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<h2>April 1999, No. 225</h2>
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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#head1">Self-management program helps people with chronic diseases improve their health status and avoid hospitalization</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm">Women's Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head1">Changes in health care delivery and financing are needed to meet the unique needs of older women with chronic conditions</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Less than a minute of physician compassion can reduce anxiety in women newly diagnosed with breast cancer</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head3">Three out of four women physicians give high marks for the quality of health care they receive</a><br />
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<a href="ra5.htm#head4">Use of age as a threshold for recommending prenatal diagnosis is questioned</a><br />
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<a href="ra6.htm#head5">Cocaine and tobacco use during early pregnancy substantially increases the risk of miscarriage</a><br />
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<a href="ra7.htm#head6">Researchers examine correlation between length of stay following childbirth and women's satisfaction with care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra8.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra8.htm#head1">Antibiotic treatment of chorioamnionitis may have the potential to reduce transmission of HIV from mother to fetus</a><br />
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<a href="ra9.htm#head2">Study confirms recommendations for frequency of cervical cancer screening in HIV-infected women</a><br />
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<a href="ra10.htm#head3">Wasting dramatically reduces the quality of life of AIDS patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra11.htm#head4">Many people with AIDS change their minds about end-of-life care as the disease progresses</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra12.htm">Primary Care Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra12.htm#head1">Depression can be treated effectively in primary care settings with proper controls and specialty consultation</a><br />
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<a href="ra13.htm#head2">Primary care physicians vary widely in how they evaluate and manage osteoarthritis of the knee</a><br />
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<a href="ra14.htm#head3">Case management of patients with chronic renal insufficiency did not improve outcomes over usual care</a><br />
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<a href="ra15.htm#head4">Both general internists and family physicians provide primary care, but their practice styles and resource use differ</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra16.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra16.htm#head1">Researchers examine trends in children's health insurance coverage and the potential impact of SCHIP</a><br />
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<a href="ra17.htm#head2">Doctors sometimes compensate for Medicare fee cuts by increasing volume</a><br />
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<a href="ra18.htm#head3">Tax-preferred medical savings accounts combined with high deductible catastrophic health plans may be unfair to some</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra19.htm">Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra19.htm#head1">Teaching hospitals appear to provide better care for two common conditions than nonteaching hospitals</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra20.htm">Dental Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra20.htm#head1">Adults are as likely as adolescents to have cavities</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra21.htm">Elderly Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra21.htm#head1">Studies explore the impact of medication use on cognitive functioning among community-dwelling elderly</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra22.htm">Heart Disease</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra22.htm#head1">Cardiac arrests do not occur randomly but follow certain temporal patterns</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra23.htm">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra23.htm#head1">AHCPR issues request for planning ideas</a><br />
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<a href="ra24.htm#head2">Nominations invited for AHCPR Child Health Scholar</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra25.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra25.htm#head1">Research on swallowing problems in the elderly highlights potential for preventing pneumonia in stroke patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra26.htm#head2">New MEPS reports are now available</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra27.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head1">Can data-driven benchmarks be used to set the goals of Healthy People 2010?</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head2">A taxonomy of health networks and systems: Bringing order out of chaos</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head3">Validity and utility of patient-reported health measures on hospital admission</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head4">Incidence and duration of hospitalizations among persons with AIDS: An event history approach</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head5">Patient or physician preferences for decision analysis</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head6">Measurement of mammography rates for quality improvement</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head7">Computing population-based estimates of health-adjusted life expectancy</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head8">Reliability and validity of two self-report measures of impairment and disability for MS</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 99-0028<br />
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Current as of April 1999</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. April 1999, No. 225. AHCPR Publication No. 99-0028. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/apr99/</p>
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