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<h2>March 1997, No. 202</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="about.htm">About
<em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Story</h3><p><a
href="ra1.htm#head2">Good communication is a
key factor in avoiding malpractice suits</a></p>
<h3>Departments</h3>
<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Patient
Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra1.htm#head4">New medication
reduces serious problems and repeat operations following coronary
angioplasty</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head5">Studies examine
recent angioplasty experience by geographical region and patients'
sex</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head6">Angiography patients
fare better when treated in high-volume hospitals</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head7">Study questions
advisability of shifting care of elderly heart attack patients from
cardiologists to primary care doctors</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head8">Canadian experience
bolsters evidence for regionalization of cardiac procedures in the United
States</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra1.htm#head9">Low
Birthweight PORT publishes recent findings</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra1.htm#head10">Prostate cancer
screening debate is analogous to early lung cancer screening debate</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Hospitalization</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Both hospital
and market factors affect a rural hospital's likelihood of survival or
organizational change</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head3">ICUs vary
substantially in their use of do-not-resuscitate orders</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head4">ICU studies focus on
triage of low-risk patients and outcomes for patients with organ system
failure</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head5">Managed Care/Primary Care</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head6">Women receive
more health care services if they have an internist as their primary care
doctor</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head7">Geographic region and
type of health plan influence length of hospital stay for childbirth</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head8">Less than one-fourth
of community hospitals participate in systems that facilitate managed care
contracting</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head9">Elderly/Long-term
Care</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head10">Primary care
providers should ask seemingly depressed older patients about suicidal
thoughts</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra2.htm#head11">Help from family
members increases elderly diabetics adherence to treatment and dietary
regimens</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head12">Special
Populations</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra2.htm#head13">Exposure to
TB and vision problems affect more than one-third of homeless persons in Los
Angeles County</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">AHCPR News and
Notes</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Plans underway
to streamline AHCPR's grant review process</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head3">Announcements</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head4">AHCPR and
private-sector groups form partnerships to develop pilot evidence reports</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head5">AHCPR
funds projects to foster collaboration between medicine and public health</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head6">Final
reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head7">Research
Briefs</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head8">Effect of
physician profiling on utilization</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head9">Variation among
quality-of-life surveys</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="ra3.htm#head10">A pound of
cure</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head11">The
Australian health care system: Are the incentives down under right side
up?</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="ra3.htm#head12">The
functional independence measure: Tests of scaling assumptions, structure, and
reliability across 20 diverse impairment categories</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0024<br />
Current as of March 1997</em></p>
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