"The Cost in the Individual": Longitudinal Burnout Prevalence Among Pediatric Emergency Physicians Through 9 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Our study suggests that increased COVID-19 case burden was correlated with EE levels during the third and fourth waves of the pandemic. Emotional exhaustion was worsened by systemic factors, and interventions must target common themes of unsustainable workloads and overwhelming lack of control.