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<h2>November 2007, No. 327</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="1107RA1.htm">AHRQ expands therapeutics education and research centers and adds new topics: Health IT, economics, and formularies</a></p>
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<h3>Women's Health</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA2.htm">Study documents the health costs of being a woman</a><br /><a href="1107RA3.htm">Death and complications after breast cancer surgery are rare, with wound infection the most common problem</a><br /><a href="1107RA4.htm">Women suffer fewer postoperative problems after vascular surgery at Veterans Administration than at private hospitals</a></p>
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<h3>Child/Adolescent Health</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA5.htm">Local touchscreen computer kiosks can help parents in urban, low-income communities learn about their child's health</a><br /><a href="1107RA6.htm">Premature infants with chronic lung disease can be safely cared for by community-based providers coordinating with a nurse specialist</a><br /><a href="1107RA7.htm">Caregivers of children with special health care needs rate Medicaid managed care as having better care access than fee-for-service</a><br /><a href="1107RA8.htm">A skin condition may identify young patients at risk for developing type 2 diabetes</a></p>
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<h3>Elderly/Long-Term Care</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA9.htm">Nursing home report cards have prompted many nursing homes to improve care, especially those with poor scores</a><br /><a href="1107RA10.htm">Postdischarge care management that integrates medical and social care can improve outcomes of the low-income elderly</a></p>
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<h3>Health Information Technology</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA11.htm">Studies explore the use and functions of electronic health records</a><br /><a href="1107RA12.htm">Implementing a basic electronic prescribing system may reduce nonclinical prescribing errors</a><br /><a href="1107RA13.htm">Electronic data collection can greatly improve recruitment of primary care patients into clinical trials</a></p>
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<h3>Patient Safety and Quality</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA14.htm">Studies examine patients' ratings of physicians</a><br /><a href="1107RA15.htm">Diagnostic codes poorly identify deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism after surgery from hospital claims</a></p>
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<h3>Cancer/Chronic Disease</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA16.htm">Cancer and other chronic conditions affect patients' lives differently during various phases of care</a><br /><a href="1107RA17.htm">Black and white caregivers of rural patients with dementia have different characteristics and coping styles</a><br /><a href="1107RA18.htm">Men with localized prostate cancer who undergo surgery may live longer than those who undergo radiation or observation</a><br /><a href="1107RA19.htm">Low income middle-aged Americans have higher 10-year death rates even after controlling for their worse health at baseline</a></p>
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<h3>HIV/AIDS Research</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA20.htm">Several factors prompt patients with HIV to voluntarily switch physicians</a><br /><a href="1107RA21.htm">Late diagnosis of HIV is a problem for older patients, many of whom aren't diagnosed until they've already developed AIDS</a></p>
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<h3>End-of-Life Care</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA22.htm">End-of-life care expenditures and use among Medicare colorectal cancer patients differ more by age than gender</a><br /><a href="1107RA23.htm">Palliative care study challenges assumptions about physician emotional involvement and communication with patients</a></p>
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<h3>Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA24.htm">Complications following heart valve replacements are prevalent and worsen patient outcomes</a><br /><a href="1107RA25.htm">Evidence of benefit is lacking for many common ways of treating osteoarthritis of the knee</a><br /><a href="1107RA25a.htm">Diagnosing coronary heart disease prior to a heart attack improves the chance of lowering the risk of future coronary events</a><br /><a href="1107RA26.htm">Surgery is more likely than angioplasty to relieve pain for patients with coronary artery disease</a></p>
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<h3>Pharmaceutical Research</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA27.htm">Study confirms link between intravenous bisphosphonates and jaw infection or surgery</a><br /><a href="1107RA28.htm">Insurers save with incentive-based formularies, but consumers pay more out of pocket</a></p>
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<h3>Emergency Medicine</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA29.htm">Studies examine prescribing of antibiotics for respiratory infections in hospital emergency departments</a><br /><a href="1107RA30.htm">Adults who arrive at the emergency department with acute cough and vital sign abnormalities may have pneumonia</a></p>
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<h3>Access to Care</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA31.htm">Mexicans' access to primary care is limited overall, but worse in nonmetropolitan areas</a><br /><a href="1107RA32.htm">California Medicaid managed care plans would like to increase chronic disease care management programs</a><br /><a href="1107RA33.htm">Patients who were uninsured use more medical services once they enroll in Medicare</a><br /><a href="1107RA34.htm">Fewer dentists and different care preferences may contribute to lower use of dental care in rural Kansas</a></p>
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<h3>Agency News and Notes</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA35.htm">AHRQ launches a new series of advice columns</a></p>
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<h3>Announcements</h3>
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<p><a href="1107RA36.htm">AHRQ awards four contracts to help improve hospital quality measurement</a><br /><a href="1107RA37.htm">AHRQ announces the next phase of its Evidence-based Practice Center program</a></p>
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<p><a href="1107RA38.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 08-0001<br />
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Current as of November 2007</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> Newsletter. November 2007, No. 327. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/nov07/</p>
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