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<h2>No. 189, November/December 1995</h2>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
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Activities</em></a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3><p><a
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href="feature.htm">Research on BPH and
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Prostate Cancer Takes Center Stage</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Health Care Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a
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href="dept1.htm#head1">Quality-of-life
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issues complicate decisions about prostate cancer</a><br /> <a
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href="dept1.htm#head2">Aggressive
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treatment for localized prostate cancer may be unwarranted in older
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men</a><br /> <a
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href="dept1.htm#head3">Health services
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research plays a pivotal role in health care
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decisionmaking</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Medical
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Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept2.htm#head1">AMI PORT
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examines regional variations in heart attack treatments and outcomes and the
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use of angiography in elderly patients</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head2">Recent findings
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from the Ischemic Heart Disease PORT</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head3">Three-rescuer CPR
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shown to be more effective than standard two-rescuer CPR</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head4">Stroke PORT
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publishes latest findings</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head5">Researchers examine
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outcomes of back pain treatments provided by chiropractors, surgeons, and
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general physicians</a><br /> <a
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href="dept2.htm#head6">PORT researchers
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examine prenatal zinc supplementation and other factors affecting
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birthweight</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">Hospital Systems and
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Quality Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept3.htm#head1">Complication
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rates may not reflect hospital quality of care for cardiac bypass surgery
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patients</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head2">Greater ICU use
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does not necessarily translate into fewer hospital deaths</a><br /> <a
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href="dept3.htm#head3">Nearly
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three-quarters of ICU patients in acute renal failure requiring dialysis die
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in the hospital</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Health Care Costs and
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Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept4.htm#head1">Working poor
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unlikely to receive employment-related insurance</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head2">Researchers provide
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new estimates of the underinsured younger than 65 years of age</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head3">Nonprofit hospitals
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respond to Medicare's PPS with higher prices for private payers</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head4">Health plans that
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restrict choice of provider attract healthier members</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head5">HMOs enroll younger
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members than fee-for-service plans</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head6">Direct costs for TB
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exceed $700 million per year</a><br /> <a
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href="dept4.htm#head7">Tort laws and other
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factors influence dentists' decisions to carry more malpractice
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insurance</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">HIV/AIDS
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Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept5.htm#head1">Course of HIV
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infection not related to sex, race, drug use, or socioeconomic
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status</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#head2">Researchers examine
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health care use and outcomes among HIV-infected women</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#head3">Inpatient care for
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PCP varies according to insurance status and hospital
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characteristics</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#head4">Publicly insured,
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HIV-infected patients are much less likely to undergo bronchoscopy to confirm
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PCP</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#head5">Recent studies
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question readiness of primary care physicians to care for HIV-infected
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patients</a><br /> <a
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href="dept5.htm#head6">In rating doctors,
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teens express special concerns about HIV transmission and
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confidentiality</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">Minority and Rural
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Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept6.htm#head1">Wide
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variations found in hospitalization patterns for blacks and whites</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#head2">Ethnicity affects
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individual and family roles in terminal illness</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#head3">Medicaid
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reimbursement and malpractice premiums do not determine which rural family
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doctors deliver babies</a><br /> <a
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href="dept6.htm#head4">Study finds AHCPR's
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depression guidelines to be useful for rural primary care
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practices</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">Health Care
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Delivery</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept7.htm#head1">One-third of
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back pain sufferers seek care from chiropractors instead of
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physicians</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#head2">Use of formal home
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care depends on level of impairment and presence of family support</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#head3">Physician practice
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style determines the number of patients seen per hour</a><br /> <a
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href="dept7.htm#head4">Half of physicians
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relocate to other States after completing residency training</a></p>
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<h3>Regular Features</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="dept8.htm">AHCPR News and
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Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept8.htm#head1">Internet
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"surfers" discover the ease of accessing AHCPR-supported guidelines</a><br /> <a
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href="dept8.htm#head2">Disease prevention
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experts call for more counseling, better targeted screening</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept9.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept9.htm#head1">Consumer
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materials now available on using AZT to lower risk of mother-to-baby HIV
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transmission</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head2">New grants awarded
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for study of health care markets</a><br /> <a
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href="dept9.htm#head3">AHSR announces
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February 15 deadline for abstracts</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="dept10.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="dept10.htm#head1">The Columbia
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registry of information and utilization management trials</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head2">The American
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Urological Association symptom index: Does mode of administration affect its
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psychometric properties?</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head3">Constructing a
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lifetime nursing home use data base from a sample of discharges</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head4">Heterogeneity in
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meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head5">Accountability for
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clinical preventive services</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head6">Managed care and
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rural America</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head7">Alcohol use before
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and after traumatic head injury</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head8">Biased comparisons
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of lung cancer survival across geographic areas</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head9">Comparison of a
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disease-specific and a generic severity of illness measure for patients with
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community-acquired pneumonia</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head10">The changing
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distribution of a major surgical procedure across hospitals</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head11">Surveying
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consumer satisfaction to assess managed-care quality</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head12">Reducing nursing
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home use through community long-term care</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head13">Predicting
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cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to cotrimoxazole in HIV-infected
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individuals receiving primary <em>Pneumocystis carinii</em> pneumonia
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prophylaxis</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head14">Organizational
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strategies for implementing clinical guidelines</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head15">Incremental value
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of exercise electrocardiography and thallium-201 testing in men and women for
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the presence and extent of coronary artery disease</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head16">Assessing
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health-related quality of life in patients with sciatica</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head17">An integer
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programming model to limit hospital selection in studies with repeated
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sampling</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head18">Facilitating
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random assignment in a community health education project</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head19">Measuring patient
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satisfaction with physicians among older and diseased adults in a primary care
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municipal outpatient setting</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head20">Computerizing
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guidelines to improve care and patient outcomes</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head21">Ontology-based
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configuration of problem-solving methods and generation of
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knowledge-acquisition tools</a><br /> <a
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href="dept10.htm#head22">Exploratory
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research synthesis: Methodological considerations for addressing limitations
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in data quality</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0032<br />
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Current as of December 1995</em></p>
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