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NICU babies are frequently at risk for misidentification
Work hour limits improve residents' quality of life, but not their satisfaction with their medical education Surgeons vary widely in their approaches to disclosing medical errors to their patients Doctors often fail to order laboratory monitoring when elderly HMO outpatients begin cardiovascular medications High-quality/low-cost hospital performance is linked to organizational characteristics and market forces Medications to prevent blood clots after major orthopedic surgery are underused, especially in Japanese patients Physicians appear to be driven more by professional standards of quality than financial incentives Researchers compare two widely used data sources to examine hospital nurse staffing
Blacks and Hispanics receive worse care than whites, yet rate their interactions with health care providers more positively Treatment of black adults with diabetes and depression insured through Medicaid raises quality concerns
A pediatric oncology model can help guide decisionmaking relationships between clinicians, parents, and children Puerto Rican children are diagnosed with asthma more often than other children Aggressive Medicaid and SCHIP outreach programs are needed to enroll Latino children Enrollment in New York's State Children's Health Insurance Program improves asthma care quality and access
Parental use of a kiosk in the emergency department has the potential to improve asthma care Computerized prescribing may reduce some harmful medication errors, but can introduce new errors
Androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer causes only modest depression and other side effects
Greater use of agency nurses in nursing homes may lead to poorer quality of care Patients with the poorest functioning after a stroke benefit the most from followup therapy
Primary care of patients with type 2 diabetes can be improved
Paramedic errors in lifesaving endotracheal intubation may be a symptom of larger emergency medical system problems Studies examine Federal support and ways to measure available resources for emergency medical services in rural areas
Reductions in primary and preventive care use under Medicaid primary care case management are more dramatic for minority children Physicians who are dissatisfied with their profession are two to three times more likely to leave medicine than satisfied doctors
Some adults with diabetes face high health care expenditures Workers who have health insurance are less likely to miss work than uninsured workers
Collaboration of hospitalists/attending physicians and nurse practitioners can reduce hospital stays and increase profit
Hospital copayments are required of more workers Where Americans work affects the cost of their health insurance plan
New asthma care resource guide offers help to States Research Briefs
Current as of July 2006 AHRQ Publication No. 06-0066
Internet Citation:
Research Activities Newsletter. July 2006, No. 311. AHRQ Publication No. 06-0066. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/jul06/
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