Consolidation of working hours and work-life balance in anaesthesiologists - A cross-sectional national survey.

Currently, healthcare management fosters a maximization of performance despite a relative shortage of specialists. We evaluated anaesthesiologists' workload, physical health, emotional well-being, job satisfaction and working conditions under increased pressure from consolidated working hours. A nationwide cross-sectional survey was performed in Austrian anaesthesiologists (overall response rate 41.

Expectations of patients, nurses and physicians in geriatric nursing home emergencies.

Objectives: To determine contentment with the performance of primary mission emergency care providers.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted using key informant interviews to assess quality of life and self-rated degree of contentment with care in geriatric emergencies.

Results: Interviews concerning a total of 152 geriatric emergency cases in nursing homes were conducted with patients in 13 (8.

Preoperative stress and anxiety in day-care patients and inpatients undergoing fast-track surgery.

Background: To investigate preoperative levels of stress and anxiety in day-care patients and inpatients undergoing surgical interventions.

Methods: Before induction of anaesthesia, the degree of stress and anxiety was assessed in 135 patients using stress and anxiety questionnaires, bio-feedback, physiological measures, and serum levels for stress variables. Questionnaire responses and physiological measures such as arterial pressure, heart rate, skin conductance, cortisol, and catecholamine levels were compared for day-care patients and inpatients.

Fully developed burnout and burnout risk in intensive care personnel at a university hospital.

We assessed the prevalence of fully developed burnout, burnout risk and the influence of work and employment related factors in five intensive care units at a university hospital. A cross-sectional study was conducted using self-reporting questionnaires for the evaluation of the frequency and intensity of burnout syndrome (Maslach Burnout Inventory) and work and employment related factors. From a total of 320 eligible intensive care personnel, 33 physicians and 150 nurses participated in the study (59% response rate).

Work stress and gender-dependent coping strategies in anesthesiologists at a university hospital.

Study Objective: To evaluate stressors and coping strategies for stress in a sample of anesthesiologists working at a university hospital.

Design: Cross-sectional study via survey instrument.

Setting: University department of anesthesiology and critical care at a 1305-bed hospital.