Forte GJ, Hanley A, Hagerty K, Kurup A, Neuss MN, Mulvey TM. American Society of Clinical Oncology National Census of Oncology Practices: Preliminary Report. Journal of Oncology Practice. 9(1):9-19, January 2013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JOP.2012.000826
In response to reports of increasing financial and administrative burdens on oncology practices and a lack of systematic information related to these issues, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) leadership started an effort to collect key practice-level data from all oncology practices in the United States. The result of the effort is the ASCO National Census of Oncology Practices (Census) launched in June 2012. In this article, the authors present preliminary highlights from the data.
Orkin FK, McGinnis SL, Forte GJ, Peterson MD, Schubert A, Katz JD, et al. United States anesthesiologists over 50: Retirement decision making and workforce implications. Anesthesiology.117(5):953-963, November 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182700c72
Anesthesiology is among the 21 medical specialties that have or are expected to have a physician shortage in the near future. Physician workforce shortages reflect the confluence of many trends, including an aging physician population, burdensome medical-education indebtedness, a relatively static production of new physicians, reduced physician work hours, growth and aging of the general population, growth and expansion of health services, and enhanced access to health care. To increase our understanding of such issues in relation to the work effort and retirement decision making of older anesthesiologists, the American Society of Anesthesiologists participated in a survey of U.S. physicians aged 50 yr and older, which aimed to identify the major factors influencing their decisions to remain clinically active or to retire and then evaluated the impact of their retirement decision making on the size of the clinical workforce now and into the future.
Maniccia D, Davison K, Marshall S, Manganello J, Dennison B. A meta-analysis of interventions that target children’s screen time for reduction. Pediatrics. 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-2353
Screen time, especially television viewing, is associated with risk of overweight and obesity in children. Although several interventions have been developed to reduce children’s screen time, no systematic review of these interventions exists to date. This review is a systematic meta-analysis of interventions targeting a reduction in children’s screen time.
Abramson E, McGinnis S, Edwards A, Maniccia D, Moore J, Kaushal R, et al. Electronic health record adoption and health information exchange among hospitals in New York State. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01755.x
Unprecedented national and state initiatives are underway to promote adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) with health information exchange (HIE). New York State leads the nation in state initiatives and is conducting ongoing surveillance of its investments. Lessons learned from studying states like New York can inform federal policies and will be essential to evaluate the effectiveness of these initiatives. This is the first in a series of planned surveys to assess EHR adoption and HIE activities by New York State hospitals.
Martiniano R, McGinnis S, Moore J. Understanding the supply and distribution of registered nurses: Where are the data and what can they tell us? Annual Review of Nursing Research. 2010;28:43-61.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21639023
In order to quantify RN supply/demand gaps, it is important to have accurate data on RNs, including the number of active RNs as well as their demographic, education, and practice characteristics, and work location(s). A lack of relevant and timely data on the nursing workforce is a significant barrier to identifying where nursing shortages exist, where they are most severe, and determining the factors that contribute to them. This lack of understanding impedes the development of effective health workforce programs and policies to mitigate shortages and the ability to evaluate these programs and policies for effectiveness. This study describes the national data sources available to nursing researchers to study the supply and distribution of the RN workforce and assesses the sources’ strengths and limitations. This study also explores the potential for using state-level data for nursing workforce research.
Continelli T, McGinnis S, Holmes T. The effect of local primary care physician supply on the utilization of preventive health services in the United States. Health & Place. 2010;16(5):942-951.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.05.010
Little research has examined the effect of physician supply on health-related measures at the individual and community level simultaneously. Using telephone survey data from six counties in upstate New York, a commuting radius was constructed between the zip codes of respondents and their primary care physicians. The relationships between local physician supply, the probability of having a primary care physician, and receiving preventive health care checks were analyzed. Both logistic regression and multilevel modeling results indicated the local supply of primary care physicians affects the probability of having a primary care physician, which in turn affects preventive healthcare service utilization.
McGinnis SL, Brush BL, Moore J. Cultural similarity, cultural competence, and nurse workforce diversity. West J Nurs Res. 2010;32(7):894-909.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193945910361727
Proponents of health workforce diversity argue that increasing the number of minority health care providers will enhance cultural similarity between patients and providers as well as the health system’s capacity to provide culturally competent care. Measuring cultural similarity has been difficult, however, given that current benchmarks of workforce diversity categorize health workers by major racial/ethnic classifications rather than by cultural measures. This study examined the use of national racial/ethnic categories in both patient and registered nurse (RN) populations, and subsequently found other, more significant, indicators of cultural similarity.
McGinnis S, Moore J. The health services research workforce: current stock. Health Serv Res. 2009;44(6):2214-2226.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01027.x
This study examined the size and characteristics of the health services research (HSR) workforce; the job satisfaction, job security, and future plans reported by the workforce; and the future of the HSR workforce supply.
McGinnis SL, Moore J. An analysis of racial/ethnic pay disparities among hospital nurses in New York City. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009;10(4):252-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154409358627
Despite growing concern over cultural competence and diversity in the registered nursing (RN) workforce, minority RNs working in hospitals in New York City who were surveyed in 2007 earned less on average than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Regression decomposition was applied to these data to investigate how much of the differential could be attributed to different characteristics of different racial/ethnic groups and how much could be attributed to differential valuation of characteristics between racial/ethnic groups.
Moore JM. Studying an ill-defined workforce: public health workforce research. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2009;15(6 Suppl):S54-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0b013e3181b23978
This article describes challenges, issues, and strategies associated with public health workforce research. The factors that contribute to workforce supply and demand imbalances are reviewed, and the unique difficulties encountered with studies of public health workers are identified. Two case studies of previous public health workforce research conducted by the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies are used to illustrate how different levels of analyses can be used to better understand recruitment and retention issues of public health workers and to inform programs and policies designed to ensure a well-sized and competent public health workforce.
