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Table 2 Summary statistics for PFI Burnout Composite score and proportion of respondents reporting burnout by physician specialty

From: Frontline physician burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic: national survey findings

 

Survey Wave

Wave 1

Wave 2

Total

Mean (SD) PFI-BC score

 Emergency medicine

1.49 (0.87)

1.29 (0.85)

1.38 (0.86)

 Critical carea

1.31 (0.74)

1.32 (0.83)

1.32 (0.78)

 Primary careb

1.13 (0.90)

1.10 (0.92)

1.11 (0.90)

 Hospitalist

1.23 (0.84)

1.37 (0.80)

1.29 (0.82)

 Infectious disease

1.13 (0.70)

1.20 (0.86)

1.17 (0.79)

 Total

1.19 (0.88)

1.15 (0.90)

1.17 (0.89)

Proportion reporting burnout scores exceeding threshold indicating burnout

 Emergency medicine

51.4%

45.4%

47.9%

 Critical care

53.1%

42.8%

48.3%

 Primary care

33.9%

30.2%

31.9%

 Hospitalist

28.2%

41.5%

33.8%

 Infectious disease

38.4%

35.9%

37.0%

 Total

37.5%

33.6%

35.4%

  1. aCritical care is an aggregation of the “critical care medicine” and “pulmonary critical care” specialties
  2. bPrimary care is an aggregation of “internal medicine” and “family medicine” specialties