Fiscal Year 2000
In building on its research on child health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded grants starting in Fiscal Year 2000 that focus on outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access, AHRQ's three strategic goals. Select for more information on the Agency's Child Health Research Agenda.
This fact sheet also summarizes AHRQ's fiscal year 2000 support for capacity building in research and for dissemination. In fiscal year 2000, AHRQ announced support for $20 million
in new research grants and contracts and $1.1 in new research training grants on children's health care issues.
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Contents
Outcomes
Quality
Contracts
Small Business Innovation Research
Evidence Reports
Cost, Utilization, and Access
Capacity Building
Dissemination
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Outcomes
AHRQ supports research designed to lead to improvements in health outcomes.
Outcomes research examines the end results of the structure and processes of
health care on the health and well-being of patients and populations. A unique
characteristic of this research is the incorporation of the patient's
perspective in the assessment of effectiveness.
Barriers to Anti-Inflammatory Use in Childhood Asthma
Description: The aim of this study
is to identify parental belief barriers to appropriate anti-inflammatory use for
childhood asthma and to develop a survey instrument that may be useful in both
research and health care settings to identify at-risk populations and
circumstances.
Principal Investigator: Hannelore Yoos, Ph.D., CPNP, University of Rochester School of Nursing,
Rochester, NY
Grant No.: R03 HS10689 (3/01/00-2/28/01)
Clinical Decision Rules in Pediatric Pneumonia
Description: This study will develop decision rules
to predict radiographic pneumonia (pneumonia detected by chest x-ray) in patients
aged 2-5 years old with symptoms of lower respiratory infection.
Principal Investigator: E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Grant No.: R03 HS11038 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
Economic Impact of Breast-Feeding Promotion Intervention
Description: This randomized controlled trial at two community health centers will compare the benefits of pre- and post-natal breast-feeding promotions to child health care costs, breast-feeding practices, and child care outcomes.
Principal Investigator: Karen A. Bonuck, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Grant No.: R18 HS10900 (9/1/00-11/30/03)
Efficacy and Reliability of Telemedicine in Routine Pediatric Practice
Description: The aim of this study is to assess the reliability and efficacy of telemedicine for common, acute complaints of children to the emergency department or primary
care office settings.
Principal Investigator: Kenneth M. McConnochie, University of Rochester, School
of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY
Grant No.: R01 HS10753 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CERT
Description: This Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics (CERT) will develop and test physician and patient level interventions in entire communities to determine if the interventions reduce antibiotic prescribing and the prevalence of resistance among children and other populations.
Principal Investigator: Richard Platt, M.D., Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Grant No.: R01 HS10247 (9/1/00-8/31/03)
High Risk Periods for Child Injury Among Siblings
Description: Using data from a large health maintenance organization, the
investigators will conduct retrospective cohort study to confirm and generalize
previous work that suggested a temporal association between family injury events
and subsequent, additional childhood injuries.
Principal Investigator: David C. Grossman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Grant No.: R03 HS10724 (3/1/00-2/28/02)
*Home Screening for Chlamydia Surveillance
Description: This randomized clinical trial will evaluate the effectiveness of
home screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea relative to office-based screening
among women 14-29 years old with a prior diagnosis of chlamydia.
Principal Investigator: Roberta B.
Ness, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Grant No.: R01 HS10592 (7/25/00-6/30/05)
Hospital Reported Medical Injury in Children
Description: This project
will use AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) to: (1) quantify
the proportion of pediatric discharges with hospital-reported medical injuries
and (2) describe the association of selected patient characteristics with
hospital-reported medical injuries.
Principal Investigator: Anthony D.
Slonim, Children's Research Institute, Children's Hospital National Medical
Center, Washington, DC
Grant No.: R03 HS11022 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
Otitis Media: Parent Education to Avoid Antibiotic Use
Description: The goal of this
project is to establish the safety, efficacy, cost, and acceptability of
withholding antibiotics from children with mild acute otitis media and
substituting nonantibiotic, symptomatic treatment, parent education, and careful
followup of children with this common condition.
Principal Investigator: David P. McCormick, M.D. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Grant No.: R01 HS10613 (03/01/00 - 02/28/03)
Outcomes in Spontaneous and Latrogenic Multiple Pregnancy
Description: This retrospective cohort study will examine health
care utilization and maternal, neonatal, and infant health outcomes associated
with assisted reproductive interventions versus spontaneous conception.
