John Eisenberg takes the helm as AHCPR's new Administrator
Hospitalization
Adverse drug
events cost an average teaching hospital $5.6 million a year
Slightly more than
half of patients who want life-sustaining treatment receive it
New classification
system for rehabilitation patients provides basis for prospective
payment
Patient
Outcomes/Effectiveness Research
Patients over
80 benefit most from stroke prevention drug but are least likely to get
it
Initial
symptom severity predicts outcomes of most men with BPH
Magnesium sulfate
appears promising for preventing cerebral palsy in preterm infants
Researchers examine
diagnostic techniques and therapies for acute low back pain
Pneumonia PORT
publishes recent findings
Quality of
Care/Access of Care
Double-reading
of mammograms does not necessarily improve diagnostic accuracy
Public disclosure of
hospital and physician CABG mortality rates has little effect on the types of
patients they treat
Quality of
physician/patient interaction may suffer when patients are anxious or very
sick
Caring
for depressed patients in a changing health care system challenges providers
and policymakers
Elderly/Long-Term
Care
State programs
for preadmission screening of nursing home applicants may not be
cost-effective
Special
Populations
Minority
research center publishes reports on prenatal care and reproductive
health
Announcements
New brochure
helps consumers choose and use health plans
AHCPR publishes
guide on the use of geographic methods in health services research
Final reports now
available from NTIS
Research
Briefs
Stages of
nursing's political development: Where we've been and where we ought to
go
An
estimation strategy for the combined population represented by the NMES
household and nursing home surveys
Measuring chronic
rheumatic pain in Mexican Americans: Cross-cultural adaptation of the McGill
pain questionnaire
Dental service use
among adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection
Assessing inner-city
patients' hospital experiences: A controlled trial of telephone interviews
versus mailed surveys
Stroke prevention in
a 75-year-old asymptomatic patient
Physician vs. patient
initiation of psychotropic prescribing in primary care settings: A content
analysis of audiotapes
Health status of well
vs. ill adolescents
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