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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
All in all, Imo’s review is undermined by the very research it relies on. We recommend that researchers interested in burnout begin at the beginning, that is to say, by establishing a reasoned, clinically-founded (differential) diagnosis for their entity of interest. As long as investigators do not complete the required groundwork for establishing a diagnosis and remain unable to distinguish a case of burnout from either a noncase or an existing disorder, conclusions regarding the prevalence of burnout will be nonsense. To close this comment, we note that an immediately available solution for effectively monitoring and protecting physicians’ occupational health would be to shift our focus from burnout to job-related depression.
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This work was originally published in British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin, available at doi: 10.1192/pb.41.6.367.