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<h2>April 1996</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
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Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="feature.htm">AHCPR releases
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CONQUEST 1.0 database</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Women's Health Issues</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept1.htm#head1">Radiologists
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sometimes vary widely in their interpretation of the same mammograms</a><br />
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href="dept1.htm#head2">Choice of treatment
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for early-stage breast cancer often depends on hospital
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characteristics</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept1.htm#head3">Treatment intensity
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varies by age in elderly women with breast cancer even after controlling for
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other medical problems</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept2.htm#head1">Recent
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findings from the Cardiac Arrhythmia PORT</a><br />
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href="dept2.htm#head2">Recurrent cardiac
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ischemia after TT remains a frequent, serious, and costly problem</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept2.htm#head3">Low Birthweight
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PORT examines use of prenatal testing and corticosteroids in prevention of
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preterm birth</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept2.htm#head4">Surgery found
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effective in reducing seizures and medications needed to control intractable
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epilepsy</a><br />
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href="dept2.htm#head5">High mortality
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found for patients with community-acquired pneumonia</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">Primary Care/Managed Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept3.htm#head1">Having a
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regular site of care but not a regular personal physician does not adversely
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affect access to care</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept3.htm#head2">Research needed on
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the impact of selective contracting and freedom-of-choice laws on managed care
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plans</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept4.htm#head1">Many
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community hospitals keep operating despite economic woes</a><br />
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href="dept4.htm#head2">Some financially
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distressed rural community hospitals discontinue acute care</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept4.htm#head3">Employment-related
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health insurance effectively pools medical risk among
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employees</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">Quality of Care/Hospital Systems</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept5.htm#head1">Researchers
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examine implications of early use of DNR orders for critically ill ICU
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patients</a><br />
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href="dept5.htm#head2">Nearly one-quarter
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of ICU patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease die in the
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hospital</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept5.htm#head3">Changes in
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reimbursement policies more than changes in technology have altered the mix of
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inpatient procedures</a><br />
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href="dept5.htm#head4">Over 8 percent of
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hospitalized Medicare patients arrive from nursing homes</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">Health Care for the Elderly</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept6.htm#head1">Serious
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complications rare in elderly patients undergoing hip arthroplasty</a><br />
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href="dept6.htm#head2">Unregulated use of
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psychotropic drugs poses danger to elderly residents of board and care
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facilities</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept6.htm#head3">Alcohol problems in
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older patients often escape detection</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a
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href="dept7.htm#head1">Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
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continues to be the best choice for preventing PCP in AIDS patients</a></p>
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<p><strong><a
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href="dept8.htm">Clinical Practice Guidelines</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept8.htm#head1">New guideline
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challenges clinicians to help smokers quit</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept9.htm">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept9.htm#head1">AHCPR
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reorganizes to streamline operations</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept9.htm#head2">AHCPR receives
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$125.3 million in FY 1996 funding</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept9.htm#head3">Administrator
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testifies in support of AHCPR's FY 97 budget</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept9.htm#head4">AHCPR, Duke
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University, and DuPont Merck agree on joint project to continue stroke
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prevention research</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept10.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept10.htm#head1">AHCPR
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announces new funding opportunities</a><br />
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href="dept10.htm#head2">AHCPR and Kaiser
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to cosponsor conference on communicating with consumers about health care
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quality</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept10.htm#head3">AHCPR releases
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second installment of the hospital inpatient database and the first three
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HCUP-3 Pocket Guides</a><br />
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href="dept10.htm#head4">New publications
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available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept11.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept11.htm#head1">An expert
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system for performance-based direct delivery of published clinical
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evidence</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept11.htm#head2">Reproducibility
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and responsiveness of the VF-14</a><br />
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href="dept11.htm#head3">Characteristics of
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reluctant respondents in the National Medical Expenditure Survey</a><br />
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href="dept11.htm#head4">Severity
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measurement methods and judging hospital death rates for pneumonia</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head5">Can comorbidity be
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measured by questionnaire rather than medical record review?</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head6">Workers'
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compensation recipients with carpal tunnel syndrome</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head7">The promise of
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computerized feedback systems for diabetes care</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head8">Adverse selection
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among multiple competing health maintenance organizations</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head9">Functional
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disability scales</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head10">Health values of
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patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus</a><br /> <a
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href="dept11.htm#head11">Empirical Bayes
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combination of estimated areas under ROC curves using estimating
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equations</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><a href=".">Return to Contents</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0055<br />
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Current as of April 1996</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. No. 192, April 1996. AHCPR Publication No. 96-0055. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/apr96/</p>
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