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AHCPR announces increased funding for small project grants
Patient Outcomes/Effectiveness Research Women are treated less aggressively than men after a heart attack and are more likely to die in the hospital Black and white heart patients receive different levels of care Study compares effectiveness of implantable defibrillators and medication for treating irregular heart beat Chest pain patients prefer care in a chest pain observation unit over hospitalization Researchers report recent findings on diagnosing and managing back pain Reducing scope of radiation treatment for localized prostate cancer results in fewer complications Biliary Tract PORT publishes latest findings
Health Care Costs and Cost-Effectiveness Large-scale education program to reduce cholesterol levels shown to be cost effective
Health Care Marketplace Rural hospitals can gain a competitive advantage and reduce the risk of closure through differentiation Hospital and physician expenditures are complementary
Medical Liability One-fourth of c-sections examined in New York State may be due to defensive medicine
Elderly/Minority Health Alert nursing home patients are often excluded from decisions about advance directives Hispanic women are less likely than white or black women to be underweight before pregnancy or to deliver preterm
Access to Care Insurance status is not the only factor that affects a person's perception of access to care
AHCPR News and Notes AHCPR implements initial changes to its grant submission and peer review processes AHCPR prepares for July conference on evidence-based practice AHCPR names its first Dental Scholar-in-Residence
Announcements AHCPR releases early MEPS data AHCPR seeks nominees for its National Advisory Council Quality improvement publication now available from AHCPR AHCPR funds new conference grants Final reports now available from NTIS AHSR prepares for its 14th annual meeting
Research Briefs Preventing heat injury: Military versus civilian perspective Predicting long-term functional limitations among back pain patients in primary care settings Predicting quality of well-being scores from the SF-36: Results from the Beaver Dam health outcomes study Using Medicare claims data to assess provider quality for CABG surgery: Does it work well enough? Can preference scores for discrete states be used to derive preference scores for an entire path of events? The effect of universal coverage of health expenditures for the uninsured
AHCPR Publication No. 97-0042 Current as of May 1997
Internet Citation:
Research Activities newsletter. May 1997, No. 204. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/may97/
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