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12/20/99 |
AHRQ Releases Reports on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
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12/17/99 |
AHRQ Seeks Best Practices and Innovative Strategies To Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety |
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12/17/99 |
AHRQ Seeks Proposals For Translating Research Into Practice: Round II |
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12/16/99 |
AHRQ Announces New Resource on Prenatal Care Effectiveness |
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12/15/99 |
AHRQ Releases New MEPS Data on Prescription Drug Expenditures |
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12/8/99 |
President Clinton Signs Agency Reauthorization Legislation Officially Creating Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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11/24/99 |
AHCPR Awards Grants To Improve the Quality of Care in the Area of Nursing Research |
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11/23/99 |
AHCPR Awards 5 New Research Projects To Assess Quality Improvement Strategies |
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11/23/99 |
Agency Reauthorization Passes with Wide Bipartisan Support |
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11/22/99 |
AHCPR Awards Four Grants Aimed at Translating Evidence-based Research into Improved Clinical Practice |
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11/18/99 |
AHCPR Awards 12 New Research Projects Aimed at Improving Quality of Care for Vulnerable Populations |
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11/18/99 |
Highlights From Recent AHCPR Research Findings |
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11/15/99 |
AHCPR Announces the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) |
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11/10/99 |
New Imaging Test Helps ER Docs Separate out Faster Patients in Danger of Heart Attack from Other ER Patients |
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11/10/99 |
AHCPR to Improve Patient Data Oversight in Research |
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11/10/99 |
Spinal Cord Injury and Infant Breathing Problems Are the Most Expensive Conditions to Treat in Hospitals |
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11/8/99 |
Study Reveals Potential of Business Coalitions to Buy Health Care Quality as Well as Contain Costs |
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11/2/99 |
AHCPR National Advisory Council to Meet November 5 |
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10/26/99 |
Strategies for Eliminating Minority Health Disparities Focus of New AHCPR Research Solicitation |
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10/15/99 |
New Report Available on Effectiveness of Rehabilitation for Children and Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury |
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10/12/99 |
AHCPR, Packard Foundation and HRSA Award $9.1 Million for Studies Designed to Improve Health Care for Low-income Children |
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10/7/99 |
Highlights From Recent AHCPR Research Findings |
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10/5/99 |
Federal Agencies to Sponsor Meeting on Working Conditions and Quality of Care |
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9/29/99 |
AHCPR Launches Research Program to Improve the Safe and Effective Use of Medical Products |
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9/27/99 |
Care for Elderly Heart Attack Patients by HMOs Is at Least as Good as Fee-for-service Plans |
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9/27/99 |
AHCPR Makes Getting State Hospital Data Easier |
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9/24/99 |
HHS Secretary Appoints New Members to AHCPR National Advisory Council |
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9/8/99 |
Highlights From Recent AHCPR Research Findings |
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9/1/99 |
HMO Hospital Quality May Depend on Where Members Live |
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8/26/99 |
Top Five Most Expensive Hospital Diagnoses, 1996
(PDF File for reproduction, 198 KB) |
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8/26/99 |
Top Five Most Expensive Hospital Procedures, 1996
(PDF File for reproduction, 212 KB) |
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8/26/99 |
Top Five Reasons for Hospital Admission, 1996
(PDF File for reproduction, 199 KB) |
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8/26/99 |
Why Americans Are Hospitalized and What it Costs Detailed in New Government Report |
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8/18/99 |
Divorce Reduces Informal Caregiving and Economic Ties Between Elderly Parents and Their Adult Children |
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8/2/99 |
AHCPR'S Evidence Centers Examining Quality Screening, Cancer Risk Reduction, Other Health Care Areas |
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7/26/99 |
Highlights From Recent AHCPR Research Findings |
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7/20/99 |
Patients in Managed Care Plans Value the Role of Primary Care Physicians but Want Them to Be Coordinators, Not Gatekeepers |
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7/9/99 |
Donald M. Berwick, M.D. Named as Chair of AHCPR's
National Advisory Council |
