When 45% of VA physicians are burned out how can you expect great treatment for veterans ?

Burnout Prevalence, and Agreement and Discrimination Statistics, Overall and by Occupation

	Total n = 5,404	Provider n = 1,769	Registered nurse n = 1,380	Clinical associate n = 1,358	Clerk n = 557
Prevalence of burnout	–	–	–	–	–
MBI:EE	36.7 %	44.7 %	37.8 %	27.2 %	35.5 %
Single-item burnout	38.5 %	45.4 %	39.8 %	30.7 %	37.3 %
Agreement and discrimination statistics
Correlation*	0.79	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.79
Kappa	0.70	0.70	0.68	0.69	0.72
Sensitivity	83.2 %	84.2 %	82.7 %	82.7 %	84.3 %
Specificity	87.4 %	85.9 %	86.3 %	88.7 %	88.6 %
PPV	79.3 %	82.8 %	78.5 %	73.1 %	80.3 %
NPV	90.0 %	87.0 %	89.2 %	93.2 %	91.1 %
AUC	0.93 (0.004)	0.93 (0.007)	0.92 (0.008)	0.92 (0.009)	0.93 (0.01)

*Pearson correlation based on ordinal scales; all other statistics are based on dichotomizing the measures to indicate burnout vs. no burnout


survey, reported on in the 2015 Medscape Lifestyle Report, represents the findings from nearly 20,000 physicians; the overall burnout rate was 46% 
general US population Burnout 
raTE 28%


Germany: According to numbers compiled in 2011 by AOK, Germany’s largest insurer, almost one in 10 sick days Germans took in 2010 was related to psychological illness, nine times the figure in 2004.