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<h2>October 1999, No. 230</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="1099ra1.htm#head1">Care for elderly heart attack patients is at least as good in HMOs as in fee-for-service</a></p>
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<h3>Departments</h3>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra2.htm">Evidence-based Medicine</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra2.htm#head1">Beta blockers may be the most effective first-line treatment for stable angina</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra3.htm#head2">Many factors affect physicians' acceptance and use of new clinical guidelines</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra4.htm#head3">New report focuses on rehabilitation for children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra5.htm">Outcomes/Effectiveness Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra5.htm#head1">Private nonteaching hospitals have higher cesarean delivery rates than other hospitals for Medicaid-insured women</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra6.htm#head2">Researchers examine hospital length-of-stay and costs for pneumonia</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra7.htm">Clinical Decisionmaking</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra7.htm#head1">Early postoperative enteral feeding for bowel resection patients is cost effective</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra8.htm#head2">Dialysis patients' quality-of-life concerns deserve greater attention from providers</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra9.htm#head3">Elderly patients with serious depression may not accurately describe their physical health</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra10.htm">Primary Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra10.htm#head1">Largest U.S. study ever examines pediatric referrals to specialists</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra11.htm#head2">Feedback and financial incentives may not improve pediatric preventive care in Medicaid HMOs</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra12.htm#head3">Costs pose a barrier to early childhood immunization</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra13.htm#head4">Patients with disabilities are less likely than nondisabled patients to receive preventive care services</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra14.htm#head5">Programs to improve timely prenatal care should not focus solely on uninsured and Medicaid-insured women</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra15.htm#head6">Primary care physicians interact differently with patients during initial and return visits</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra16.htm">Rural Health</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra16.htm#head1">Rural communities motivated to develop managed care networks benefit most from technical assistance programs</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra17.htm">Managed Care</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra17.htm#head1">Managed care apparently does not constrain use of intensive care services</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra18.htm">HIV/AIDS Research</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra18.htm#head1">Multiple drug therapy for HIV clinic patients is only half as successful as it is for clinical trial patients</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra19.htm#head2">A substantial number of HIV-infected individuals also suffer from serious mental illness</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra20.htm">AHCPR News and Notes</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra20.htm#head1">AHCPR launches research program to improve the safe and effective use of medical products</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra21.htm#head2">HHS Secretary appoints new members to AHCPR National Advisory Council</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="1099ra22.htm">Announcements</a></strong><br />
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<a href="1099ra22.htm#head1">AHCPR, Packard Foundation, and HRSA award $9.1 million for studies on improving health care for low-income children</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra23.htm#head2">AHCPR congratulates recent recipients of dissertation grants</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra24.htm#head3">New book recounts tragedy to hemophiliacs from HIV-tainted blood in the early 1980s and their eventual empowerment</a><br />
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<a href="1099ra25.htm#head4">Attention Researchers</a></p>
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<p><a href="1099ra26.htm">Research Briefs</a></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>AHCPR Publication No. 00-0003</em></p>
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<p class="size2"><em>Research Activities</em> newsletter, No. 230. AHCPR Publication No. 00-0003, October 1999. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/oct99/</p><hr />
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