Relationships between work satisfaction, emotional exhaustion and mental health among Swiss primary care physicians.

Background: Work-related satisfaction is an important determinant of quality of care. However, its relationship with doctors' mental health is poorly understood. It could have an independent beneficial effect on mental health (direct association) or simply reduce the impact of work stress on mental health (moderating or 'buffering' role).

Prevalence of burnout among Swiss cancer clinicians, paediatricians and general practitioners: who are most at risk?

Goals Of Work: Increasing economical and administrative constraints and changes in health-care systems constitute a risk for burnout, especially for cancer physicians. However, little is known about differences across medical specialties and the importance of work characteristics.

Methods: A postal questionnaire addressing burnout, psychiatric morbidity, sociodemographics and work characteristics was administered to 180 cancer physicians, 184 paediatricians and 197 general practitioners in Switzerland.

Attitudes and beliefs regarding the role of interventional pain management at the end-of-life among caregivers: a 4-year perspective.

Intrathecal and epidural opioid analgesia represents a major advance in the management of cancer pain, adding a new dimension to opioid therapy by allowing prolonged analgesia through the use of significantly lower doses than those required for systemic administration. However, myths, misconceptions, and apprehension continue to serve as major barriers to effective cancer pain management, and concerns regarding safety, efficacy, and relative ease of utilization still prevail. This, in turn, results in unnecessary suffering, depression, diminished cognitive function, sleep disturbance, functional disability, and compromised quality of life.

Mapping the updating process: common and specific brain activations across different versions of the running span task.

Neuroimaging studies exploring the neural substrates of executive functioning have only rarely investigated whether the non-executive characteristics of the experimental executive tasks could contribute to the observed brain activations. The aim of this study was to determine cerebral activity in three different tasks involving the updating executive function. The experimental updating tasks required subjects to process strings of items (respectively letters, words, and sounds) of unknown lengths, and then to recall or identify a specific number of presented items.