Research Alert: February 1, 2019

Rural Health Recap

Quality of Care in Rural Hospitals

The Rural Health Research Centers are committed to providing timely, quality national research on the most pressing rural health issues, often exploring the same topics from various perspectives. Gateway has developed Rural Health Research Recaps to identify the key findings from all of the research centers on specific rural health topics. This resource provides a summary of their most recent research on quality of care in rural hospitals.

Additional Resources of Interest:

• CMS Hospital Quality Star Rating: For 762 Rural Hospitals, No Stars Is the Problem
• Critical Access Hospital Swing-Bed Quality Measures: Findings From Key Informant Interviews
• Identifying Adverse Drug Events in Rural Hospitals: An Eight-State Study
• Nurse Staffing Levels and Quality of Care in Rural Nursing Homes
• Rural Hospital and Physician Participation in Private Sector Quality Initiatives
• Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Have Fewer Follow-Up Visits and Greater Emergency Department Use Post-Discharge
• Rural-Urban Differences in Medicare Quality Scores Persist After Adjusting for Sociodemographic and Environmental Characteristics
• Surgical Patient Safety Outcomes in Critical Access Hospitals: How Do They Compare?
• Use and Performance Variations in U.S. Rural Emergency Departments: Implications for Improving Care Quality and Reducing Costs
• More information from the Rural Health Information Hub's topic guides: Critical Access Hospitals, Healthcare Quality, Hospitals