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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<p>This information is for reference purposes only. It was current when produced and may now be outdated. Archive material is no longer maintained, and some links may not work. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing this information should contact us at: <a href="https://info.ahrq.gov/">https://info.ahrq.gov</a>. Let us know the nature of the problem, the Web address of what you want, and your contact information. </p>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Story</h3>
<p><a href="0100RA1.htm">Patients prefer to receive care from doctors who see people from several health plans</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA2.htm">Heart Disease</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA2.htm">Elderly heart attack patients who have multiple health problems may not receive prompt clot-busting treatment</a><br />
<a href="0100RA3.htm">Outcomes have improved significantly for patients undergoing coronary angioplasty</a><br />
<a href="0100RA4.htm">Home-based monitoring program reduces hospitalizations and costs for elderly patients with heart failure</a><br />
<a href="0100RA5.htm">Nonclinical factors affect length of hospital stay after coronary artery bypass surgery</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA6.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA6.htm">Therapy can be intensified for the majority of patients with inadequate glycemic control</a><br />
<a href="0100RA7.htm">Doctors and patients need to ask each other more questions about medications</a><br />
<a href="0100RA8.htm">Patients and doctors need to weigh the risks and benefits of simultaneous versus staged bilateral knee replacement</a><br />
<a href="0100RA9.htm">Back pain study examines pain intensity and functioning</a><br />
<a href="0100RA10.htm">Risk-aversion may lead internists to spend more than family physicians to confirm medical diagnoses</a><br />
<a href="0100RA11.htm">Side effects and effectiveness determine whether healthy adults will get a flu shot</a><br />
<a href="0100RA12.htm">Chlamydia screening of young women has health benefits and is cost effective</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA13.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA13.htm">Two AHRQ-sponsored datasets&#8212;MEPS and HCUP&#8212;provide national data on children's health topics</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA14.htm">Primary Care</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA14.htm">Helping patients recover from depression should be a high priority in primary care practices</a><br />
<a href="0100RA15.htm">Primary care physicians should counsel parents of young children about drowning prevention</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA16.htm">Health Care Quality</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA16.htm">Nursing homes vary widely in meeting Federal quality-of-care standards</a><br />
<a href="0100RA17.htm">Substantial variations found in spending by U.S. hospitals on quality improvement activities</a><br />
<a href="0100RA18.htm">Informed consumers can play a vital role in improving health care quality</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA19.htm">Managed Care</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA19.htm">Access to second medical opinions is determined in part by sociocultural factors and type of insurance</a><br />
<a href="0100RA20.htm">Income for most physicians has declined substantially since the advent of HMOs</a><br />
<a href="0100RA21.htm">Strategic hospital alliances have yet to add financial value to individual member hospitals</a><br />
<a href="0100RA22.htm">Nation's move toward managed care challenges academic health centers to sustain research and training</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA23.htm">Medical Informatics</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA23.htm">Conference focuses on transforming health care through informatics</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA24.htm">AHRQ News and Notes</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA24.htm">AHRQ names Helen Burstin director of primary care research</a><br />
<a href="0100RA25.htm">AHRQ releases reports on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder</a><br />
<a href="0100RA26.htm">Highlights from AHRQ's Health Care Research Scholars Program</a></p>
<h3><a href="0100RA28.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
<p><a href="0100RA28.htm">AHRQ seeks proposals in response to three new RFAs</a><br />
<a href="0100RA29.htm">AHRQ announces new resource on prenatal care effectiveness</a><br />
<a href="0100RA30.htm">New MEPS products now available</a><br />
<a href="0100RA31.htm">AHRQ funds new projects</a></p>
<p><a href="0100RA32.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>Current as of January 2000<br />
AHRQ Publication No. 00-0012</em></p>
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