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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>June 1997, No. 205</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">Health insurance plans vary dramatically in their coverage of new technologies</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Family Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">Broad exposure
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to other children and being poor are linked to increased risk for childhood
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middle-ear effusion</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head5">Asthma occurs most
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often among young black males who are more likely to seek care at the hospital
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than a doctor's office</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head6">Health Care Delivery</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head7">Various
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strategies would reduce but not eliminate risk of catastrophic nursing home
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costs</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head8">Stroke prevention
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screening for the general population would not be cost effective</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head9">Excess health care
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system capacity, as well as physician behavior, may be responsible for
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inappropriate practice variations</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Research on Heart Disease</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Likelihood of
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heart attack in symptomatic patients who visit the ER is twice as great for
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men as for women</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head3">Heart attack studies
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document patients' reluctance to go to the hospital and undertreatment of some
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severely ill patients</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head4">Non-insulin-dependent
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diabetics frequently have heart disease, but high blood sugar is not the
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culprit</a></p>
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<p><strong><a
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href="ra2.htm#head5">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head6">Researchers
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continue to question value of annual prostate cancer screening for men over
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50</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head7">Health Care Marketplace</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head8">Hospital
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mergers are driven primarily by local merger opportunities</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head9">Dental Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head10">Higher dental
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prices often denote higher quality of care</a><br /><a
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href="ra2.htm#head11">Consistency of
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dentists' treatment recommendations for restoring teeth is questioned</a><br /> <a href="ra2.htm#head12">Use of
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dental services by the elderly grows, especially among city-dwelling blacks
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covered by Medicare</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Mental Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Depression and
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coexisting illnesses should be treated together to reduce costs and improve
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outcomes</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head3">Primary care
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physicians are more likely to recognize depression in women and more educated
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patients</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head4">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head5">Primary care
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physicians fail to identify half of patients at risk for HIV
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infection</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head6">Many health care
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providers do not test TB patients for HIV infection as
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recommended</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head7">Special Populations</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head8">Homeless
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individuals living in congested urban areas are at high risk for TB
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infection</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head9">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head10">From the
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Administrator</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head11">AHCPR to collaborate
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with AMA and AAHP to develop a national guideline clearinghouse</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head12">AHCPR updates
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CONQUEST database</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head1">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head2">AHCPR urges
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investigators to include children in their research and announces special
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emphases for small project grants</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head3">AHCPR announces new
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funding opportunities</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head4">AHCPR funds new
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grants</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head8">Final reports now
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available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra5.htm#head1">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra5.htm#head2">Artificial
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neural networks improve the accuracy of cancer survival prediction</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head3">Accuracy of homeless
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adults' self-reports</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head4">Predicting
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<em>Clostridium difficile</em> stool cytotoxin results in hospitalized
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patients with diarrhea</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head5">What makes patients
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think that their pharmacists' services are of value</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head6">Race and residence
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variation in living arrangements among unmarried older adults</a><br /> <a
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href="ra5.htm#head7">A longitudinal
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examination of functional recovery among older people with subcapital hip
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fractures</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0055<br />
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Current as of June 1997</em> </p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. June 1997, No. 205. AHCPR Publication No. 97-0055. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/jun97/</p>
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