The relationship of medical assistants' work engagement with their concerns of having made an important medical error: a cross-sectional study.

Adrian Loerbroks; Patricia Vu-Eickmann; Annegret Dreher; Viola Mambrey; Jessica Scharf; Peter Angerer

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The relationship of medical assistants' work engagement with their concerns of having made an important medical error: a cross-sectional study.

July 13, 2022

Loerbroks A, Vu-Eickmann P, Dreher A, et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(11):6690.

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Work engagement may be a beneficial counterpart to burnout among health care workers. This cross-sectional study explored the association between work engagement scores with self-reported concerns about having made medical errors among medical assistants in Germany.

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