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<h2>April 1997, No. 203</h2>
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<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="ra1.htm#head2">John Eisenberg takes
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the helm as AHCPR's new Administrator</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p> <strong><a
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href="ra1.htm#head3">Hospitalization</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">Adverse drug
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events cost an average teaching hospital $5.6 million a year</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head5">Slightly more than
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half of patients who want life-sustaining treatment receive it</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head6">New classification
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system for rehabilitation patients provides basis for prospective
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payment</a></p>
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<p> <strong><a href="ra1.htm#head7">Patient
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Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head8">Patients over
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80 benefit most from stroke prevention drug but are least likely to get
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it</a><br /> <a href="ra1.htm#head9">Initial
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symptom severity predicts outcomes of most men with BPH</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head10">Magnesium sulfate
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appears promising for preventing cerebral palsy in preterm infants</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head11">Researchers examine
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diagnostic techniques and therapies for acute low back pain</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head12">Pneumonia PORT
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publishes recent findings</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Quality of
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Care/Access of Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Double-reading
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of mammograms does not necessarily improve diagnostic accuracy</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head3">Public disclosure of
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hospital and physician CABG mortality rates has little effect on the types of
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patients they treat</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head4">Quality of
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physician/patient interaction may suffer when patients are anxious or very
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sick</a><br /> <a href="ra2.htm#head5">Caring
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for depressed patients in a changing health care system challenges providers
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and policymakers</a></p>
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<p><strong><a
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href="ra2.htm#head6">Elderly/Long-Term
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Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head7">State programs
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for preadmission screening of nursing home applicants may not be
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cost-effective</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head8">Special
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Populations</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head9">Minority
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research center publishes reports on prenatal care and reproductive
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health</a></p>
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<p><strong><a
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href="ra2.htm#head10">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head11">New brochure
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helps consumers choose and use health plans</a><br /><a
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href="ra2.htm#head12">AHCPR publishes
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guide on the use of geographic methods in health services research</a><br /><a
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href="ra2.htm#head13">Final reports now
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available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Research
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Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head1a">Stages of
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nursing's political development: Where we've been and where we ought to
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go</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head2">An
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estimation strategy for the combined population represented by the NMES
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household and nursing home surveys</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head3">Measuring chronic
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rheumatic pain in Mexican Americans: Cross-cultural adaptation of the McGill
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pain questionnaire</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head4">Dental service use
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among adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head5">Assessing inner-city
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patients' hospital experiences: A controlled trial of telephone interviews
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versus mailed surveys</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head6">Stroke prevention in
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a 75-year-old asymptomatic patient</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head7">Physician vs. patient
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initiation of psychotropic prescribing in primary care settings: A content
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analysis of audiotapes</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head8">Health status of well
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vs. ill adolescents</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0035<br />
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Current as of April 1997</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. April 1997, No. 203. AHCPR Publication No. 97-0035. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/apr97/</p>
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