Note: Ophthalmologists were asked to rank causes of burnout on a scale of one (not at all important) to seven (extremely important).
• Too many bureaucratic tasks — 4.98
• Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act — 4.29
• Increasing computerization of practice — 4.23
• Spending too many hours at work — 3.54
• Income not high enough — 3.51
• Too many patient appointments in a day — 3.27
• Feeling like just a cog in a wheel — 3.12
• Too many difficult patients — 3.06
• Inability to provide patients with the quality care they need — 2.72
• Difficult colleagues or staff — 2.66
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