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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>January 1997, No. 200</h2>
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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="ra1.htm#head2">Beta blockers
substantially improve survival in elderly heart attack patients, but few receive
them</a></p>
<h3>Departments</h3>
<p><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Patient
Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra1.htm#head4">New prediction
method could cut hospital admissions and costs for pneumonia patients</a></p>
<p><a href="ra1.htm#head5">Hospital
Use/Quality of Care</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra1.htm#head6">Areas with
higher hospitalization rates do not necessarily have more inappropriate
hospital admissions</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head7">Severity of illness
measures and length of stay found to be poor indicators of hospital quality of
care</a></p>
<p><a href="ra1.htm#head8">Patient
Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra1.htm#head9">Except for
Medicare enrollees, private insurance does not seriously affect patients
choice of physician type</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head10">Certain findings on
lung x-rays raise the probability of short-term death from pneumonia</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head11">Interactive videos
help heart disease patients choose the treatment that's right for
them</a></p>
<p><a
href="ra2.htm#head1">Elderly/Long-term
Care</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Does publicly
provided home care substitute for family care?</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head3">Having close family
substantially reduces the risk of nursing home admission for the
elderly</a></p>
<p><a href="ra2.htm#head4">Women's and
Family Health</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head5">Rural
physicians use fewer health resources than urban doctors to care for low-risk
obstetric patients</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head6">Delays in beginning
prenatal care are unrelated to the number of available obstetricians</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head7">Poor children are
less likely than other children to receive needed mental health
services</a></p>
<p><a href="ra2.htm#head8">Minority
Health</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head9">Minority women
with abnormal screening mammograms have later followup tests than white
women</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head10">South Central Los
Angeles residents are much less likely to undergo surgery than other county
residents</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head11">Adult-onset diabetes
occurs much more often among minorities than whites</a></p>
<p><a href="ra2.htm#head12">HIV/AIDS Research</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head13">Functional
decline in persons with HIV disease is variable and episodic</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head14">San Francisco's most
successful HIV prevention programs emphasize the messenger more than the
message</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head15">Social, functional,
and clinical factors affect hospitalization of persons with AIDS</a></p>
<p><a href="ra3.htm#head1">AHCPR News and Notes</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Conference on
smoking cessation focuses on implementing AHCPR-sponsored guideline in the
medical community</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head3">Institute of Medicine
calls for fundamental changes in primary health care</a></p>
<p><a
href="ra3.htm#head4">Announcements</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head5">AHCPR releases
first evidence report on colorectal cancer screening</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head6">AHCPR plans
conference for summer '97</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head7">AHCPR funds studies
to examine patient referral patterns and the use of computers in clinical
decisionmaking</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head8">Registration deadline
nears for AAHP managed care conference</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head9">New publications
available from AHCPR and NTIS</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head10">Former Surgeon
General Koop to be honored</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head12">AHCPR announces the
availability of a workbook and audiotapes from the User Liaison Program</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head11">Attention
researchers: Proceedings available</a></p>
<p><a href="ra4.htm#head1">Research
Briefs</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra4.htm#head2">The impact of
financial incentives on physician behavior in managed care plans: A review of
the evidence</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra4.htm#head3">Prediction of the
infarct-related artery in acute myocardial infarction by a scoring system
using summary ST-segment and T-wave changes</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra4.htm#head4">The ambulatory care
medical audit demonstration project</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra4.htm#head5">Predicting the
duration of mechanical ventilation: The importance of disease and patient
characteristics</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra4.htm#head6">Evaluating the use of
the appropriateness method in the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
clinical practice guideline development process</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra4.htm#head7">An empirical Bayes
method for studying variation in knee replacement rates</a> </p>
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