Publications and Reports
Peer Reviewed Journals (July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007)
Freeman VA, Walsh J, Rudolf M, Slifkin RT, Skinner AC. Intensive care in critical access hospitals. Journal Rural Health 2007; 23(2):116-23.
Pathman DE, Fryer GE Jr, Phillips RL, Smucny J, Miyoshi T, Green LA. National Health Service Corps staffing and the growth of the local rural non-NHSC primary care physician workforce. Journal of Rural Health 2006; 22(4):285-93.
Pink GH, Holmes GM, D’Alpe C, Strunk LA, McGee P, Slifkin RT. Financial indicators for critical access hospitals. Journal of Rural Health 2006; 22(3):229-36.
Pink GH, Daniel I, McGilis Hall L, McKillop I. Selection of key financial indicators: A literature, panel and survey approach. Healthcare Quarterly 2007; 10(1).
Radford A, Pink G, Ricketts T. A comparative performance scorecard for federally funded community health centers in North Carolina. Journal of Healthcare Management 2007; 52(1):20-31; discussion 32-3.
Radford A, Slifkin R, Fraser R, Mason M, Mueller K. The experience of rural independent pharmacies with Medicare Part D: Reports from the field. Journal of Rural Health (in press).
Skinner AC, Slifkin RT. Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. Journal of Rural Health 2007; 23(2):150-7.
Skinner AC, Slifkin RT, Mayer ML. The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs. Journal of Rural Health 2006; 22(1):36-42.
Wroth TH, Pathman DE. Primary medication adherence in a rural population: The role of the patient-physician relationship and satisfaction with care. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2006; 19(5):478-86.
Reports and Other Publications (July1, 2006 - June 30, 2007)
Flex Monitoring Team. CAH Financial Indicators Report: Summary of Indicator Medians by State. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Flex Monitoring Team. Impact of Conversion to Criticial Access Hospital Status on Hospital Financial Performance and Condition. Policy Brief No. 1. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. Available at: http://www.flexmonitoring.org/new.shtml.
King J, Geiger L, Silberman P, Slifkin R. State Profiles of Medicaid and SCHIP in Rural and Urban Areas. Final Report No. 91. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Pathman DE, Chuang Y, Weiner BJ. Helping One and One Yield Three in Grant-Funded Programs: Promoting Synergy in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Southern Rural Access Program. Chapel Hill, NC: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Patterson PD, Freeman VA, Moore CG, Slifkin RT. Becoming an Emergency Medical Technician: Urban-Rural Differences in Motivation and Job Satisfaction. Working Paper Series No. 89. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Radford A, Mason M, Richardson I, Rutledge S, Poley S, Mueller K, Slifkin R. One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D. Findings Brief No. 83. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/find.html.
Radford A, Mason M, Richardson I, Rutledge S, Poley S, Mueller K, Slifkin R. One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D. Final Report No. 92. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Radford A, Slifkin R, Baernholdt M, Schur C, Cheung K. 340B Drug Pricing Program, Results of a Survey of Eligible but Non-Participating Rural Hospitals. Working Paper Series No. 88. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Radford A, Slifkin R, Fraser R, Mason M, Mueller K. The Experience of Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies with Medicare Part D: Reports from the Field. Working Paper Series No. 87. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Reiter K, Slifkin R, Holmes M. A Primer on the Occupational Mix Adjustment to the Medicare Wage Index. Working Paper Series No. 86. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Schur C, Cheung K, Radford A, Slifkin R, Baernholdt M. 340B Drug Pricing Program, Results of a Survey of Participating Hospitals. Final Report No. 90. Chapel Hill, NC: ORHP, North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/wp.html.
Silberman P, Brogan L, Moore C, Slifkin R. Premium Assistance has Mixed Results in Rural Areas. State Health Notes 2006; 27(478).
Peer Reviewed Journals (July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006)
Dalton K, Park J, Howard A, Slifkin RT. Trends in Skilled Nursing and Swing-bed Use in Rural Areas, 1996-2003. WP. 83. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/
research_programs/rural_program/WP83.pdf
Donahue KE, Ashkin E, Pathman DE. Length of patient-physician relationship and patients’ satisfaction and preventive service use in the rural south: A cross-sectional telephone study. BMC Family Practice 2005; 6:40.
Fowler-Brown A, Ashkin E, Corbie-Smith G, Thaker S, Pathman DE. Perception of racial barriers to health care in the rural South. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2006; 17(1):86-100.