Principal Investigator: Anne M. Lynch, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Oakland, CA
Grant No.: R03 HS10700 (9/30/00-12/31/01)
PEAT: Pediatric Emergency Assessment Tool
Description: This cohort study aims to develop a multivariable model to
predict the probability of the need for different levels of emergency care.
Principal Investigator: Marc
Gorelick, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Grant No.: R03 HS11028 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
A Perinatal Health Services Research in Laboratory Pilot
Description: This project aims to define new
outcomes related to perinatal morbidity and their associated resource use, to
define sample and effect sizes for future studies of perinatal morbidity, and
identify future research priorities in perinatal care.
Principal Investigator: Douglas K. Richardson, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.,
Boston, MA
Grant No.: R03 HS10824 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
Regionalization, Market Forces, and Neonatal Mortality
Description: This study of neonatal
intensive care units (NICU) will use data from California to assess neonatal
mortality differences over time, examine the relationship between total NICU
volume and the volume of newborns in specific high-risk groups, look at the
relationship between type of insurance coverage and neonatal mortality over
time, and examine how competition and the increased use of market forces to
control costs have affected the diffusion of NICUs into community hospitals.
Co-funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Principal Investigator: Ciaran S. Phibbs, Ph.D., Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Menlo Park,
CA
Grant No.: R01 HD36914 (04/01/00 - 03/31/04)
Rural Emergency Departments as Access Points for Teen Smoking Intervention
Description: This project will deliver a theory-based brief
motivational interview with three followup phone calls to randomly selected
14-18 year-olds who seek care in the emergency department of a major university
hospital.
Principal Investigator: Kimberly Horn, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Grant No.: R18 HS10736 (9/30/00-8/31/04)
TennCare Gaps for Children: Asthma Clinical Outcomes
Description: This study seeks to quantify the effect of gaps in Medicaid
enrollment on two outcomes relevant to children with asthma: emergency
department visits and hospitalizations for asthma.
Principal Investigator: William O. Cooper, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Grant No.: R01 HS10249 (9/1/00-2/28/02)
Unstudied Infants: Low Risk Babies in a High Risk Place
Description: This project will describe the epidemiology,
treatment, and outcomes of moderately premature newborns who are admitted to an
intensive care setting during the birth hospitalization.
Principal Investigator: Douglas K. Richardson, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA
Grant No.: R01 HS10131 (8/01/00-7/31/03)
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Quality
AHRQ supports research to strengthen quality measurement and improvement.
Achieving this goal requires developing and testing quality measures and
investigating the best ways to collect, compare, and communicate these data so
they are useful to decisionmakers. AHRQ's research also emphasizes studies of
the most effective ways to implement these measures and strategies in order to
improve patient safety and health care quality.
Investigator-initiated Studies
Developing and Validating Quality Measures for Children
Description: This study is designed to develop and validate measures of quality to
assess the appropriateness of the use of tympanostomy tubes in children.
Principal Investigator: Mark Chassin, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Grant No.: R01 HS10302 (9/30/00-8/31/04)
Pediatric EBM-Getting Evidence Used at the Point of Care
Description: This study will examine whether
the provision of evidence at the point of ambulatory pediatric care will improve
antibiotic use in specific pediatric disorders, reduce duration of therapy for
acute sinusitis, reduce use of bronchodilators in treatment of bronchiolitis,
and increase the use of intranasal steroids for allergic rhinitis.
Principal Investigator: Robert L. Davis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Grant No.: R01 HS10516 (09/01/00-08/31/03)
*Is Quality Care Cost-Effective? HEDIS 2000 Evidence
Description: This study will examine the extent to which quality
measures used in the Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) reflect
cost-effective practices. This project will include examination of
child-relevant HEDIS effectiveness of care measures such as childhood and
adolescent immunization status, as well as others that could impact children and
adolescents: advising smokers to quit; followup after hospitalization for mental
illness, and antidepressant medication management.
Principal Investigator: Peter J. Neumann, Harvard University, Boston, MA, and Project Hope, Bethesda,
MD
Grant No.: R03 HS10709 (09/01/00-08/31/01)
Projects Funded under the RFA Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic
Disparities
This request for applications (RFA) sought projects that would analyze causes and contributing factors for
the inequalities that are related to the delivery and practice of health care,
and identify and implement strategies to eliminate them.
