National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners, 2012 (ICPSR 36050)

Version Date: Feb 14, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Karen Donelan, Massachusetts General Hospital

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36050.v2

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  • V1 [2017-07-27] unpublished
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Summary

The focus of this survey was the role of nurse practitioners and physicians in primary care and the likely effects on the health care system of expanding the supply of nurse practitioners and their scope of practice. Topics of the survey include satisfaction with career, daily roles and responsibilities, perceived affects of increasing the supply of NPs, attitudes toward NP scope of practice, information on clinical practice services and revenue, and respondent demographics and income.

Citation

Donelan, Karen. National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners, 2012. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36050.v2

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Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (69282), Johnson and Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

County

Restrictions

As explained in the ICPSR Processing Notes in the codebook, ICPSR restricted some variables from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining the restricted data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to the restricted data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2011-11-23 -- 2012-04-09

Date of Collection

2011-11-23 -- 2012-04-09

Data Collection Notes

  1. The record layout file and SPSS setup apply to both the public- and restricted-use plain text versions of the data file.

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Sample

Direct patient care physicians in an eligible specialty (general practice, family practice, internal medicine, general internal medicine, adolescent medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics, and geriatric medicine) were randomly selected from the American Medical Association Masterfile. Nurse practitioners in specialties that were consistent with the physician specialties (adolescent medicine, adult medicine, family medicine, general practice, geriatric medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and women's health) were randomly selected from the Nurse Practitioner Masterfile provided by Medical Marketing Service, Inc.

Universe

Clinicians who were licensed nurse practitioners or physicians, had been trained in a primary care specialty, were actively working in primary care practice, and were providing direct patient care.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

61.2%

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Original Release Date

2017-07-27

Version History

2024-02-14 Online variable search capabilities have been added for this study.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Donelan, Karen. National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners, 2012. ICPSR36050-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36050.v2

2017-07-27 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

Data for analysis were weighted to account in part for differences between respondents and nonrespondents by years in practice, gender, and region.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.