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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: 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...
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...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Presents interpretive guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements for home health agencies.
...guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements for home health agencies. --- State Operations Manual Appendix B - Guidance...
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: 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...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Learn about legal and ethical issues to consider related to emergency preparedness and response in rural areas.
...guidelines for handling controlled substances and medical countermeasures, including registration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
Date: Feb 2021
Policy brief providing an overview of challenges rural communities experience preparing for and mitigating the effects of disasters and public health emergencies. Offers guidelines and recommendations to improve rural preparedness.
...guidelines and recommendations to improve rural preparedness. --- Rural Health Preparedness Policy Brief Policy brief providing...
Date: Aug 2021
Provides an overview of two measurement frameworks, one for maternal morbidity and one for maternal mortality. Includes a list of short- and long-term recommendations for each measurement topic, which cover equitable treatment; timely access to treatment and services; follow-up and care coordination of care; protocols and guidelines; substance use disorders, mental health, and behavioral health; access to pain management and labor support; and patient- and family-reported outcomes and experiences of care. Discusses three potential, actionable measure concepts for maternal mortality.
...guidelines; substance use disorders, mental health, and behavioral health; access to pain management and labor...
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2025
Outlines prevention and early intervention models for rural substance use disorder programs.
...Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain outlines the risks and benefits of prescription opioids and offers...