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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> Strengthening Managed Care</h1>
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<h2>Research in Action</h2> <div class="headnote">
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<p>The face of America's medical systems has changed dramatically in
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the last decade as private
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market forces have transformed how health care is provided and
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purchased. Largely in reaction to
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spiraling costs, managed care is becoming the dominant health
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care delivery system. The number
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of Americans in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) is rising
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fast, from 15 million in 1984
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to more than 50 million today.</p>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p>Managed care—interdependent systems that integrate the financing
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and delivery of health care
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services—differ in how they deliver care, ease of access to
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care, flexibility in physician choice, and
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services covered. Much remains to be learned about the long-term
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effects of managed care on
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access, cost, and quality of care.</p>
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<h2>AHCPR—Catalyst for Change</h2>
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<p>The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) actively
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supports studies of these
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rapid changes and is working with the private sector to reach a
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consensus on how to increase
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quality and accountability in health care.</p>
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<p>By providing information on the effectiveness of alternative
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systems and management practices
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and by spotlighting both successes and problems, AHCPR will help
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improve the health care
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marketplace. AHCPR is the only Federal agency looking at what
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works and what doesn't in the
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real world—and at the quality of care received for the almost $1
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trillion dollars spent on health
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care each year.</p>
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<h2>Key Findings</h2>
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<p>Recent AHCPR-supported research provides important insights:</p>
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<li><strong>HMO doctors spent more time</strong> with their patients in
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one study than fee-for-service
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doctors, and their patients received more preventive care, asked
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more questions, and were
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more involved in treatment planning. Family physicians were
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studied at a large HMO and
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three fee-for-service groups.</li>
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<li><strong>Managed care patients spent 2 fewer days</strong> in an
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intensive care unit (ICU) than patients
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with fee-for-service health insurance, with the average stay for
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managed care patients
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costing $8,000 less. There was no difference in mortality or ICU
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readmission between the
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two groups. Patients were treated in the same teaching hospital
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by the same ICU
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specialists.</li>
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<li><strong>HMO patients were hospitalized 40 percent less</strong> than
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patients with fee-for-service plans
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and treated in solo practices. The study of 20,000 persons
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examined variations in health
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care delivery systems. Patient outcomes findings will be
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published shortly.</li>
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<li><strong>Fewer low birthweight infants and cost savings</strong>
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resulted from a self-help smoking
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cessation program for prenatal care patients of Maxicare Health
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Plans, a large HMO.
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Women in the program were 45 percent less likely to give birth to
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low birthweight infants.
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More than $3 in medical costs were saved for every $1 spent.</li>
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<li><strong>Group practice outpatient clinic patients had shorter
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stays</strong> and incurred lower costs at
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a Cleveland hospital, but received the same quality of care as
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traditional clinic patients at
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the hospital.</li>
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<li><strong>Chronically ill patients</strong> in managed care plans had
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better access to care than patients in
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fee-for-service plans, but their care was not as comprehensive,
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they waited longer for care,
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and physician-patient continuity was less in a study of 1,200
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patients in three cities.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Research Under Way</h2>
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<p>AHCPR is studying issues critical to finding out what works
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best:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Switching Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care</strong> and
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the effect on access to health
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services is being studied in Washington State. The number of
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Medicaid recipients in
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managed care plans doubled in 1994.</li>
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<li><strong>Impact of continuous quality improvement</strong> on delivery
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of preventive services at
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primary care clinics is being investigated at two managed care
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organizations in Minnesota.</li>
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<li><strong>Effect of specialty training on primary care
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practice</strong> is being studied at Kaiser
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Permanente of Northern California. Factors being studied include
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the number of tests
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ordered and other services used, patient outcomes, and
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costs.</li>
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<li><strong>Adequacy of followup of patients</strong> with abnormal
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screening mammograms is being
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studied at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.</li>
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<li><strong>Compliance with guidelines</strong> for pediatric preventive
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care and cancer screening and the
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impact of incentives are being investigated in two studies at a
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Medicaid HMO in
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Philadelphia.</li>
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<li><strong>Methods of pain management of primary care doctors</strong>
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are being studied to determine
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if they are associated with different risks of dysfunctional
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chronic pain among patients
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with back pain and headache at Group Health Cooperative of Puget
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Sound.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>New Rural Research</h2>
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<p>By many measures, rural populations are in poorer health than
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most nonrural groups. In a major
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initiative, AHCPR has awarded five grants to support innovative
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demonstrations of health care
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delivery in five States. Many important innovations—such as
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managed care—are often unavailable
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in rural areas:</p>
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<p>Goals of the initiative include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Promoting establishment of managed care</strong> institutions
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and development of rural health
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networks. These efforts should lay groundwork for planning future
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statewide or regional
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managed care systems to enhance access to rural health
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services.</li>
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<li><strong>Demonstrating how to improve rural care</strong> through
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innovations in the organization,
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financing, and delivery of health care services. In a project
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with a rural hospital alliance,
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participants may use the Oklahoma Telemedicine Network and its
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telemedicine training
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center to improve access to health care services.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Guideline Use</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Implementation of AHCPR guidelines</strong> is being studied
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at HMOs in Oregon and
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Washington State. Studies are assessing the effectiveness of
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working with clinical opinion
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leaders and of continuous quality improvement as interventions
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that may promote
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incorporation of guidelines into daily practice.</li>
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<li><strong>Scripps Clinic, an integrated medical network,</strong> gives
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the Consumer Version of
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AHCPR's acute pain management guideline to elective surgery
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patients. Each year 2,000
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patients are trained to use the guideline's pain intensity scale,
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which helps staff manage
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postsurgical pain effectively.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>New Initiatives</h2>
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<p>Studying health care markets is a major focus of AHCPR
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research:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>A year-long AHCPR nationwide survey will estimate health
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care and out-of-pocket family
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costs for persons with managed care plans. The Third National
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Medical Expenditure
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Survey will also estimate how many people have managed care
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benefits.</li>
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<li>Analyses that examine how changes in market structures have
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affected the way health care
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providers produce and market care and the price, distribution,
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and quality of services
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available will be supported by a new initiative. Collaborative
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research with managed care
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organizations is encouraged.</li>
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<li>Appropriate use of specialists by managed care
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organizations will be the subject of a
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conference now being planned.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><em>Kaiser Permanente (Anaheim) drew directly on an AHCPR
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guideline when revising its pain
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management practices. Referring to surgery patients below age 5
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who benefit from the
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recommended preventive approach of pain management, Kaiser
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anesthesiologist Dr. Nathan
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Mann says, "The children are not crying and screaming in agony
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now."</em></p>
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<p><em>Intermountain Health Care tested the AHCPR pressure ulcer
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prevention guideline in 1 of its
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24 hospitals for 6 months and found it reduced the incidence of
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pressure ulcers significantly,
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saving the system $240,000. The Salt Lake City-based health care
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system is implementing the
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guideline in its 23 other hospitals</em>.</p>
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<p>AHRQ, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is
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the lead agency charged with
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supporting research designed to improve the quality of health
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care, reduce its cost, and broaden
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access to essential services. AHRQ's broad programs of research,
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clinical guideline development,
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and technology assessment bring practical, science-based
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information to medical practitioners and
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to consumers and other health care purchasers.</p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-P045<br />
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Current as of June 1996</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Strengthening Managed Care</em>. Research in Action Fact Sheet. AHCPR Publication No. 96-P045, June 1996. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/managed.htm</p>
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