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Review
. 2020 Mar 24;24(1):98.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-2784-z.

Burnout and Joy in the Profession of Critical Care Medicine

Meeta Prasad Kerlin  1   2   3 , Joanne McPeake  4   5 , Mark E Mikkelsen  6   7   8
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Review

Burnout and Joy in the Profession of Critical Care Medicine

Meeta Prasad Kerlin et al. Crit Care. .

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Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2020. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2020. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Risk factors associated with burnout syndrome and impact on the provider, care, and the healthcare system (Reprinted from [3] with permission of the American Thoracic Society. Copyright © 2019 American Thoracic Society)
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