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<h2>March 2007, No. 319</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="/research/resactabout.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA1.htm">AHRQ and the Ad Council encourage patients to ask questions and get more involved with their health care</a>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA2.htm">Efforts to improve chronic disease management quality yield better care delivery but not better intermediate outcomes</a><br />
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<a href="307RA3.htm">Reliability model improves hospital safety and eliminates bloodstream infections in the ICU</a><br />
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<a href="307RA4.htm">Studies highlight the interaction between managed care and market forces and their impact on quality of care</a><br />
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<a href="307RA5.htm">Barriers impede efforts to use a region-wide hospital medication error reporting system</a>
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<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA6.htm">Blacks are more distrustful of equity in the organ donor system and favor providing benefits to donor families</a>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA7.htm">Certain types of severe abdominal injury may signal child abuse in young children</a><br />
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<a href="307RA8.htm">Substantially delaying the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine may lead to underimmunization of children</a><br />
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<a href="307RA9.htm">Children are more likely to attend a weight management program if location and time are convenient for parents</a><br />
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<a href="307RA10.htm">Some pediatric offices may not be prepared to handle emergencies such as seizures or severe asthmatic episodes</a><br />
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<a href="307RA11.htm">State Children's Health Insurance Programs have improved access to care for previously uninsured children</a><br />
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<a href="307RA12.htm">Urban influence codes reveal more about children's patterns of health care use and coverage</a>
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<h3>Chronic Disease</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA13.htm">Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus of the brain improves quality of life for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease</a><br />
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<a href="307RA14.htm">One-third of U.S. veterans suffer from arthritis, perhaps due to orthopedic injuries sustained in the military</a><br />
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<a href="307RA15.htm">Specific primary care office systems and quality improvement strategies may substantially affect the cost of diabetes care</a><br />
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<a href="307RA16.htm">Factors such as disease status and sex affect adherence to drug prescribing guidelines for hypertension</a>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA17.htm">Emergency departments with physician residents are less effective in determining which children require hospital admission</a><br />
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<a href="307RA18.htm">A color-coded tape helps EMTs calculate the correct epinephrine dose for children in cardiopulmonary arrest</a><br />
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<a href="307RA19.htm">Study provides national time averages for transporting trauma patients by ambulance and helicopter</a><br />
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<a href="307RA20.htm">Guidelines can help paramedics select which drugs to use to facilitate prehospital endotracheal intubation</a></p>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA21.htm">Intimate partner abuse has no age limit</a></p>
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<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA22.htm">Older adults' psychological and health characteristics influence their use and timing of online health information searches</a><br />
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<a href="307RA23.htm">Use of the pain reliever propoxyphene is associated with a higher risk of hip fracture among the elderly</a><br />
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<a href="307RA24.htm">Reducing turnover of registered nurses and certified nursing assistants will help maintain nursing home staffing levels</a>
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<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA25.htm">Higher-than-recommended doses of antipsychotic medications may not benefit people with schizophrenia and may increase side effects</a><br />
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<a href="307RA26.htm">Use of needle biopsy to diagnose lung nodules does not increase the risk of dying from localized nonsmall cell lung cancer</a>
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<h3>HIV/AIDS Research</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA27.htm">HIV-infected women receive worse quality of care than HIV-infected men</a><br />
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<a href="307RA28.htm">Dysthymia may contribute to the disparity in use of antiretroviral therapy between men and women</a>
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<h3>Health Care Costs, and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA29.htm">The financial burden of health care for people under age 65 increased between 1996 and 2003</a><br />
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<a href="307RA30.htm">Forty percent of families who leave welfare for work have no health insurance 19 months later</a></p>
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<h3>Acute Care/Hospitalization</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA31.htm">Some patients on mechanical ventilation fare worse at low-volume hospitals</a><br />
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<a href="307RA32.htm">Regionalization of high-risk surgeries may not result in loss of patients or revenue from small rural hospitals</a></p>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA33.htm">Grant final reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="307RA34.htm">Task Force recommends against use of aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent colorectal cancer</a><br />
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<a href="307RA36.htm">Research Briefs</a>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 07-0021<br />
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Current as of March 2007</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. March 2007, No. 319. AHRQ Publication No. 07-0021. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/mar07/</p>
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