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<h2>May 2006, No. 309</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="0506about.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="0506RA1.htm">Electronic medication alerts reduce inappropriate prescribing of warfarin with interacting drugs</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA2.htm">Health Information Technology</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA2.htm">Computerized prescribing alerts can be designed to be widely accepted by primary care clinicians</a> <br />
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<a href="0506RA3.htm">Many primary care doctors still do not use electronic antibiotic prescribing for acute infections</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA4.htm">Disparities/Minority Health</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA4.htm">Nurse-anchored practice-based research centers help address health disparities</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA5.htm">Medicaid may reduce racial/ethnic differences in preventable hospitalizations, but Medicaid managed care adds no extra benefit</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA6.htm">Ethnicity, age, and living arrangements affect the use of assistive devices by people with impaired mobility</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA7.htm">Child/Adolescent Health</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA7.htm">Parents of children with special health care needs identify multiple barriers to accessing care for their children</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA8.htm">Medicaid managed care plans with case management programs may benefit children with disabilities more than fee-for-service plans</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA9.htm">Patient Safety and Quality</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA9.htm">AHRQ's health care quality and disparities reports can help nurse leaders make key decisions about quality and patient safety</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA10.htm">Gender-based Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA10.htm">Researchers examine gender disparities in the quality of preventive care and management of heart disease and diabetes</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA11.htm">Elderly/Long-term Care</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA11.htm">Nursing homes that emphasize team effort and staff flexibility are more likely to sustain improvements in quality of care</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA12.htm">Nursing home working conditions are linked to care performance</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA13.htm">Greater Medicare HMO penetration is associated with a shift in elderly stroke deaths from hospital to non-hospital settings</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA14.htm">Improved recognition and treatment of emotional problems may indirectly improve the elderly's use of preventive care</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA15.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA15.htm">Studies connect patient satisfaction with back pain outcomes</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA16.htm">Primary Care Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA16.htm">One of every five medications approved for certain diagnoses are prescribed by office-based physicians for other conditions</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA17.htm">Primary care doctors often fail to prescribe "controller medications" for asthma patients after an emergency room visit</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA18.htm">Disadvantaged groups infected with hepatitis C can be effectively treated when health care providers collaborate</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA19.htm">Pharmaceutical Research</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA19.htm">Physician compliance with medication black box warnings is mixed</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA20.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA20.htm">Study examines national trends in the costs of bariatric surgery</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA21.htm">Employers are least likely to offer insurance coverage for preventive care services that provide the financial return they seek</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA22.htm">Acute Care/Hospitalization</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA22.htm">Multidisciplinary physician/nurse practitioner teams can reduce the costs of hospital care while maintaining care quality</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA23.htm">The recommended dose of intravenous morphine does not control severe acute pain in patients presenting to the emergency department</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA24.htm">Accidental lung puncture is a substantial threat to hospitalized patients undergoing a wide range of procedures</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA25.htm">Preoperative risk factors and surgical complexity are more predictive of hospital costs than postoperative complications</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA26.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA26.htm">One of every 10 women and men has a diagnosed cardiovascular disease</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA27.htm">One-third of all patients admitted to the Nation's community hospitals are elderly</a></p>
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<h3><a href="0506RA28.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="0506RA28.htm">AHRQ expands the therapeutics education and research network</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA29.htm">AHRQ releases pay-for-performance decision guide</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA30.htm">Business coalitions join AHRQ to improve the quality of diabetes care</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA31.htm">Transition to electronic submission of grant applications continues at AHRQ</a><br />
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<a href="0506RA33.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Current as of May 2006<br />
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AHRQ Publication No. 06-0042</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. May 2006, No. 309. AHRQ Publication No. 06-0042. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/may06/</p>
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