Is there research that focuses specifically on rural health care quality?
The federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) supports a number of rural health research centers that conduct a variety of research, including studies of rural health care quality. The Rural Assistance Center has a Rural Health Research Center Publications section on their web site that lists a variety of publications produced by ORHP funded research centers as well as other useful documents and bibliographies. The Journal of Rural Health devoted an entire issue (October 2004) to articles about rural health care quality.