Journal Articles

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Ramesh T, Armstrong D, Forte GJ, Horvitz-Lennon M, Zhang F, Yu H. Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on New Physician Job Market Outcomes. Med Care. 2025 Mar 11;():10.1097. doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000002137.

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This article evaluates the pandemic’s impacts on new physician job market outcomes.

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Zarek P, Ruttinger C, Armstrong D, Chakrabarti R, Hess DR, Manal TJ, Dall TM, Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation. Phys Ther. 2025;105(3). doi:10.1093/ptj/pzaf014.

Available at: https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/105/3/pzaf014/8047019

Assessing the balance between the physical therapist workforce and the demand for services is essential to meeting healthcare needs and understanding the profession’s future. As one of the largest clinical healthcare occupations in the US, physical therapy plays a critical role, especially with an aging population and rising prevalence of conditions requiring care. Ensuring a well-distributed and sufficient workforce is key to providing timely, effective treatment. This article examines current supply and demand trends, projects future workforce needs, and offers insights to help policymakers address shortages, improve training programs, and optimize resource allocation.

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Citation: Sasaki N, Pang J, Surdu S, Shirey S, Fernando T, Moore J. Use of oral health services among pregnant women and associations with gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Insights from the 2016-2020 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. JADA.  Published online January 31, 2025: doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2024.11.013

Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2024.11.013

In the United States, fewer than 40% of pregnant women seek preventive oral health care, highlighting a persistent gap in service utilization. Analysis of Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data from 2016-2020 (Phase 8) reveals key factors linked to lower oral health care use during pregnancy. These include lack of dental insurance, Medicaid enrollment, absence of routine dental care before pregnancy, and inadequate education from health care providers on the importance of oral health. This study examines diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups to understand better disparities in access to oral health care during pregnancy.

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Citation: Sasaki N, Pang J, Surdu S, Morrissey R, Vujicic M, Moore J. Workplace Factors Associated With Job Satisfaction Among Dental Hygienists and Assistants in the United States. Health Affairs Scholar. 2025;3(1). Published online January 13, 2025. doi:10.1093/haschl/qxae147

Available at: https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/1/qxae147/7951759

The dental workforce in the US is facing a significant reduction in the number of dental hygienists and dental assistants. This decline, marked by a 10% decrease in practice capacity in 2022, is impacting the efficiency and quality of dental care services while presenting serious challenges to job satisfaction and the overall well-being of the oral health workforce. This article evaluates job satisfaction among US dental hygienists and assistants and identifies workplace factors contributing to their job satisfaction or dissatisfaction.

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Citation: Kang, B, Fernando T, Pang J, Armstrong D, Shirey P. Utilizing federal data to support nursing workforce analysis. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2024. Published online October 22, 2024. doi:10.1177/15271544241286078

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In this article, researchers review 18 federal data sources pertinent to nursing workforce analysis. They categorize the datasets by their associated federal agency, describe each source, discuss their applicability to nursing workforce studies, present examples of past studies that employed these datasets, and highlight their limitations. Their aim is to help researchers, policymakers, and healthcare administrators efficiently locate and leverage relevant data for their analysis.

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Citation: Ramesh, T, Armstrong D, Forte G, Fernando T, Hao Y. Effects of citizenship status on international medical graduate specialty choice and practice location.  JGIM. 2024  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09123-9

Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09123-9

In this study, researchers describe trends in new physicians entering primary care and their practice locations and assess the effect of US citizenship status on new IMG physicians’ choice of specialty and practice locations.

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Citation: Zhao Y, Surdu S, Langelier M.  Safety net patients’ satisfaction with oral health services by provider type and intent to return for more care. J Public Health Dent. 2024. Published online May 25, 2024

Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jphd.12629

This article examines patients’ satisfaction with services provided by different oral health providers, their intent to return for additional care, and associations with patients’ demographics and service characteristics.

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Citation: Dean A, Wu M, Efferen LS, McCauley S, Allen A, Bennett H, Snitkoff LS, Cleary LM, Bliss K, Martiniano R, et al. Newly acquired burnout during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: a retrospective cohort study on the experiences of New York State primary care clinicians. J Community Health. 2023. Published online June 29, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-023-01247-z

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The well-being of primary care clinicians represents an area of increasing interest amid concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated already high prevalence rates of clinician burnout. This retrospective cohort study was designed to identify demographic, clinical, and work-specific factors that may have contributed to newly acquired burnout after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Citation: Choi Y, Armstrong DP, Moore J. Characteristics of Public Health Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Lessons Learned from the 2018 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. Public Health Reports. 2023;138(1_suppl):72S-77S. doi:10.1177/00333549231151877

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Little research has compared the demographic and practice characteristics of registered nurses (RNs) who work in public health (PH RNs) with other RNs and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who work in public health (PH APRNs) with other APRNs. This report examines differences in characteristics between PH RNs and other RNs and between PH APRNs and other APRNs.

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Citation: O’Malley E, Surdu S, Langelier M. The Impact of Pandemic Concerns on Consumers’ Teledentistry Use During the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Public Health Reports. 2023;138(1_suppl):63S-71S. doi:10.1177/00333549221133801

Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YSXTTTDDFN7ZG7IFFU8G/full

The COVID-19 pandemic affected consumers’ access to oral health care. This study evaluated factors associated with teledentistry use among US adults from June 2019 through June 2020.