 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 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2010 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2011 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2014 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2020 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2024 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2025 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Workload" by people in Profiles.
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Elston S, Skidmore A, Bryan M, Winchester C, Wohlauer MV, Glasheen JJ. The bending point: How the physical toll of bedside care is pushing nursing staff out the door. Nurs Manage. 2026 Aug 01; 57(7):21-28.
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Dias RD, Michael SH, Harari R, Yule S, McGinnis L, Skipworth RJE, Mann-Salinas E, Davis WT. Heart Rate Variability and Body Motion as Digital Biomarkers of Task Workload During Military En Route Critical Care Simulations. Sensors (Basel). 2026 Jun 05; 26(11).
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Woodburn KL, Orlando MS, Barba NB, Garcia-Filion P, Maldonado DV, Gebhart J, Kho RM. Measuring the Impact of an Exoscopic Camera System on Learner Mental Workload in Vaginal Surgery. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2026 Jul; 33(7):971-977.e3.
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Boyle CP, Crichton J, Sgrò A, Michael SH, Wigmore SJ, Skipworth RJE, Yule S. Impact of environmental factors on operative team performance: systematic review and guidance for optimising clinical practice. Surg Endosc. 2025 Dec; 39(12):7983-7999.
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Biel TJ, Wood CL, Kacmar RM. From "how busy we are" to "how we are busy": Pragmatic, minute-by-minute analysis of obstetric anesthesia activity, service capacity, and utilization. J Clin Anesth. 2026 01; 108:112054.
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Murphy PB, Coleman JJ, Wilson DJ, Maring M, Gellings J, Biesboer E, Kamine TH, Mukherjee K, Bonne S, Boltz MM, Winfield RD, Dumas RP, Kurle J, Guzman-Curtis R, Sciarretta JD, Maqbool B, Morse BC, Cripps MW, Gondek S, Barmparas G, Lilienstein J, Nahmias J, Faucher L, Bayouth CV, Egodage T, Marie Knowlton L, Berne JD, Fasanya C, Shaddix M, Jacobson LE, Farrell MS, Fernandez LG, Manning BM, Martin RS, Kirsch JM, Rakitin I, Englehart MS, Montgomery SC, Blondeau B, Emigh B, McKenzie K, Taghavi S, Tatebe LC, Cunningham KW, de Moya MA. Understaffed and overworked: The stark reality of acute care surgeon staffing in the United States, an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 10 01; 99(4):560-570.
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Porter S, Knees M, Meimari L, Piper C, Kissler M. Hospitalist time-motion studies: A systematic review. J Hosp Med. 2025 Oct; 20(10):1099-1107.
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Wang J, Altay A, Hirshfield L, Velipasalar S. Block-Wise Domain Adaptation for Workload Prediction from fNIRS Data. Sensors (Basel). 2025 Jun 07; 25(12).
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Yu A, McBeth L, Westcott C, Mueller S, Ozkaynak M, Holliman BD, Maw A, Nicklas J, Jones CD. Overloaded: How task switching, information synthesis, and poor relational trust make interhospital transfers challenging. J Hosp Med. 2025 Dec; 20(12):1282-1289.
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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 06 10; 43(17):2017-2023.
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