Availability of Advanced Practice Providers in Adult Intensive Care Units in the United States: A Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How advanced practice providers (APPs) are deployed in adult US intensive care units (ICUs) is understudied. Further, whether state-level restrictions on practice affect the availability of these providers is unknown.

Objectives

To describe staffing patterns of ICU APPs (nurse practitioners, physician assistants) in the context of physicians-in-training (interns, residents, fellows) and to explore the association between state-level APP practice restrictions and employment.

Methods

Data from a national survey of pre-COVID-19 (steady-state) ICU staffing linked to the 2020 American Hospital Association survey were used to examine staffing patterns (via descriptive statistics) and to explore the association of state-level practice restrictions with the presenc

SUBMITTER: Costa DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12716625 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature