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<a name="head2"></a><p><strong>Ballantyne, J.C., Carr, D.B., deFerranti, S., and others (1998). "The comparative effects of
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postoperative analgesic therapies on pulmonary outcome: Cumulative meta-analyses of
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randomized, controlled trials." <em>Anesthesia and Analgesia</em> 86, pp. 598-612, 1998.</strong></p><p>
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When postoperative patients are relatively pain-free, their lung function is improved. They can
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readily expand their chests, breathe deeply, cough well, and cooperate with physical therapy. They
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also are less likely to develop pulmonary complications. According to this study, some pain
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relievers more effectively reduce these complications than others. The study found that individuals
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who receive epidural opioids or local anesthetics after surgery have fewer postoperative
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pulmonary problems than those given systemic opioids. The researchers performed a
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meta-analysis of data from randomized, controlled trials that assessed the effects of seven specific
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pain treatments on respiratory function in postoperative patients: epidural opioid, epidural local
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anesthetic, epidural opioid with local anesthetic, thoracic versus lumbar epidural opioid,
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intercostal nerve block, wound infiltration with local anesthetic, and intrapleural local anesthetic.
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Compared with systemic opioids, epidural opioids significantly decreased the incidence of
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atelectasis (inadequate lung expansion or lung collapse) and slightly reduced pulmonary infections
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and pulmonary complications overall. Epidural local anesthetics increased lung oxygen
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concentration and decreased the incidence of pulmonary infections and overall pulmonary
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complications compared with systemic opioids.
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The researchers conclude that postoperative epidural analgesia can significantly decrease the incidence of pulmonary problems.</p>
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<a name="head3"></a><p><strong>Cohen, S.B. (1998). "Sample design of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Medical
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Provider Component." <em>Journal of Economic and Social Measurement</em> 24, pp. 25-53.</strong></p><p>
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The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is
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the only federally sponsored national survey that provides a foundation for estimating the impact
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of changes in sources of payment and insurance coverage on different groups such as the poor,
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the elderly, veterans, the uninsured, and racial and ethnic minorities. The Medical Provider
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Component (MPC) in MEPS was primarily designed to reduce the bias associated with national
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medical expenditure estimates based on data reported by household respondents. MEPS collects
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provider-reported charge and payment data for medical care events reported by households to
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improve the accuracy of national estimates of health care expenditures that are derived from the
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survey. </p>
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<p>This paper, by Steven B. Cohen of AHCPR's Center for Cost and Financing Studies, provides a
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summary of the analytical objectives and survey design of the MPC. Reprints (AHCPR
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Publication No. 98-R082) are available from the <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/order/order-research-activities.html">AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse</a>. </p>
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<a name="head4"></a><p><strong>Doeksen, G.A., Johnson, T., Biard-Holmes, D., and Schott, V. (1998, Winter). "A healthy health
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sector is crucial for community economic development." (AHCPR grant HS08633). <em>Journal of
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Rural Health</em> 14(1), pp. 66-72.</strong></p><p>
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When a community's health care facilities and services deteriorate or become inadequate, it
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hinders the community's growth and adversely affects its quality of life. This study presents a
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detailed model for measuring the economic effects of the health sector on the local economy of
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Perry, OK. The researchers present the total effects of the health sector on Perry's employment, income, retail sales, and sales tax collection by health
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category (hospitals, doctors and dentists, nursing and residential facilities, other medical and
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health services, and pharmacies). Application of the model in nine Oklahoma counties found that
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people directly working in the health sector accounted for about 9 percent of the total
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employment for each county. Using multipliers to estimate total effects, including secondary
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employment, the health sector accounted for about 14 percent of all employment. The researchers
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conclude that a healthy health sector greatly contributes to the economic health of a county.</p>
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<a name="head5"></a><p><strong>Fiscella, K., Franks, P., and Clancy, C.M. (1998). "Skepticism toward medical care and health
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care use." <em>Medical Care</em> 36(2).</strong></p><p>
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Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director of the Agency for Health Care
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Policy and Research's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, and her colleagues from
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the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry surveyed a nationally representative
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sample of 18,240 people 25 years and older about their health status and behavior, use of health
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care services, and attitudes toward health care. Analysis of survey results found that skepticism in
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this sample was associated with younger age, white race, lower income, less education, and higher
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health perceptions. After adjustments were made for these variables, skepticism was associated
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with less healthy behavior, not having health insurance, not having one's own physician, not being
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able to choose a physician, fewer physician and emergency department visits, less frequent
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hospitalizations, lower annual health care expenditures, and less compliance with recommended
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preventive screening (e.g., Pap smears and mammograms). </p>
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<p>Reprints (AHCPR Publication No.
