Publications
Publications: July 2008- June 2009
ACS Health Policy Research Institute and the American Association of Medical Colleges. The Surgery Workforce in the United States: Profile and Recent Trends; April 2010.
Belsky D, Ricketts TC, Poley S, Gaul K, Fraher E, Sheldon G. 2009 Surgical Deserts in the US: Places Without Surgeons. Chapel Hill, NC, American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute.
Belsky D, Ricketts T, Poley S. Surgical Underservice in the U.S. Fact Sheets. Issue 2. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute; July 2009.
Biola H, Pathman DE. Are there enough doctors in my community? People's perceptions of local physician supply. Journal of Rural Health. 2009;25:115-123.
Donahue KE, Steiner J, Sloane PD, Kramer K. Partners in Health: How Public Health and Primary Care can work together in Prevention. Developed Manual and DVD on successful strategies for local health departments to work with primary around preventive behaviors. 2009; 19 pages. Available at http://www.partnersinhealth.unc.edu/
Donahue K, Plescia M, Stafford K. Do standing orders improve outcomes for chronic disease control in ambulatory practice? J Fam Pract 2010; 59:226-227
Fraher EP, Carpenter J and Broome S. Health Care Employment and the Current Economic Recession. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2009;70(4):331-336.
Fraher E and Knapton A. “Migration Patterns of the Recently Trained Medical Workforce.” NHS Workforce Review Team. January 2010.
Gaul K, Poley ST, Ricketts TC, Walker E, Groves J. Mapping the supply of surgeons in the United States, 2009. Chapel Hill, NC: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute, 2010.
Glasser M, Pathman D. Co-Editors' Notes 23:1. Education for Health 10 (online), 2010: 471. Available from: http://www.educationforhealth.net.
Glasser M, Pathman D. Renewed focus on Primary Health Care (PHC). Education for Health (online), 2009;22(3). Available at: http://educationforhealth.net/publishedarticles/article_print_429.pdf.
Glasser M, Pathman D. Co-Editors' Notes 22:1. Education for Health (online), 2009;22(1): articles No. 352. Available at: http://www.educationforhealth.net/publishedarticles/article_print_352.pdf.
Gourlay ML, Lewis CL, Preisser JS, Mitchell CM, Sloane PD. Perceptions of informed decision making about cancer screening in a diverse primary care population. Family Medicine. 42:421-427, 2010.
Halladay S, J, SC Stearns, T Wroth, L Spragens, S Hofstetter, S Zimmerman, P Sloane. “Cost to Primary Care Practices of Responding to Payer Requests for Quality and Performance Data,” Annals of Family Medicine, 7(6):495-503, November 2009
Harden B, Fraher EP. The Challenge of Health Workforce Planning in the Context of Service Redesign, Changing Demographics and International Workforce Migration. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. 2010;17(4): 195-200.
Kemper AR, Sloane PD, Trinité TL, Patterson BJ, Dolor RJ. Challenges in Developing Community and Clinician Partnerships for Prevention. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 1:128-133, 2010
Nelligan C, Wright B, Scarborough J, Poley S, Walker E, Ricketts T. Charity Care Among Surgeons. Fact Sheets. Issue 4. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute; May 2010.
Pathman D, Ricketts TC. 2009. Interdependence of General Surgeons and Primary Care Physicians in Rural Communities. Surgical Clinics of North America. 89(2009):1293-1302.
Pathman DE, Crouse BJ, Padilla LF, Horvath TV, Nguyen TT. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the expansion and streamlining of the National Health Service Corps: a great opportunity for service-minded family physicians. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2009;22:582-584
Pathman D, Glasser M. Reforming a Health Care Workforce. Education for Health 10 (online), 2010: 470. Available from: http://www.educationforhealth.net.
Pathman D, Glasser M. Co-Editors' Notes 22:3. Education for Health (online), 2009;22(2): article No. 291. Available at: http://educationforhealth.net/publishedarticles/article_print_430.pdf.
Pathman D, Glasser M. Co-Editors' Notes 22:2. Education for Health (online), 2009;22(2): article No. 291. Available at: http://www.educationforhealth.net/publishedarticles/article_print_390.pdf.