*Access and Quality of Care for Vulnerable Black Populations
Description: This program project grant includes one project related to children.
The project will look at compliance with guidelines on content of prenatal care
and its effect on pregnancy outcomes in southwest Atlanta.
Principal Investigator: Robert Mayberry, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Grant No.: P01 HS10875 (9/15/00-8/31/05)
*Improving the Delivery of Effective Care to Minorities
Description: This program project grant includes a project on Assessing
Variations in the Management of Prematurity, in which vital statistics from
Manhattan will be used to determine the relationship between newborn ethnicity,
obstetric, and NICU volumes of the hospital of birth.
Principal Investigator: Mark R. Chassin, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Grant No.: P01 HS10859 (9/30/00-8/31/04)
*Promoting Effective Communication and Decision-Making in Diverse Populations
Description: Included in this program project
grant is a study on Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes among multi-ethnic
uninsured childbearing women enrolled in a staff model managed care
organization.
Principal Investigator: Eugene Washington, University of California, San
Francisco, CA
Grant No.: P01 HS10856 (9/27/00-8/31/05)
*UCLA/DREW/RAND Program to Address Disparities in Health
Description: This
grant includes a project to address racial and ethnic differences in infant
mortality using linked birth records, death records and hospital discharge
abstract data for all births in California between 1990 and 2000.
Principal Investigator: Martin Shapiro, UCLA, Santa Monica, CA
Grant No.: P01 HS10858 (9/01/00-8/31/05)
Projects Funded under the RFA Translating Research Into Practice II
The TRIP II RFA sought to support cooperative agreement demonstration projects
which specifically focus on evaluating strategies for translating research into
practice through the development of partnerships between researchers and health
care systems and organizations.
*An Internet Intervention to Increase Chlamydia Screening
Description: Study physicians will complete a year-long series of
Internet learning modules that integrate case-based education with audit,
feedback, and benchmarking of practice profiles. The interventions are expected
to result in improved screening and treatment rates, and lowered rates of pelvic
inflammatory disease among the 16-26 year-old patients who are the focus of the
study.
Principal Investigator: Jeroan J. Allison, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Grant No.: U18 HS11124 (9/30/00-9/29/03)
Better Pediatric Outcomes Through Chronic Care
Description: This quality improvement project will evaluate the impact
of a computerized client server system that incorporates four modules for
screening, outreach, and tracking pediatric asthma patients ages 5-18 in
community health centers.
Principal Investigator: Judith Fifield, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Grant No.: U18 HS11068 ( 9/30/00-9/29/03)
Developing an Asthma Management Model for Head Start Children
Description: This multi-part case-management intervention will engage
Head Start personnel in efforts to improve the identification of asthma and
identification of barriers to treatment, and to engage in problem-solving with
families of children ages 3-5 with asthma.
Principal Investigator: Perla A. Vargas, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR
Grant No.: U18 HS11062 (9/26/00-8/31/03)
Implementing Adolescent Preventive Guidelines
Description: Study providers will attend training
sessions and bimonthly booster sessions and receive feedback on adolescent
patients' receipt of clinical preventive services in 6 topic areas. Providers
will also receive tools including an adolescent health screening questionnaire
and a customized charting form that includes reminder prompts and a format for
documenting that services were provided.
Principal Investigator: Charles
E. Irwin, Jr., M.D., University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Grant No.: U18 HS11095 (9/30/00-8/31/03)
Managed Care Organization Use of a Pediatric Asthma Management Program
Description: Study practices will be provided
with five tools intended to simplify the asthma guidelines. One physician and
one nurse from each practice will participate in a 5-hour training session on
how to use the materials, followed by assistance with program implementation,
trouble shooting, and patient-specific feedback.
Principal Investigator: Michelle M. Cloutier, University of Connecticut Health Center School of Medicine, Hartford, CT
Grant No.: U18 HS11147 (9/11/00-8/31/03)
Project Funded under the RFA, Systems-Related Best Practices to Improve Patient
Safety
This RFA sought cooperative agreements to test the effectiveness of the transfer
and application of techniques or interventions to improve patient safety through
the reduction of preventable systems-related medical errors with high prevalence
and severe consequences.
