Christine A. Sinsky

23.2k total citations · 17 hit papers
162 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Christine A. Sinsky is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health Information Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine A. Sinsky has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in General Health Professions, 56 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 34 papers in Health Information Management. Recurrent topics in Christine A. Sinsky's work include Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (73 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (36 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (32 papers). Christine A. Sinsky is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (73 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (36 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (32 papers). Christine A. Sinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Christine A. Sinsky's co-authors include T. Bodenheimer, Tait D. Shanafelt, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Colin P. West, Daniel Satele, Michael Tutty, Mickey Trockel, Omar Hasan, Jeff A. Sloan and Lindsey E. Carlasare and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Christine A. Sinsky

153 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Require... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2014 2015 2016 2016 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider
    2014 2.2k citations Christine A. Sinsky et al. profile →
  2. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014
    2015 2.0k citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Liselotte N. Dyrbye et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  3. Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties
    2016 860 citations Christine A. Sinsky, Michael Tutty et al. profile →
  4. Relationship Between Clerical Burden and Characteristics of the Electronic Environment With Physician Burnout and Professional Satisfaction
    2016 700 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Liselotte N. Dyrbye et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  5. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2017
    2019 604 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Colin P. West et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  6. Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States
    2019 585 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky et al. profile →
  7. Tethered to the EHR: Primary Care Physician Workload Assessment Using EHR Event Log Data and Time-Motion Observations
    2017 565 citations Christine A. Sinsky et al. profile →
  8. Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors
    2018 439 citations Daniel Tawfik, Christine A. Sinsky et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  9. Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care
    2017 434 citations Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Tait D. Shanafelt et al. profile →
  10. The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-being
    2017 425 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky et al. profile →
  11. Prevalence and correlates of stress and burnout among U.S. healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national cross-sectional survey study
    2021 331 citations Sara Poplau, Roger Brown et al. profile →
  12. In Search of Joy in Practice: A Report of 23 High-Functioning Primary Care Practices
    2013 322 citations Christine A. Sinsky et al. profile →
  13. Resilience and Burnout Among Physicians and the General US Working Population
    2020 290 citations Colin P. West, Liselotte N. Dyrbye et al. JAMA Network Open profile →
  14. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    2022 285 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Colin P. West et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  15. The Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout Among US Physicians
    2019 251 citations Edward R. Melnick, Liselotte N. Dyrbye et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  16. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2020
    2022 205 citations Tait D. Shanafelt, Colin P. West et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings profile →
  17. The Association of Work Overload with Burnout and Intent to Leave the Job Across the Healthcare Workforce During COVID-19
    2023 81 citations Lisa S. Rotenstein, Roger Brown et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine profile →

Peers

Christine A. Sinsky
Mark Linzer United States
Daniel Satele United States
Kevin Grumbach United States
Lisa A. Cooper United States
Liselotte N. Dyrbye United States
Eric S. Holmboe United States
Judith Belle Brown Canada
Thomas R. Konrad United States
Michael Tutty United States
Arlene S. Ash United States
Mark Linzer United States
Christine A. Sinsky
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christine A. Sinsky. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christine A. Sinsky based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christine A. Sinsky. Christine A. Sinsky is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sinsky, Christine A., et al.. (2025). Association Between Vacation Characteristics and Career Intentions of US Physicians—A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 100(5). 814–827.
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Tawfik, Daniel, Adam Rule, Dori A. Cross, et al.. (2025). Emerging Domains for Measuring Health Care Delivery With Electronic Health Record Metadata. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e64721–e64721. 2 indexed citations
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Shanafelt, Tait D., Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2025). Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration Among U.S Residents and Fellows and the General U.S. Working Population Between 2012 and 2023. Academic Medicine. 100(12). 1486–1498.
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Shanafelt, Tait D., Colin P. West, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2025). Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work–Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2023. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 100(7). 1142–1158. 5 indexed citations
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Sinsky, Christine A., Mickey Trockel, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, et al.. (2024). Vacation Days Taken, Work During Vacation, and Burnout Among US Physicians. JAMA Network Open. 7(1). e2351635–e2351635. 14 indexed citations
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Lu, Dave W., D. Mark Courtney, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2024). An examination of the vacation behaviors of United States emergency physicians. Academic Emergency Medicine. 32(1). 87–90. 1 indexed citations
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Rotenstein, Lisa S., Hanhan Wang, Colin P. West, et al.. (2024). Teamwork Climate, Safety Climate, and Physician Burnout: A National, Cross-Sectional Study. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 50(6). 458–462. 4 indexed citations
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Farley, Heather, et al.. (2023). Humans as an Essential Source of Safety: A Frameshift for System Resilience. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(4). 241–243. 1 indexed citations
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Rotenstein, Lisa S., Roger Brown, Christine A. Sinsky, & Mark Linzer. (2023). The Association of Work Overload with Burnout and Intent to Leave the Job Across the Healthcare Workforce During COVID-19. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(8). 1920–1927. 81 indexed citations breakdown →
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Becker, Anne E., Erin E. Sullivan, Luci K. Leykum, et al.. (2023). Burnout Among Hospitalists During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: a National Mixed Methods Survey Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(16). 3581–3588. 6 indexed citations
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Shanafelt, Tait D., Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Colin P. West, et al.. (2023). Career Plans of US Physicians After the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 98(11). 1629–1640. 23 indexed citations
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Trockel, Mickey, Colin P. West, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, et al.. (2023). Assessment of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Adverse Professional Experiences, Depression, and Burnout in US Physicians. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 98(12). 1785–1796. 10 indexed citations
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Shanafelt, Tait D., Colin P. West, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2023). At-Risk Work Hours Among U.S. Physicians and Other U.S. Workers. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 65(4). 568–578. 12 indexed citations
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Tai‐Seale, Ming, Sally L. Baxter, Marlene Millen, et al.. (2023). Association of physician burnout with perceived EHR work stress and potentially actionable factors. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 30(10). 1665–1672. 19 indexed citations
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Sinsky, Christine A., et al.. (2022). Health Care Expenditures Attributable to Primary Care Physician Overall and Burnout-Related Turnover: A Cross-sectional Analysis. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 97(4). 693–702. 50 indexed citations
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Shanafelt, Tait D., Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2022). Imposter Phenomenon in US Physicians Relative to the US Working Population. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 97(11). 1981–1993. 49 indexed citations
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Trockel, Mickey, Christine A. Sinsky, Colin P. West, et al.. (2021). Self-Valuation Challenges in the Culture and Practice of Medicine and Physician Well-being. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 96(8). 2123–2132. 41 indexed citations
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Melnick, Edward R., Elizabeth Harry, Christine A. Sinsky, et al.. (2020). Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability as a Predictor of Task Load and Burnout Among US Physicians: Mediation Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(12). e23382–e23382. 58 indexed citations
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Olson, Kristine, Christine A. Sinsky, Seppo T. Rinne, et al.. (2018). Cross‐sectional survey of workplace stressors associated with physician burnout measured by the Mini‐Z and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Stress and Health. 35(2). 157–175. 129 indexed citations
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Wharam, J. Frank, Ann‐Marie Rosland, Michael K. Paasche‐Orlow, et al.. (2011). “Pay-for-performance” as a Quality Improvement Tool. Quality Management in Health Care. 20(3). 234–245. 12 indexed citations

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