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Rural health care systems face different challenges than their urban counterparts and yet most clinical research takes place in metropolitan settings \u2013 without any rural context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, that will change \u2013 at least in Nebraska \u2013 as UNMC leads an initiative to create a framework supporting participation of rural providers and other stakeholders in patient-centered clinical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will establish the Greater Nebraska Rural Research Network (GNRRN) and give Nebraska\u2019s 62 critical access hospitals \u2013 which extend from Chadron to Pawnee City and communities in between \u2013 the tools and infrastructure to support research designed by and for rural practitioners and patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such collective problem-solving research, ultimately, will provide more rural informed care to patients and rural health care systems, said UNMC\u2019s Carol Geary, PhD, who is leading the two-year project, titled \u201cPatient-Centered CER Capacity Building in Rural Nebraska<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn general, critical access hospitals are unaware of the opportunities for rural research and the approaches that might allow them to build off the clinical care they\u2019re already giving,\u201d Dr. Geary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While UNMC will administer and support development of the GNRRN, the network will ultimately be driven by the Nebraska Rural Health Association (NeRHA), led by executive director, Jed Hansen, PhD, who co-leads the project with Dr. Geary, assistant professor in UNMC\u2019s Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and patient researcher, Jeff Ordway. NeRHA will be responsible for developing a research agenda co-created with the state\u2019s critical access hospitals and the GNRRN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStrong rural health means strong rural Nebraska \u2014 and that strength starts with elevating local voices,\u201d Dr. Hansen said. \u201cThis network gives rural hospitals and patients the chance to shape the research that affects their care and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNeHRA will build the infrastructure and facilitate research happening in rural Nebraska,\u201d Dr. Geary said. \u201cCritical access hospitals have issues they\u2019re trying to address and have mismatches between what works in their communities and what is considered best practice because best practice is typically defined in urban settings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too often, organizations fix issues for themselves, Dr. Geary said but don\u2019t inform anyone else. \u201cThis project is a mechanism for Nebraska\u2019s critical access hospitals to say, \u201cyou have this problem; we have this problem, too,\u201d and translate study results into evidence-based practice that can solve the problem for many.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funded through an award from the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the project will identify patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) knowledge gaps, as well as barriers to health care in rural Nebraska. The GNRRN plans to publish a rural research agenda by June 2026 designed to improve health outcomes based on shared application of best practices in rural settings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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