Tracking Turnover Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The health care sector lost millions of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and job recovery has been slow, particularly in long-term care.

Objective

To identify which health care workers were at highest risk of exiting the health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design setting and participants

This was an observational cross-sectional study conducted among individuals employed full-time in health care jobs from 2019 to 2021 in the US. Using the data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we compared turnover rates before the pandemic (preperiod, January 2019-March 2020; 71 843 observations from CPS) with the first 9 months (postperiod 1, April 2020-December 2020; 38 556 observations) and latter 8 months of the pandemic (postperiod 2, Januar

SUBMITTER: Frogner BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8994131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature