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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> <em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>March/April 1998, No. 214</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="ra1.htm#head2">Fewer than half of schizophrenia patients get proper treatment</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head3">Smoking Cessation</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head4">Physician counseling can help patients quit smoking</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head5">More intensive smoking cessation efforts by clinicians could greatly
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increase the number of smokers who quit each year</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head6">People who quit smoking are much less likely to be hospitalized
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than those who continue to smoke</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head7">Health Care Delivery</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head8">Specialists see more privately insured patients than HMO
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patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head9">Organized system of care may improve management of diabetes and
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other chronic diseases</a> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Amiodarone reduces deaths by up to 20 percent in patients at risk for
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sudden cardiac death</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head3">Clinicians advised to reconsider routine use of antibiotics for acute ear
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infections</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head4">Early bone marrow transplantation is recommended for most patients
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with chronic myelogenous leukemia</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head5">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head6">Prostate PORT publishes recent findings</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head7">Cardiologists use more intensive treatments for heart attack patients
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than generalist physicians</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head8">Studies on the effects of health care organizational changes on clinical
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outcomes deserve high research priority</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head9">Conference attendees examine the impact of changes in nursing
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care on health care delivery and patient outcomes</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head10">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head11">Millions of American children still lack health insurance and face
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barriers to care</a><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head12">More aggressive diagnostic protocols for suspected heart attack
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can reduce unnecessary hospitalizations</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Medical Liability</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">Malpractice claims for physician omission are both less common
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and more likely to be paid than other malpractice suits</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head3">Elderly/Long-term Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head4">Use of physical restraints in nursing homes has declined, but the
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same types of residents are being restrained</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head5">Physiological measures alone are insufficient to assess treatment
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impact for chronic diseases like Alzheimer's</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head6">Studies focus on measuring quality in long-term care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head7">Minority Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head8">Spanish-speaking Latinos report better health outcomes when their
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doctors also speak Spanish</a><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head9">Poor black and white patients use different reference points in
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evaluating their health status</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head10">Dental Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head11">Researchers focus attention on children's dental health</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head1">Data Development and Use</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head2">Researchers describe use of large databases to measure outcomes of
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care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head3">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head4">From the Administrator: Purchasers look to health services research
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for the information they need in today's market-driven health care arena</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head5">AHCPR encourages researchers to submit applications</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head6">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head7">AHCPR, CDC, AAHP, and the HMO Research Network to host
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the fourth annual "Building Bridges" conference</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head8">Registry of State-level efforts to integrate health data can be found on
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the Internet</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head9">New report describes ways to evaluate performance, improve patient
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care, and operate more efficiently</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head10">NMES data now available on a single CD-ROM</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head11">Calling all AHCPR Web site users</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head12">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head13">Measurement properties of the short multidimensional observation
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scale for elderly subjects (MOSES)</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head14">The virtual visit: Using telecommunications technology to take
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care of patients</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head15">A WWW implementation of national recommendations for
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protecting electronic health information</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head16">Effectiveness and cost of rapid and conventional laboratory methods
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for <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> screening</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head17">Methodological issues in linking costs and health outcomes in
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research on differing care delivery systems</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head18">Comparison of two surveys of hospitalizations</a><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head19">Utilization and cost of serologic tests for Lyme disease in
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Maryland</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 98-0019<br />
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Current as of March 1998</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter. March/April 1998, No. 214. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/mar98/</p>
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