Mailing Address:
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Nursing Education Building
420 Guardian Drive, NEB Room 332R
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096
Telephone: (215) 898-9759
Fax: (215) 573-2062
Email: laiken@nursing.upenn.edu

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Alternate website(s): http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/chopr

Education:

1964  B.S.N., Cum Laude, Nursing,  University of Florida

1966  M.N., Nursing  University of Florida

1973  Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Research:

• Medical Sociology
• Health Services Research
• Health and Social Policy
• Health Outcomes Research
• Health and Population

Selected Publications:

2003 Aiken, L. H.
Achieving an interdisciplinary workforce in health care. New England Journal of Medicine, 348(2), 164-166.

2003 Clarke, S. P., & Aiken, L. H.
Failure to rescue: needless deaths are prime examples of the need for more nurses at the bedside. American Journal of Nursing, 103(1), 1-6.

2002 Aiken, L. H.
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, D.C.: American Nurses Publishing.

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., 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 and reprinted in Nursing Outlook, 50, 187-94, 2002.

2002  Blank, M. B., Mandell, D. S., Aiken, L. H., & Hadley, T. R.
Co-occurrence of HIV and serious mental illness among Medicaid recipients. Psychiatric Services, 53(7), 868-873.

2002 Clarke, S. P., Sloane, D. M., & Aiken, L. H.
Effects of hospital staffing and organizational climate on needlestick injuries to nurses. American Journal of Public Health, 92(7), 1115-1119.

2001  Cooper, R.A., & Aiken, L.H.
Human inputs: the health care workforce and medical markets. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 26(5), 925-938.

2001  Aiken, L. H.
Allied Health Professions, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 10, pp. 6591-6598): Oxford: Elsevier.

Last Modified: 23-Feb-2007
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