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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>July 2008, No. 335</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="0708RA1.htm">AHRQ announces guide to help patients on Coumadin®/warfarin therapy</a>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA2.htm">Doctors are willing to report and learn from medical mistakes, but find error-reporting systems inadequate</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA3.htm">Most patients want doctors to disclose severe medical errors</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA4.htm">Counting surgical sponges and instruments can prevent some being left in the patient, but better methods are needed</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA5.htm">Intensive care nurses tend to identify patient safety practices from self-initiated tasks</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA6.htm">Patient complaints about poor coordination of care or other services may help identify patient safety hazards</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA7.htm">Studies examine racial/ethnic disparities and use patterns for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA8.htm">Hospital governing boards are actively engaged in quality oversight, especially those with a board quality committee</a>
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<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA9.htm">Minority status and vulnerable early life experiences prompt physicians' engagement in reducing care disparities</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA10.htm">Elderly Asian Americans in traditional fee-for-service Medicare receive fewer needed services than their white counterparts</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA11.htm">Immigrants are likely to underreport a family history of cancer</a>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA12.htm">Children with asthma and flu are more likely to end up in the hospital</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA13.htm">Strep throat in children carries significant societal costs</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA14.htm">Multiple prescriptions are linked to preventable drug reactions in children</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA15.htm">Zero tolerance of alcohol for drivers under age 21 reduces drinking and driving among college students</a>
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<h3>Access to Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA16.htm">Housing instability and food insecurity among low-income children are linked to diminished access to health care</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA17.htm">Children with private insurance have better access to specialty care than those with public and no insurance</a>
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<h3>Preventive Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA18.htm">Women over 40 responded to changes in mammogram recommendations</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA19.htm">Hundreds of patients would need to undergo spirometry to defer a single acute exacerbation of COPD</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA20.htm">U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that at-risk men and women be screened for certain sexually transmitted infections</a>
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<h3>Chronic Disease</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA21.htm">Urban, low-income adults with high blood pressure are reasonably knowledgeable about their condition</a>
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<h3>Primary Care Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA22.htm">Primary care doctors miss diagnosing two-thirds of people suffering from depression</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA23.htm">Quality of care for patients with coronary heart disease is not strongly influenced by medical practice characteristics</a>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA24.htm">Emergency departments vary in their approach to psychiatric emergencies, underscoring the need for standards</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA25.htm">Hospital and demographic factors influence emergency department triage of patients with mini-strokes</a>
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<h3>HIV/AIDS Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA26.htm">Physician experience may influence outcomes of hospitalized patients with HIV disease more than hospital HIV experience</a>
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<h3>Health Care Costs and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA27.htm">Children often lose Medicaid coverage when their parents do, even though they are still eligible</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA28.htm">As parents gain a job with private health insurance coverage, their children may lose public coverage</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA29.htm">The financial burden of health care felt by low-income families a decade ago may now affect middle-income families</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA30.htm">Public health insurance coverage continues to play an important role for working families with children</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA31.htm">The Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit has modestly boosted drug use and reduced average out-of-pocket expenses</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA32.htm">Emergency department bills exceed payments over 9-year period</a>
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<h3>Acute Care/Hospitalization</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA33.htm">Patient safety problems are relatively infrequent among hospitalized children</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA34.htm">State policies can influence the safety of hospitalized children via Medicaid payments</a>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA35.htm">Book chapter provides strategies and tips for addressing health literacy</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA36.htm">Asian-Pacific Islanders are more likely to die from serious, but treatable, hospital complications</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA37.htm">Hospital emergency departments treat mostly poor children</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA38.htm">Hospitalizations for ischemic stroke drop by one-third</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA39.htm">Most American adults have at least one chronic medical condition</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA40.htm">One in four disabled seniors use risky or ineffective medicines</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA41.htm">Only about 1 in 10 adult Americans have all the skills needed to manage their health</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA42.htm">AHRQ report indicates that gene-based tests need better monitoring</a>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA43.htm">New toolkit can help improve care for patients with chronic care conditions</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA44.htm">HCUP 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is now available</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA45.htm">AHRQ's HCUP 2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) now available</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA46.htm">New evidence provides clinicians with better tools to help smokers quit</a>
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<h3>Research Briefs</h3>
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<p><a href="0708RA47.htm">Research Briefs</a><br />
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<a href="0708RA48.htm">Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site</a>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 08-0061<br />
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Current as of July 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. July 2008, No. 335. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0061. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/jul08/</p>
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