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Research Products & Journal Articles

Browse the full list of research publications on this topic completed by the Rural Health Research Centers.

Products – Freely accessible products include policy briefs, fact sheets, full reports, chartbooks, and interactive data websites.

Journal Articles – Articles in peer-reviewed journals may require a subscription or affiliation with a subscribing library. For these publications, Gateway lists the article citation, a brief summary, a link to additional information and access to the full-text of the article, if available.

2025

  • The Impact of High Hospital Fixed-Cost Ratios on Rural Populations
    Policy Brief
    RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
    Date: 06/2025
    This brief focuses on rural hospitals with high fixed-to-total-cost ratios and describes characteristics of those hospitals, including Critical Access Hospital and Low-Volume Hospital status, and provides some demographics on the communities they serve.

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