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Record W4407969276 · doi:10.2147/jhl.s487849

Physician Leadership and Its Effect on Physician Burnout and Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2025· article· en· W4407969276 on OpenAlex
Edward G. Spilg, Kylie McNeill, Melanie Dodd-Moher, Johanna Dobransky, Elham Sabri, JerryM Maniate, Kathleen Gartke

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Healthcare Leadership · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Canadian institutionsOttawa HospitalBruyèreUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBurnoutPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Job satisfactionPsychologyMedicineFamily medicineNursingSocial psychologyVirologyClinical psychologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Purpose: Physician burnout is a global issue associated with low job satisfaction, decreased quality of patient care, reduced productivity, and early retirement from clinical practice. We sought to evaluate the impact of the leadership qualities of direct physician supervisors on the burnout and professional satisfaction of the physicians they supervise. Methods: An online survey was distributed by Email to all staff physicians practicing at a large Canadian academic tertiary care hospital. The primary outcome was the prevalence of burnout and professional satisfaction, assessed using the 2-item Maslach Burnout Inventory and a single item 5-point Likert scale rating, respectively. The secondary outcome was the relationship between composite leadership score and burnout/satisfaction, with leadership assessed by the 12-item Mayo Clinic Participatory Management Leadership Index. Results: Out of the 1176 physicians surveyed, 383 (32.6%) responded (51.2% male; 41.5% female). Overall, 41.7% of physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout (40.0% reported high emotional exhaustion; 15.3% reported high depersonalization). 40.1% of physicians reported being satisfied with the organization, 26.3% were neutral, and 33.6% were dissatisfied. On multivariate analysis adjusting for age, sex, duration of employment at the institution, and specialty, each one-point increase in composite leadership score was associated with a 3.1% decrease in the likelihood of burnout ( p = 0.0017), and a 6.6% increase in the likelihood of satisfaction ( p < 0.0001). Conclusion: Physician burnout is prevalent and positive leadership qualities of direct supervisors decreases the likelihood of burnout in physicians and increases the likelihood of their satisfaction with the organization. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov; Identifier: NCT04896307. Keywords: physician wellness, burnout, satisfaction, leadership

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.213
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.169
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it