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<p>This information is for reference purposes only. It was current when produced and may now be outdated. Archive material is no longer maintained, and some links may not work. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing this information should contact us at: <a href="https://info.ahrq.gov/">https://info.ahrq.gov</a>. Let us know the nature of the problem, the Web address of what you want, and your contact information. </p>
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<h2>June 2007, No. 322</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="/research/resactabout.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Story</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA1.htm">AHRQ publishes landmark Federal handbook on the use of patient registries</a></p>
<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA2.htm">Reduced payments to hospitals may jeopardize patient safety</a><br />
<a href="0607RA3.htm">Medication errors are common among patients in psychiatric hospitals</a></p>
<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA4.htm">Information about health plans should be tailored to meet the diverse needs of people with disabilities</a> </p>
<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA5.htm">Parents prefer as much information as possible about the prognosis of their child's cancer</a><br />
<a href="0607RA6.htm">The State Children's Health Insurance Program can improve care access, use, and quality for children with special health care needs and adolescents</a><br />
<a href="0607RA7.htm">A managed care model and care coordination can reduce emergency department use among children with special health care needs</a><br />
<a href="0607RA8.htm">Incentives combined with peer counseling are a cost-effective way to get adolescents to adhere to a tuberculosis control program</a></p>
<h3>Women's Health</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA9.htm">Women's greater risk of dying after coronary artery bypass graft surgery may be due to transfusion-related immunosuppression</a></p>
<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA10.htm">A fall management program in nursing homes improves care and reduces use of physical restraints</a></p>
<h3>Chronic Disease</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA11.htm">Better outpatient care processes can improve the quality of life for patients with chronic disease</a></p>
<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA12.htm">Prophylactic antibiotics given to prevent surgical site infections are more timely if given in the operating room</a><br />
<a href="0607RA13.htm">Patients find it difficult to adhere to warfarin therapy even when monitored at anticoagulation clinics</a></p>
<h3>Access to Care</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA14.htm">Multidisciplinary programs increase patient access to comprehensive melanoma care</a><br />
<a href="0607RA15.htm">Certain medical education programs may reinforce physicians' goals to practice in disadvantaged communities</a></p>
<h3>Acute Care/Hospitalization</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA16.htm">Risk factors can help predict which patients with hospital-acquired urinary tract infections will develop blood infections</a></p>
<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA17.htm">AHRQ's annual <em>State Snapshots</em> highlight States' gains and lags in health care quality</a><br />
<a href="0607RA18.htm">New Web tool provides samples of report cards on health care quality</a><br />
<a href="0607RA19.htm">New resource offers suggestions for improving the safety in health care environments</a><br />
<a href="0607RA20.htm">Rate of childbirth-related hospital stays decreases for girls under age 18</a></p>
<h3>Announcements</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA21.htm">Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 2007 Annual Meeting</a><br />
<a href="0607RA22.htm">AHRQ awards grants for health services research dissertation (R36)</a></p>
<h3>Research Briefs</h3>
<p><a href="0607RA23.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 07-0042<br />
Current as of June 2007</em></p>
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