Fraher EP, Slifkin RT, Smith L, Randolph R, Rudolf M, Holmes GM. Implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 for the financial viability of rural pharmacies. Journal of Rural Health 2005; 21(2):114-21.
Freeman V, Slifkin RT, Skinner A, Schwartz R. Rural and Urban Parents Report on Access to Health Care for their Children with Medicaid Managed Care. WP. 84. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/
research_programs/rural_program/WP%2084.pdf
Hall SA, Kaufman JS, Ricketts TC. Defining urban and rural areas in U.S. epidemiologic studies. Journal of Urban Health 2006; 83(2):162-75.
King J, Radford A. Slifkin R, and staff from RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Contracting with Medicare Advantage Plans: A Brief for Critical Access Hospital Administrators. NC RHRP Findings Brief #80. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Mason M, Fraser-Maginn R, Mueller K, King J, Radford A, Slifkin R, Lenardson J, Silver L, Mueller C. Contracting with Medicare Advantage plans: A brief for critical access hospital administrators. Rural Policy Brief 2005; (PB2005-4):1-8.
Mayer ML, Slifkin RT, Skinner AC. The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. Medical Care Research and Review 2005; 62(5):617-28.
Pathman DE, Fryer GE, Green LA, Phillips RL. Changes in age-adjusted mortality rates and disparities for rural physician shortage areas staffed by the National Health Service Corps: 1984-1998. Journal of Rural Health 2005; 21(3):214-20.
Pathman DE, Ricketts TC 3rd, Konrad TR. How adults’ access to outpatient physician services relates to the local supply of primary care physicians in the rural southeast. Health Services Research 2006; 41(1):79-102.
Pathman DE, Fowler-Brown A, Corbie-Smith G. Differences in access to outpatient medical care for Black and White adults in the rural Southeast. Medical Care 2006; 44(5):429-38.
Pink GH, Holmes GM, D’Alpe C, Strunk L, McGee P, Slifkin R. Financial indicators for critical access hospitals. Journal of Rural Health 2006; 22(3):229-36.
Ricketts TC 3rd. State and local partnerships for meeting the healthcare needs of small and often remote rural communities. North Carolina Medical Journal 2006; 67(1):43-50.
Silberman P, Rudolf M, Brogan L, Poley S, Slifkin R, Moore C. The Impact of Medicaid Cuts on Rural Communities. WP. 82. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/
research_programs/rural_program/WP82.pdf
Skinner AC, Slifkin RT, Mayer ML. The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs. The Journal of Rural Health 2006; 22(1):36-42.
Other Reports (July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006)
Coburn A, Fluharty C, Hart P, MacKinney C, McBride T, Mueller K, Slifkin R, Wakefield M. Medicaid and its Importance to Rural Health. RUPRI Rural Health Panel Issue Brief. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2006.
Dalton K, Park J, Howard A, Slifkin RT. Trends in Skilled Nursing and Swing-bed Use in Rural Areas, 1996-2003. WP. 83. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/WP83.pdf
Dalton K, Park J, Slifkin R, Howard HA. Trends over Time in the Provision of Skilled Nursing Care in Critical Access Hospitals. FB. 81. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/FB81.pdf
Freeman V, Slifkin RT, Skinner A, Schwartz R. Rural and Urban Parents Report on Access to Health Care for their Children with Medicaid Managed Care. WP. 84. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/WP%2084.pdf
Mason M, Fraser-Maginn R, Mueller K, King J, Radford A, Slifkin R, Lenardson J, Silver L, Mueller C. Contracting with Medicare Advantage Plans: A Brief for Critical Access Hospital Administrators. Rural Policy Brief: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, 2005.
Available at: http://www.rupri.org/ruralHealth/publications/PB2005-4.pdf or http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/FB80.pdf
Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel: Mueller KJ, Coburn AF, Fluharty CW, MacKinney AC, McBride TD, Slifkin RT, Wakefield MK. The Institute of Medicine Rural Health Report: Next Steps in Legislation and Programs. P2006-1, Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 2006.
Silberman P, Brogan L, Moore C, Slifkin R. Premium Assistance Programs for Low Income Families: How Well Does it Work in Rural Areas? WP. 85. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/WP85.pdf
Silberman P, Rudolf M, Brogan L, Poley S, Slifkin R, Moore C. The Impact of Medicaid Cuts on Rural Communities. WP. 82. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
Available at: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/WP82.pdf
