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<h2>February 2008, No. 330</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="0208RA1.htm">Physicians want to learn from medical mistakes but say current error-reporting systems are inadequate</a></p>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA2.htm">Pediatric outpatient medication errors are common and are often due to mistakes made at home</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA3.htm">Age, gender, and location are keys to predicting patient fall injuries in hospitals</a></p>
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<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA4.htm">Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups are less likely to get strong pain medications in hospital emergency departments</a></p>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA5.htm">Children with special health care needs seem to benefit from Medicaid managed care programs with case managers</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA6.htm">Study of young Head Start children links overweight to worsened asthma</a></p>
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<h3>Health Care Workforce</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA7.htm">Competing priorities, burnout, and collegial support all play a role in nursing career decisions</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA8.htm">Studies examine the impact of nurse staffing on complications, mortality, and length of hospital stay</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA9.htm">Staffing levels and turnover are influenced by nursing home expenditure patterns</a></p>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA10.htm">Nurse midwives deliver more babies in hospitals than homes in Washington State</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA11.htm">A combination of maternal, baby, and episiotomy factors contribute to high rates of maternal birth trauma in Iowa</a></p>
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<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA12.htm">Medicare drug plans cover a good selection of drugs for nursing home residents, but plan vigilance should continue</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA13.htm">Financial incentives to physicians and long-term care facilities may foster adoption of computerized drug systems</a></p>
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<h3>Pharmaceutical Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA14.htm">Doctors should remind patients about warfarin compliance, even those who claim to be taking the drug as directed</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA15.htm">Three-tier formularies increase cost sharing for retirees in generous plans, with little effect on continued drug use</a></p>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA16.htm">Observational videos can identify ways to improve emergency endotracheal intubation</a></p>
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<h3>Health Care Costs and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA17.htm">Hospitals serving the uninsured and underserved need help with public reporting and pay-for-performance measures</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA18.htm">Managed care helps the elderly avoid preventable hospitalizations more than traditional Medicare</a></p>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA19.htm">U.S. hospital bill is fast approaching $1 trillion</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA20.htm">2006 HCUP Data Released</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA21.htm">Half of Americans age 50 and older have never had a colonoscopy</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA22.htm">Pulmonary heart disease hospitalizations increase by more than half between 1997 and 2005</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA23.htm">Shingles sends nearly 1 million Americans to the doctor</a></p>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA24.htm">Many osteoporosis medications prevent fractures, but none is proven best</a></p>
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<h3>Research Briefs</h3>
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<p><a href="0208RA25.htm">Research Briefs</a><br />
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<a href="0208RA26.htm">Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 08-0027<br />
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Current as of February 2008</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><strong>Internet Citation:</strong></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. February 2008, No. 330. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0027. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/feb08/</p>
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