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7/1/99 |
AHCPR National Advisory Council to Meet July 9 |
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6/28/99 |
AHCPR Awards 10 Large Grants in Areas of Emphasis
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6/28/99 |
New Online Service Offers Quick Answers to Questions
About Hospital Care |
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6/28/99 |
New Resource Available For Nursing Home Data |
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6/23/99 |
AHCPR to Fund Centers of Excellence for Research on Health Care Markets and Managed Care
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6/22/99 |
Access to Life-sustaining Anti-HIV Drugs Slow for Poor and Uninsured Patients, but Disparities Are Narrowing |
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6/22/99 |
Prostate Cancer: More Long-term Research Needed
on Cryosurgery as a Second-line Therapy |
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6/18/99 |
Highlights from AHCPR's Research Activities |
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6/8/99 |
Reliability of Current Physician Report Cards Questioned |
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6/7/99 |
Quality of Care Most Important Nursing Home Measure
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6/2/99 |
Teen Depression Treatment Objective of New AHCPR-funded Study |
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5/21/99 |
Highlights from AHCPR's Research Activities |
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5/20/99 |
AHCPR Unveils Its Updated Health Care Quality Improvement Database |
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5/7/99 |
AHCPR Requests Nominations of Topics forEvidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) |
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4/22/99 |
Highlights from AHCPR's March Research Activities
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4/13/99 |
Report Points to Two New Medications That Show Promise in Fighting Alcoholism |
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4/6/99 |
Factors Other than Health Insurance Coverage Responsible for Declines in Access for Young Adults and All Hispanics |
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3/30/99 |
Research on Swallowing Problems in the Elderly Highlights Potential for Preventing Pneumonia in Stroke Patients |
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3/23/99 |
Inexpensive Antibiotics Are as Effective as Newer, More Expensive Ones in Treating Acute Bacterial Sinusitis
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3/22/99 |
AHCPR Announces New Topics for the U.S.Preventive Services Task Force |
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3/22/99 |
New National Data Set Provides Indepth Picture of Hospital Care in the U.S. |
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3/18/99 |
Newer Antidepressant Drugs Are Equally as Effective as Older-generation Drug Treatments, Research Shows |
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3/8/99 |
Highlights from AHCPR's Research Activities |
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3/3/99 |
Children's Health Insurance Coverage Is Related to Family Structure and Income |
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2/25/99 |
Preventing Avoidable Illnesses in Hispanics Objective of New Nationwide Education Effort: Latest Recommendations Now Available in Spanish |
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2/22/99 |
New Resource Available For Minority Health Data |
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2/4/99 |
AHCPR National Advisory Council to Meet February 12 |
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2/1/99 |
Therapeutics Research Centers to Be Established Through Federal Cooperative Agreement Funding: Applications Sought |
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1/28/99 |
Research Does Not Support Routine Use of Antibiotics to Prevent Urinary Tract Infections in Paralyzed Persons |
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1/26/99 |
AHCPR Calls for Researchers to Assess Quality Improvement Strategies, Will Award up to $2 Million for Projects |
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1/21/99 |
The Pap Test Still Best Bet, but New Technologies Show Promise of Improving Screening Outcomes |
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1/20/99 |
AHCPR and Packard Foundation Invite Applications for Research to Improve Health Care for Low-income Children |
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1/14/99 |
AHCPR Names First Child and Adolescent Health Scholar |
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1/14/99 |
HHS Launches New Quality Resource for Health Professionals on the World Wide Web |
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1/12/99 |
AHCPR Seeks Study Proposals For Putting Research to Work in Medical Practice |
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1/12/99 |
Most Testosterone-Suppressing Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer Produce Similar Outcomes |
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1/8/99 |
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ to be Unveiled January 14 |
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1/7/99 |
New Medications Show Promise in Fighting Alcohol Dependence |
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1/5/99 |
Quality Improvement Campaign Increases Use of Steroids to Reduce Complications of Preterm Births in Pregnant Women |
