RESEARCH_FILE
Monique M.C. van Mol
Erasmus University Medical Center
Known for:The 2015 systematic review of compassion fatigue and burnout prevalence across ICU professionals — establishing quantitative benchmarks for the occupational burden and framing emotional numbing as a structural output of intensive care, not a character deficit
Key findings
- 2015
Van Mol and colleagues synthesised 25 studies on ICU professionals and found compassion fatigue prevalence reaching up to 40% in some samples — confirming that emotional numbing is a predictable occupational consequence of intensive care work at scale and calling for systematic institutional support rather than individual-level interventions alone. The Prevalence of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout among Healthcare Professionals in ICUs: A Systematic Review ↗