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<h2>January/February 1996 </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="feature.htm">Regionalizing cardiac
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surgery facilities contributes to improved outcomes and lower costs</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
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<a
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href="dept1.htm#head1">Opthalmologists
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vary widely in their approach to cataract surgery</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Patient
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Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept2.htm#head1">Lifestyle
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changes no more effective than placebo in reducing mild hypertension</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head2">Age and other
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nonclinical factors affect prostate cancer treatment decisions</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept2.htm#head3">ER physicians'
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attitudes toward risk affect triage decisions</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head4">Disparities found
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among patient groups in use of do-not-resuscitate orders</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">Health Care Costs and
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Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept3.htm#head1">Up to 23
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percent of elderly Americans could be rejected for private long-term care
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insurance at age 65</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head2">Preconception care
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of diabetic women results in cost savings</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head3">Researchers examine
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the costs of primary coronary angioplasty</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head4">Hospital-based
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managed care plans reduce costs and shorten stays for c-section
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patients</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head5">Medicare patients
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enrolled in HMOs receive fewer home health care visits than those in
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fee-for-service plans</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Health Care
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Utilization</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept4.htm#head1">Blacks
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hospitalized for congestive heart failure more often than whites</a><br />
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<a
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href="dept4.htm#head2">FDA guidelines
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reduce unnecessary dental x-rays</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">Family Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept5.htm#head1">Outreach
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efforts produce only minimal increases in preventive health screenings among
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poor children</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">HIV/AIDS
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Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept6.htm#head1">Primary care
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physicians often fail to recognize important signs of HIV infection</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#head2">Even when health
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status is very poor, most AIDS patients want to be revived if their hearts
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stop</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#head3">Hospitalization
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costs rise sharply for AIDS patients in the months prior to
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death</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">Clinical
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Computing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept7.htm#head1">Proceedings
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of SCAMSI conference published as journal supplement</a></p>
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<h3>Regular Features</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept8.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept8.htm#head1">AHCPR's World
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Wide Web site goes live</a><br /> <a
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href="dept8.htm#head2">AHCPR and HRSA
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announce new projects in pediatric emergency medicine</a><br /> <a
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href="dept8.htm#head3">AHCPR funds major
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study of outpatient treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease</a><br /> <a
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href="dept8.htm#head4">Guide helps
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consumers make decisions about elective surgery</a><br /> <a
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href="dept8.htm#head5">New publications
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available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept9.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept9.htm#head1">Ethical and
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scientific features of cutoff-based designs of clinical trials</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head2">Resources for
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assessing innovations in mechanical ventilatory support</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head3">Computer-based
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patient records</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head4">Medical sociology
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and health policy: Where are the connections?</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head5">Relationship
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between procedures and health insurance for critically ill patients with
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<em>Pneumocystis carinii</em> pneumonia</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head6">Validation of a new
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measure of diarrhea</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head7">Gainers and losers
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under a tax-based health care reform plan</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head8">Comparison of the
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sensitivity and specificity of exercise electrocardiography in unbiased
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populations of men and women</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head9">A review of six
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computerized dental reference resources: Part 1</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head10">An integer
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programming model to limit hospital selection in studies with repeated
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sampling</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head11">Ethical
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considerations in oncology</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head12">Economic
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evaluation of a randomized clinical trial comparing vinorelbine, vinorelbine
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plus cisplatin, and vindesine plus cisplatin for non-small-cell lung
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cancer</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head13">Employment-based
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health insurance: Implications of the sampling unit for policy
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analysis</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0041<br />
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Current as of March 1996</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. January/February 1996, No. 190.
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Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD.
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https://www.ahrq.gov/research/jan96/</p>
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