PMID- 17380518
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070517
LR  - 20070328
IS  - 0160-6891 (Print)
IS  - 0160-6891 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 2
DP  - 2007 Apr
TI  - Federal definitions of rurality and the impact on nursing research.
PG  - 175-84
AB  - In rural health research, the measurement of rural residence is commonly 
      dichotomized as urban or rural, even though researchers encourage the use of more 
      descriptive categories to capture rural diversity. Federal categorization schemes 
      for operationalizing rural locations include United States Census Bureau 
      definitions, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) classifications, and 
      categorizations developed by the United States Department of Agriculture 
      (USDA)--Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC), Urban Influence Codes (UIC), and 
      Rural-Urban Commuting Areas. When categorizing states by rurality, the choice of 
      the measure used influences which states are identified as most rural. We 
      demonstrate this premise in a study of rural home healthcare.
CI  - (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
FAU - Vanderboom, Catherine Prouty
AU  - Vanderboom CP
AD  - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, 
      WI 53210, USA.
FAU - Madigan, Elizabeth A
AU  - Madigan EA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Res Nurs Health
JT  - Research in nursing & health
JID - 7806136
SB  - IM
MH  - *Censuses
MH  - Community Health Nursing
MH  - Data Interpretation, Statistical
MH  - *Federal Government
MH  - Government Regulation
MH  - Home Care Services
MH  - Humans
MH  - Nursing Research/*organization & administration
MH  - Population Density
MH  - Research Design
MH  - Residence Characteristics/*classification
MH  - Rural Health
MH  - Rural Health Services
MH  - Rural Population/*classification
MH  - United States
MH  - United States Department of Agriculture
MH  - Vulnerable Populations/classification
RF  - 16
EDAT- 2007/03/24 09:00
MHDA- 2007/05/18 09:00
CRDT- 2007/03/24 09:00
PHST- 2007/03/24 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/05/18 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/03/24 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/nur.20194 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Res Nurs Health. 2007 Apr;30(2):175-84. doi: 10.1002/nur.20194.