Tait Shanafelt

Biographic Data

ID9647157
NAMETait Shanafelt
GIVEN NAMESTait
FAMILY NAMEShanafelt
SIGNATURESHANAFELT T
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • Wellness-Centered Leadership

    Open AccessTait D Shanafelt, Tait Shanafelt et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    These are challenging times for physicians. Extensive changes in the practice environment have altered the nature of physicians’ interactions with patients and their role in the health care delivery system. Many physicians feel as if they are “cogs in the wheel” of austere corporations that care more about productivity and finances than compassion or quality. They often do not see how the strategy and plan of their organization align with the val…

  • Everyday Heroism

    Magali Fassiotto, Hannah Valantine et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    Health care professionals and the institutions in which they work are being stretched to their limits amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, a second longstanding pandemic has been brought to the fore: the entrenched system of racial injustice and oppression. The first pandemic is new, and to date, substantial resources have been allocated to urgently addressing its mitigation; the second has a long history with inconsistent atte…

  • Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Tait D Shanafelt, Tait Shanafelt et al.ARTICLEJAMA2020

    Howard Bauchner, MD; Thomas J. Easley; on behalf of the entire editorial and publishing staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network

  • The Health Care Chief Wellness Officer

    Jonathan Ripp, Tait D Shanafelt et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Occupational distress among clinicians and its impact on quality of care is a major threat to the health care delivery system. To address threats to clinician well-being, many institutions have introduced a new senior leadership position—the health care chief wellness officer (CWO). This role is distinct from CWOs or other wellness leadership positions that have historically existed outside of medicine. The health care CWO role was established to…

  • Addressing Burnout Among Health Care Professionals by Focusing on Process Rather Than Metrics

    Open AccessDaniel Marchalik, Tait D Shanafelt et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2020

    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound effect on health care professionals around the world. An early report from China shed light on the pandemic's negative impact on health care workers' mental health-a trend that appears especially pronounced among frontline workers, in whom the odds of depression, anxiety, and distress increased by more than 50%. 1,2 A similar pattern was observed during the severe acute respirato…

  • Hospice Employees’ Perceptions of Their Work Environment

    Open AccessRebecca H Lehto, Carrie Heeter et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Burnout in healthcare professionals can lead to adverse effects on physical and mental health, lower quality of care, and workforce shortages as employees leave the profession. Hospice professionals are thought to be at particularly high risk for burnout. The purpose of the study was to evaluate workplace perceptions of interdisciplinary hospice care workers who provide care to patients at end of life. Six focus groups and one semi-structured int…

  • Evidence Relating Health Care Provider Burnout and Quality of Care

    Open AccessDaniel Tawfik, Daniel S Tawfik et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Internal Medicine2019

    Background: Whether health care provider burnout contributes to lower quality of patient care is unclear. Purpose: To estimate the overall relationship between burnout and quality of care and to evaluate whether published studies provide exaggerated estimates of this relationship. Data Sources: MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCO), Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO), EMBASE (Elsevier), and Web of Science (Clarivate Ana…

  • A narrative review on burnout experienced by medical students and residents

    Open AccessLiselotte Dyrbye, Tait ShanafeltARTICLEMedical Education2016

  • Distress Among Matriculating Medical Students Relative to the General Population

    Chantal M L R Brazeau, Tait D Shanafelt et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2014

    PURPOSE: Many medical students experience distress during medical school. If matriculating medical students (MMSs) begin training with similar or better mental health than age-similar controls, this would support existing concerns about the negative impact of training on student well-being. The authors compared mental health indicators of MMSs versus those of a probability-based sample of the general U.S. population. METHOD: In 2012 all MMSs at s…