Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities With Primary Care Practices With Nurse Practitioners.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Given the disparities in access to primary care and the growing nurse practitioner (NP) workforce, it is important to understand the distribution of primary care practices with NPs across communities of varying socioeconomic characteristics.

Objective

To compare the socioeconomic characteristics of communities that have primary care practices with or without NPs.

Design, setting, and participants

This secondary, cross-sectional analysis of 79 743 primary care practices used 4 merged data sources: the IQVIA 2023 OneKey database, the 2020 US biennial Census, the 2017-2022 American Community Survey, and the 2021 Area Deprivation Index (ADI). US Census Tracts and Divisions from 2023 were used to examine differences in socioeconomic characteristics across commun

SUBMITTER: O'Reilly-Jacob M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11871540 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature