A new study by the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, led by David Evans, MD, found that patients from rural areas have lower breast cancer screening rates than urban patients. We found that a greater proportion of rural patients received an initial breast cancer diagnosis at a late stage compared with urban patients and that patients living […]
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Sep
Sep
Rural residents travel farther for care and often have more problems accessing care, including medical and surgical specialists, than their urban counterparts. This study compared where urban and rural Medicare beneficiaries received care, how many visits they received, which types of specialists were visited, and how far beneficiaries from different regions and types of areas […]
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Apr
Apr
The WWAMI RHRC congratulates our colleague, Allison Cole, MD, MPH, and her team for their $2.9 million NIH R01 grant award, “Rural Community Support for Colonoscopy.” The study will trial the effectiveness of methods to follow up on positive fecal occult blood tests (FIT) to ensure patients complete colonoscopies and will help the highest risk […]
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Mar
Mar
A new WWAMI RHRC study finds that the number of DEA-waivered clinicians more than doubled from December 2017 to July 2020, from 37,869 to 98,344. The availability of a clinician with a DEA waiver to provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has increased across all geographic categories. Nearly two thirds of all rural […]
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Mar
The Distribution of the General Surgery Workforce in Rural and Urban America in 2019 We are excited to announce a new WWAMI RHRC policy brief from Eric Larson and colleagues on the supply of rural vs. urban general surgery workforce. General surgeons play a crucial role in rural health care in the U.S. Rural general […]