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<h2>April 2001, No. 248</h2><hr /><br />
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="401RA1.htm">A common ear surgery for children does not measurably improve development at age 3</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="401RA2.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA2.htm">By the time extremely low birthweight babies reach adolescence, their parents have adjusted fairly well to work and family life</a><br />
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<a href="401RA3.htm">Researchers explore children's access to and use of health care services</a><br />
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<a href="401RA4.htm">Efforts to improve the quality of health care services for children show positive results</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA5.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA5.htm">Use of warfarin to reduce risk of stroke in very elderly people with atrial fibrillation is challenging</a><br />
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<a href="401RA6.htm">Routine hospitalization of all cocaine users seen in the ER for cardiac symptoms may not be warranted</a><br />
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<a href="401RA7.htm">Reactivity to allergen skin tests has no bearing on mortality or cancer risk</a><br />
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<a href="401RA8.htm">Cervical smears in previously screened postmenopausal women are poor predictors of cervical neoplasia</a><br />
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<a href="401RA9.htm">Feedback from an electronic medical record can help primary care doctors improve their initial management of depression</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA10.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA10.htm">Researchers study the causes of low back pain, use of imaging to identify herniated disks, and cancer in back pain patients</a><br />
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<a href="401RA11.htm">Training primary care physicians in manual therapy gives them another way to treat back pain patients, but benefits are modest</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA12.htm">Patient Safety/Quality of Care</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA12.htm">Analyzing near-miss medical errors by graduate medical trainees can identify ways to improve medical education</a><br />
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<a href="401RA13.htm">Researchers confirm that ongoing doctor-patient relationships based on trust are critical for effective care</a><br />
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<a href="401RA14.htm">Patients' postal codes can be used as an indicator of socioeconomic status for adjusting physician profiles</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA15.htm">Smoking Cessation</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA15.htm">Young adults often smoke to control their weight, even though most of them want to stop smoking</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="401RA16.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA16.htm">HMOs should adjust their use of inhaled anti-inflammatory medicines for asthma patients to meet national guidelines</a><br />
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<a href="401RA17.htm">Treating more Medicaid managed care patients in community health centers may reduce care for uninsured patients</a><br />
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<a href="401RA18.htm">Health plan choice is associated with increased enrollment in employer-based coverage</a><br />
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<a href="401RA19.htm">Health insurance enrollment is declining in industries with large minority workforces</a><br />
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<a href="401RA20.htm">Equalizing coverage for mental health and physical health would substantially reduce consumers' share of mental health costs</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA21.htm">Long-term Care</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA21.htm">Nursing homes are adding new services to compete with other long-term care providers</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA22.htm">Special Populations</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA22.htm">Poor black women who lose a mother or sister during pregnancy are more likely to have preterm births</a><br />
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<a href="401RA23.htm">Severity of homelessness predicts low birthweight and preterm births irrespective of risk factors and prenatal care</a><br />
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<a href="401RA24.htm">Major inequalities in health exist within Pakistan and between Pakistan and the United States</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA25.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA25.htm">AHRQ to participate in new HHS task force on patient safety</a><br />
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<a href="401RA26.htm"><em>Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 1997</em>: A New Resource on Hospital Care</a><br />
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<a href="401RA27.htm">AHRQ publishes evidence report summaries on osteoporosis and four other topics</a></p>
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<h3><a href="401RA28.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="401RA28.htm">U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calls for chlamydia and lipid screening and issues two other recommendations</a><br />
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<a href="401RA29.htm">Grant final reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><a href="401RA31.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Current as of April 2001<br />
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AHRQ Publication No. 01-0028</em></p>
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