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98-R031) are available from the <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/order/order-research-activities.html">AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse</a>.</p>
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<a name="head6"></a><p><strong>Fitzmaurice, J.M. (1998). "A new twist in U.S. health care data standards development: Adoption
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of electronic health care transactions standards for administrative simplification." <em>International
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Journal of Medical Informatics</em> 48, pp. 19-28.</strong></p><p>
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U.S. health care expenditures fell from double digit levels in the 1970s and 1980s to 9.2 percent in
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1991 down to 5.5 percent in 1995. Health plans, payers, and providers examined their business
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processes and became convinced that conducting some common transactions electronically with
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uniformly implemented standards for health care data would reduce their costs. In 1996, they
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prevailed on Congress to pass a bill that addresses administrative simplification by calling for the
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adoption of such standards and their uniform implementation. This paper by J. Michael
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Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, describes these
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standards, the process of their mandated adoption by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
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Services, and the implications for future health care informatics standards development and
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implementation. </p>
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<p>Reprints (AHCPR Publication No. 98-R053) are available from the <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/order/order-research-activities.html">AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse</a>.</p>
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<a name="head7"></a><p><strong>Gray, D.T., and Weinstein, M.C. (1998, April). "Decision and cost-utility analyses of surgical
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versus transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus: Should you let a smile be your umbrella?"
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(AHCPR grant HS06302). <em>Medical Decision Making</em> 18, pp. 187-201.</strong></p><p>
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These researchers used decision and cost-utility analyses to consider the tradeoffs of treating
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patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) using conventional surgery versus transcatheter implantation of
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the umbrella-like Rashkind occluder. Physicians and informed lay parents assigned utility scores to
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success and complications of these procedures seen in prognostically similar pediatric patients
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with isolated PDA treated from 1982 to 1987. On a 1 to 100 scale (worst to best observed
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outcome), the median expected utility for surgery was 99.96 versus 98.88 for the occluder.
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Surgery was also favored in results of most sensitivity analyses and most cost-utility analyses,
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with a mean overall simulated cost of $8,838 for surgery versus $12,466 for the occluder. The
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researchers conclude that use of the inherently less invasive but less successful, more risky, and
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more costly occluder conferred no apparent net advantage.</p>
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<a name="head8"></a><p><strong>Hupcey, J.E. (1998, April). "Establishing the nurse-family relationship in the intensive care unit."
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(NRSA fellowship F32 HS00094). <em>Western Journal of Nursing Research</em> 20(2), pp. 180-194.</strong></p><p>
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This researcher conducted extensive unstructured interviews with 10 ICU family members and 10
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ICU nurses at a large rural teaching medical center to examine nurse-family relationships in the
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ICU. Strategies used by nurses to develop the ICU nurse-family relationship included showing
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commitment to the patient—spending time with the patient or family, respecting family rituals, and
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showing empathy; spending more time with difficult families or sharing some limited personal
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information; and being an advocate for the family, bending or breaking the rules on occasion,
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sharing information, and willingly explaining procedures and technology. Families used such
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strategies as looking for signs of a nurse's competence and genuine interest in the patient; making
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overtures such as being friendly and helpful, giving gifts or positive feedback, and staying out of
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the way; and showing trust. Nurses' behaviors that weakened the relationship included
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depersonalizing the patient and family, questioning their intentions, complaining about them, and
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rigidly maintaining hospital policy. Families set up barriers to a positive relationship by not sharing
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potentially important information, being overly emotional, or ignoring the plan of care.</p>
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<a name="head9"></a><p><strong>Lipscomb, J., Ancukiewicz, M., Parmigiani, G., and others (1998). "Predicting the cost of illness:
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A comparison of alternative models applied to stroke." (AHCPR contract 290-91-0028). <em>Medical
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Decision Making</em> 18 suppl., S39-S36.</strong></p><p>
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The growing availability of large administrative and clinical data sets offers new opportunities for
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a more general approach to disease cost forecasting. This approach is the estimation of
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multivariable cost functions that yield predictions at the individual level, conditional on intervention(s), patient characteristics, and other factors. This paper demonstrates how to
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evaluate competing models on the basis of predictive validity using three alternative criteria: root
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mean square error, for evaluating predicted mean cost; mean absolute error, for evaluating
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predicted median cost; and a logarithmic scoring rule, an information-theoretic index for
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evaluating the entire predictive distribution of cost. To illustrate these concepts, the authors
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conducted a split-sample analysis of data from a national sample of Medicare-covered patients
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hospitalized for ischemic stroke in 1991 and followed to the end of 1993. They investigated five
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models for their ability to predict the cost of stroke illness.</p>
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<a name="head10"></a><p><strong>Owens, D.K. (1998, March). "Use of medical informatics to implement and develop clinical
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practice guidelines." (AHCPR grant HS08362). <em>Western Journal of Medicine</em> 168, pp.
