 Workload
"Workload" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The total amount of work to be performed by an individual, a department, or other group of workers in a period of time.
| Descriptor ID |
D016526
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I03.946.225.500 N04.452.677.650.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Workload- Workload
- Workloads
- Work Load
- Work Loads
Employee Workload- Employee Workload
- Employee Workloads
- Workload, Employee
- Workloads, Employee
- Employee Work Load
- Employee Work Loads
- Work Load, Employee
- Work Loads, Employee
Staff Workload- Staff Workload
- Staff Workloads
- Workload, Staff
- Workloads, Staff
- Staff Work Load
- Staff Work Loads
- Work Load, Staff
- Work Loads, Staff
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Workload" by people in this website by year, and whether "Workload" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2009 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2010 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2011 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2012 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2013 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2014 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2015 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2020 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2024 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Workload" by people in Profiles.
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Winer EP, Levit LA, Basch E, Chavez-MacGregor M, Dubois R, Eckhardt SG, Ellis LM, Hudis CA, Schrag D, Speers C, Wilky BA, Tibbits M, Spence R, Garrett-Mayer E. Promoting Reasonable Career Expectations and Maximizing Professional Fulfillment for Academic Oncologists: ASCO Recommendations for Academic Medical Centers. J Clin Oncol. 2025 Jun 10; 43(17):2017-2023.
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Burden M, Gundareddy VP, Kauffman R, Keach JW, McBeth L, Raffel KE, Rice JD, Washburn C, Kisuule F, Keniston A. Assessing the impact of workload and clinician experience on patient throughput: A multicenter study. J Hosp Med. 2025 May; 20(5):471-478.
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Thumm EB, Smith D, Giano Z. Evaluating the roles of workload and practice climate in workforce retention across the midwifery career lifespan: A latent profile analysis of early-, mid-, and late-career US midwives. Women Birth. 2024 11; 37(6):101833.
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Brickson C, Keniston A, Knees M, Burden M. Characterizing electronic messaging use among hospitalists and its association with patient volumes. J Hosp Med. 2024 Dec; 19(12):1131-1137.
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Busby KR, Draucker CB. Institutional factors that affect faculty mentoring in academic nursing programs. J Prof Nurs. 2024 Sep-Oct; 54:164-170.
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Sullivan EE, Etz RS, Gonzalez MM, Deubel J, Reves SR, Stange KC, Hughes LS, Linzer M. You Cannot Function in "Overwhelm": Helping Primary Care Navigate the Slow End of the Pandemic. J Healthc Manag. 2024 May-Jun 01; 69(3):190-204.
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Burden M, McBeth L, Keniston A. The development and pilot of a novel mobile application to assess clinician perception of workload and work environment. J Hosp Med. 2024 Aug; 19(8):661-670.
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Held N, Neumeier A, Amass T, Harry E, Pomponio R, Peterson RA, Huie TJ, Moss M. Extraneous Load, Patient Census, and Patient Acuity Correlate With Cognitive Load During ICU Rounds. Chest. 2024 Jun; 165(6):1448-1457.
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Berge JM, Freese R, Macheledt KC, Watson S, Pusalavidyasagar S, Kunin-Batson A, Ghebre R, Lingras K, Church AL, Dwivedi R, Nakib N, McCarty CA, Misono S, Rogers EA, Patel SI, Spencer S. Intersectionality and COVID-19: Academic Medicine Faculty's Lived Experiences of Well-Being, Workload, and Productivity During the Pandemic. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2023 12; 32(12):1351-1362.
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Sherman SO, Shen YY, Gutierrez-Mendoza D, Schlittenhart M, Watson C, Clark TK, Anderson AP. Additive Sensory Noise Effects on Operator Performance in a Lunar Landing Simulation. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2023 Oct 01; 94(10):770-779.
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