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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<p>Please go to <a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/">www.ahrq.gov</a> for current information.</p></div> <h2>March 1996</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
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Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Stories</h3>
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<p> <a href="feature.htm#s1">Incontinent
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elderly persons more likely to enter nursing homes if they live in rural
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areas</a><br />
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<a href="feature.htm#s2">At
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least 15 percent of nursing home residents could be placed in lower levels of
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care</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Patient Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept1.htm#s1">Combined
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anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy reduces risk of stroke after mechanical
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heart-valve replacement</a><br /> <a
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href="dept1.htm#s2">Experts examine the
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relationship between early newborn discharge and neonatal jaundice</a><br /> <a
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href="dept1.htm#s3">Less than half of
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primary care physicians correctly diagnose alcohol abuse</a><br /> <a
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href="dept1.htm#s4">Inappropriate
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monitoring of antiepileptic drug levels may result in higher hospital
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charges</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept2.htm#s1">Most outcomes of
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type-II diabetic and hypertensive patients are unrelated to system of care or
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physician specialty</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#s2">Heart disease patients
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in America achieve better functioning than their Canadian
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counterparts</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#s3">Recent findings from
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the low birthweight PORT</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#s4">Prostate PORT examines
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costs and effectiveness of prostate cancer screening among elderly
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men</a><br /> <a href="dept2.htm#s5">Clinical
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characteristics combined with a patient's report of visual functioning predict
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degree of improvement following cataract surgery</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#s6">Cataract PORT
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publishes recent findings</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept3.htm#s1">Use of medicines
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other than ZDV to treat HIV infection has increased greatly over the past 5
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years</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#s2">Disadvantaged groups
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lag behind other patients in receipt of new HIV treatments</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#s3">Voluntary HIV
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screening found to be cost-effective at some hospitals</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#s4">Rural AIDS cases have
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risen dramatically among some groups</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Health Care Costs and
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Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept4.htm#s1">Both uninsured
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and privately insured patients report fewer illness episodes than Medicare and
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Medicaid patients</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#s2">Medicare's PPS does
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not reduce overall clinical services for depressed elderly persons</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#s3">Self-insurance of
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employee health benefits gains in popularity among certain types of
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employees</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">Health Care
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Delivery</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept5.htm#s1">Changing the
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nature of a successful pilot program can limit its effectiveness as a
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large-scale service program</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#s2">Most who use the ER
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for nonurgent care are neither poor nor uninsured</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#s3">History of malpractice
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claims exposure not linked with the practice of defensive medicine among OBs
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or family physicians</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#s4">Physician education
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program improves preventive medicine services for inner city
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residents</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept6.htm#s1">AHCPR announces
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new funding opportunities</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#s2">Agency launches new
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Center for Organization and Delivery Studies</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#s3">A new AHCPR initiative
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will assist consumers in choosing health plans</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#s4">New publications
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available from AHCPR</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">Research
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Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept7.htm#s1">Applications of
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the behavioral model to health studies of Asian and Pacific Islander
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Americans</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s2">Benign prostatic
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hyperplasia-specific health status measures in clinical research</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s3">Knowledge, attitudes,
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and practices of physicians regarding urinary incontinence in persons
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aged >65 years—Massachusetts and Oklahoma, 1993</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s4">Does the cycle of
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rerestoration lead to larger restorations?</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s5">Making decisions about
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antithrombotic therapy in heart disease</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s6">Hepatomegaly and
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steatosis in HIV-infective patients receiving nucleoside analog antiretroviral
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therapy</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s7">Comparison and
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meta-analysis of randomized trials of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid
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artery stenosis</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s8">Predicting who dies
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depends on how severity is measured: Implications for evaluating patient
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outcomes</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s9">Early biopsy versus
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empiric treatment with delayed biopsy of non-responders in suspected
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HIV-associated cerebral toxoplasmosis: A decision analysis</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s10">Variation and quality
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of self-report health data: Asians and Pacific Islanders compared with other
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ethnic groups</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#s11">A brief mail sexual
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function inventory for urology</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0045<br />
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Current as of March 1996</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. March 1996, No. 191. AHCPR Publication No. 96-0045. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research,
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Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/mar96/</p>
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