Production pressure is a source of stress for physicians and is a contributing factor in physician burnout. Production pressures are the “overt or covert pressures and incentives on personnel to place production, not safety, as their primary priority” (David M. Gaba, MD, et al). Unrealistic workload planning, inadequate staffing, disorganization, duplicative efforts, and delegation problems can contribute to production pressure. Although much of the responsibility for managing the risk of production pressure falls on healthcare administrators and managers, there are a variety of strategies individual providers can use to help reduce the impact of certain sources of production pressure.
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