicians/clinicians to follow
strict rules and regulations promptly. But the problems and issues
faced by these people must be regarded as important by the entities.
Everyone coming together to talk about these issues may be
impossible. But start doing that in smaller ways can somehow reap
sweeter results in the future.

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