PHENOMENON: Despite the importance of diet in the prevention and management of many common chronic diseases, nutrition training in medicine is largely inadequate in medical school and residency. The emerging field of culinary medicine offers an experiential nutrition learning approach with the potential to address the need for improved nutrition training of physicians. Exploring this innovative nutrition training strategy, this scoping review describes the nature of culinary medicine experiences... [...]

CONCLUSION: Efforts to ameliorate rural-urban differences in maternal care access and quality should explicitly adopt multilevel, systemic approaches to policy and program implementation and evaluation. Policymakers and practitioners should consider telehealth as a potential complementary tool to minimize gaps in quality of care which disproportionately impact rural-dwelling birthing people. [...]

Many confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) have examined the structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with some suggesting increased complexity (i.e., 6+ factors), while others suggesting a more refined structure (i.e., 2-factors). These competing PTSD structures may be due to conflation of non-trauma specific symptoms that have been added overtime. However, none of these studies examined if all symptoms being examined are specific to PTSD or potentially more related to general distress... [...]

Using a recent revision of the Financial Distress Index (FDI) model, the NC Rural Health Research Program brief, describes the relative risk of experiencing financial distress for rural hospitals and selected urban hospitals (urban Critical Access Hospitals [CAHs], urban Medicare Dependent Hospitals [MDHs], and urban Sole Community Hospitals [SCHs] earning $500,000,000 or less in net... Read more » [...]

The NC Rural Health Research Program’s brief, , extends our 2018 study of geographic variation in uncompensated care between rural and urban hospitals. In this study, we investigate the association of uncompensated care with net patient revenue, system affiliation, and ownership. [...]

This brief is a follow-up to the 2021 NC Rural Health Research Program’s brief, .  The new brief, , presents updated data for REH-eligible hospitals, compares several financial and operational measures of three rural hospitals that are on public record as having expressed interest in REH conversion to the all REH-eligible hospitals, and discusses what... Read more » [...]