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Member Information
Linda Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing
Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Office Phone: 215-898-9759
Office Fax: 215-573-2062
Email: laiken@nursing.upenn.edu
Website(s): http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/chopr/
Education: PhD 1973, University of Texas at Austin
Keywords: Outcomes Research, Health Policy, Social/Behavioral Research, Nursing, AIDS Health Services
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
The impact of features of health care organizations on patient and provider outcomes, with a particular focus on the roles of nurses.
Summary:
Dr. Aiken has been a major contributor to health workforce and outcomes research for the past two decades. Her research related to HIV/AIDS has included a NIH-funded study of AIDS prevention policies in Chile and a national evaluation of the outcomes of dedicated AIDS units in U.S. hospitals. She is currently co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial to study adherence to HIV treatment regimens among the seriously mentally ill. She directs the International Hospital Outcomes Study accounting for variation in hospital outcomes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. Dr. Aiken's research focuses on the substantive and methodological advances in health outcomes research across a variety of areas including health care systems, hospital quality of care, AIDS care and prevention, innovative models of primary care, and mental health services. She is Director of Penn's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, a research and training enterprise focusing on the outcomes of health care and health workforce policy. Dr. Aiken is also the Director of a new nursing quality initiative in Russia and Armenia sponsored by the American International Health Alliance in conjunction with Credentialing International of the American Nurses Credentialing Center, where the initiative is to assess the applicability of magnet hospital standards under developing-world conditions.
Representative Publications:
Aiken, L. H. Achieving an interdisciplinary workforce in health care. New England Journal of Medicine 348(2): 164-166, 2003.
Aiken, L. H. Workforce policy perspectives on advanced practice nursing. In M. Mezey, D. McGivern, & E. Sullivan-Marx (Eds.), Nurses, nurse practitioners: Evolution to advanced practice, 4th edition. New York: Springer.
Aiken, L. H. (2002). Allied health professions. International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. Pergamon.
Aiken, L. H. (2002). Superior outcomes for magnet hospitals: The evidence base. In M. L. McClure & A. S. Hinshaw (Eds.), Magnet hospitals revisited: Attraction and retention of professional nurses (pp. 61-81). Washington: American Nurses Publishing.
Aiken, L. H., Clarke, S. P., & Sloane, D. M. Hospital staffing, organizational support, and quality of care: Cross-national findings. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 14(1): 5-13, 2002.
Aiken, L. H., Clarke, S. P., Sloane, D. M., Sochalski, J., & Silber, J. H. Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout and job dissatisfaction. Journal of the American Medical Association 288(16): 1987-1993, 2002.
Aiken, L. H., & Sloane, D. M. (2002). Hospital organization and culture: Impact on outcomes. In M. McKee & J. Healy, Hospitals in a changing Europe (pp. 265-278). London: Open University Press.
Blank, M. B., Mandell, D. S., Aiken, L. H., & Hadley, T. R. The co-occurrence of HIV and serious mental illness among Medicaid recipients. Psychiatric Services 53(7): 868-873, 2002.
Aiken, L.H., & Sloane, D.M. Racial differences in access to health care: AIDS Care as a Case Illustration. Pgs 247-267 in E. Anderson and D. Massey (eds.) Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States. New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
Aiken, L.H., H.L. Smith, E.T. Lake. Using existing health care systems to respond to the AIDS epidemic: Research and recommendations for Chile. International Journal of Health Services 27:177-199, 1997.
Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Eileen T. Lake, Julie Sochalski, Anita L. Weber. "Organization and Outcomes of Inpatient AIDS Care. Medical Care. 37(8): 760-772, 1999
Linda H. Aiken and Douglas M. Sloane. "Effects of Organizational Innovation in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Hospital Nurses." Work and Occupations. 24(4): 455-479, November 1997.
Linda H. Aiken, Herbert L. Smith, Eileen T. Lake. "Using Existing Health Care Systems to Respond to the AIDS Epidemic: Research and Recommendations for Chile." International Journal of Health Service. 1997; 27:177-199
Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Jennifer L. Klocinski. "Hospital Nurses' Risk of Occupational Exposure to Blood: Prospective, Retrospective, and Institutional Reports." American Journal of Public Health 87:103-107, 1997
Linda H. Aiken and Douglas M. Sloane. "Effects of Specialization and Client Differentiation on the Status of Nurses: The Case of AIDS." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 38:203-222, 1997.
