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<h2>December 1997, No. 211</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
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Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head2">Availability of free vaccine and other factors affect likelihood of timely childhood immunizations</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Primary Care/Managed Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">Routine use of antibiotics may not be the best way to manage
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children's middle ear infections</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head5">NSAIDs greatly increase risk of GI bleeding in patients with
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dyspepsia</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head6">Practice-based research project documents effects of low education on
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women's mammography decisions</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head7">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head8">Managing infants at risk for group B streptococcal disease, although
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costly, is cost effective</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head9">ACE inhibitors are more effective than other blood pressure medicines
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at slowing kidney disease</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head10">Debate continues over appropriate treatment of BPH and localized
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prostate cancer</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head11">Elderly patients are unwilling to pay more to shorten waiting time for
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cataract surgery</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Health Care Quality</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">AHCPR-supported studies suggest quality improvements</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head3">Drug errors occur twice as often in ICUs as in other hospital units,
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mostly because more drugs are prescribed there</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head4">Health Care for the Elderly</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head5">Family help and living arrangements, more than income and public
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programs, keep elderly disabled people in the community</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head6">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head7">From the Administrator</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head8">AHCPR merges two components and creates a new Center to improve
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efficiency</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head9">New members appointed to AHCPR's National Advisory
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Council</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">AHCPR requests topic nominations for evidence reports and
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technology assessments</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head3">AHCPR and HMO Research Network seek applicants for senior
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managed care scholar position</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head4">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head5">The case for national health data standards</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head6">An evaluation of alternative PC-based software packages developed
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for the analysis of complex survey data</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head7">Determinants of regular source of care among homeless adults in Los
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Angeles</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head8">Measurement of the validity of utility elicitation performed by
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computerized interview</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head9">Assessing the effectiveness of health interventions for
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cost-effectiveness analysis</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head10">The role of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in
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improving outcomes of care</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head11">A randomized trial of "corollary orders" to prevent errors of
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omission</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head12">Classifying rehabilitation inpatients by expected functional
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gain</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head13">Prior antimicrobials and staphylococcal bacteremia in HIV-infected
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patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head14">Demographics, health behaviors, and past drug use as predictors of
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recall accuracy for previous prescription medication use</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 98-0011<br />
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Current as of December 1997</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. December 1997, No. 211. AHCPR Publication No. 98-0011. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/dec97/</p>
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