CONCLUSIONS: Efforts should focus on increasing knowledge of telemedicine skills and improving processes to implement telemedicine in the teaching setting in order to best integrate it into undergraduate and graduate medical education. [...]

There is an emerging call for new strengths-based measures to guide research, care, and support for persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Person-centered interventions have demonstrated a positive impact in global quality of life, but many promising approaches lack strengths-based measures with sufficient sensitivity to document relevant outcomes. Human centered design is an innovative method for person-centered instrument development. This paper describes a research... [...]

CONCLUSION: We present an adapted conceptual framework outlining multi-level factors influencing patient experiences coping with financial barriers to medical care. In addition to influencing whether a patient ultimately delays or forgoes care due to cost, financial barriers also have the potential to independently affect patient mental, physical, and financial health. [...]

This presents variations in U.S. population health in rural areas across all Census regions and states. Where the data allow, we also present rural population health findings stratified by sex, race, and ethnicity. This chartbook presents a full range of data across multiple geographic areas. When looking at data like these it is important to... Read more » [...]

In the brief, , the NC Rural Health Research Program, examines differences between patients discharged to swing beds versus SNFs, stratifying by admitting hospital type (i.e., rural CAH versus rural PPS hospital). Identification of key differences between patients discharged to swing beds versus SNFs can help inform further discourse on this financially and clinically important... Read more » [...]

Unpredictable Demand and Low-Volume Hospitals background This Findings Brief assesses the degree to which the annual number of patient discharges varies from year to year for low volume hospitals. To the extent that demand for inpatient services is unpredictable, it is hard for administrators to set budget and recruitment goals, which are generally based on... Read more » [...]