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<h2>October 1995, No. 188</h2>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="about.htm">About <em>Research
Activities</em></a></p>
<h3>Feature Story</h3>
<p><a href="feature.htm">System and equipment
changes could reduce hospital medication errors</a></p>
<h3>Departments</h3>
<p><strong><a href="dept1.htm">Family Health</a></strong> <br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept1.htm#head1">Researchers
compare pregnancy management styles of residents in obstetrics and family
medicine</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#head2">Low-dose aspirin
does not increase the risk of placental detachment or infant death</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#head3">Childbirth PORT
examines best ways to manage breech births</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#head4">Threat of
malpractice suits has little effect on birth outcomes</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#head5">Economic solutions
alone with not improve the health of socially disadvantaged children</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept1.htm#head6">One-third of
families agree to donate organs, tissues, or corneas when loved ones
die</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept2.htm">Medical
Effectiveness/Outcomes Research</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept2.htm#head1">Switching
health insurance plans may disrupt care for depressed patients</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept2.htm#head2">Patient preferences
and symptom severity should guide angina treatment</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept3.htm">Health
Care Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept3.htm#head1">Community
program to limit hospital budgets restrained overall hospital costs, but at a
price to individual hospitals</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept3.htm#head2">Hospital mergers in
the 1980s often resulted in conversion of acute services to other
functions</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept4.htm">Minority/Rural
Health</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept4.htm#head1">Minority
children receive fewer medications than white children</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept4.htm#head2">Racial variation
found in use of community services by elderly rural residents</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept4.htm#head3">Rural Nebraskans
have at least as much access to health care as their urban
counterparts</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept5.htm">HIV/AIDS
Research</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept5.htm#head1">Limited
access to care affects quality of life more than some physical symptoms for
poor HIV-infected persons</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept5.htm#head2">Satisfaction with
outpatient AIDS care differs among patient groups</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept6.htm">Clinical Practice
Guidelines</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept6.htm#head1">AHCPR
releases cardiac rehabilitation guideline</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept7.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept7.htm#head1">New projects
funded</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept7.htm#head2">New publications
available from AHCPR and NTIS</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="dept8.htm">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="dept8.htm#head1">Methods of
randomized controlled clinical trials in health services research</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head2">Comparison of a
generic and a disease-specific measure of pain and physical function after
knee replacement surgery</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head3">Biofeedback therapy
in poststroke rehabilitation: A meta-analysis of the randomized controlled
trials</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head4">The influence of
socioeconomic status on change in health status after
hospitalization</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head5">Selecting a patient
characteristics index for the prediction of medical outcomes using
administrative claims data</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head6">Concurrent validity
of administering the geriatric depression scale and the physical functioning
dimension of the SIP by telephone</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href="dept8.htm#head7">A proposal for a
national mammography database: Content, purpose, and value</a></p>
<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 96-0010<br />
Current as of October 1995</em></p>
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