How the health services research workforce supply in the United States is evolving.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate how the health services research (HSR) workforce supply in the United States has evolved over the last 5 years.

Data sources

Membership data of AcademyHealth participants, professional networking websites, PubMed, grant databases, and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

Study design

Descriptive study comparing size and characteristics of the HSR workforce and graduates identified across multiple data sources. Lists of authors and principal investigators (PIs) were merged and de-duplicated to identify unique counts. Pearson's chi-squared test was used to compare characteristics between members and nonmembers of AcademyHealth.

Data collection

Downloaded files from websites and received survey data extracted by AcademyHealt

SUBMITTER: Frogner BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8928029 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature