Browsing by Author "Sheff, Zachary T."

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    Data Brief: Indiana Mental Health Professionals 2012 Licensure Survey
    (2012) Sheff, Zachary T.; Barclay, Jonathan; Banti, Sudha
    Understanding Indiana’s healthcare workforce is critical to ensuring that Indiana residents have access to high quality care, to developing programs that train practitioners to meet future needs, and to recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in Indiana. The mental health workforce in Indiana is composed of social workers, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric/mental health advanced practice nurses. The data summarized here were collected during biennial license renewals in 2012 and 2013, and in a 2014 survey of psychiatric nurses.
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    Data Brief: Indiana Physician Assistants 2012
    (2014-06) Banti, Sudha; Barclay, Jonathan; Sheff, Zachary T.; Allen, Deborah I.; Zollinger, Terrell W.
    The physician assistant (PA) workforce in Indiana is growing quickly. Since 2004, the estimated number of non‐government − employed PAs actively working in Indiana has more than doubled, from less than 400 in 2004 to nearly 900 in 2012.
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    Data Report: 2012 Indiana Mental Health Professional Licensure Survey
    (2014-10) Sheff, Zachary T.; Maxey, Hannah L.; Barclay, Jonathan C.; Banti, Sudha
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    Data Report: 2012 Indiana Pharmacist Workforce
    (2015-06) Sheff, Zachary T.; Nowak, Callie; Maxey, Hannah L.
    The report presents key information and data collected on Indiana pharmacists from the biennial Pharmacist Licensure Survey administered by the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (IPLA). The report identifies major trends and includes key data on the pharmacist workforce that may be used to promote meaningful policy discussion and inform evidence-based policy development. Understanding the status of Indiana’s healthcare workforce is critical to ensuring that Indiana residents have access to high quality care, to developing programs that will train practitioners to meet future needs, and to recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in Indiana. The Data Report is broken into two major components. The first component provides an overview of the pharmacists in Indiana containing inclusion criteria, workforce distribution, and trends. The second component of the report includes key data tables.
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    Data Report: 2012 Indiana Substance Abuse Workforce
    (2015-05) Sheff, Zachary T.; Nowak, Callie; Maxey, Hannah L.
    The substance abuse workforce is a subset of the larger mental health workforce and includes only those professionals who are involved in the treatment of substance abuse issues. This report identifies major trends and includes key data on the substance abuse workforce that may be used to promote meaningful policy discussion and inform evidence-based policy development. Understanding the status of Indiana’s substance abuse workforce is critical to ensuring that Indiana residents have access to high quality care, to developing programs that will train practitioners to meet future needs, and to recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in Indiana.
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    Data Report: 2013 Indiana Nursing Workforce
    (2015-02) Sheff, Zachary T.; Nowak, Callie L.; Maxey, Hannah L.; Norwood, Connor W.; Randolph, Courtney; Kelley, Tracie M.
    Indiana’s registered nurse workforce is comprised of health care providers working in a range of settings and specialties. Information on the supply and distribution of this workforce is critical to Indiana’s health system for planning and policy development. Supply data on Indiana’s registered nurse workforce are routinely collected in the form of surveys administered in conjunction with the biennial nursing license renewal process. During the 2013 re-licensure period, 99,545 registered nurses renewed their license in Indiana. After filtering out individuals who did not respond to the survey, did not hold an active or probationary license, and did not practice in Indiana, 53,135 registered nurses were included in the report for analysis. The survey had a 93.1 percent response rate. In 2013, the majority of registered nurses were white (92.8%) and female (93.8%). The mean age of registered nurses was 45.7 years of age. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) were slightly older with a mean age of 48.5 years old. Registered nurses were primarily employed in staff nurse positions. Hospitals were the most common work setting. In 2013, the majority of RNs held a Bachelor’s degree or higher (56.7%). This is the first time since data has been collected (1997) in which a greater proportion of RNs held a Bachelor’s or higher than did not. Marion County had the highest percent of RNs with a Bachelor’s degree or higher (65.1%). Since 1997 the total number of actively practicing Indiana RNs has increased from 38,721 to 53,135 in 2013. From 2005 to 2013 the number of RNs working in a nursing faculty position has increased from 733 to 1,114. There were 49,033.6 total RN FTEs and 2,723.8 APN FTEs in Indiana in 2013. Statewide, there was an average of 122 Indiana residents per RN FTE and 2,380 residents per APN FTE. Marion County had the highest number of RN and APN FTEs of any county.
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    Data Report: 2013 Indiana Physician Workforce
    (2014-11) Sheff, Zachary T.; Nowak, Callie L.; Maxey, Hannah L.; Kelley, Tracie M.
