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<h2>October 2003, No. 278</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="1003RA1.htm">New vaccine reduces strains of bacteria most likely to cause severe infections</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA2.htm">Patient Safety/Quality of Care</a></h3>
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<p><a href="1003RA2.htm">Injuries in hospitals pose a significant threat to patients and substantially increase health care costs</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA3.htm">Publishing hospital mortality rates does not necessarily affect market share of poor performing hospitals</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA4.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA4.htm">Increasing the excision margins around melanoma to recommended widths could substantially reduce mortality rates</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA5.htm">High-risk patients with certain cancers are the best candidates for referral to high-volume cancer surgery hospitals</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA6.htm">Corticosteroid treatment, environmental controls, and other actions can reduce risk of relapse after an acute asthma episode</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA7.htm">Managed care patients with glaucoma are receiving recommended care, but care could be improved in a few areas</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA8.htm">Calling all AHRQ researchers!</a> </p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA9.htm">Women's Health</a></h3>
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<p><a href="1003RA9.htm">Age, fertility status, and other factors influence satisfaction with progestin treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding</a> <br />
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<a href="1003RA10.htm">A higher rate of cesarean delivery does not necessarily correspond with better perinatal outcomes</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA11.htm">Use of tocolytic therapy to stop uterine contractions can prolong pregnancy and prevent preterm birth</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA12.htm">Research shows that a doctor's advice to breastfeed, early return to work, and other factors influence continued breastfeeding</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA13.htm">Benefits of adding radiation therapy to tamoxifen after breast conserving surgery diminish with increasing age</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA14.htm">Personalized form letters may improve breast and cervical cancer screening among low-income and minority women</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA15.htm">Children's Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA15.htm">Within broad limits, chronic middle-ear disease up to age 3 probably does not impair language and other development by age 4</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA16.htm">Researchers focus on early discharge of newborns, low birthweight consequences, and parental misconceptions about colds</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA17.htm">School-based health centers can help poor children manage their asthma, but they need to follow care guidelines</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA18.htm">Primary Care Research</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA18.htm">Despite improvements in access to medications and psychotherapy, many depressed primary care patients are not treated</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA19.htm">Group visits to primary care doctors by disadvantaged diabetes patients result in better diabetes care than individual visits</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA20.htm">Patient and practice socioeconomic status are independently associated with care among privately insured patients</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA21.htm">Use of time in outpatient residency training does not reflect the actual community practice of family physicians</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA22.htm">Minority Health</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA22.htm">Better diagnosis, management, and monitoring of hypertension is needed for older American Indians and Alaskan Natives</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA23.htm">Providing culturally sensitive care may lead to more effective health care delivery for racial/ethnic minorities</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA24.htm">South Asian women living in the United States should be targeted to receive Pap smears for cervical cancer screening</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA25.htm">Long-term Care</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA25.htm">Costs of care for pneumonia in nursing home residents vary widely and could be reduced</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA26.htm">Nursing home facility characteristics and quality-of-care factors may contribute to unnecessary hospitalization of residents</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA27.htm">Health Care Costs and Financing</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA27.htm">Patients with depressed mood and persistent anxiety use more medical care and have higher costs than other patients</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA28.htm">An enhanced MEPS enables national studies of health care coverage, access, costs, and health status of U.S. households</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA29.htm">Agency News and Notes</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA29.htm">AHRQ and HRSA are working together to monitor the Nation's health care safety net</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA30.htm">AHRQ helps set action agenda for improving rural health care</a></p>
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<h3><a href="1003RA31.htm">Announcements</a></h3>
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<a href="1003RA31.htm">AHRQ issues call for abstracts on patient safety research</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA32.htm">HHS and VA launch patient safety training program</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA33.htm">AHRQ announces expanded resource to help adults stay health</a><br />
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<a href="1003RA34.htm">New MEPS chartbook now available from AHRQ</a></p>
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<p><a href="1003RA36.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHRQ Publication No. 04-0007<br />Current as of October 2003</em></p>
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