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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>December 2008, No. 340</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="/research/resactabout.htm">About <em>
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Research Activities</em>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA1.htm">More than 2 million children with insured parents are uninsured</a>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA2.htm">Few medical trainees are trained to disclose errors to patients by the time they assume some patient care</a>
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<a href="1208RA3.htm">Identifying drug orders stopped within 45 minutes of prescribing can help detect medication errors</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA4.htm">Fall prevention program yields benefits at first then wanes</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA5.htm">Analysis of care quality is nearly universal among HMO health plans</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA6.htm">A multifaceted quality improvement program can have a robust impact on the quality of primary care</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA7.htm">AHRQ sponsors first theme issue of <em>Health Services Research</em> with focus on improving efficiency and value in health care</a>
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<h3>Health Information Technology</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA8.htm">Children get less safety benefit than adults from hospital computer order entry systems</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA9.htm">Hospital processes are the usual causes for workarounds to medication barcode scanning systems</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA10.htm">Electronic tools could substantially reduce medication errors in primary care</a>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA11.htm">Physical demands of a pregnant woman's job affect the baby's birth date and weight</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA12.htm">Depression symptoms are similar in pregnant and nonpregnant women</a>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA13.htm">Changing criteria in a definition of high-risk asthma may help pinpoint those who will need the most care</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA14.htm">Time from sedation to discharge in a pediatric endoscopy unit is similar for drugs administered by an anesthesiologist or an endoscopist</a>
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<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA15.htm">Study examines the impact of Medicare Part D on drug adherence among the elderly</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA16.htm">Medicare patients with cancer don't switch from managed care to fee-for-service</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA17.htm">A nursing home's strategic orientation influences how it reacts to publication of its care quality scores</a>
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<h3>Chronic Disease</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA18.htm">Lack of accessibility and affordability are linked to underdiagnosis of chronic disease in blacks and Hispanics</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA19.htm">People with diabetes and depression are less likely to self-manage their diabetes</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA20.htm">People with arthritis and lupus have less functionality after strokes than others without those conditions</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA21.htm">Hypertension questionnaire exposes knowledge gaps in New Orleans</a>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA22.htm">One in five patients with asthma receives unnecessary antibiotics at emergency department visits</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA23.htm">Injuries account for a nearly one-third of pediatric emergency department visits</a>
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<h3>Pharmaceutical Research</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA24.htm">Patients prescribed antidepressants from psychiatrists are more likely to receive and continue higher doses</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA25.htm">American College of Rheumatology issues recommendations on prescribing drugs for rheumatoid arthritis</a>
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<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA26.htm">Study validates American Joint Committee on Cancer's survival rates for stage IV melanoma</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA27.htm">Families of liver transplant recipients age 5 and older have higher stress levels than either families of younger liver transplant recipients or a control group</a>
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<h3>Acute Care/Hospitalization</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA28.htm">Study finds that specialty cardiac hospitals are similar to general hospitals in providing high-quality care for certain heart patients</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA29.htm">Few gene variants associated with acute coronary syndrome are tied to increased deaths among such patients</a>
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<h3>Health Care Costs and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA30.htm">Combination antihypertensive drugs raise out-of-pocket costs for patients</a>
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<h3>Emergency Preparedness</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA31.htm">Studies evaluate hospital disaster drill tools</a>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA32.htm">One in 10 adults are being treated for arthritis</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA33.htm">One in five hospital admissions are for patients with mental disorders</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA34.htm">Lung cancer rates are dropping but hospitalization rates remain constant</a>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA35.htm">New inventory of HHS quality measures seeks to improve public- and private-sector performance measurement efforts</a>
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<h3>Research Briefs</h3>
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<p><a href="1208RA36.htm">Research Briefs</a><br />
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<a href="1208RA37.htm">Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site</a>
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AHRQ Publication No. 09-RA003<br />
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Current as of December 2008</em>
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<p class="size2"><strong>Internet Citation:</strong></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. December 2008, No. 340. AHRQ Publication No. 09-RA003. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/dec08/</p>
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