Physician wellness: a missing quality indicator.

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Published in Lancet on November 14, 2009

Authors

Jean E Wallace1, Jane B Lemaire, William A Ghali

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. jwallace@ucalgary.ca

Associated clinical trials:

Building Physician Resiliency Through CREATION Health: A Research Study | NCT03413969

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RECHARGE: A Brief Psychological Intervention to Build Resilience in Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 | NCT04531774

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