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<h2>October 1996, No. 197</h2>
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<h2>Contents </h2>
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<p><a href="about.htm">About Research
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Activities</a></p>
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<h3>Feature Story</h3><p><a
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href="ra1.htm#head1">Adjusting capitation
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rates may not prevent discrimination against chronically ill children</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head2">Hospital
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Use/Quality of Care</a></strong> <br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head3">Researchers
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find quality of care for asthma affects pediatric hospitalization rates in
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three Northeastern communities</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head4">Computer reminders
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fail to improve preventive care for hospitalized patients</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head5">Emergency department
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clinicians often experience conflicted relationships with patients who are
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"regulars"</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head6">Health Care
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Costs and Financing</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head7">Costs of
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outpatient care are cut in half when a patient sees a primary care physician
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first</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head8">Nonclinical factors
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may determine whether depressed patients receive specialty care</a><br /> <a
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href="ra1.htm#head9">Recognizing
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depression in primary care can avoid unnecessary tests and referrals and save
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money</a><br /> <a href="ra1.htm#head10">High
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social costs found for home-based care of ventilator-assisted individuals</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra1.htm#head11">Patient
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Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra1.htm#head12">Increased
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risk of preterm birth among pregnant black women may be due in part to a
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higher rate of vaginal infections</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head1">Patient Care/Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head2">Oral
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rehydration therapy improves outcomes for children with acute
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gastroenteritis</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head3">Earlier referral to
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hospice care may benefit terminally ill elderly patients</a><br /> <a
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href="ra2.htm#head4">Electrostimulation
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helps stroke patients recover muscle strength</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head5">HIV/AIDS
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Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head6">Residency
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training can improve physicians' attitudes towards treating AIDS patients</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra2.htm#head7">Access to Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra2.htm#head8">Policies that
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reduce the number of minority physicians also may reduce access to health care
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for poor people and minorities</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra3.htm#head1">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra3.htm#head2">AHCPR funds
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new projects</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head1">New publications now
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available from AHCPR and NTIS</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="ra4.htm#head2">Research Briefs</a></strong><br />
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<a href="ra4.htm#head3">The impact of
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co-morbidity on life expectancy among men with localized prostate
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cancer</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head4">Designing home care
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benefits: The range of options and experience</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head5">Planned NLM/AHCPR
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large-scale vocabulary test: Using UMLS technology to determine the extent to
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which controlled vocabularies cover terminology needed for health care and
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public health</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head6">Measuring health: A
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guide to rating scales and questionnaires</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head7">The
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awareness-to-adherence model of the steps to clinical guideline compliance:
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The case of pediatric vaccine recommendations</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head8">The validity of
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self-reported health-care utilization by AIDS patients</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head9">Market structure and
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the role of consumer information in the physician services industry: An
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empirical test</a><br /> <a
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href="ra4.htm#head10">Intensive care unit
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admissions with cirrhosis: Risk stratifying patient groups and predicting
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individual survival</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 97-0003<br />
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Current as of October 1996</em></p>
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