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<h2>April 2004, No. 284</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Story</h3>
<p><a href="0404RA1.htm">Hysterectomy results in better outcomes than medicine for patients with abnormal uterine bleeding</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA2.htm">Minority Health/Disparities Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA2.htm">Improving depression care has long-lasting benefits for blacks and Hispanics</a> <br />
<a href="0404RA3.htm">Racial disparities in use of coronary angiography are due in part to variation in physician referral patterns</a><br />
<a href="0404RA4.htm">Researchers examine racial and ethnic disparities in emergency care</a><br />
<a href="0404RA5.htm">Diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly increased in the 1990s, but racial and other disparities persist</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA6.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA6.htm">Physicians should give patients with kidney failure more information about the option of peritoneal dialysis</a><br />
<a href="0404RA7.htm">Problems in self-management of congestive heart failure may contribute to ER visits and poor prognosis</a><br />
<a href="0404RA8.htm">Cervical cancer screening every 3 years after three or more normal Pap tests is a safe option</a><br />
<a href="0404RA9.htm">Hip fracture patients function better after hip repair surgery if they receive transfusions for anemia while in the hospital</a><br />
<a href="0404RA10.htm">Step-by-step procedures may help health care providers treat victims of intimate partner violence</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA11.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA11.htm">Hospitals with low mortality rates for coronary bypass surgery also perform well in valve replacement</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA12.htm">Pharmaceutical Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA12.htm">Many medications are effective in managing atrial fibrillation</a> <br />
<a href="0404RA13.htm">Clinicians and patients responded quickly to recent evidence of harms associated with hormone therapy</a><br />
<a href="0404RA14.htm">Doctors substantially reduced their prescribing of alpha-blockers for hypertension after published trial results showed problems</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA15.htm">Health Care Quality</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA15.htm">Researchers examine ways to measure the quality of health services for children and adolescents</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA16.htm">Elderly/Long-term Care</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA16.htm">Studies focus on care for respiratory tract infections in the elderly</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA17.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA17.htm">Medicare drug benefit bill will increase physicians' exposure to drug formularies</a><br />
<a href="0404RA18.htm">Medicare enrollees in for-profit plans are no less likely to receive high-cost procedures than those in non-profit plans</a><br />
<a href="0404RA19.htm">Health plan use of gatekeepers may improve use of recommended cancer screening</a><br />
<a href="0404RA20.htm">State reforms in the 1990s to guarantee health insurance for employees of small firms had little effect on offer rates</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA21.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA21.htm">Incidence of hepatitis C virus is low among HIV-infected women and usually is linked to drug use</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA22.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA22.htm">Task Force recommends that primary care clinicians screen and counsel adults to prevent alcohol misuse</a></p>
<h3><a href="0404RA23.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="0404RA23.htm">AHRQ issues new evidence reports on health literacy and other topics</a><br />
<a href="0404RA24.htm">New AHRQ publications focus on hospital nurse staffing and a research agenda for health and the humanities</a> </p>
<p><a href="0404RA26.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>Current as of April 2004<br />
AHRQ Publication No. 04-0042</em></p>
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