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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a><em>Research Activities</em> </h1>
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<h2>May 1997, No. 204</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#AHCPRannoun">AHCPR announces
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increased funding for small project grants</a> </p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#patientout">Patient
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Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#womenare">Women are
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treated less aggressively than men after a heart attack and are more likely to
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die in the hospital</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#blackare">Black and white
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heart patients receive different levels of care</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#studycomp">Study compares
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effectiveness of implantable defibrillators and medication for treating
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irregular heart beat</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#chestpain">Chest pain
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patients prefer care in a chest pain observation unit over
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hospitalization</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#researchersrep">Researchers
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report recent findings on diagnosing and managing back pain</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#reducingscope">Reducing
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scope of radiation treatment for localized prostate cancer results in fewer
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complications</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#biliary">Biliary Tract PORT
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publishes latest findings</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#healthcare">Health
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Care Costs and Cost-Effectiveness</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#large">Large-scale
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education program to reduce cholesterol levels shown to be cost effective</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#healthmkt">Health Care Marketplace</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#rural">Rural
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hospitals can gain a competitive advantage and reduce the risk of closure
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through differentiation</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#hospital">Hospital and
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physician expenditures are complementary</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#medical">Medical Liability</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#one">One-fourth of
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c-sections examined in New York State may be due to defensive medicine</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#elderly">Elderly/Minority Health</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#alert">Alert nursing
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home patients are often excluded from decisions about advance
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directives</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#hispanic">Hispanic women are
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less likely than white or black women to be underweight before pregnancy or to
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deliver preterm</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#access">Access to Care</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#insurance">Insurance
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status is not the only factor that affects a person's perception of access to
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care</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#news">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#implements">AHCPR
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implements initial changes to its grant submission and peer review
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processes</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#prepares">AHCPR prepares for
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July conference on evidence-based practice</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#dental">AHCPR names its
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first Dental Scholar-in-Residence</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#announce">Announcements</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#releases">AHCPR
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releases early MEPS data</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#seeks">AHCPR seeks nominees
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for its National Advisory Council</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#quality">Quality improvement
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publication now available from AHCPR</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#funds">AHCPR funds new
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conference grants</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#final">Final reports now
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available from NTIS</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#ahsr">AHSR prepares for its
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14th annual meeting</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#briefs">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a
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href="ra3.htm#preventing">Preventing heat
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injury: Military versus civilian perspective</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#predicting">Predicting
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long-term functional limitations among back pain patients in primary care
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settings</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#predqual">Predicting quality
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of well-being scores from the SF-36: Results from the Beaver Dam health
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outcomes study</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#using">Using Medicare claims
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data to assess provider quality for CABG surgery: Does it work well
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enough?</a><br /> <a href="ra3.htm#can">Can
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preference scores for discrete states be used to derive preference scores for
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an entire path of events?</a><br /> <a
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href="ra3.htm#theeffect">The effect of
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universal coverage of health expenditures for the uninsured</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0042<br />
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Current as of May 1997</em></p>
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