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1231. Opioid Use Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Communities - Resources
Date: Feb 2019

Discusses challenges rural communities face in providing access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Identifies federal and state strategies to address treatment capacity, including expanding the workforce authorized to prescribe buprenorphine and using technology to provide treatment. Highlights how Scott County, Indiana responded to an HIV outbreak related to OUD by addressing the barriers to care faced by people with OUD and HIV.

...Policy · Prescription drug misuse · Scope of practice · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Indiana...

1232. West Virginia Rural Community Health Scholars - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

A program for health professions students in West Virginia that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural communities, and networking with other students and professionals.

...workforce · Physical therapy · Physician assistants · Physicians · Public health · Social determinants of health · Telehealth · West Virginia...

1233. Understanding the Impact of Health IT in Underserved Communities and those with Health Disparities - Resources
Date: May 2013

Reports on uses of health information technology in communities with health disparities. Includes findings from a literature review and expert panel, as well as summaries of nine case studies of community-based programs using health IT. Includes discussion of rural concerns throughout.

...concerns throughout. 05/2013 NORC at the University of Chicago Health disparities · Health information technology · Telehealth...

1234. Promoting Maternal Health in Rural and Underserved Areas - Resources
Date: Oct 2019

Examines reasons for the rural obstetrical care crisis and discusses how public policy and technological innovation can improve healthcare quality and access in rural America. Includes sections on scope-of-practice restrictions and policy barriers to telemedicine's broad implementation.

...care · Maternal health workforce · Scope of practice · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Women...

1235. A Mixed Methods Descriptive Investigation of Readiness to Change in Rural Hospitals Participating in a Tele-Critical Care Intervention - Resources
Date: 2013

Examines organizational readiness for community-academic partnerships to utilize telemedicine outreach and clinician education based on 4 rural hospitals in South Carolina. Discusses factors that help and hinder telemedicine readiness.

...Lara Hiott, et al. BMC Health Services Research, 13, 33 2013 Hospitals · Telehealth · South Carolina...

1236. Telefit: Adapting a Multidisciplinary, Tertiary-Care Pediatric Obesity Clinic to Rural Populations - Resources
Date: Apr 2012

An overview of a tertiary-care hospital, with a pediatric obesity clinic, implementing telemedicine technology in four rural satellite clinics to reach rural children and to assess the impact on patients enrolling and remaining in pediatric obesity treatment.

...Health, 18(3), 247-249 04/2012 Children and youth · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Telehealth · North Carolina...

1237. Role of Telehealth/Videoconferencing in Managing Cancer Pain in Rural American Indian Communities - Resources
Date: Feb 2012

Determines the feasibility and effect of using videoconferencing to deliver cancer-related pain management education and case consultation to healthcare providers in rural American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. Analyzed data from 52 providers at 11 sites participating in educational sessions and 93 providers at 16 sites participating in case conferences at tribal clinics in Alaska and Washington.

...Demiris, et al. Psycho-Oncology, 21(2), 219-223 02/2012 Cancer · Telehealth · Tribal communities · Alaska · Washington...

1238. Health Disparities in Rural America: Current Challenges and Future Solutions - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Describes health risks experienced by rural people and the problems they face in accessing healthcare in shortage areas, and offers possible solutions. Includes a map showing Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by county, and a list of states allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners as of 2019.

...Rural-urban differences · Scope of practice · Sexual and reproductive health · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth...

1239. Patient Satisfaction with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment via Telemedicine: Brief Literature Review and Development of a New Assessment - Resources
Date: Jan 2021

Study assessing patient satisfaction with telemedicine-delivered medications for opioid use disorder (tMOUD). Discusses barriers to delivery of medications for opioid use disorder in rural areas. Offers a literature review and pilot survey data from 65 patients at a treatment clinic on Maryland's Eastern Shore, addressing future directions for telemedicine use in opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment programs.

...drug use · Opioids · Prescription drug misuse · Statistics and data · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Maryland...

1240. Telephone-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Latino Patients Living in Rural Areas: A Randomized Pilot Study - Resources
Date: Aug 2011

Highlights a pilot study on a culturally competent cognitive-behavioral therapy that uses the telephone to connect with rural Latinos in Washington State. Compares treatment to an enhanced primary care treatment for depression. Breaks down data by age, gender, and nativity, among other factors.

...Services, 62(8), 936-942 08/2011 Access · Culture · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Migrants · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Washington...