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Studies in several industries have associated work conditions with employees’ psychological distress. Among medical staff, self-reports of excessive workload have been linked to depression ratings. In a 5-year prospective study of 6699 nurses and 641 physicians (mean age, 38.6; 92% female) working on 203 somatic-illness wards in 16 Finnish public-sector hospitals, investigators correlated bed occupancy (from administrative data) with the number of new antidepressant prescriptions filled by staff (data from a governmental registry). Overcrowding was considered to have occurred when the ratio between inpatient days and available beds within a 6-month period exceeded 85% (because previous studies linked occupancies higher than 85% to suboptima…