    Indiana’s physician workforce is comprised of many skilled health care providers that work in a range of settings and specialties. Information on the supply and distribution of this workforce are critical to Indiana’s health system for planning and policy development. Supply data on Indiana’s physician workforce are routinely collected in the form of surveys administered in conjunction with the biennial medical license renewal process. As of the 2013, 25, 800 physicians were licensed to practice in the State of Indiana. Of these, 9,460 physicians indicated a n Indiana practice address , of which 2 ,939 reported a primary care specialty as defined by the Health Resource s and Service s Administration (HRSA) at Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including: general or family practice, general internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Practice characteristics and geographic distribution of this workforce are critical to determining capacity at the community level. The majority of Indiana physicians reported having only one practice location in Indiana and indicated that they worked at least 33 hours per week in direct patient care. Approximately one - third of physicians reported working with an advanced practice nurse (APN), but very few worked with physician assistants. The physician workforce, including primary care, is concentrated in populous, urban areas. In fact there are two rural Indiana counties, Benton and Switzerland, in which no physician reported practicing. Currently, all or parts of 63 counties are designated as primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). However, 11 Indiana Counties not currently designated qualify as a geographic HPSA based population to primary care physician ratio as calculated with the most recent supply data. This report presents detailed information on Indiana’s physician workforce. This includes information on the demographic and practice characteristics of the workforce, supply data aggregated to the county - level, and federal shortage designations. These data provide stakeholders with information needed to improve the quality and accessibility of health care for Indiana residents through policymaking, workforce development, and resource allocation.
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    Data Report: 2014 Indiana Dentist Workforce
    (2015-05) Sheff, Zachary T.; Nowak, Callie L.; Maxey, Hannah L.
    The dentist workforce is the primary provider of oral health care to Indiana residents. In 2014, there were 3,982 dentists who held an active license in Indiana. These dentists were not surveyed during their re-licensure period, as has been done in the past, but were contacted by the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (IPLA) via email in the fall of 2014 and asked to complete a brief survey. Despite follow-up reminders from IPLA and the Indiana Dentist Association (IDA) survey response was low (13.4%). The previous survey, which was administered during dentists’ 2012 re-licensure period, had a response rate of 80.7 percent. Of the 3,982 actively licensed dentists who were offered the survey, there were 532 respondents. Only 424 dentists were included in this analysis after filtering respondents to include only those who were actively licensed, practicing in Indiana, and currently practicing as dentists. Because of the small proportion of the actively licensed dentist workforce in Indiana that is represented in this analysis, it is unclear whether this sample is representative of the overall workforce. Comparing 2014 survey data with 2012 survey data indicated similar patterns in dental specialty and hours worked per week. However, slightly more rural dentists responded to the 2014 survey than the 2012 survey. Comparisons between responders and non-responders to the 2014 survey indicate that those who completed the survey were older than those who did not. The collection of high quality health workforce data is dependent upon reaching a large proportion of the health workforce. The low response rate to this survey suggests that this methodology is not optimal for collecting data on Indiana’s health professional workforces. Survey response fell by 67.3 percent compared to the 2012 dentist re-licensure survey. Embedding the survey instrument in the health professional re-licensure process has consistently yielded high (>80%) response rates across all health professions and should be considered as the primary method of survey administration for future data collection.
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    Indiana Dental Hygienist 2012 Licensure Survey Report
    (2013-03) Sheff, Zachary T.; Kochhar, Komal; Zollinger, Terrell W.
    The response rate for the survey was 47.6 percent. This response rate is notably lower than other health care re ‐ license surveys and the previous (2010) dental hygienist licensure survey. In the 2011 ‐ 2012 dental hygienist licensure period there were 4,583 total dental hygienists currently licensed in Indiana. Of the 4,583 total licenses, 4,078 listed an Indiana address on their license. There were 1,635 dental hygienists included in the sample for analysis. Individuals included for analysis were actively working in dental hygiene, responded to the electronic survey, and gave an Indiana practice address on their survey. Therefore, the sample analyzed in this report represents 35.7 percent of the total number of dental hygienist licenses in Indiana. When the mean age and length of licensure was compared between dental hygienists included in the sample and those who listed an Indiana address on their license but did not respond to the survey it was found that individuals in the sample were older (p < 0.001) and had been licensed for a longer period of time (p < 0.001).
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    Indiana Dentist 2012 Licensure Survey Report
    (2013-03) Sheff, Zachary T.; Kochhar, Komal; Zollinger, Terrell W.
    The response rate for the survey was 80.7 percent. In the 2011 ‐ 2012 dentist licensure period there were 3,748 total dentists currently licensed in Indiana. Of the 3,748 total licenses, 3,242 listed an Indiana address on their license. There were 2,314 dentists included in the sample for analysis. Individuals included for analysis were actively working in dentistry, responded to the electronic survey, and gave an Indiana practice address on their survey. Therefore, the sample analyzed in this report represents 61.7 percent of the total number of dental hygienist licenses in Indiana. When the mean age and length of licensure was compared between dentists included in the sample and those who listed an Indiana address on their license but did not respond to the survey it was found that individuals in the sample were younger (p < 0.001) and had been licensed for a shorter period of time (p < 0.001).