Ulrike Muench, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing

Awards

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• Mentoring Award, UCSF School of Nursing, 2019
• Fellow Induction, The American Academy of Nursing, 2018
• New Investigator Award, Academy Health - Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues, 2016

Education & Training

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• Postdoctoral Fellowship Vanderbilt School of Nursing & Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies Vanderbilt University 2014
• PhD Yale School of Nursing Yale University 2012
• MSN Yale School of Nursing Yale University 2005

Interests

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• Comparative health care systems
• Policy evaluations
• Administrative claims and large survey data
• Gender inequality in the healthcare professions
• Roles of nurses and nurse practitioners
• Healthcare workforce
• Medicare and Long term care
• Applied health care economics
• Practice and prescribing patterns of primary care providers
• Opioid use disorder and policy implications

Websites

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• @@ullimuench on Twitter (twitter.com)
• Nursing Health Policy Programs (nursinghealthpolicy.ucsf.edu)

Publications (40)

Top publication keywords:
MedicareNursesCancer PainLong-Term CareRegional Health PlanningMedically Underserved AreaPrimary Health CareAntipsychotic AgentsSalaries and Fringe BenefitsSchools, NursingReimbursement, IncentiveHospitalizationMedication AdherenceNurse PractitionersCost Savings

• The association between cognitive ability and opioid prescribing in vulnerable older adults with chronic pain in ambulatory care: a secondary data analysis using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
  BMC medicine 2023 Muench U, Kim KM, Zimmer Z, Monroe TB
• Racial Disparities in Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation among Frail Older Patients Undergoing High-Risk Elective Surgical Procedures in the United States: a cross-sectional study of the national inpatient sample.
  2023 Kyung Mi Kim, Ulrike Muench, John E Maki, Maria Yefimova, Anna Oh, Jeffrey K Jopling, Francesca Rinaldo, Nirav R Shah, Karleen Frances Giannitrapani, Michelle Y Williams, Karl A Lorenz
• Advanced practice clinician care and end-of-life outcomes for community- and nursing home-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries with dementia.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Oh H, White EM, Muench U, Santostefano C, Thapa B, Kosar C, Gadbois EA, Osakwe ZT, Gozalo P, Rahman M
• New psychotropic medication use among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia after hospital discharge.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Growdon ME, Gan S, Yaffe K, Lee AK, Anderson TS, Muench U, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA
• Rural-urban prescribing patterns by primary care and behavioral health providers in older adults with serious mental illness.
  BMC health services research 2022 Muench U, Jura M, Thomas CP, Perloff J, Spetz J

