Emily Tucker
Clemson University, SC·Engineering
Emergency department clinicians have some of the highest rates of psychological distress of any workers. Poor well-being and burnout among these doctors and other providers can harm patient care, cost hospitals through staff turnover, and damage clinicians' own health.
- Fields
Engineering
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
clinician burnout
physician well-being
emergency department
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Quantify how staffing strain, patient congestion, pandemic status and demographics relate to well-being and burnout in emergency department clinicians, using generalized linear mixed effects models and factor analysis on survey data from seven sites.
- Develop a machine learning model that predicts future burnout risk among emergency department attendings, advanced practice clinicians and residents.
- Design and refine a visualization tool showing burnout predictors and real-time well-being predictions, and validate it with emergency department leaders through interviews and eye-tracking.
More about the research
This project asks which workplace and outside factors drive this distress. It also asks how to show that information clearly to the hospital leaders who can act on it.
Why it matters
Hospitals need better ways to spot and reduce burnout among emergency department physicians, advanced practice clinicians and residents. A predictive model and a clear dashboard could help leaders target changeable factors such as staffing strain and patient crowding. This may reduce turnover and improve both clinician well-being and patient care.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Anastasia Makhanova
University of Arkansas, AR·Psychology
Measure how workplace demands such as stress and burnout, concern about one's own health, and inflammation relate to clinicians' performance on standardized decision-making assessments, using a correlational design.
Neha Goel
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Develop a practical protocol for using and managing high flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) for low-oxygen acute respiratory failure in the emergency department, using feedback from a national panel of experts and current evidence.
Julio Duarte
University of Florida, FL·Pharmacology
Expand pharmacogenetic prescribing decision support for emergency and post-emergency care to include drug–drug–gene interactions, more gene–drug pairs, pharmacist medication reviews and recommendations for prescribers outside the health system.
The school
Clemson University: 19 labs on PI Pages, $339M a year on research, 297 research doctorates a year.
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