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The purpose of this study was to provide healthcare decision-makers in North Carolina with information about the available health workforce in order to conduct workforce surge planning and to anticipate concerns about professional or geographic workforce shortages. Descriptive and cartographic analyses were conducted using licensure data to assess the supply of respiratory therapists, nurses, and critical care physicians. Licensure data were merged with population data and numbers of intensive care unit beds. Higher concentrations of healthcare workers were observed in urban areas. Critical care physicians were primarily based in areas with academic health centers.
Resource Details
- Population: People Living in Rural Areas
- Geographic Areas of Implementation: Rural
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Clinical
- Topics of Practice: Data Collection and Analysis
- Outcomes of Interest: Improve Data Infrastructure|Improve Organizational Infrastructure
- Level of Evidence: Emerging
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
- Social Determinants of Health: Healthcare Access and Quality
- Outside of US: No