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<h2>April 2003, No. 272</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="0403RA1.htm">Certain medications that can increase the risk of cardiac arrest and arrhythmias are often prescribed together</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA2.htm">Pharmaceutical Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA2.htm">Doctors are prescribing fewer and safer antiarrhythmic drugs than in the 1980s</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA3.htm">Clinicians can maintain warfarin dose in asymptomatic patients with an INR of 3.3 or less without risk of hemorrhage</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA4.htm">Pharmacist care and telephone peak flow monitoring can improve peak flow rates among patients with asthma and COPD</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA5.htm">Collaborative program can reduce potential medication problem among elderly home health care patients</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA6.htm">AHRQ-funded Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics examine the safety and effectiveness of several popular medications</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA7.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA7.htm">Two-thirds of children with persistent asthma symptoms seen in primary care have uncontrolled asthma</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA8.htm">Respiratory viruses may be the culprit in sparking seasonal peaks in children's asthma problems</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA9.htm">Hospitalization of children for respiratory illness presents an opportunity to counsel their parents about smoking</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA10.htm">Improvements are needed in meeting the spiritual care needs of hospitalized children and their families</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA11.htm">Diabetes Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA11.htm">Researchers focus on diabetes prevalence and control among urban black adults and diabetes understanding by the undereducated </a><br />
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<a href="0403RA12.htm">Studies focus on depression, disease self-management, and vaccination status among people with diabetes</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA13.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA13.htm">Use of an ECG-based diagnostic tool in the ER can help predict cardiac arrest in heart attack patients</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA14.htm">Chest x-ray is appropriate to confirm suspected pneumonia in most patients</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA15.htm">Use of intensive care for patients with severe pneumonia is common and expensive, but hospital ICU admission rates vary</a>
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<br /><a href="0403RA16.htm">CT scans can help physicians determine which artery is bleeding in patients with traumatic pelvic fractures</a>
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<br /><a href="0403RA17.htm">Clinical screening criteria can identify virtually all blunt trauma patients with acute thoracolumbar spine injuries</a>
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<br /><a href="0403RA18.htm">Physicians are more likely to use specialty society guidelines that are evidence-based and recently revised</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA19.htm">Quality/Patient Safety</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA19.htm">Certain factors increase the likelihood that sponges or instruments will be left inside a surgical patient</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA20.htm">Interpretation errors are common during medical encounters with people who have limited English proficiency</a><br />
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<a href="0403RA21.htm">Adequate nurse staffing and managerial support foster better patient care and reduce nurse dissatisfaction and burnout</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA22.htm">Health Care Marketplace</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA22.htm">Local preferences and factors other than market structure influence county differences in hospice use</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA23.htm">More people receive oral surgery from a general dentist than an oral surgeon, especially low-income and minority individuals</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA24.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA24.htm">Individuals who have lapses in insurance coverage are less likely to use preventive services than those with continuous coverage</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA25.htm">Despite new critical care technologies, the proportion of Medicare spending on end-of-life care is not increasing</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA26.htm">Most appeals to managed care health plans dispute provider choice and contractual coverage, not medical necessity</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA27.htm">Malpractice pressure prompts unnecessary treatments and care costs without improving patient outcomes</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA28.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA28.htm">New AHRQ Web-based tool offers hospitals quick checkup on patient safety</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA29.htm">AHRQ names new senior scholar in residence in primary care</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA30.htm">New AHRQ evidence reports focus on allergic rhinitis among U.S. workers and jaundice in newborns</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0403RA31.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="0403RA31.htm">AHRQ issues RFA for challenge grants on safe practices</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA32.htm">AHRQ announces availability of the HCUP 2000 Kids' Inpatient Database</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA33.htm">International child health research meeting scheduled</a> <br />
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<a href="0403RA34.htm">Mark your calendars now for TRIP 2003 meeting</a>
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<br /><a href="0403RA35.htm">New publications now available from AHRQ</a>
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<br /><a href="0403RA36.htm">Grant final reports now available from NTIS</a> </p>
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<p><a href="0403RA38.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Current as of April 2003<br />
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AHRQ Publication No. 03-0031</em></p>
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