Teamwork and Error in Neonatal Intensive Care
Description: This study will test the hypothesis that specific behaviors
in teamwork are correlated with errors in delivering care to preterm infants
during their initial resuscitation and during the first 90 minutes of care in
the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Principal Investigator: Eric J.
Thomas, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX
Grant No.: U18 HS11164 (9/30/00-8/31/02)
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Contracts
*Automated Decision Support Systems and Clinical Data Collection
Description: The purpose of this project is (1) to develop a prototype
database-backed website to give clinicians the opportunity to report suspicious
trends of sentinel events related to possible bioterrorism; and (2) to develop
prototypes for four types of decision support systems for clinicians, to give
clinicians information and advice on appropriate responses, including plans for
evaluation with mock scenarios.
Principal Investigator: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey for Children with Special Health Care
Needs Dissemination
Description: This contract with Westat, Inc., will support a range of
activities to further develop and disseminate a Children with Special Needs
(CSN) survey module.
Implementation of Otitis Media Practice Guidelines With Priority Populations
Description: This study will evaluate the
development and implementation of evidence-based guidelines for acute otitis
media patients using a quasi-experimental design and comparing effects for
Hispanic v. non Hispanic and Medicaid v. privately insured children.
Principal Investigator: Joe V. Selby, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research,
Oakland, CA. Key Personnel: Margaret J. Gunter, Ph.D., Vice President and
Executive Director, Lovelace Clinic Foundation
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Living Guide
Description: This SBIR project will develop a set of tools for
families with a child who has ADHD. The ADHD Living Guide is a communication
tool to coordinate the care of a child with ADHD and to inform parents, teachers
and health providers. The project will also create "My ADHD Success Book," a
tool for children.
Principal Investigator: Clinical Tools,
Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
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Evidence Reports Begun in Fiscal Year 2000
Under the Evidence-based Practice Program of the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, 12 5-year contracts have been awarded to institutions in the
United States and Canada to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs). The
EPCs will review all relevant scientific literature on assigned clinical care
topics and produce evidence reports and technology assessments, conduct research
on methodologies and the effectiveness of their implementation, and participate
in technical assistance activities. Public and private sector organizations
recommend topics and may use the reports and assessments as the basis for their
own clinical guidelines and other quality improvement activities. In fiscal year
2000, the following topics relevant to children were assigned to AHRQ's EPCs.
Criteria to Determine Disability of Infant/Childhood Impairments
Principal Investigator: New England Medical Center
Management of Allergic Rhinitis
Principal Investigator: New England Medical Center
Pediatric, Obstetric, and Computer Based Interventions in Telemedicine
Principal Investigator: Oregon Health Sciences University
Post-term Pregnancy Management
Principal Investigator: Duke University
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Cost, Utilization, and Access
One of AHRQ's strategic goals is to identify strategies to improve access,
foster appropriate use, and reduce unnecessary expenditures in health care.
Hospital Service Areas for Pediatrics
Description: This
exploratory project will define Hospital Service Areas for Pediatrics (HSAPs)
using methodology similar to that used for elderly adults. The fit of the new
HSAPs and the original HSAs to the patient origin data and their relative
performance as a clustering variable for pediatric asthma hospitalization will
be compared.
Principal Investigator: Mark F.
Guagliardo, M.D., Children's Research Institute, Children's Hospital National
Medical Center, Washington, DC
Grant No.: R03 HS11021 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
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Capacity Building
Planning Grants for Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks
Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group Enhancement Project
Description: This Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) is
currently composed of 16 pediatric practices that serve a diverse group of
40,000 patients, including African Americans and underserved children in
Appalachia. This PBRN's planning grant will expand the provider base and the
integration of disparate data systems into a centralized system for ongoing
longitudinal data collection, maintenance, analysis, and reporting.
Principal Investigator: Michele Kiely, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Grant No.: P20 HS11206 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
Enhancing the Capacities of a National Pediatric PBRN
Description: This national PBRN's planning grant aims to
increase involvement of minorities and rural populations in the network.
Principal Investigator: Richard C. Wasserman, American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago, IL
Grant No.: P20 HS11192 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
PPRG: Retooling for the 21st Century
Description: This well-established regional pediatric network involves 43
Chicago-area primary care practices in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The
planning grant will enhance the PBRN's ability to enroll practices in low-income
areas and its data collection methods.
