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Date: Jan 2025
Examines trends in prescription opioid use among Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas, utilizing 2010-2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data. Provides data on receipt of opioid prescriptions among community-dwelling and facility-dwelling beneficiaries, associations between prescribing and chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs), and prescriptions exceeding CDC guidelines. Includes rural-urban comparisons.
...guidelines. Includes rural-urban comparisons. --- Opioid Use Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Examines trends in prescription...
Date: Apr 2023
Offers cybersecurity guidelines for healthcare organizations to help reduce cybersecurity risks. Outlines the top five cybersecurity threats, and discusses best practices to combat these threats. Technical Volume 1 discusses cybersecurity practices for small healthcare organizations.
...guidelines for healthcare organizations to help reduce cybersecurity risks. Outlines the top five cybersecurity threats...
Reviewed: May 2025
Provides information on free or below cost healthcare available to people who meet poverty guidelines from certain healthcare facilities that received federal funds for construction or renovation under the Hill-Burton program.
...guidelines from certain healthcare facilities that received federal funds for construction or renovation under the Hill...
Date: Aug 2024
Examines likelihood of receiving guideline-concordant care and risk of mortality for Black patients with colon cancer at Commission on Cancer (CoC) accredited hospitals relative to non-CoC accredited hospitals. Utilizes 2019-2020 United States Cancer Statistics database data. Includes data on the association between patient characteristics, including rurality, and attendance at accredited versus nonaccredited hospitals.
...guideline-concordant care and risk of mortality for Black patients with colon cancer at Commission...
Date: 2024
Analyzes health outcomes for patients with heart failure and mitigating factors such as comorbidities, guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), and social determinants of health (SDOH) in rural versus urban areas. Utilizes data from Medicare beneficiaries who had a heart failure hospitalization between 2008 to 2017 to observe mortality rates within 30 days or 1 year, hospital readmission rates, and emergency room (ER) admissions. Discusses health outcome disparities that correlate to patient location.
...guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), and social determinants of health (SDOH) in rural versus urban...
Date: Dec 2012
Discusses the short-term policy implications of proposed changes to the designation and payment guidelines for small rural hospitals. Focuses on proposed changes to rural Medicare payments for hospitals and physicians, as well as a proposal to change the CAH distance requirements.
...guidelines for small rural hospitals. Focuses on proposed changes to rural Medicare payments for hospitals...
Date: 2014
Discusses the effects of an intervention delivered by community health workers (CHWs), or Promotores de Salud, on cervical cancer screening rates for Hispanic women in the rural border area of New Mexico who were out of compliance with the recommended screening guidelines.
...guidelines. --- Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening in the United States - Mexico Border Region Discusses the effects...
Date: Aug 2020
Presents the National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practices Toolkit and a number of companion papers on crisis care. Toolkit highlights best practices for crisis care and the papers discuss a number of related topics, including homelessness, substance use, opioid-related deaths, and rural and frontier areas, among other issues.
...Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practices Toolkit and a number of companion papers...
Date: Sep 2004
Describes quality improvement efforts in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) based on a 2004 survey of 474 CAH administrators. Includes data on the use of clinical guidelines and quality measures in CAHs, and the role of Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs).
...guidelines and quality measures in CAHs, and the role of Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs...
Date: Jul 2021
Examines rural-urban differences in environmental factors that impact whether or not adults meet physical activity guidelines based on several federal data sources for 3,140 counties. Discusses variations in natural, social, recreational, and transportation environments by level of rurality.
...guidelines based on several federal data sources for 3,140 counties. Discusses variations in natural...