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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<p>This information is for reference purposes only. It was current when produced and may now be outdated. Archive material is no longer maintained, and some links may not work. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing this information should contact us at: <a href="https://info.ahrq.gov/">https://info.ahrq.gov</a>. Let us know the nature of the problem, the Web address of what you want, and your contact information. </p>
<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>
<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Stories</h3>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="feature.htm#s1">Incontinent
elderly persons more likely to enter nursing homes if they live in rural
areas</a><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="feature.htm#s2">At
least 15 percent of nursing home residents could be placed in lower levels of
care</a></p>
<h3>Departments</h3>
<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Patient Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept1.htm#s1">Combined
anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy reduces risk of stroke after mechanical
heart-valve replacement</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#s2">Experts examine the
relationship between early newborn discharge and neonatal jaundice</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#s3">Less than half of
primary care physicians correctly diagnose alcohol abuse</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#s4">Inappropriate
monitoring of antiepileptic drug levels may result in higher hospital
charges</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept2.htm#s1">Most outcomes of
type-II diabetic and hypertensive patients are unrelated to system of care or
physician specialty</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept2.htm#s2">Heart disease patients
in America achieve better functioning than their Canadian
counterparts</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept2.htm#s3">Recent findings from
the low birthweight PORT</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept2.htm#s4">Prostate PORT examines
costs and effectiveness of prostate cancer screening among elderly
men</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept2.htm#s5">Clinical
characteristics combined with a patient's report of visual functioning predict
degree of improvement following cataract surgery</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept2.htm#s6">Cataract PORT
publishes recent findings</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept3.htm#s1">Use of medicines
other than ZDV to treat HIV infection has increased greatly over the past 5
years</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept3.htm#s2">Disadvantaged groups
lag behind other patients in receipt of new HIV treatments</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept3.htm#s3">Voluntary HIV
screening found to be cost-effective at some hospitals</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept3.htm#s4">Rural AIDS cases have
risen dramatically among some groups</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Health Care Costs and
Financing</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept4.htm#s1">Both uninsured
and privately insured patients report fewer illness episodes than Medicare and
Medicaid patients</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept4.htm#s2">Medicare's PPS does
not reduce overall clinical services for depressed elderly persons</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept4.htm#s3">Self-insurance of
employee health benefits gains in popularity among certain types of
employees</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">Health Care
Delivery</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept5.htm#s1">Changing the
nature of a successful pilot program can limit its effectiveness as a
large-scale service program</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept5.htm#s2">Most who use the ER
for nonurgent care are neither poor nor uninsured</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept5.htm#s3">History of malpractice
claims exposure not linked with the practice of defensive medicine among OBs
or family physicians</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept5.htm#s4">Physician education
program improves preventive medicine services for inner city
residents</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept6.htm#s1">AHCPR announces
new funding opportunities</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept6.htm#s2">Agency launches new
Center for Organization and Delivery Studies</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept6.htm#s3">A new AHCPR initiative
will assist consumers in choosing health plans</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept6.htm#s4">New publications
available from AHCPR</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">Research
Briefs</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept7.htm#s1">Applications of
the behavioral model to health studies of Asian and Pacific Islander
Americans</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s2">Benign prostatic
hyperplasia-specific health status measures in clinical research</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s3">Knowledge, attitudes,
and practices of physicians regarding urinary incontinence in persons
aged &gt;65 years&#8212;Massachusetts and Oklahoma, 1993</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s4">Does the cycle of
rerestoration lead to larger restorations?</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s5">Making decisions about
antithrombotic therapy in heart disease</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s6">Hepatomegaly and
steatosis in HIV-infective patients receiving nucleoside analog antiretroviral
therapy</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s7">Comparison and
meta-analysis of randomized trials of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid
artery stenosis</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s8">Predicting who dies
depends on how severity is measured: Implications for evaluating patient
outcomes</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s9">Early biopsy versus
empiric treatment with delayed biopsy of non-responders in suspected
HIV-associated cerebral toxoplasmosis: A decision analysis</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s10">Variation and quality
of self-report health data: Asians and Pacific Islanders compared with other
ethnic groups</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#s11">A brief mail sexual
function inventory for urology</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0045<br />
Current as of March 1996</em></p>
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