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<h2>August 2005, No. 300</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="0805RA1.htm">Medical disparities for elderly Medicare beneficiaries are narrowing</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA2.htm">Disparities/Minority Health</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA2.htm">Efforts beyond expanding health coverage may be needed to improve access and quality for low-income and minority children</a> <br />
<a href="0805RA3.htm">Black and Hispanic mothers are much more likely than white mothers to suffer from early postpartum depression</a> <br />
<a href="0805RA4.htm">Traditional values underlie older Korean Americans' preference for informal over formal long-term care arrangements</a> <br />
<a href="0805RA5.htm">Differences in education and health status account for virtually all racial/ethnic differences in leisure-time physical activity</a><br /><a href="0805RA6.htm">Fears about the digital divide between advantaged and disadvantaged families may not be warranted</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA7.htm">Patient Safety and Quality</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA7.htm">Resident work hour limits in New York teaching hospitals were not associated with improved safety for surgery patients</a><br />
<a href="0805RA8.htm">One hospital's experience suggests that communication problems may underlie a substantial number of hospital adverse events</a><br /><a href="0805RA9.htm">Hospital fall prevention programs should target certain patient, medication, and care-related factors that increase falling risk</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA10.htm">Women's Health</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA10.htm">Women with atherosclerosis and high cholesterol receive less intense cholesterol management than men</a><br /><a href="0805RA11.htm">Supracervical and total abdominal hysterectomy result in similar sexual functioning and quality of life 2 years later</a><br /><a href="0805RA12.htm">Estrogen therapy with progestin has higher discontinuation rates in women with diabetes and cardiovascular disease</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA13.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA13.htm">Age, not height and weight, may be a better marker for assessing risk to children riding in vehicles with air bags</a><br /><a href="0805RA14.htm">Few adolescents with special health care needs receive adequate transition from pediatric to adult-oriented health care</a><br /><a href="0805RA15.htm">Certain managed care organization characteristics can increase specialty care use among chronically ill low-income children</a><br /><a href="0805RA16.htm">Routine pertussis vaccination of adolescents would be beneficial and reasonably cost effective</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA17.htm">Elderly/Long-term Care</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA17.htm">Elderly individuals with financial problems face more disability and risk of death after hospital discharge</a><br /><a href="0805RA18.htm">Patients most likely to benefit from stroke rehabilitation are least likely to be selected</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA19.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA19.htm">Diagnostic test information often reassures patients who have chest pain suggestive of coronary artery disease</a><br /><a href="0805RA20.htm">Study explores physician job satisfaction and quality of care and outcomes for managed care patients with pain and depression</a><br /><a href="0805RA21.htm">It will be difficult to achieve strict cholesterol goals in many patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA22.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA22.htm">Decision support systems that minimize clinicians' efforts to receive and act on system recommendations can improve care</a><br /><a href="0805RA23.htm">Patients' beliefs are not an important barrier to effective pain management</a><br /><a href="0805RA24.htm">Physicians welcome patients' participation in medical decisionmaking</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA25.htm">Pharmaceutical Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA25.htm">Laboratory drug monitoring of outpatients taking long-term medications could be improved</a><br /><a href="0805RA26.htm">Hydroxychloroquine can reduce risk of organ damage in patients with lupus</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA27.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA27.htm">Delays and missed opportunities persist in diagnosing patients with unrecognized HIV infection</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA28.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA28.htm">Cancer survival is lower among Medicaid than non-Medicaid patients, especially for those enrolled after cancer diagnosis</a><br /><a href="0805RA29.htm">Study calls for reform of policies that reject candidates for cardiac transplantation due to lack of insurance or finances</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA30.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA30.htm">New MEPS statistical briefs available from AHRQ</a></p>
<h3><a href="0805RA31.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
<p><a href="0805RA31.htm">Grant final reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
<p><a href="0805RA33.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>Current as of August 2005<br />
AHRQ Publication No. 05-0097</em></p>
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