Hooker Roderick S, Muchow Ashley N
Roderick S. Hooker is a retired PA. Ashley N. Muchow is a doctoral student in policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, Calif. The authors have disclosed that they were employees of the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth. While at the Lewin Group, they were end users of the data and personally involved with upgrading and validating the PA component of Provider 360 Database.
JAAPA. 2014 Jul;27(7):35-9. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000450807.90835.49.
A census of physician assistants in the United States is necessary to help legislators make policy decisions about the profession. In 2013, a PA status analysis was undertaken using a novel data source derived from state licensure. The Provider 360 Database was probed for all licensed PAs, and 84,064 were identified. Duplicates, sanctioned, deceased, and dual-licensed were reconciled. In the aggregate, the mean age was 42 years (median 45; mode 32; range 22-74) and 75% of US licensed PAs were women. Statewide distribution per capita ranged from 60 per 100,000 in Alaska to 3.9 per 100,000 in Mississippi; the US mean was 26.8. The robustness of this database draws on active licensure data to identify clinically active PAs. Such refinements and details contribute to health workforce research such as census, modeling, retirement trends, and labor participation rates.
对美国医师助理进行普查对于帮助立法者制定有关该职业的政策决策而言是必要的。2013年，利用从州执照颁发中获取的全新数据源进行了医师助理状况分析。在提供者360数据库中查询了所有获得执照的医师助理，共识别出84,064人。对重复、被制裁、已故和拥有双重执照的人员进行了核对。总体而言，平均年龄为42岁（中位数45岁；众数32岁；范围22 - 74岁），美国获得执照的医师助理中有75%为女性。全州人均分布范围从阿拉斯加的每10万人60人到密西西比州的每10万人3.9人；美国平均水平为每10万人26.8人。该数据库的稳健性依赖于现行执照数据来识别临床活跃的医师助理。这些细化和细节有助于进行诸如普查、建模、退休趋势及劳动力参与率等卫生人力研究。
