Provider burnout, fatigue during COVID-19 pandemic

Editor's Note

This article from Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas A&M University researchers shares the lessons learned by an interdisciplinary team of ICU healthcare providers and their experiences of occupational fatigue and burnout as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The researchers documented four major areas of stress with the goal of identifying mitigation strategies to reduce burnout:

• occupational hazards
• national vs locally scaled responses
• process inefficiencies
• financial instability.

They also offer policy recommendations and guidelines for organizational readiness, resilience, and disaster mitigation.