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Research on BPH and Prostate Cancer Takes Center Stage
Health Care Decisionmaking Quality-of-life issues complicate decisions about prostate cancer Aggressive treatment for localized prostate cancer may be unwarranted in older men Health services research plays a pivotal role in health care decisionmaking
Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research AMI PORT examines regional variations in heart attack treatments and outcomes and the use of angiography in elderly patients Recent findings from the Ischemic Heart Disease PORT Three-rescuer CPR shown to be more effective than standard two-rescuer CPR Stroke PORT publishes latest findings Researchers examine outcomes of back pain treatments provided by chiropractors, surgeons, and general physicians PORT researchers examine prenatal zinc supplementation and other factors affecting birthweight
Hospital Systems and Quality Care Complication rates may not reflect hospital quality of care for cardiac bypass surgery patients Greater ICU use does not necessarily translate into fewer hospital deaths Nearly three-quarters of ICU patients in acute renal failure requiring dialysis die in the hospital
Health Care Costs and Financing Working poor unlikely to receive employment-related insurance Researchers provide new estimates of the underinsured younger than 65 years of age Nonprofit hospitals respond to Medicare's PPS with higher prices for private payers Health plans that restrict choice of provider attract healthier members HMOs enroll younger members than fee-for-service plans Direct costs for TB exceed $700 million per year Tort laws and other factors influence dentists' decisions to carry more malpractice insurance
HIV/AIDS Research Course of HIV infection not related to sex, race, drug use, or socioeconomic status Researchers examine health care use and outcomes among HIV-infected women Inpatient care for PCP varies according to insurance status and hospital characteristics Publicly insured, HIV-infected patients are much less likely to undergo bronchoscopy to confirm PCP Recent studies question readiness of primary care physicians to care for HIV-infected patients In rating doctors, teens express special concerns about HIV transmission and confidentiality
Minority and Rural Health Wide variations found in hospitalization patterns for blacks and whites Ethnicity affects individual and family roles in terminal illness Medicaid reimbursement and malpractice premiums do not determine which rural family doctors deliver babies Study finds AHCPR's depression guidelines to be useful for rural primary care practices
Health Care Delivery One-third of back pain sufferers seek care from chiropractors instead of physicians Use of formal home care depends on level of impairment and presence of family support Physician practice style determines the number of patients seen per hour Half of physicians relocate to other States after completing residency training
AHCPR News and Notes Internet "surfers" discover the ease of accessing AHCPR-supported guidelines Disease prevention experts call for more counseling, better targeted screening
Announcements Consumer materials now available on using AZT to lower risk of mother-to-baby HIV transmission New grants awarded for study of health care markets AHSR announces February 15 deadline for abstracts
Research Briefs The Columbia registry of information and utilization management trials The American Urological Association symptom index: Does mode of administration affect its psychometric properties? Constructing a lifetime nursing home use data base from a sample of discharges Heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies Accountability for clinical preventive services Managed care and rural America Alcohol use before and after traumatic head injury Biased comparisons of lung cancer survival across geographic areas Comparison of a disease-specific and a generic severity of illness measure for patients with community-acquired pneumonia The changing distribution of a major surgical procedure across hospitals Surveying consumer satisfaction to assess managed-care quality Reducing nursing home use through community long-term care Predicting cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to cotrimoxazole in HIV-infected individuals receiving primary Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis Organizational strategies for implementing clinical guidelines Incremental value of exercise electrocardiography and thallium-201 testing in men and women for the presence and extent of coronary artery disease Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with sciatica An integer programming model to limit hospital selection in studies with repeated sampling Facilitating random assignment in a community health education project Measuring patient satisfaction with physicians among older and diseased adults in a primary care municipal outpatient setting Computerizing guidelines to improve care and patient outcomes Ontology-based configuration of problem-solving methods and generation of knowledge-acquisition tools Exploratory research synthesis: Methodological considerations for addressing limitations in data quality
AHCPR Publication No. 96-0032 Current as of December 1995
Internet Citation:
Research Activities newsletter. November/December 1995, No. 189. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/nov95/
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