Principal Investigator: Katherine K.
Christoffel, M.D., MPH, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Grant No.: P20 HS11248 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
*A Regional, Community-Health Center PBRN
Description: This planning grant will allow the Southeast Regional Clinicians'
Network (SERCN) to assess the resources and strategies needed to move to a more
sophisticated level of research, particularly in the area of data collection
from widely varying information systems.
Principal Investigator: George S.
Rust, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Grant No.: P20 HS11217 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
Faculty Development for General Pediatrics Teaching in Community-Based Setting
In collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau
of Health Professions, AHRQ continues to support the Ambulatory Pediatric
Association's (APA) Primary Care Pediatrics Research Awards. This special
projects program facilitates in building the field of child health services
research. The three awards funded in 2000 are:
Effects of Lactation on Lean Body Mass, Growth and Subsequent Bone Mineral
Density in Teen Mothers
Description: This study will perform a thorough descriptive
analysis of adolescent breast-feeding mothers, including their age, ethnicity,
duration of exclusive and total breast-feeding, as well as health habits, diet,
exercise, contraception, smoking, alcohol and drug consumption, compared to
adolescent mothers who do not breast feed.
Principal Investigator: Caroline J. Chantry, UC Davis
Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
The Relationship between Poverty, Dietary Intake, and Poor Growth among Children
in the United States using the Third National Health and Examination Survey
(NHANES III)
Description: This project will use NHANES III data to
examine how poverty and growth are associated among children in the United
States ages 2 months to 5 years, and how a substantial portion of this variance
is accounted for by dietary intake (especially food, energy, iron and zinc) and
food insufficiency.
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Kasper, Boston Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, Boston, MA
Factors Mediating the Transmission and Development of Active Tuberculosis in
Children
Description: This study will identify children who
have an increased risk of tuberculosis infection and disease, and who should
receive high priority for screening and preventive therapy in pediatric
households in Kampala, Uganda.
Principal Investigator: Anna M. Mandalakas, The Rainbow Center for
International Child Health, Cleveland, OH
Training Grants
Alternative Healthcare Delivery Models for Children
Description: This Independent Scientist Award is
designed to assist Dr. Forrest in reaching his long-term career goal to conduct
research that leads to improvements in the delivery of health care services to
children and adolescents.
Principal Investigator: Christopher B. Forrest,
Johns Hopkins University Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore,
MD
Grant No.: K02 HS 000003 (9/15/00-8/31/04)
Improving Outcomes in US Latino Children
Description: The long-term purpose of
this Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award is to support and facilitate
Dr. Lara's development as a health services researcher whose work will improve
health outcomes and quality of life in Latino children with asthma through
evidence-based health care and community interventions.
Principal Investigator: Marielena Lara, M.D., UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA
Grant No.: K08 HS 00008 (7/01/00-6/30/02)
Insuring Uninsured Children
Description: The aims of the research project funded by
this grant are to (1) use focus groups to identify the reasons why parents are
unable to obtain health insurance for their uninsured children, with an emphasis
on Latino families; and (2) conduct a randomized trial to evaluate whether
specially-trained community-based case managers are more effective than
traditional methods in reaching out to and enrolling uninsured children in
public insurance programs.
Principal Investigator: Glenn Flores, M.D., Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Grant No.: K02 HS11305 (9/18/00-8/31/05)
Profiling the Needs of Dying Children
Description: This Mentored Clinical Scientist Award project includes research
to determine whether the prevalence of terminal congenital complex chronic
conditions is rising and to examine two markers of quality of care for children
with complex chronic conditions: whether continuity of care deteriorates during
the last 2 years of life and timing of referral to hospice.
Principal Investigator: John C. Feudtner, History and Sociology
of Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Grant No.: K08 HS00002 (8/1/00-7/31/05)
The Role of a Regular Source of Care for At-Risk Youth
Description: This pre-doctoral minority
fellowship project seeks to (1) determine whether there are disparities in the
use of physician services among adolescents who differ in health-detracting and
health-promoting characteristics; (2) better understand the possible mediating
role of having a usual source of care for these adolescents; and (3) identify
the characteristics of the usual source of care that lead to greater likelihood
of use of physician services and receipt of preventive care.