Pathman D, Glasser M. Upcoming Changes in the Format and Allowable Length of Articles in Education for Health. Education for Health (online), 2009;22(1): article No. 350. Available at: http://www.educationforhealth.net/publishedarticles/article_print_350.pdf.
Poley S, Belsky D, Gaul K, Ricketts T, Fraher E, Sheldon G. Longitudinal trends in the US surgical workforce, 1981-2006. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. August 2009; 94(8):27-31. http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2009/poley0809.pdf
Poley S, Ricketts T, Belsky D, Gaul K. Pediatric Surgeons: Subspecialists Increasing Faster than Generalists. Fact Sheets. Issue 3. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute; July 2009.
Ricketts TC. 2010. The Migration of Surgeons. Annals of Surgery. 251:363-367.
Ricketts TC, Nielsen C. What Does Health Reform Mean for North Carolina? NC Med J. 2010;71(3):214. Available at: http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/May-Jun-10/Intro_HealthReform.pdf
Ricketts TC, Nielsen C. Long-Term Care: Are We Ready to Meet Expected Needs and Demand? NC Med J. 2010;71(2):132. Available at: http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/Mar-Apr-10/Intro_LongTermCare.pdf
Ricketts TC, Nielsen C. Prevention for the Health of North Carolina. NC Med J. 2010;71(1):29. Available at: http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/Jan-Feb-10/Intro_Prevention.pdf
Ricketts TC. 2009. Preparing the Health Services Research Workforce. Health Services Research, December 2009. 14(6):2227-41.
Ricketts T, King J, Fraher E. Productivity of General Surgeons: Age, Gender and Location Effects. Cahiers de Sociologie et de Démographie médicales. October 2009; 49(3):336-7.
Ricketts TC, Nielsen C. Preconception Care: Building the Foundation for Healthy Women, Babies, and Communities. NC Med J. 2009;70(5):416. Available at: http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/Sept-Oct-09/Intro_Preconception.pdf
Ricketts TC, Nielsen C. Can We Be Healthy While Our Economy is Unhealthy? NC Med J. 2009;70(4): 319-320. Available at: http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/Jul-Aug-09/Intro_Econ.pdf
Ricketts T. How Many Physicians? How Much Does It Matter? JAMA. October 2009; 302(15): 1701-2.
Ricketts TC. Rural Health. In: Mullner, R. ed. The Encyclopedia of Health Services Research. Sage Publications, Inc., 2009 pp. 1054-8.
Ricketts, TC. “Public Health Policy and the Policy-Making Process” in: Scutchfield FD, Keck CW, Mays G. Principles of Public Health Practice, 3 rd Edition. Clifton Park NJ: Thomson Delmar Learning. 2009. Pp. 86-115.
Ricketts TC. Accessing Health Care. Chapter in A Companion to Health and Medical Geography. Brown T, McLafferty S, Moon G. eds. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 pp. 521-39.
Sheldon GF. Health Care Reform: Are We Missing the Important Issues? Annals of Surgery. February 2010; 251(2):201-2.
Sloane PD, Dolor RJ, Halladay J. Increasing the role of practice networks in medical research. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 22:348-51, 2009.
Sloane PD, Bates J, Gadon M, Irmiter C, Donahue K. Effective Clinical Partnerships Between Primary Care Medical Practices and Public Health Agencies. Monograph. 2009; 65 pages. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/433/clinical-partnerships.pdf
Vaughn M, Sloane PD, Knierim K, Varkey D, Pilgard MA, Johnson BJB. Practice-Based Research Network Partnership with CDC to Acquire Clinical Specimens to Study the Etiology of Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI). Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 23:720-727, 2010.
Walker E, Poley S, Ricketts TC. 2010. The Aging Surgeon Population: Fact Sheet No., 5”. Chapel Hill, NC: American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
Wright DB, Ricketts TC. 2010. The road to efficiency? Re-examining the impact of the primary care physician workforce on health care utilization rates. Social Science & Medicine. 70(12):2006-10. Epub 2010 Mar 20.
