Table A5.
Practice Characteristics and Burnout
| Characteristic | Burned Out (n = 484) |
No Burnout (n = 599) |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | ||
| General | |||||
| Time devoted to patient care, % | < .001 | ||||
| Missing | 1 | 5 | |||
| None | 10 | 15.9 | 53 | 84.1 | |
| 1-25 | 24 | 25.8 | 69 | 74.2 | |
| 26-50 | 38 | 31.4 | 83 | 68.6 | |
| 51-75 | 99 | 50.3 | 98 | 49.7 | |
| 76-100 | 312 | 51.7 | 291 | 48.3 | |
| Focus on specific type cancer | . 3804 | ||||
| Missing | 15 | 19 | |||
| Yes | 192 | 46.4 | 222 | 53.6 | |
| No | 277 | 43.6 | 358 | 56.4 | |
| Time supervising physicians in training, % | .2539 | ||||
| Missing | 22 | 46 | |||
| 0 | 154 | 41.5 | 217 | 58.5 | |
| < 5 | 114 | 50.2 | 113 | 49.8 | |
| 5-10 | 88 | 48.6 | 93 | 51.4 | |
| 11-20 | 60 | 46.2 | 70 | 53.8 | |
| > 20 | 46 | 43.4 | 60 | 56.6 | |
| Hours and call schedule | |||||
| Mean nights spent on call/week | 2.2 | 1.8 | < .001 | ||
| Hours spent seeing patients at work/week | < .001 | ||||
| Mean | 39.3 | 30.6 | |||
| SD | 15.3 | 17.1 | |||
| Hours spent on administrative tasks at work/week | .1508 | ||||
| Mean | 11.4 | 11.7 | |||
| SD | 9.2 | 11.4 | |||
| Hours spent at home on work tasks/week | .0081 | ||||
| Mean | 9.0 | 8.2 | |||
| SD | 8.4 | 8.9 | |||
| Hours spent at home keeping abreast of development/week | < .001 | ||||
| Mean | 4.1 | 4.9 | |||
| SD | 3.6 | 4.1 | |||
| Total hours/week* | < .001 | ||||
| Mean | 63.4 | 54.3 | |||
| SD | 16.7 | 21.5 | |||
| Outpatient practice | |||||
| Outpatients in clinic/week | < .001 | ||||
| Mean | 60.0 | 46.2 | |||
| SD | 32.8 | 33.7 | |||
| Minutes allocated/new outpatient visit | .0021 | ||||
| Mean | 52.3 | 47.7 | |||
| SD | 16.2 | 21.7 | |||
| Minutes allocated/return outpatient visit | .5737 | ||||
| Mean | 18.8 | 18.0 | |||
| SD | 6.6 | 8.9 | |||
| Hospital practice | |||||
| Hospital rounding | < .001 | ||||
| Missing | 17 | 20 | |||
| Round own patients when hospitalized | 77 | 48.1 | 83 | 51.9 | |
| Share rounding with partners in blocks | 92 | 54.1 | 78 | 45.9 | |
| Share rounding with partners on weekends | 155 | 51.0 | 149 | 49.0 | |
| Attend oncology teaching service | 106 | 43.1 | 140 | 56.9 | |
| Do not round in hospital | 37 | 22.3 | 129 | 77.7 | |
| Inpatients on average hospital day | 7.9 | 7.4 | 6.5 | 7.2 | < .001 |
| No. of weekends rounding in hospital/year | 10.9 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 10.3 | < .001 |
| Compensation method | .0105 | ||||
| Missing | 21 | 63 | |||
| Salary no incentive | 135 | 40.7 | 197 | 59.3 | |
| Salary with bonus | 216 | 47.1 | 243 | 52.9 | |
| Pure incentive | 112 | 53.8 | 96 | 46.2 | |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
*
Sum of above four categories.