National Assessment of Workplace Bullying Among Academic Surgeons in the US

Affiliations

¹ Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri.
⁵ Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus.
⁶ Section Editor.

Kevin Y Pei et al. JAMA Surg. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 1;155(6):524-526.

doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2020.0263.

¹ Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri.
⁵ Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus.
⁶ Section Editor.

Abstract

This study assesses the prevalence of bullying and barriers to its eradication among US surgeons.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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