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<h2>May 2007, No. 321</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="/research/resactabout.htm">About <em>Research Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA1.htm">Report issued to Congress on electronic prescribing to cut errors and costs</a></p>
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<h3>Disparities/Minority Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA2.htm">An educational and support program can improve blood pressure control among immigrant Korean American seniors</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA3.htm">Both poor and black patients are more likely to believe that a positive self-presentation can affect the quality of their medical care</a>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA4.htm">The shortage of pediatric rheumatologists limits residency training in pediatric rheumatology among general pediatricians</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA5.htm">Study provides the first national estimates of the average distances that children travel to see a pediatric subspecialist</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA6.htm">Children with cerebral palsy have a greater risk of surgical complications and poor outcomes than other children</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA7.htm">Fullness of the neonatal intensive care unit influences early discharge of moderately preterm infants</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA8.htm">Parents who explore a preventive health Web site before well-child visits discuss more prevention topics with doctors</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA9.htm">Study supports recommendation to expand use of influenza vaccine to children older than 2 years of age</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA10.htm">Pediatricians with more knowledge of and confidence in identifying and managing child abuse are more likely to identify abuse</a>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA11.htm">Studies examine how to improve patient safety with instructional systems design</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA12.htm">Examining use of "rescue drugs" in a hospital can reveal previously unreported adverse drug events</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA13.htm">Americans can obtain quality heart care at hospitals that are not ranked in the top 50 by <em>U.S. News & World Report</em></a><br />
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<a href="0507RA14.htm">Hand washing, barrier protection, and other procedures can reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA15.htm">Applying strategies that focus on laboratory specimen labeling errors can significantly reduce specimen identification errors</a>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA16.htm">Women with disabilities report poorer health and more problems accessing health care than other women</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA17.htm">Older women who are depressed following breast cancer therapy are less likely to fully recover shoulder mobility</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA18.htm">Despite the benefits of early breastfeeding, many women find it unexpectedly difficult and painful</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA19.htm">Use of high-risk medications by pregnant women is not uncommon</a>
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<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA20.htm">Elderly Medicare patients with low health literacy receive little tangible support for their health care needs</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA21.htm">Growth hormone is not recommended as an antiaging therapy</a>
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<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA22.htm">More intensive treatment contributes to better hypertension control in the United States compared with western Europe</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA23.htm">Hip fracture patients with osteoarthritis have longer hospital stays, but similar functional gain as those without the condition</a></p>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA24.htm">Study profiles the number, distribution, and basic use patterns of U.S. emergency departments</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA25.htm">Emergency physicians ask over half of female patients if they smoke, but don't counsel or advise them to quit</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA26.htm">One in six emergency transports of children to South Carolina emergency rooms is medically unnecessary</a>
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<h3>HIV/AIDS Research</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA27.htm">Case management may improve adherence to antiviral therapy as well as outcomes of HIV-infected homeless persons</a></p>
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<h3>End-of-Life Care</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA28.htm">Use of a multidisciplinary team to care for homeless patients can address their end-of-life needs and improve their care</a>
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<h3>Health Care Costs and Financing</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA29.htm">A study of one managed behavioral health care organization does not show a shift in treatment costs to drugs and primary care</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA30.htm">Reconciliation of MEPS and the National Health Expenditure Accounts aids benchmarking and policy simulation efforts</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA31.htm">U.S. health care spending has become less concentrated among the top spenders in the past decade</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA32.htm">Transfer of health care funding from California State to counties maintained commitment to social service spending for the indigent</a>
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<h3>Acute Care/Hospitalization</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA33.htm">Studies examine effect of physician practice size and opening of specialty cardiac hospitals on treatment of heart attack patients</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA34.htm">Assessing all health conditions and heart attack severity at admission helps assess patients' risk of dying</a><br />
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<a href="0507RA35.htm">Regionalizing stroke care to high-volume hospitals may not improve stroke outcomes or lower costs for some regions</a>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA36.htm">New DVD trains health care workers to provide respiratory care during disasters</a></p>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA37.htm">Grant final reports now available from NTIS</a></p>
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<h3>Research Briefs</h3>
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<p><a href="0507RA38.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 07-0028<br />
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Current as of May 2007</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. May 2007, No. 321. AHRQ Publication No. 07-0028. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/may07/</p>
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