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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>June 1999, No. 227</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#head1">Access to life-sustaining anti-HIV drugs is slowly improving for poor and uninsured patients</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head1">Choice of hospital, not just insurance status, determines care received by people with HIV</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm">Health Care Quality</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head1">Reliability of current physician report cards questioned</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head2">Hospitals share quality of care report cards with administrators and key staff but doubt their value</a><br />
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<a href="ra5.htm#head3">State-required hospital forms do not accurately document eligibility and consent for organ donation</a><br />
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<a href="ra6.htm#head4">AHCPR's CAHPS® project is developing surveys designed to help consumers choose the right health plan</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra7.htm">Long-term Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra7.htm#head1">Quality of care is most important nursing home measure</a><br />
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<a href="ra8.htm#head2">Residents of nursing homes with special care units and more physicians are less likely to be hospitalized</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra9.htm">Primary Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra9.htm#head1">Primary care physician referral rates are a physician-driven behavior</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra10.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra10.htm#head1">Researchers compare outcomes for pneumonia patients who receive outpatient treatment with those who are hospitalized</a><br />
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<a href="ra11.htm#head2">More long-term research is needed on cryosurgery as a second-line therapy for prostate cancer</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra12.htm">Health Care Use and Delivery</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra12.htm#head1">Use of hormone replacement therapy may be more strongly linked to sociodemographic than clinical factors</a><br />
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<a href="ra13.htm#head2">Self-reported health status is a strong predictor of health care utilization</a><br />
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<a href="ra14.htm#head3">Concerns about mental and social well-being may strongly influence patients' treatment decisions</a><br />
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<a href="ra15.htm#head4">Adolescents accurately characterize the preventive care they receive</a><br />
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<a href="ra16.htm#head5">Early DNR orders do not seem to affect medical resource use</a><br />
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<a href="ra17.htm#head6">Skepticism about the value of conventional medical care may be a risk factor for early death</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra18.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra18.htm#head1">Annual health care costs associated with sinusitis and conjunctivitis are enormous</a><br />
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<a href="ra19.htm#head1">Investor-owned and tax-exempt hospitals differ in their approach to diversification of services</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra20.htm">Managed Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra20.htm#head1">Managed care has spread from the United States to Latin America with an uncertain effect on quality and access to care</a><br />
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<a href="ra21.htm#head1">Doctors who feel pressured by insurers to reduce services are more apt to be dissatisfied with medical practice</a><br />
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<a href="ra22.htm#head1">Researchers examine impact of managed care on hospital-physician relationships and types of services offered</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra23.htm">Rural Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra23.htm#head1">Joining a hospital network may improve the fiscal viability of rural hospitals</a><br />
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<a href="ra24.htm#head1">Conference attendees outline research agenda for community and migrant health centers</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra25.htm">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra25.htm#head1">AHCPR to fund centers of excellence for research on health care markets and managed care</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra26.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra26.htm#head1">AHCPR unveils its updated health care quality improvement database</a><br />
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<a href="ra27.htm#head2">AHCPR expands public access to two hospital databases</a><br />
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<a href="ra28.htm#head3">New online service offers quick answers to questions about hospital care</a><br />
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<a href="ra29.htm#head4">New MEPS chartbook of nursing home data is now available from AHCPR</a><br />
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<a href="ra30.htm#head5">AHCPR funds new study on treating depression in teenagers</a><br />
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<a href="ra31.htm#head6">AHCPR announces MEPS workshops</a><br />
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<a href="ra32.htm#head7">Connecting Ethics and Health Policy, Pooks Hill Marriott, Bethesda, MD, October 1, 1999</a><br />
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<a href="ra33.htm#head8">New projects funded</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra34.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra34.htm#head1">Assessing the generalizability of prognostic information</a><br />
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<a href="ra34.htm#head2">Distributed decision support using a Web-based interface: Prevention of sudden cardiac death</a><br />
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<a href="ra34.htm#head3">Conditional length of stay</a><br />
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<a href="ra34.htm#head4">Methods for combining rates from several studies</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 99-0038<br />
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Current as of June 1999</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. June 1999, No. 227. AHCPR Publication No. 99-0038. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/jun99/</p>
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