MEDTEP Research Projects, 1989-1996


Pharmaceutical Outcomes

Impact of Prospective Drug Use Review on Health Outcomes
Pharmaceutical Care Outcomes: The Patient Role
Preference Assessment for Pharmaceutical Evaluation
Pharmaceutical Cost, Use, and Outcome among Insured Elderly
Cognitive Impairment and Medication Appropriateness
Comparative Outcomes of Ambulatory Pharmaceutical Agents
Geriatric Drug Related Hospitalization
Use of Record Linkage to Study Outcomes of Drug Therapy
Improving Outcomes in Elderly NSAID Users
Patient Outcomes with Antibiotic Therapy of Lyme Disease
Computer-Based Prospective Drug Utilization Review

Prostate Diseases

Note: Also see projects listed under Cancer.

PORT II for Prostatic Diseases (PORT II)
Randomized Trial of the SDP for Patients with BPH
TURP Versus Open Prostatectomy or Nonoperative Treatments
Assessing Therapies for Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy and Localized Prostate Cancer (PORT)

Psychiatric Conditions

Patient Outcomes Associated with Antidepressant Drugs
Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT)
Improving Cost Effectiveness of Prepaid Depression Care (PORT II)
Variations in the Process and Outcomes of Care for Depression

Women's Health

Note: Also see projects listed under Cancer and Childbirth and Prenatal Care.

Surgical Treatment Outcomes Project for DUB (STOP-DUB)
Hysterectomy and Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
Community Physician's Diagnostic Accuracy in Colposcopy
Medicine or Surgery? (MS?)
Effectiveness and Outcomes of Hysterectomy
Community-Based Study of Hysterectomy Outcomes
The Hysterectomy Decision: Assessment of Outcomes
Effectiveness of Outpatient Treatment for PID (PORT II)
A Clinical Decision Aid for Genital Chlamydia in Women


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