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166-175. </strong></p><p>
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This article explores how medical informatics can help clinicians find, use, and create practice
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guidelines. The author asserts that physicians can make the most of clinical practice guidelines by
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integrating them within information systems and electronic medical records, but that lack of
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computing infrastructure in many clinical settings is a barrier to such integration. He suggests that
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to successfully implement guidelines in information systems, developers create more specific
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recommendations than those that have been required of traditional guidelines. He also suggests
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using reusable software components to create guidelines in order to make the development of
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protocols faster and less expensive. Finally, he recommends use of decision models to produce
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guidelines.</p>
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<a name="head11"></a><p><strong>Paltiel, A.D., Scharfstein, J.A., Seage III, G.R., and others (1998, April). "A Monte Carlo
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simulation of advanced HIV disease: Application to prevention of CMV infection." (AHCPR
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grant HS07317). <em>Medical Decision Making</em> 18 suppl., pp. S93-S105.</strong></p><p>
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These researchers introduce a mathematical model they have developed to simulate the natural
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history of HIV illness in patients with CD4 counts below 300/mm<sup>3</sup> and to project the costs and
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consequences of alternative strategies for preventing AIDS-related complications. They
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demonstrate how to use the model to assess the cost-effectiveness of oral ganciclovir to prevent
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cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. They find that compared with alternative interventions, CMV
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prophylaxis does not appear to be a cost-effective use of scarce HIV clinical care funds. However,
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targeted prevention in patients at higher-risk for CMV-related disease may warrant
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consideration.</p>
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<a name="head12"></a><p><strong>Poses, R.M., De Saintonge, D.M.C., McClish, D.K., and others (1998, April). "An international
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comparison of physicians' judgments of outcome rates of cardiac procedures and attitudes toward
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risk, uncertainty, justifiability, and regret." (AHCPR grant HS06274). <em>Medical Decision Making</em> 18, pp. 131-140.</strong></p><p>
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Rates of invasive cardiac procedures are substantially lower
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in the United Kingdom than in the United States. One factor attributed to clinical practice
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variations is how physicians handle uncertainty. This study used measures of risk, uncertainty,
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justifiability, and regret relevant to use of four invasive cardiac treatments among 51 U.K.
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physicians and 171 U.S. physicians. The U.K. physicians had significantly more discomfort with
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uncertainty than did the U.S. physicians, as reflected by higher scores on the stress scale (median
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of 48 vs. 42) and the reluctance-to-disclose-uncertainty scale (40 vs. 37). There was no clear
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international difference in perceived need to justify decisions or in regret. The authors conclude
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that physician uncertainty may not affect practice variations, and that the causes and implications
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of practice variations remain unclear. </p>
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<a name="head13"></a><p><strong>Reschovsky, J.D. (1998, April). "The demand for post-acute and chronic care in nursing homes."
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<em>Medical Care</em> 36(4), pp. 475-490. </strong></p><p>
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Patients admitted to nursing homes for post-acute care following a hospital stay are a growing but
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still small proportion of all nursing home patients. The growth in these nursing home admissions
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are the result of financial incentives to physicians and hospitals from public and private insurers to
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reduce hospital lengths of stay (LOS). Post-acute care patients are more apt to have private
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instead of public insurance coverage and shorter stays than people seeking nursing home
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admission for chronic care. Also, nursing homes treat these two types of patients differently. They
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seem to be more sensitive to market conditions when deciding to admit people seeking chronic
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care, who are often Medicaid patients. As a result, these patients usually find it more difficult to
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gain admission than post-acute care patients, according to this study by James D. Reschovsky,
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Ph.D., formerly of AHCPR and now with the Center for Studying Health Systems Change. He
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used data on a sample of elderly individuals from the National Long-Term Care Channeling
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Demonstration to develop the model, using Medicare payments to estimate nursing home demand.
