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Regionalizing cardiac surgery facilities contributes to improved outcomes and lower costs
Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research Opthalmologists vary widely in their approach to cataract surgery
Patient Care/Clinical Decisionmaking Lifestyle changes no more effective than placebo in reducing mild hypertension Age and other nonclinical factors affect prostate cancer treatment decisions ER physicians' attitudes toward risk affect triage decisions Disparities found among patient groups in use of do-not-resuscitate orders
Health Care Costs and Financing Up to 23 percent of elderly Americans could be rejected for private long-term care insurance at age 65 Preconception care of diabetic women results in cost savings Researchers examine the costs of primary coronary angioplasty Hospital-based managed care plans reduce costs and shorten stays for c-section patients Medicare patients enrolled in HMOs receive fewer home health care visits than those in fee-for-service plans
Health Care Utilization Blacks hospitalized for congestive heart failure more often than whites FDA guidelines reduce unnecessary dental x-rays
Family Health Outreach efforts produce only minimal increases in preventive health screenings among poor children
HIV/AIDS Research Primary care physicians often fail to recognize important signs of HIV infection Even when health status is very poor, most AIDS patients want to be revived if their hearts stop Hospitalization costs rise sharply for AIDS patients in the months prior to death
Clinical Computing Proceedings of SCAMSI conference published as journal supplement
Announcements AHCPR's World Wide Web site goes live AHCPR and HRSA announce new projects in pediatric emergency medicine AHCPR funds major study of outpatient treatment for pelvic inflammatory disease Guide helps consumers make decisions about elective surgery New publications available from NTIS
Research Briefs Ethical and scientific features of cutoff-based designs of clinical trials Resources for assessing innovations in mechanical ventilatory support Computer-based patient records Medical sociology and health policy: Where are the connections? Relationship between procedures and health insurance for critically ill patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia Validation of a new measure of diarrhea Gainers and losers under a tax-based health care reform plan Comparison of the sensitivity and specificity of exercise electrocardiography in unbiased populations of men and women A review of six computerized dental reference resources: Part 1 An integer programming model to limit hospital selection in studies with repeated sampling Ethical considerations in oncology Economic evaluation of a randomized clinical trial comparing vinorelbine, vinorelbine plus cisplatin, and vindesine plus cisplatin for non-small-cell lung cancer Employment-based health insurance: Implications of the sampling unit for policy analysis
AHCPR Publication No. 96-0041 Current as of March 1996
Internet Citation:
Research Activities newsletter. January/February 1996, No. 190. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/jan96/
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