Background Fundamentally, the goal of health professional regulatory regimes is to ensure
the highest quality of care to the public. Part of that task is to control what health …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to develop reliable forecasts of the future
supply of radiologists and radiologic technologists practicing mammography under different …

Purpose. The purpose of this article is to summarize a larger study that developed a statistical
index that defines the professional practice environment of dental hygienists (DHs) in the …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to describe inclusion of didactic and clinical instruction
in oral health in physician assistant (PA) education programs in 2014. A previous study in …

Methods In the 2013 US Veterinary Workforce Study, 12 the effort to model the US veterinary
workforce was separated into analyses of current capacity and current demand; results …

Background Substantial changes in professional practice for physician assistants (PAs)
occurred between 1992 and 2000. This paper describes a new professional practice index for …

The following is a concise summary of key findings based on survey responses, including
key themes covered in the questionnaire: personal demographics, education and training, …

This article is based on a series of nine case studies on HIM employers (see “Participants in
the Case Studies,” below). These employers are in one way or another leading the changes …

Dental hygienists are important members of the oral health care team, providing preventive
and prophylactic services and oral health education. However, scope-of-practice parameters …

Regulation and licensure of health professionals—nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and
others—currently falls to the states. State laws and regulations define legal scopes of practice …