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Theme: Health Human Resources
Project: 2-2: Employment patterns among Ontario
allied health professionals.
Project Lead:
Brenda Gamble
Synopsis of Project:
Projects 2-2 and 2-3 will conduct similar analyses, by sub-sector and sub-speciality, for the period 1993-2005, within the health professions of medical laboratory technology, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy; we are pleased that the four regulatory colleges are partners/collaborators in this study. The analytical methods will be identical to those employed in Project 2-1. To achieve efficiencies, the core staff will perform the data linkage and analysis in partnership with the team members. The regulatory colleges have assured us that they have the data, that the linkages are feasible, and that they are eager to conduct these analyses. The main difference we expect is that sub-sectors will be defined differently in the various professions. Based on previous studies involving analyzing changes in the financing and delivery of physiotherapy services in Ontario, including surveys of PTs and OTs in various sub-sectors, we also hypothesize that there are likely to be considerable differences in the activities of workers in hospitals, and in the community.
The questions being asked are: How has the number and proportion of MLTs, OTs, PTs and RTs working in Ontario and "eligible" but not currently working, changed? Do these trends and patterns vary by: age group, sub-specialities within each profession, and sub-sector? How has the shift of care from institutions to the community affected the number working, whether they are full time/part time/casual, and their likelihood of continuing to work in that profession, and in various sub-sectors? This work will be augmented by the survey analysis in Project 2-4.
Research Team:
Audrey Laporte
Raisa Deber
Partners and Collaborators:
College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario, Ania Walsh, Coordinator of Registration
Current project status:
Respiratory Therapists
Done:
- Literature review
- Database constructed and cleaned
- Descriptive statistics
- Two-way frequency tables between education and the other variables (RT department, sector, employment status, age group and multiple employers)
- Survival Analysis (including Kaplan-Meier Curves
- Stickiness and Inflow for RT department, sector, employment status, multiple employers, and employment eligibility
- Stickiness and Inflow by age group for RT department, sector, employment status, and multiple employers (still needs to be interpreted)
- RRTs who return to practice after leaving
In progress:
- Stay, Switch and Leave
- The information is in excel files, the tables need to be organized
- Stay/Switch variables: Sector, employment status, RT department, and multiple employers
- Descriptive statistics for Stay/Switch/Leave include sector, employment status, RT department, multiple employers, age group, and education
- Updating code book
- Documenting in SAS (ongoing)
- Writing up final report and publications
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