Health insurance plans vary dramatically in their coverage of new technologies
Family Health
Broad exposure
to other children and being poor are linked to increased risk for childhood
middle-ear effusion
Asthma occurs most
often among young black males who are more likely to seek care at the hospital
than a doctor's office
Health Care Delivery
Various
strategies would reduce but not eliminate risk of catastrophic nursing home
costs
Stroke prevention
screening for the general population would not be cost effective
Excess health care
system capacity, as well as physician behavior, may be responsible for
inappropriate practice variations
Research on Heart Disease
Likelihood of
heart attack in symptomatic patients who visit the ER is twice as great for
men as for women
Heart attack studies
document patients' reluctance to go to the hospital and undertreatment of some
severely ill patients
Non-insulin-dependent
diabetics frequently have heart disease, but high blood sugar is not the
culprit
Outcomes/Effectiveness Research
Researchers
continue to question value of annual prostate cancer screening for men over
50
Health Care Marketplace
Hospital
mergers are driven primarily by local merger opportunities
Dental Research
Higher dental
prices often denote higher quality of care
Consistency of
dentists' treatment recommendations for restoring teeth is questioned
Use of
dental services by the elderly grows, especially among city-dwelling blacks
covered by Medicare
Mental Health
Depression and
coexisting illnesses should be treated together to reduce costs and improve
outcomes
Primary care
physicians are more likely to recognize depression in women and more educated
patients
HIV/AIDS Research
Primary care
physicians fail to identify half of patients at risk for HIV
infection
Many health care
providers do not test TB patients for HIV infection as
recommended
Special Populations
Homeless
individuals living in congested urban areas are at high risk for TB
infection
AHCPR News and Notes
From the
Administrator
AHCPR to collaborate
with AMA and AAHP to develop a national guideline clearinghouse
AHCPR updates
CONQUEST database
Announcements
AHCPR urges
investigators to include children in their research and announces special
emphases for small project grants
AHCPR announces new
funding opportunities
AHCPR funds new
grants
Final reports now
available from NTIS
Research Briefs
Artificial
neural networks improve the accuracy of cancer survival prediction
Accuracy of homeless
adults' self-reports
Predicting
Clostridium difficile stool cytotoxin results in hospitalized
patients with diarrhea
What makes patients
think that their pharmacists' services are of value
Race and residence
variation in living arrangements among unmarried older adults
A longitudinal
examination of functional recovery among older people with subcapital hip
fractures
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