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<h2>February 2007, No. 318</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="/research/resactabout.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA1.htm">Diagnostic errors that harm outpatients are typically the result of multiple individual and system breakdowns</a></p>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA2.htm">Shifting from a culture of blame to a culture of safety in nursing homes could help identify and prevent medical errors</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA3.htm">Physician, patient, and pharmacy outreach reminders can improve recommended laboratory monitoring for certain medications</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA4.htm">Few patients seek compensation for medical injuries through New Zealand's no-fault medical malpractice system</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA5.htm">Not adjusting for pre-existing health problems may have exaggerated the number of deaths due to medical injury</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA6.htm">A small proportion of patients are prescribed a medication that can interact with the QT-prolonging medication they also take</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA7.htm">Mitral valve repair, when compared with replacement, leads to better quality of life</a></p>
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<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA8.htm">Racial disparities in care vary widely among Medicare health plans and are only weakly correlated with overall quality of care</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA9.htm">Little information exists on the willingness of different racial and ethnic groups to participate in genetic research</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA10.htm">Proportion of black residents, profit status, and community locale influence the type of care provided at U.S. nursing homes</a></p>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA11.htm">Eleven medications account for one-third of medication errors that harm hospitalized children</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA12.htm">Many children do not receive recommended well-child visits during the year, especially disadvantaged children</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA13.htm">Children's deaths after cardiac surgery seem mostly determined by age and the type of cardiac surgery</a></p>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA14.htm">Some pregnant women are still prescribed medications with the potential to harm the fetus</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA15.htm">Japanese and Filipino women are much less likely than white women to undergo breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer</a></p>
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<h3>Health Information Technology</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA16.htm">Computerized and age-specific drug alerts can reduce both inappropriate prescribing of drugs and unnecessary drug alerts</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA17.htm">Standardizing data input for electronic health records may improve their potential to measure care quality</a></p>
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<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA18.htm">Evidence is lacking to support many off-label uses of atypical antipsychotic drugs</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA19.htm">Newer class of antidepressants is similar in effectiveness, but side effects differ</a></p>
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<h3>Primary Care Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA20.htm">Simultaneous control of risk factors for diabetes complications is difficult to achieve</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA21.htm">A protocol for adjusting diabetes medications can improve diabetes management and patient blood-sugar levels</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA22.htm">Primary care patients with pain and psychosocial problems benefit from nurse telephone calls</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA23.htm">Demand for primary care internists has decreased, while demand for hospital-based internists has increased</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA24.htm">Followup care after total hip replacement could be improved</a></p>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA25.htm">Modest levels of cost-sharing for emergency department care decrease emergency department visits without worsening health</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA26.htm">Medications can aid endotracheal intubation of critically ill or injured patients who are not in cardiac arrest</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA27.htm">The likelihood of hemorrhage due to pelvic fracture can be estimated from initial pelvic x-ray, pulse, and hematocrit</a></p>
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<h3>End-of-Life Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA28.htm">Advance care plans of nursing home residents vary by age, race/ethnicity, and income</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA29.htm">Seminars can improve nurses' skills in discussing end-of-life issues with heart failure patients and their families</a></p>
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<h3>Health Care Utilization, Costs, and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA30.htm">Employer-sponsored insurance coverage of smoking cessation treatments could save employers and insurers money</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA31.htm">Growth in local jobs that offer health insurance can move the working poor off the Medicaid program</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA32.htm">Inpatient lumbar surgery rates remained stable from 1994 to 2000, but outpatient surgery increased</a></p>
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<h3>Public Health Preparedness</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA33.htm">Los Angeles County hospitals are limited in disaster preparedness and severely limited in surge capacity</a></p>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA34.htm">AHRQ Report Finds Safety-Net Hospitals Struggling</a></p>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="0207RA35.htm">New members of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are announced</a><br />
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<a href="0207RA37.htm">Research Briefs</a>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 07-0018<br />
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Current as of February 2007</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. February 2007, No. 318. AHRQ Publication No. 07-0018. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/feb07/</p>
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