Principal Investigator: Tanisha V. Carino, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health,
Baltimore, MD
Grant No.: F31 HS00150 (9/1/00-8/31/03)
Validation of an Emergency Medical Service Triage Rule for Children in MVAS
Description: The aim of this project is to measure the sensitivity specificity,
positive and negative predictive values of a clinical decision rule for use in
the prehospital triage of pediatric trauma patients injured in motor vehicle
crashes.
Principal Investigator: Craig Newgard,
Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, Torrance, CA
Grant No.: F32 HS00148 (9/1/00-6/30/02)
Family Influences on Children's Health and Healthcare
Description: This dissertation study will explore the relationship of two major family
stressors, childhood disability and maternal depression, on the health and
functioning of children and youth and on children's use of health, including
mental health, care.
Principal Investigator: Whitney P. Witt, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Grant No.: R03 HS11254 (9/1/00-8/31/01)
Physician Cesarean Rates and Risk-Adjusted Birth Outcomes
Description: This dissertation study will evaluate the effectiveness of
cesarean sections to reduce perinatal mortality, and, if it is effective, to
estimate the cost per infant/fetus saved as measured by hospital charges.
Principal Investigator: Tong Li,, MS, MA. University of Medicine and Dentistry, Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Grant No.: R03 HS10795 (6/15/00-6/14/01)
Time to Neonatal and Postneonatal Death, U.S. 1985-95
Description: This dissertation grant supports a project that aims to:
(1) examine the temporal variations in time to infant death from perinatal related causes for each birthweight group and race group; (2) examine the association between the length of stay for the initial hospitalization of very low birth weight infants, and the time to their death from perinatal causes during infancy.
Principal Investigator: Amanda J. Liddle, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Grant No.: R03 HS11259 (9/30/00-9/29/01)
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Dissemination
Small Conference Grants
National Congress on Childhood Emergencies
Description: The 2nd National Congress on Childhood Emergencies, held in March
2000, provided an educational opportunity for a diverse group of emergency
medical services professionals to advance the concepts of continuous quality in
pediatric emergency care and pediatric health care.
Principal Investigator: Jane Ball,
Children's Research Institute, Washington, DC
Grant No.: R13 HS10084 (01/01/00-12/31/00)
Building Bridges for Child Health Research, Policy, and Practice
Description: This 1-day
invitational meeting will bring together State Maternal and Child Health leaders
working in the public sector and national experts in child health research to
explore venues for strengthening science-based practice and policy through
greater integration of efforts. Partners in convening the conference also
include the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, the Academy for
Health Services Research and Health Policy, and the Association of Teachers of
Maternal and Child Health. Cofunded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Principal Investigator: Holly Grason, MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Public
Health, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Women's and
Children's Health Policy Center, Baltimore, MD
Grant No.: (6/00-2/28/01)
Dartmouth Symposium on Pediatric Sedation
Description: This conference, organized by the Dartmouth College Department of
Anesthesiology, will invite experts who practice pediatric sedation to define
the most problematic issues in the field, including patient safety issues, and
discuss future research endeavors.
Principal Investigator: Joseph P.
Cravero, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Grant No.: R13 HS10110 (8/00-8/01)
Partners in Transition: Adolescents and Managed Care Conference
Description: The purpose of this conference is to engage health plans in
a practical, hands-on discussion about why and how to implement a quality
initiative devoted to teen health.
Principal Investigator: Lois Salisbury, Children Now, Oakland, CA
Grant No.: R13 HS10109 (9/01/00-8/31/01)
User Liaison Program Workshops for Senior State Officials
AHRQ's User Liaison Program disseminates health services research findings in
easily understandable and usable formats through interactive workshops and
technical assistance for policymakers and other health services research users.
Summaries of workshops that have already been held are available on AHRQ's
website at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulpix.htm.
Title: Children with Special Health Care Needs: Developing Integrated Systems of Care
Date: November 3-5, 1999
Place: Independence, OH
Title: Improving the Care Delivered to Children Served by State Agencies
Date: January 24-26, 2001
Place: New Orleans, LA
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*Project includes children or children's healthcare issues but does not focus exclusively on children.
More Information
Select for more information about child health projects at AHRQ.
AHRQ Publication No. 01-P019
Current as of March 2001
Internet Citation:
Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts, Fiscal Year 2000. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication No. 01-P019, March 2001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/childr00.htm