Research Publications

Browse the full list of research publications from the Rural Health Research Centers.

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Five Most Recent Publications

• Community Characteristics and Financial and Operational Performance of Rural Health Clinics in the United States: A Chartbook
  Chartbook
  Maine Rural Health Research Center
  Date: 05/2022
  This chartbook provides an overview of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) characteristics and issues and will be useful to policymakers and others interested in the performance of RHCs nationally. It provides a discussion of the challenges related to collection and reporting of RHC quality data.
• Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Personnel: Comparing Rural and Urban Professional Experience and Provision of Evidence-Based Care
  Policy Brief
  WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
  Date: 05/2022
  This policy brief examines the effects of emergency medical services (EMS) personnel level of experience and agency rurality on the provision of evidenced-based care. Compared with urban-serving EMS agencies, rural-serving agencies provided evidence-based care less often for stroke, hypoglycemia, and trauma but more often for seizures.
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences Across Rural Communities: Results from the National Survey of Children's Health
  Policy Brief
  Rural and Minority Health Research Center
  Date: 05/2022
  This study examined whether ACE and PCE exposure varied by race/ethnicity, among rural children, finding that there were higher rates of four or more ACEs among racial/ethnic minority children.
• Medicare accountable care organization characteristics associated with participation in 2‐sided risk
  RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 05/2022
  This study examined the associations of accountable care organization (ACO) characteristics with the likelihood of participation in 2-sided risk tracks in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Small and rural ACOs were found to be less prepared to transition into 2-sided risk tracks than their urban counterparts.
• Comparison of Cancer Treatment Services across Hospitals
  Fact Sheet
  Rural and Minority Health Research Center
  Date: 05/2022
  This research compared the availability of comprehensive oncology, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy in Critical Access Hospitals and non-Critical Access Hospitals.