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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>March 1997, No. 202</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About
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<em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3><p><a
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href="ra1.htm#head2">Good communication is a
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key factor in avoiding malpractice suits</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Patient
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Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">New medication
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reduces serious problems and repeat operations following coronary
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angioplasty</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head5">Studies examine
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recent angioplasty experience by geographical region and patients'
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sex</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head6">Angiography patients
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fare better when treated in high-volume hospitals</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head7">Study questions
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advisability of shifting care of elderly heart attack patients from
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cardiologists to primary care doctors</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head8">Canadian experience
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bolsters evidence for regionalization of cardiac procedures in the United
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States</a><br /> <a href="ra1.htm#head9">Low
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Birthweight PORT publishes recent findings</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head10">Prostate cancer
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screening debate is analogous to early lung cancer screening debate</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Hospitalization</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Both hospital
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and market factors affect a rural hospital's likelihood of survival or
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organizational change</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head3">ICUs vary
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substantially in their use of do-not-resuscitate orders</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head4">ICU studies focus on
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triage of low-risk patients and outcomes for patients with organ system
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failure</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head5">Managed Care/Primary Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head6">Women receive
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more health care services if they have an internist as their primary care
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doctor</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head7">Geographic region and
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type of health plan influence length of hospital stay for childbirth</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head8">Less than one-fourth
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of community hospitals participate in systems that facilitate managed care
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contracting</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head9">Elderly/Long-term
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Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head10">Primary care
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providers should ask seemingly depressed older patients about suicidal
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thoughts</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head11">Help from family
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members increases elderly diabetics adherence to treatment and dietary
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regimens</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head12">Special
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Populations</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head13">Exposure to
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TB and vision problems affect more than one-third of homeless persons in Los
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Angeles County</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">AHCPR News and
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Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Plans underway
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to streamline AHCPR's grant review process</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head3">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head4">AHCPR and
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private-sector groups form partnerships to develop pilot evidence reports</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head5">AHCPR
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funds projects to foster collaboration between medicine and public health</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head6">Final
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reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head7">Research
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Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head8">Effect of
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physician profiling on utilization</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head9">Variation among
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quality-of-life surveys</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#head10">A pound of
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cure</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head11">The
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Australian health care system: Are the incentives down under right side
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up?</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#head12">The
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functional independence measure: Tests of scaling assumptions, structure, and
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reliability across 20 diverse impairment categories</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0024<br />
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Current as of March 1997</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. March 1997, No. 202. AHCPR Publication No. 97-0024. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/mar97/</p>
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