Information de reference pour ce titreAccession Number: | 00005650-201207000-00008.
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Author: | Auerbach, David I. MS, PhD
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Institution: | RAND Health, Boston, MA
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Source: | Medical Care. 50(7):606-610, July 2012.
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Abstract: | Background: The nurse practitioner (NP) workforce has been a focus of considerable policy interest recently, particularly as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may place additional demands on the healthcare professional workforce. The NP workforce has been growing rapidly in recent years, but fluctuation in enrollments in the past decades has resulted in a wide range of forecasts.
Objectives: To forecast the future NP workforce using a novel method that has been applied to the registered nurse and physician workforces and is robust to fluctuating enrollment trends.
Research Design: An age-cohort regression-based model was applied to the current and historical workforce, which was then forecasted to future years assuming stable age effects and a continuation of recent cohort trends.
Subjects: A total of 6798 NPs who were identified as having completed NP training in the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses between 1992 and 2008.
Results: The future workforce is projected to grow to 244,000 in 2025, an increase of 94% from 128,000 in 2008. If NPs are defined more restrictively as those who self-identify their position title as "NP," supply is projected to grow from 86,000 to 198,000 (130%) over this period.
Conclusions: The large projected increase in NP supply is higher and more grounded than other forecasts and has several implications: NPs will likely fulfill a substantial amount of future demand for care. Furthermore, as the ratio of NPs to Nurse Practitioners to physicians will surely grow, there could be implications for quality of care and for the configuration of future care delivery systems.
(C) 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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Author Keywords: | health workforce; health care organization and delivery.
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Language: | English.
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Document Type: | Original Articles.
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Journal Subset: | Clinical Medicine. Public Health.
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ISSN: | 0025-7079
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NLM Journal Code: | 0230027, lsm
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DOI Number: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0...- ouverture dans une nouvelle fenêtre
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