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101. Opioid Prescribing Rates in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Counties Among Primary Care Providers Using an Electronic Health Record System — United States, 2014–2017 - Resources
Date: Jan 2019

Examines opioid prescribing rates among primary care providers for six urban-rural classification categories of counties, before and after the March 2016 release of CDC's Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.

...Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. --- Opioid Prescribing Rates in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Counties...

102. Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients - Resources
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...

103. Implications of Proposed Changes to Rural Hospital Payment Designations - Resources
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...

104. Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small and Critical Access Hospitals - Resources
Date: Jul 2017

Presents strategies for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in critical access hospitals (CAHs). Includes examples of improved antibiotic-use strategies and guidelines for the prescribing physician, nurses, and pharmacists.

...guidelines for the prescribing physician, nurses, and pharmacists. --- Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small...

105. Landscape of the Health Informatics Workforce: Rapid Response Brief - Resources
Date: Apr 2023

Focuses on the clinical informatics and public health, population health, and social service informatics subdomains of the health informatics workforce. Mentions resource hubs that serve rural communities by providing guidelines, toolkits, screening tools, and other resources. Examines social determinants of health and gives examples of clinical informatics work that can improve access to care for rural and underserved populations. Features statistics on physicians certified in clinical informatics from 2013-2022.

...guidelines, toolkits, screening tools, and other resources. Examines social determinants of health and gives examples...

106. Opioid Use Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries - Resources
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 Link View resource Description...

107. Community-based Palliative Care: Scaling Access for Rural Populations - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 31, 2018

The benefits of palliative care are described as "the heart of healthcare." Experts and advocates share the importance of scaling this care to rural outpatients with serious illness and chronic medical conditions. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines. I always found palliative care personally compelling. It drives at the heart of what...

108. Public Safety and Crisis Communication in an Emergency or Disaster - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Nov 14, 2022

Considerations and guidelines for crisis communication to support public safety in rural communities, with information on planning, response, and recovery from an emergency or disaster.

...guidelines for crisis communication to support public safety in rural communities, with information on planning...

109. Strengthening the Workforce to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Rural Areas - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Jul 11, 2018

Obstetric services were available in 205 fewer rural hospitals in 2014 than in 2004. Realizing the importance of maternity and childbirth services, a CAH in Alaska works to keep its providers' skills sharp and a rural OB-GYN residency program in Wisconsin is beginning to train a new generation of physicians. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines that ask facilities to be within a certain distance of another facility that can perform...

110. Community-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Jan 15, 2024

The management challenges of chronic lung disease in rural communities can be mitigated by implementing evidence-based pulmonary rehabilitation programs in outpatient settings.

...guidelines. They also provided patient education, including the self-management of chronic lung problems for patients...