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<h2>March 2000, No. 235</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="0300RA1.htm">System errors, not patient factors, are responsible for most hospital medication errors</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA2.htm">Smoking Cessation</a></h3>
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<p><a href="0300RA2.htm">Health and economic benefits are substantial when pregnant women stop smoking</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA3.htm">Heart Disease/Stroke</a></h3>
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<p><a href="0300RA3.htm">Lipid-lowering drugs are underused in patients hospitalized with recurrent heart attacks</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA4.htm">Specialists and generalists working together provide the best care for heart disease patients</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA5.htm">Men are four times more likely than women to suffer a stroke due to large-vessel atherosclerosis</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA6.htm">Evidence shows that warfarin is the drug of choice to prevent stroke in certain patients with atrial fibrillation</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA7.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA7.htm">Physicians in HMOs should more aggressively manage hypertension</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA8.htm">Bilingual asthma scale can help clinicians assess symptoms in Latino children</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA9.htm">Routine medical testing before cataract surgery usually is not necessary</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA10.htm">Less than 10 percent of medical decisions are made with participation of a fully informed patient</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA11.htm">Primary Care</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA11.htm">Race and ethnicity play an important role in patient satisfaction with primary care physicians</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA12.htm">Having an ongoing relationship with a doctor greatly reduces ER visits by elderly patients</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA13.htm">Doctors' psychological traits have little if any bearing on their referral decisions</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA14.htm">Primary care providers often fail to cover the most significant injury prevention issues during well-child visits</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA15.htm">Quality of Care</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA15.htm">Patient satisfaction with hospital care depends in part on the degree of symptom improvement during the stay</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA16.htm">Elderly patients' satisfaction with doctor visits does not necessarily indicate quality of care</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA17.htm">Patients base their satisfaction with pharmacy care on their social interaction with the pharmacist, not technical quality</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA18.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<p><a href="0300RA18.htm">Cost does not appear to be the main factor in insurers' drug coverage decisions</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA19.htm">Worker preference may contribute to poorer health insurance coverage by small firms</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA20.htm">Significant State-to-State differences found in health insurance offer rates, choice of plans, and premiums</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA21.htm">Medicaid programs provide a safety net for the uninsured, but they also crowd out private insurance</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA22.htm">Managed Care</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA22.htm">Financial incentives based on patient insurance may have unintended consequences</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA23.htm">Local leaders and circumstances determine how the arrival of managed care will be received in rural communities</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA24.htm">Health Care Delivery/Access</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA24.htm">Mandating longer hospital stays for newborns may not be the best way to prevent readmissions for jaundice</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA25.htm">Barriers to quality cancer care persist</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA26.htm">Providing a written appointment for followup care improves visit compliance among patients after hospital discharge</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA27.htm">Case managers help people with HIV obtain home health care, emotional counseling, and other support services</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA28.htm">Nursing Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA28.htm">Researchers are studying the relationship between nurse staffing levels and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA29.htm">AHRQ News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA29.htm">National Guideline Clearinghouse™ more than triples in size</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA30.htm">AHRQ releases Nation's most current hospital discharge data</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0300RA31.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="0300RA31.htm">AHRQ announces new grant opportunities in health services research education</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA32.htm">AHRQ to cosponsor second annual meeting for child health services researchers</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA33.htm">Correction</a><br />
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<a href="0300RA34.htm">Announcing a New, Enhanced HCUPnet</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Current as of March 2000<br />
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AHRQ Publication No. 00-0025</em></p>
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