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<h2>January 1997, No. 200</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2><p><a href="about.htm">About
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<em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3><p><a
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href="ra1.htm#head2">Beta blockers
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substantially improve survival in elderly heart attack patients, but few receive
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them</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Patient
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Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">New prediction
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method could cut hospital admissions and costs for pneumonia patients</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head5">Hospital
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Use/Quality of Care</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head6">Areas with
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higher hospitalization rates do not necessarily have more inappropriate
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hospital admissions</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head7">Severity of illness
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measures and length of stay found to be poor indicators of hospital quality of
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care</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head8">Patient
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Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head9">Except for
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Medicare enrollees, private insurance does not seriously affect patients
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choice of physician type</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head10">Certain findings on
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lung x-rays raise the probability of short-term death from pneumonia</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head11">Interactive videos
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help heart disease patients choose the treatment that's right for
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them</a></p>
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<p><a
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href="ra2.htm#head1">Elderly/Long-term
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Care</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Does publicly
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provided home care substitute for family care?</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head3">Having close family
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substantially reduces the risk of nursing home admission for the
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elderly</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra2.htm#head4">Women's and
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Family Health</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head5">Rural
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physicians use fewer health resources than urban doctors to care for low-risk
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obstetric patients</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head6">Delays in beginning
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prenatal care are unrelated to the number of available obstetricians</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head7">Poor children are
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less likely than other children to receive needed mental health
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services</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra2.htm#head8">Minority
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Health</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head9">Minority women
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with abnormal screening mammograms have later followup tests than white
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women</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head10">South Central Los
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Angeles residents are much less likely to undergo surgery than other county
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residents</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head11">Adult-onset diabetes
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occurs much more often among minorities than whites</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra2.htm#head12">HIV/AIDS Research</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head13">Functional
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decline in persons with HIV disease is variable and episodic</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head14">San Francisco's most
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successful HIV prevention programs emphasize the messenger more than the
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message</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head15">Social, functional,
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and clinical factors affect hospitalization of persons with AIDS</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra3.htm#head1">AHCPR News and Notes</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Conference on
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smoking cessation focuses on implementing AHCPR-sponsored guideline in the
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medical community</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head3">Institute of Medicine
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calls for fundamental changes in primary health care</a></p>
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<p><a
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href="ra3.htm#head4">Announcements</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head5">AHCPR releases
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first evidence report on colorectal cancer screening</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head6">AHCPR plans
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conference for summer '97</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head7">AHCPR funds studies
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to examine patient referral patterns and the use of computers in clinical
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decisionmaking</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head8">Registration deadline
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nears for AAHP managed care conference</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head9">New publications
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available from AHCPR and NTIS</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head10">Former Surgeon
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General Koop to be honored</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head12">AHCPR announces the
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availability of a workbook and audiotapes from the User Liaison Program</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head11">Attention
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researchers: Proceedings available</a></p>
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<p><a href="ra4.htm#head1">Research
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Briefs</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head2">The impact of
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financial incentives on physician behavior in managed care plans: A review of
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the evidence</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head3">Prediction of the
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infarct-related artery in acute myocardial infarction by a scoring system
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using summary ST-segment and T-wave changes</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head4">The ambulatory care
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medical audit demonstration project</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head5">Predicting the
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duration of mechanical ventilation: The importance of disease and patient
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characteristics</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head6">Evaluating the use of
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the appropriateness method in the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
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clinical practice guideline development process</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head7">An empirical Bayes
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method for studying variation in knee replacement rates</a> </p>
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