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Nearly 9 percent of lab tests commonly performed for hospitalized patients are redundant
Hospitalization Early tube feeding improves outcomes, shortens hospital stays, and lowers costs for patients undergoing bowel resection Better control of postoperative pain may reduce delirium following surgery Reseachers examine variations in use of intensive care units
Managed Care Researchers identify factors that encourage health plan choice among Medicaid managed care enrollees
Primary Care Clinical factors rather than concern about lawsuits usually cause physicians to delay childhood immunizations CQI teams and academic detailing are generally ineffective in increasing compliance with guidelines
Access to Care Researchers examine equity of access to renal transplants and health status of transplant recipients
Outcomes/Effectiveness Research Many victims of major trauma are significantly disabled 6 months after injury Survival of extremely small and premature newborns has increased, but one in four or five survivors has a major disability Repeat knee replacement surgery is uncommon
Elderly Health/Long-term Care Elderly and disabled people with psychiatric problems are less satisfied with health care than others Use of restraints in nursing homes depends in part on the number of residents and the nurse-resident ratio Age and severity of urine loss most affect quality of life among older adults with incontinence
Dental Research Malpractice laws have mixed effects on dental practices
Announcements AHCPR announces availability of new software for use in assessing and improving health care quality AHCPR publishes PORT final report on ischemic heart disease AHCPR announces new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force New projects funded
Research Briefs Health services data sources in the U.S. Small area estimation How to use a review article: Prophylactic endoscopic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices A classification tree analysis of selection for discretionary treatment Estimating the effect of zidovudine on Kaposi's sarcoma from observational data using a rank preserving structural failure-time model Antilymphocyte antibodies, renal transplantation, and meta-analysis Evaluating health status of elderly Chinese in Boston The primary care assessment survey: Tests of data quality and measurement performance Generic versus disease-specific health status measures
Internet Citation:
Research Activities newsletter. September 1998, No. 219. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/sep98/
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