The health manpower crisis: cause or symptom?

Cardiovascular manpower: the looming crisis.

Less than 10 years ago, conventional wisdom taught that there was an oversupply of specialists in a managed care environment and that the majority of needs in cardiovascular prevention and care could be provided by generalists. Healthcare planners called for a reduction in specialty training,1–4 and a number of cardiovascular training programs went through a period of downsizing. The demand for...

Toward solving the critical care manpower crisis.

In this issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Hoffman and colleagues1 describe an alternative model for providing critical care, by “extending” board-certified intensivists with critical care nurse practitioners. This study should be considered cautiously. It describes care of a relatively small number of patients, in only one center, and with only one intensivist-extender. Accordingly, the hypothesis is ...

Sleep and mortality: cause, consequence, or symptom?

Epidemiologic studies of self-reported sleep and health status began to appear more than 40 years ago. However, in the last 15 years there has been an explosion of population science on the relationships between sleep quantity and quality as well as a variety of health outcomes, and the implications for public health have become apparent [1]. There is sufficient evidence to support the idea tha...

Trends in health manpower.

Health manpower in the medical marketplace.