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<p><strong>You Are Here:</strong> <span class="crumb_link"><a href="/" class="crumb_link">AHRQ Archive Home</a> > <a href="/research/resarch.htm" class="crumb_link"><em>Research Activities</em> Archive</a> > July 1998
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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>July 1998, No. 217</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head2">More than 10 percent of America's near-elderly population lacks public or private health insurance</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Elderly Health/Long-term Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">Studies examine health care needs and access to care for people age 80 and older</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head5">New MEPS data show changing nursing home market</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head6">Use of advance care plans increases among nursing home residents</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head7">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head8">AHCPR-funded study shows how doctors can safely discharge hospitalized pneumonia patients sooner</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head9">Quinolone antibiotics reduce infections in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head10">NSAIDs and muscle relaxants are often used to treat back pain in primary care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head11">Primary Care Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head12">Primary care physicians may miss important patient information during initial visits with patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head13">Today's primary care doctors offer more time and counseling to children but also prescribe more medications</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head14">Health Insurance</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head15">Managed care organizations use several techniques to discourage referral to specialists</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head16">Insurers often do not cover physician-recommended growth hormone therapy for short-stature children</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head17">Quality of Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head18">Pennsylvania's pioneering effort to document quality of care for heart attack patients shows promise</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head19">Legal/Ethical Issues in Medicine</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head20">Physicians' fear of malpractice suits may contribute to frequent use of PSA screening for prostate cancer</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head21">Genetic testing for cancer susceptibility raises ethical and psychosocial dilemmas</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head22">Study examines physicians' prescribing behavior</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Emergency Medicine</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Alternative to traditional CPR training is simple, quick, inexpensive, and more effective</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head3">Research agenda described for emergency care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head4">Minority Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head5">Missed appointments are linked to shorter breast cancer survival among black women</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head6">Latinos could benefit from culturally appropriate smoking cessation programs</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head7">Like others with type 2 diabetes, Mexican Americans make personal adjustments to their treatment regimen</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head8">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head9">Survey shows that public health insurance programs cover more than half of all people diagnosed with AIDS</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head10">HIV-infected patients would benefit from more aggressive screening and treatment of AIDS-related symptoms</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head11">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head12">AHCPR teams with the AAHP Foundation and HRSA to improve care for people with chronic illnesses</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head13">Gregg Meyer, M.D., to head AHCPR's Center for Quality Measurement and Improvement</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head14">AHCPR announces two clinical prevention centers</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head15">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head16">AHCPR grantees honored</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head17">Final reports now available from NTIS</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head18">New publications catalog now available</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head19">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head20">Evaluation of a "lexically assign, logically refine" strategy for semi-automated integration of overlapping terminologies</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head21">The importance of radiating leg pain in assessing health outcomes among patients with low back pain</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head22">Diagnostic coding and medical rehabilitation length of stay</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head23">Distinction between symptoms of voiding and filling in benign prostatic hyperplasia: Findings from the health professionals follow-up study</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 98-0045<br />
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Current as of July 1998</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. July 1998, No. 217. AHCPR Publication No. 98-0045. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/jul98/</p>
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