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<h2>December 2001, No. 256</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="1201RA1.htm">Potentially inappropriate medications are prescribed for up to one in five elderly people</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA2.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA2.htm">Researchers from the Pneumonia PORT examine triage and management of community-acquired pneumonia</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA3.htm">Plain x-rays often do not reveal certain types of cervical spine injuries in victims of blunt trauma</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA4.htm">Few doctors take measures to prevent bone loss and related fractures among people on long-term steroid therapy</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA5.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA5.htm">Availability of a pneumococcal vaccine may change the way physicians manage young children who have high fevers</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA6.htm">More conservative approach recommended for inpatient treatment of infants with viral lower respiratory infection</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA7.htm">Use of health care services and costs of care are substantial for children with asthma-related illnesses</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA8.htm">Children with insulin-dependent diabetes are hospitalized three times more often than other children</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA9.htm">Five criteria can identify pediatric blunt trauma victims who are unlikely to need x-rays to exclude cervical spine injury</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA10.htm">Educational materials do not substantially increase parents' knowledge and attitudes about the use of antibiotics</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA11.htm">Violence affects many teenage girls in the United States, most of whom are attacked at home or in the home of a friend</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA12.htm">Office-based quality improvement programs can substantially improve delivery of pediatric preventive services</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA13.htm">Generalists provide the majority of care to Medicaid-insured children with chronic conditions</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA14.htm">Women's Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA14.htm">Elderly women with the fewest resources to negotiate the health care system have the highest burden of illness</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA15.htm">Women are far more likely than men to have their depression diagnosed by their primary care doctors</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA16.htm">Primary Care</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA16.htm">Primary care doctors should be alert to potential chronic kidney disease in diabetic, hypertensive, and minority patients</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA17.htm">Middle-aged adults tend to maintain their alcohol consumption patterns over time</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA18.htm">Even patients with a doctor in the family face challenges in receiving optimal medical care</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA19.htm">Journal issue focuses on competing demands, patient encounters, and delivery of preventive care in family practice</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA20.htm">Mental Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA20.htm">Missed diagnosis of mood and anxiety disorders is more likely among black than white schizophrenics</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA21.htm">Managed care cost-containment policies strengthen continuity of primary care for depressed patients</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA22.htm">Researchers weigh benefits and costs of QI programs to enhance treatment of depression in primary care</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA23.htm">Long-term Care</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA23.htm">New studies focus on lower respiratory infection in nursing home residents</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA24.htm">New regulations and industry volatility a decade ago led to high job turnover among nursing home administrators</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA25.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA25.htm">Increasing public assistance for HIV-infected patients could lower hospital costs and increase work productivity</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA26.htm">Case management appears to be associated with fewer unmet needs among people with HIV infection</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA27.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA27.htm">Medicare fee-for-service patients seem to fare better in areas of higher HMO market penetration</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA28.htm">Late middle-aged adults are more likely to decline in overall health when they have no health insurance</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA29.htm">Evidence-based Medicine</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA29.htm">Cognitive behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy show promise for managing chronic fatigue syndrome</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA30.htm">Public Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA30.htm">Three out of ten people misidentify themselves as overweight, underweight, or normal weight</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA31.htm">Placing automated external defibrillators on most U.S. commercial airplanes would be as cost effective as car air bags</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA33.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA33.htm">New resource helps clinicians "Put Prevention Into Practice"</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1201RA34.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="1201RA34.htm">AHRQ to cosponsor the fourth child health services researchers meeting in June 2002</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA35.htm">Plan now to attend the first national conference on medical care for victims of domestic violence</a><br />
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<a href="1201RA36.htm">Next set of MEPS workshops scheduled for spring 2002</a> </p>
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<p><a href="1201RA38.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Current as of December 2001<br />
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AHRQ Publication No. 02-0010</em></p>
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