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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>August 2001, No. 252</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="801RA1.htm">Rising medication costs prompt many rural elders to take fewer medicines and s
<h3><a href="801RA2.htm">Pharmaceutical Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA2.htm">Hispanics in their 50s are much less likely than same-age whites or blacks to take medication to control high blood pressure</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA3.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA3.htm">Angiography recommendations appear to identify patients who are likely to benefit from the procedure</a><br /><a href="801RA4.htm">Surgeon's experience and patient demographics influence the treatment and outcomes of colorectal cancer</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA5.htm">Primary Care</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA5.htm">Training in basic skin cancer triage can improve primary care providers' practice of skin cancer control measures</a><br /><a href="801RA6.htm">Parental assessment is a practical and reliable way to measure pediatric primary care</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA7.htm">Health Care Delivery</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA7.htm">Cancer screening decisions for the elderly should not be based on age alone</a><br /><a href="801RA8.htm">Physician understanding of patient expectations is critical to patient satisfaction</a><br /><a href="801RA9.htm">Doctors vary in how they resolve medical conflicts with dying patients</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA10.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA10.htm">ER staff can use a brief questionnaire to identify children and adolescents who are suicidal</a><br /><a href="801RA11.htm">Doctors can do much more to encourage adolescents to not smoke or stop smoking</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA12.htm">Nursing Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA12.htm">Nurses around the world are among the least satisfied workers, and the problem is getting worse</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA13.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA13.htm">Costs associated with asthma have increased substantially since the mid-1980s</a><br /><a href="801RA14.htm">Healthy, working-age, privately insured consumers currently may be over-insuring for medical care</a><br /><a href="801RA15.htm">Proposed antitrust exemption for physicians may alter the balance of power between doctors and health plans</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA16.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a> </h3>
<p><a href="801RA16.htm">Targeting specific HIV-related symptoms that most diminish functioning would improve life for those with HIV disease</a><br /><a href="801RA17.htm">HIV infection is associated with a greater number of skin abnormalities among women as well as men</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA18.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA18.htm">AHRQ releases new evidence on proven patient safety practices</a><br /><a href="801RA19.htm">AHRQ releases 1998 and 1999 State inpatient and ambulatory surgery databases</a><br /><a href="801RA20.htm">Methods seminar scheduled for fall 2001</a><br /><a href="801RA21.htm">AHRQ unveils Nation's first all-children's hospital care research database</a><br /><a href="801RA22.htm">Robert Graham named to head AHRQ's Center for Practice and Technology Assessment</a></p>
<h3><a href="801RA23.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
<p><a href="801RA23.htm">AHRQ announces new research priorities: Patient-centered care and payment and organization</a><br /><a href="801RA24.htm">AHRQ'S new quality indicators are coming</a><br /><a href="801RA25.htm">Statistics for health insurance coverage form the 2000 MEPS are now available</a><br /><a href="801RA26.htm">Attention researchers: Call for abstracts and proposals on childhood emergencies</a></p>
<p><a href="801RA27.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>Current as of August 2001<br />
AHRQ Publication No. 01-0045</em></p>
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