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Clinicians' Perceptions of Futile or Potentially Inappropriate Care and Associations with Avoidant Behaviors and Burnout.

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: Background: Futile or potentially inappropriate care (futile/PIC) for dying inpatients leads to negative outcomes for patients and clinicians. In the setting of rising end-of-life health care costs and increasing physician burnout, it is important to understand the causes of futile/PIC, how it impacts on care and relates to burnout. Objectives: Examine causes of futile/PIC, determine whether clinicians report compensatory or avoidant behaviors as a result of such care and assess whether these behaviors are associated with burnout. Design: Online, cross-sectional questionnaire. Setting/Subjects: Clinicians at two academic hospitals in New York City. Methods: Respondents were asked the frequency with which they observed or provided futile/PIC and whether they demonstrated compensatory or avoidant behaviors as a result. A validated screen was used to assess burnout. Measurements: Descriptive statistics, odds ratios, linear regressions. Results: Surveys were completed by 349 subjects. A majority of clinicians (91.3%) felt they had provided or "possibly" provided futile/PIC in the past six months. The most frequent reason cited for PIC (61.0%) was the insistence of the patient's family. Both witnessing and providing PIC were statistically significantly (p < 0.05) associated with compensatory and avoidant behaviors, but more strongly associated with avoidant behaviors. Provision of PIC increased the likelihood of avoiding the patient's loved ones by a factor of 2.40 (1.82-3.19), avoiding the patient by a factor of 1.83 (1.32-2.55), and avoiding colleagues by a factor of 2.56 (1.57-4.20) (all p < 0.001). Avoiding the patient's loved ones (β = 0.55, SE = 0.12, p < 0.001), avoiding the patient (β = 0.38, SE = 0.17; p = 0.03), and avoiding colleagues (β = 0.78, SE = 0.28; p = 0.01) were significantly associated with burnout. Conclusions: Futile/PIC, provided or observed, is associated with avoidance of patients, families, and colleagues and those behaviors are associated with burnout.

journal_name

J Palliat Med

journal_title

Journal of palliative medicine

authors

Chamberlin P,Lambden J,Kozlov E,Maciejewski R,Lief L,Berlin DA,Pelissier L,Yushuvayev E,Pan CX,Prigerson HG

doi

10.1089/jpm.2018.0385

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1039-1045

issue

eissn

1096-6218

issn

1557-7740

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Clinicians' Perceptions of Futile or Potentially Inappropriate Care and Associations with Avoidant Behaviors and Burnout.