Women's Health
Changes in health care delivery and financing are needed to meet the unique needs of older women with chronic conditions
Less than a minute of physician compassion can reduce anxiety in women newly diagnosed with breast cancer
Three out of four women physicians give high marks for the quality of health care they receive
Use of age as a threshold for recommending prenatal diagnosis is questioned
Cocaine and tobacco use during early pregnancy substantially increases the risk of miscarriage
Researchers examine correlation between length of stay following childbirth and women's satisfaction with care
HIV/AIDS Research
Antibiotic treatment of chorioamnionitis may have the potential to reduce transmission of HIV from mother to fetus
Study confirms recommendations for frequency of cervical cancer screening in HIV-infected women
Wasting dramatically reduces the quality of life of AIDS patients
Many people with AIDS change their minds about end-of-life care as the disease progresses
Primary Care Research
Depression can be treated effectively in primary care settings with proper controls and specialty consultation
Primary care physicians vary widely in how they evaluate and manage osteoarthritis of the knee
Case management of patients with chronic renal insufficiency did not improve outcomes over usual care
Both general internists and family physicians provide primary care, but their practice styles and resource use differ
Health Care Costs and Financing
Researchers examine trends in children's health insurance coverage and the potential impact of SCHIP
Doctors sometimes compensate for Medicare fee cuts by increasing volume
Tax-preferred medical savings accounts combined with high deductible catastrophic health plans may be unfair to some
Medical Effectiveness/Outcomes Research
Teaching hospitals appear to provide better care for two common conditions than nonteaching hospitals
Dental Research
Adults are as likely as adolescents to have cavities
Elderly Health
Studies explore the impact of medication use on cognitive functioning among community-dwelling elderly
Heart Disease
Cardiac arrests do not occur randomly but follow certain temporal patterns
AHCPR News and Notes
AHCPR issues request for planning ideas
Nominations invited for AHCPR Child Health Scholar
Announcements
Research on swallowing problems in the elderly highlights potential for preventing pneumonia in stroke patients
New MEPS reports are now available
Research Briefs
Can data-driven benchmarks be used to set the goals of Healthy People 2010?
A taxonomy of health networks and systems: Bringing order out of chaos
Validity and utility of patient-reported health measures on hospital admission
Incidence and duration of hospitalizations among persons with AIDS: An event history approach
Patient or physician preferences for decision analysis
Measurement of mammography rates for quality improvement
Computing population-based estimates of health-adjusted life expectancy
Reliability and validity of two self-report measures of impairment and disability for MS
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