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• Workforce Trends of Underrepresented Minority Nurses in the United States Over the Last Decade: Progress Towards Equal Representation?
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2022 Hynson E, Bloomer J, Samson Z, Price K, Tran D, Muench U
• Physician and Nurse Practitioner Teamwork and Job Satisfaction: Gender and Profession.
  The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 2022 Lusine Poghosyan, Jessica M. Brooks, Jianfang Liu, Yuna Lee, Ani Bilazarian, Ulrike Muench
• The Future of Behavioral Health-Harnessing the Potential of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners.
  JAMA network open 2022 Muench U, Fraze TK
• Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training.
  American journal of public health 2022 Harris OO, Bialous SA, Muench U, Chapman S, Dawson-Rose C
• A longitudinal cohort study of opioid prescriptions associated with nonsurgical dental visits among Oregon and New York state Medicaid beneficiaries, 2014-2016.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2022 Obadan-Udoh E, Jura M, Wang S, Werts M, Martiniano R, Muench U, Mertz E
• Pain treatment and functional improvement in home health care: Relationship with dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Wang J, Cato K, Conwell Y, Yu F, Heffner K, Caprio TV, Nathan K, Monroe TB, Muench U, Li Y
• Racial Disparities in Financial Security, Work and Leisure Activities, and Quality of Life Among the Direct Care Workforce.
  The Gerontologist 2021 Muench U, Spetz J, Jura M, Harrington C
• Evaluation of Clinical and Economic Outcomes Following Implementation of a Medicare Pay-for-Performance Program for Surgical Procedures.
  JAMA network open 2021 Kim KM, White JS, Max W, Chapman SA, Muench U
• The Association Between Scope of Practice Regulations and Nurse Practitioner Prescribing of Buprenorphine After the 2016 Opioid Bill.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2021 Nguyen T, Muench U, Andraka-Christou B, Simon K, Bradford WD, Spetz J
• Hospital Admissions Associated With Cancer Pain in Older Adults With and Without Dementia.
  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2021 Strassels SA, Moss KO, Mallow PJ, Tamer RM, Monroe TB, Williams NO, Levine AS, Muench U
• Do penalty-based pay-for-performance programs improve surgical care more effectively than other payment strategies? A systematic review.
  Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 2020 Kim KM, Max W, White JS, Chapman SA, Muench U
• Time trends in the regional distribution of physicians, nurses and midwives in Europe.
  BMC health services research 2020 Winkelmann J, Muench U, Maier CB
• Pain Management in Home Health Care: Relationship With Dementia and Facility Admissions.
  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2020 Wang J, Monroe TB, Simning A, Conwell Y, Caprio TV, Cai X, Temkin-Greener H, Muench U, Yu F, Ge S, Li Y
• Scope-of-Practice for Nurse Practitioners and Adherence to Medications for Chronic Illness in Primary Care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Muench U, Whaley C, Coffman J, Spetz J
• Financial Vulnerability and Worker Well-Being: A Comparison of Long-Term Services and Supports Workers With Other Health Workers.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2020 Muench U, Jura M, Spetz J, Mathison R, Herrington C
• Preventable hospitalizations from ambulatory care sensitive conditions in nursing homes: evidence from Switzerland.
  International journal of public health 2019 Muench U, Simon M, Guerbaai RA, De Pietro C, Zeller A, Kressig RW, Zúñiga F, INTERCARE Research Group
• The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues: Advancing Health Services Research, Policy, Regulation, and Practice.
  Journal of nursing regulation 2019 Squires A, Germack H, Muench U, Stolldorf D, Witkoski-Stimpfel A, Yakusheva O, Brom H, Harrison J, Patel E, Riman K, Martsolf G
• Opioid-prescribing Outcomes of Medicare Beneficiaries Managed by Nurse Practitioners and Physicians.
  Medical care 2019 Muench U, Spetz J, Jura M, Guo C, Thomas C, Perloff J
• Opioid prescribing patterns after dental visits among beneficiaries of Medicaid in Washington state in 2014 and 2015.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2019 Obadan-Udoh E, Lupulescu-Mann N, Charlesworth CJ, Muench U, Jura M, Kim H, Schwarz E, Mertz E, Sun BC
• Medication adherence, costs, and ER visits of nurse practitioner and primary care physician patients: Evidence from three cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries.
  Health services research 2018 Muench U, Guo C, Thomas C, Perloff J
• California Nurse Practitioners Are Positioned To Fill The Primary Care Gap, But They Face Barriers To Practice.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Spetz J, Muench U
• The male-female earnings gap for nurses in Germany: A pooled cross-sectional study of the years 2006 and 2012.
  International journal of nursing studies 2017 Muench U, Dietrich H
• Prescribing Practices by Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Physicians: A Descriptive Analysis of Medicare Beneficiaries
  Journal of Nursing Regulation 2017 Muench U, Perloff J, Thomas C, Buerhaus P
• Prescribing Practices by Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Physicians: A Descriptive Analysis of Medicare Beneficiaries.
  Journal of Nursing Regulation 2017 Ulrike Muench, Jennifer Perloff, Cindy Parks Thomas, Peter I. Buerhaus
• Does independent scope of practice affect prescribing outcomes, healthcare costs, and utilization?
  Health Care Cost Institute Issue Brief 2016 Muench U, Spetz J, Coffman J
• Exploring Explanations for the Female-Male Earnings Difference Among Registered Nurses in the United States.
  Nursing economic$ 2016 Muench U, Busch SH, Sindelar J, Buerhaus PI
• How do long-term care workers spend their time? Answers from the American Time-Use Survey
  UCSF Healthforce Center Report 2016 Muench U, Jura M, Spetz J
• Projections of the Long-Term Growth of the Registered Nurse Workforce: A Regional Analysis.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2015 Buerhaus PI, Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U
• Salary differences between male and female registered nurses in the United States.
  JAMA 2015 Muench U, Sindelar J, Busch SH, Buerhaus PI
• Policy solutions to address the foreign-educated and foreign-born health care workforce in the United States.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2013 Chen PG, Auerbach DI, Muench U, Curry LA, Bradley EH
• The nursing workforce in an era of health care reform.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U, Buerhaus PI
• Projections of the long-term growth of the registered nurse workforce: a regional analysis.
  Nursing economic$ 2013 Buerhaus PI, Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U
• The nursing workforce: a comparison of three national surveys.
  Nursing economic$ 2012 Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U, Buerhaus PI
• Nursing testimony before Congress, 1993-2011.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2012 Cohen SS, Muench U
• Implementation of a lifestyle program in primary care by nurse practitioners.
  Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2010 Whittemore R, Melkus GD, Alexander N, Zibel S, Visone E, Muench U, Magenheimer E, Wilborne S