Category: Health Professions
Burnout among Norwegian GPs increased from 2012 to 2024
Burnout prevalence among Norwegian GPs increased markedly from 2012 to 2024. Work stress, job satisfaction, and sickness presenteeism emerged as key modifiable factors.
Review describes peer review denials, burdens, and navigation
Comprehensive review of insurance peer review processes, examining how prior authorization and peer-to-peer reviews impact physicians, patients, and healthcare quality.
Tailored EBPAS-15 showed adequate psychometric properties in Latinx professionals
Confirmatory factor analysis validates the EBPAS-15’s psychometric properties for Latinx mental health professionals, addressing measurement gaps in Latin American implementation science research.
Poland and Lebanon differed in accessibility, autonomy, and communication
Comparative study of healthcare quality management in Poland and Lebanon examining patient communication, service accessibility, and decision-making autonomy across public and private systems.
Resident doctor cuts could threaten NHS hospital function
NHS analysis warns that cutting resident doctor numbers risks future service capacity and medical training, despite apparent efficiency gains during strikes.
Patients reported high satisfaction in several hospital care areas
Cross-sectional patient satisfaction assessment in cardiology department, Senegal, highlighting communication gaps and clinical care quality indicators across 203 hospitalized patients.
Workplace stress affects healthcare workers in Ethiopia
Cross-sectional study of 496 Ethiopian healthcare workers found 53% experienced workplace stress, with levels linked to qualifications, facility type, and salary.
Collaborative scaling of mental health screening showed promise
Examination of integrated primary mental health screening scale-up in South Africa using co-development and continuous quality improvement to build mid-level management capacity.
Psychological capital partly links support and nurse distress
Study examines how psychological capital mediates the protective effect of organizational support on distressing experiences among nurses as second victims of adverse events.
Little Havana seniors face multiple barriers to orthopedic care
Descriptive analysis of social determinants and orthopedic care access gaps among seniors in Little Havana, Miami, identifying insurance, transportation, language, and service availability barriers.
