Website Search Results for: guidelines
292 webpages matched your search. Here are matches 251 - 260:
Date: Oct 23, 2019
A new diagnosis of cancer? Of a rare disease? Or a chronic medical problem with seemingly no new treatment? The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is supporting investigators and ensuring that their cutting-edge science gets to the people who need it. Translational science teams in Arkansas, Florida and Washington are making that happen in the rural areas of their states. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines and they can give hard and fast rules. But patient care doesn't actually...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines Rural Eye Healthcare: Optometrist Explains the Benefits of the Medical Model of Optometry Source...
Date: Oct 4, 2017
What's in the air in the rural workplace? From grain dust to rock dust to hospital cleaning chemicals, all these particles have potential to cause chronic lung diseases. But, there are keys to prevention. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines for these strategies are found in federal regulations, educational programs, and on-site monitoring...
Date: Nov 20, 2019
Chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, is a disease with a stronghold in rural America: almost double the prevalence and double the mortality rates compared to large urban areas. Though it is a condition with no cure, it's a condition that has treatments — and hope — making proper diagnosis by spirometry imperative. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines Pulmonary function tests. Based on an international standard referred to as the GOLD criteria...
Date: Sep 5, 2018
As more federal dollars are directed toward the opioid crisis, three communities use grant funds for treatment and recovery care coordination in court, prisons, and the homes of new moms. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines. They hope to enroll a group of providers that will meet regularly to discuss...
Date: Aug 31, 2022
A skilled nursing facility in New Hampshire and national experts share the benefits telehealth services can bring to the residents and staff of rural long-term care facilities as well as the challenges some facilities face in providing these services. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines, toolkits, and best practices for using telehealth with older adults. Archbald-Pannone said it's important...
Date: May 3, 2017
From over-the-counter medication use, to decisions about personal or family disease treatments, health literacy impacts the most everyday of health decisions. But, distance and internet connectivity challenges make it difficult for rural residents to get health information. To navigate health information gaps, school nurses, newspapers, public libraries, churches, public health departments, and hub-and-spoke academic institutions are working in creative ways. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines about word choice and plain language are now second nature to patient care at their...
Date: Feb 2, 2022
The priority for rural population health is access, including access to health information needed to make personal health decisions. Two of the nation's health literacy experts join a federal agency official to review current rural challenges of accessing health information that is clear and usable. Along with an exploration of digital health literacy, recently expanded definitions of health literacy are discussed. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines for Effective Writing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Literacy Florida Rural Health...
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Three rural healthcare experts discuss how rural hospital high-value networks can create economies of scale and value-based care capacity in order to enter into value-based payment contracts. - The Rural Monitor
...guideline use Clinical variation reduction Quality improvement Care coordination Data sharing and analysis Clinician accountability...
Date: Aug 8, 2018
An in-depth look at death certificates shows how this vital statistic document can impact rural healthcare, rural healthcare policy, and public health interventions. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines, and examples for completing the cause of death section. To avoid the most common...