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1351. Patient Characteristics Associated With Phone and Video Visits at a Tele-Urgent Care Center During the Initial COVID-19 Response: Cross-Sectional Study - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Examines patient characteristics related to tele-urgent care in the southeastern United States during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic period. Analyzes phone visits compared to video visits, with data further broken down by sex, age, health insurance status, prescriptions received, and rural versus urban location.

...01/2024 Access · COVID-19 · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth · The South · North Carolina...

1352. Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability - Resources
Date: Nov 2023

Examines factors driving the downward trends in primary care, including fewer clinicians practicing primary care, fewer available appointments, lower spending on primary care, and fewer adults reporting that they have a usual source of primary care. Features a literature review, supply and demand analysis, and recommendations for potential solutions. Mentions rural throughout.

...retention of health professionals · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1353. Improving Behavioral Health Care in the Military Health System: Challenges, Promising Strategies, and Research Directions - Resources
Date: Nov 2023

Examines behavioral healthcare access for military service members. Discusses strategies for improving behavioral healthcare in the military health system, such as virtual care and quality control measures, with considerations for underserved populations.

...Nabeel Qureshi, Jessica L. Sousa 11/2023 RAND Corporation Access · Healthcare quality · Mental health · Telehealth · Veterans...

1354. Health Disparities in Rural America: Current Challenges and Future Solutions - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Describes health risks experienced by rural people and the problems they face in accessing healthcare in shortage areas, and offers possible solutions. Includes a map showing Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by county, and a list of states allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners as of 2019.

...Rural-urban differences · Scope of practice · Sexual and reproductive health · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth...

1355. Promoting Maternal Health in Rural and Underserved Areas - Resources
Date: Oct 2019

Examines reasons for the rural obstetrical care crisis and discusses how public policy and technological innovation can improve healthcare quality and access in rural America. Includes sections on scope-of-practice restrictions and policy barriers to telemedicine's broad implementation.

...care · Maternal health workforce · Scope of practice · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Women...

1356. Improving Rural Health: State Policy Options for Increasing Access to Care - Resources
Date: Jun 2020

Discusses strategies from state legislatures and other stakeholders to increase access to healthcare in rural areas. Focuses on policies and policy options for state legislatures in three areas: improving health insurance coverage, safeguarding rural health facilities, and changing rural healthcare delivery. Features examples from Colorado, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

...Reimbursement and payment models · Scope of practice · Service delivery models · Telehealth · Colorado · Georgia · Pennsylvania · Wisconsin...

1357. Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Examines telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness. Analyzes levels of telemental use by mental health practices who saw patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder the year before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first pandemic year. Discusses patient outcomes and quality of care as correlated with telemental use, with data broken down according to practice characteristics and patient demographics, including rurality.

...quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth...

1358. Telemedicine Buprenorphine Initiation and Retention in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment for Medicaid Enrollees - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Evaluated buprenorphine treatment via telemedicine and overdose outcomes for 91,914 people in Kentucky and Ohio on Medicaid in 2020 to determine the impact of telemedicine on treatment retention and opioid-related nonfatal overdose. Includes discussion on the implications for rural residents.

...e2336914 10/2023 Illicit drug use · Opioids · Prescription drug misuse · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Kentucky · Ohio...

1359. Adult Experts' Perceptions of Telemental Health for Youth: A Delphi Study - Resources
Date: Jul 2018

Study exploring telemental health treatment based on online surveys of 25 adult experts, including mental health professionals, adults who experienced depression or suicidality as youth, and parents of youth with similar experiences, following the Delphi process. Discusses barriers to youth access to mental health services in rural and urban areas, including stigma, provider shortages, and transportation issues. Survey results also address the need for support of telemental health among healthcare organizations, especially in rural areas, and possible delivery modalities.

...07/2018 Access · Children and youth · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Statistics and data · Stigma · Telehealth...

1360. Telemedicine Visits in US Skilled Nursing Facilities - Resources
Date: Aug 2023

Results of a study of telemedicine use in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), using data from over 4.4 million residents at 15,434 SNFs. Features statistics including characteristics of SNFs in the top quartile by telemedicine use in 2020 to 2021, with breakdowns by metropolitan, micropolitan, small urban, and rural areas, and state-level maps with shadings showing rates of telemedicine use in SNFs from 2019-2022.

...Open, 6(8) 08/2023 Access · Long-term care · Mental health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...