The Association of Death Notification and Related Training with Burnout among Emergency Medical Services Professionals.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2021

Publication Title

Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Death notification is a difficult task commonly encountered during prehospital care and may lead to burnout among EMS professionals. Lack of training could potentiate the relationship between death notification and burnout. The first objective of this study was to describe EMS professionals' experience with death notification and related training. The secondary objective was to assess the associations between death notification delivery, training, and burnout.

Volume

25

Issue

4

First Page

539

Last Page

548

DOI

10.1080/10903127.2020.1785599

ISSN

1545-0066

PubMed ID

32584686

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