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Analysis suggested that people considering nursing home care for chronic conditions were more
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likely to consider the economic aspects of this decision than those in need of post-acute care. The
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supply of hospital beds, which served as a proxy for the role of physicians and discharge planners
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in influencing demand decisions, was a more important factor in the demand for post-acute
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nursing home stays. About half of short stays and one-fourth of long stays initially were paid for
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by Medicare. Post-acute nursing home stays, as indicated by Medicare payment, should be mostly
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short, whereas stays for chronic care (those without Medicare payment) will tend to be long. In
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fact, more accurate predictions of the demand for nursing home care would be possible if the
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payer was used as a proxy for expected LOS; indeed, this would be a better way of classifying
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post-acute and chronic care nursing home stays than using the actual LOS, according to the
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author. </p>
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<p>Reprints (AHCPR Publication No. 98-R057) are available from the <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/order/order-research-activities.html">AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse</a>.</p>
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<a name="head14"></a> <p><strong>Rhoades, J. (1998, June). "Nursing homes—Structure and selected characteristics, 1987 and
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1996." <em>Statistical Bulletin</em>, pp. 1-9.</strong></p>
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<p>This paper by AHCPR researcher Jeffrey Rhoades, Ph.D., briefly describes changes in the nursing home market over a 9-year period, from 1987 to 1996. Estimates
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are based on the Institutional Population Component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure
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Survey (NMES) and the Nursing Home Component of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel
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Survey (MEPS). As of January 1, 1996, about 1.56 million residents were receiving care in
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16,840 nursing homes with 1.76 million beds. This compares with 1.36 million residents in 14,050
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nursing homes with 1.48 million beds in 1987. There was also a significant drop in the supply of
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nursing home beds relative to the elderly population. In 1987, only 28 percent of nursing homes
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were certified by both Medicare and Medicaid, while this proportion increased to 73 percent in
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1996. Nursing homes with only nursing home beds (not hospital-based; no personal care or
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independent living beds) represented 87 percent of the market in 1987, but just 77 percent in
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1996. </p>
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<p>Reprints (AHCPR Publication No. 98-R058) are available from the <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/order/order-research-activities.html">AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse</a>.</p>
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<a name="head15"></a><p><strong>Sachs, B., and Hall, L.A. (1998, Winter). "Developing community partnerships to enhance care
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for rural families with low birth weight children," (AHCPR grant HS 07950). <em>Journal of Rural
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Health</em> 14(1), pp. 51-58.</strong></p> <p>
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Low birthweight (LBW) babies (5.5 pounds or less) comprise 7 percent of all births in the United
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States each year, and they may be discharged from the hospital with needs that severely tax
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parental resources. Parents in rural areas, in particular, often find inadequate community resources
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to support care for their LBW infants. In recognition of this problem, researchers at the University
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of Kentucky convened a conference involving health care providers, families with LBW children,
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and policymakers in eastern Kentucky to identify the major health needs and concerns of families
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with LBW infants. Conference participants identified a total of 51 barriers to providing health care
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to these families, including transportation problems, lack of financial resources (family and
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system), and lack of parenting knowledge and skills about health promotion and disease
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prevention. Providers created barriers to care by lack of family-centered care, lack of knowledge
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of resources to aid LBW children, not communicating with families in ways they could
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understand, and not taking enough time with families, according to conference participants. Some
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of the 23 system barriers were service issues, such as fragmented care; lack of health care
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professionals prepared to provide care in rural settings; differing eligibility requirements for
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various LBW programs; financial and funding issues; lack of coordinated services; and poor
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communication among providers. As a result of the conference, a support program for families
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with LBW children is being implemented and evaluated in one rural Kentucky county. </p>
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<a name="head16"></a><p><strong>Tu, J.V., Weinstein, M.C., McNeil, B.J., and others (1998, April). "Predicting mortality after
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coronary artery bypass surgery: What do artificial neural networks (AHCPR grants
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HS08071 and HS08464). <em>Medical Decision Making</em> 18, pp. 229-235.</strong></p><p>
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Neural networks are pattern-recognition algorithms that are modeled after the biological structure
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of the human brain. It has been suggested that they may offer some advantages over classic
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statistical approaches as predictive models for certain clinical problems. These researchers
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compared the abilities of artificial neural network and logistic regression models to predict the risk
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of in-hospital mortality after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. They developed both
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models using a training set of 4,782 patients undergoing CABG surgery in Ontario, Canada, in
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1991 and validated them in two test sets of CABG patients in 1992 and 1993. They further
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developed and validated these models and found that the predictions from the two models were
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very highly correlated. The authors conclude that artificial neural networks and logistic regression
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models learn similar relationships between patient characteristics and mortality after CABG
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surgery. </p>
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