The link between physician burnout and quality of care is set to become increasingly important in the twenty-first century, as the general trend taking place in most of the industrialized countries is a decrease in organizational resources and an increase in individual demands.. Strengths and limitations of this study. few studies have examined the current state of knowledge about the relationship between physician burnout and the patient safety and acceptability dimensions of quality of care.. The present paper represents an attempt to link organisational culture, job burnout and quality of care in a more meaningful way. a conceptual model has been provided as a way to frame and.
Results. nurse practice environment dimensions predicted job outcome variables and nurse ratings of quality of care. analyses were consistent with features of nurses’ work characteristics including perceived workload, decision latitude, and social capital, as well as three dimension of burnout playing mediating roles between nurse practice environment and outcomes.. In the following paper, we will argue that job burnout represents the best way to link organisational culture and quality of care, as it focuses very much on role behaviour. second, within the hospital, the three approaches suggest organisational culture is best understood in terms of the informal discretion of the physicians and as such. Nurse reported job outcomes and quality of care explained variances of model 1 (burnout) were 63 and 53% and of model 2 (work engagement) 59 and 53%, respectively..
