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Poster Abstracts by Category

Cancer	Cost Effectiveness
Chronic Disease	Data Issues
Evaluating Care Delivery	Epidemiology
Health Services Research	Immunization
Infectious Disease	Mental Health
Pharmacoepidemiology	Recruitment/Medical Group
Research Administration/Project Management	Special Populations
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Cancer

• Challenges encountered in breast and cervical cancer patient administrative data abstraction from multiple HMOs
• Complications within one year after contralateral prophylactic mastectomy
• Feasibility of using automated data for studying prostate cancer and hormone therapy treatment
• Hormone replacement therapy use after breast cancer: Description of use and impact on survival
• Increasing enrollment onto the STAR trial in an HMO: Outreach to high-risk women
• Long-term cancer survival and cognitive functioning
• Progress report on tobacco control in non-profit HMOs
• Quality of life among long-term breast cancer survivors diagnosed before the age of 50
• The reliability of breast cancer case identification using claims data

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Cost Effectiveness

• Cost-effectiveness of carotid imaging strategies among ischemic stroke patients
• Cost-effectiveness of echocardiographic imaging strategies among ischemic stroke patients

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Chronic Disease

• Are there racial differences in outpatient congestive heart failure management in an equal access environment?
• Barriers and facilitators to generalist-subspecialist communication about children with chronic conditions
• Cardiovascular events in chronic renal insufficiency
• Clinical characteristics of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and associated disease progression
• Diabetes quality improvement: Should we target patients, physicians, or clinics?
• Feasibility of arthritis surveillance in managed care
• Identifying patients interested in a group medical visit program for the treatment of arthritis
• Improving diabetes care: Common elements of successful primary care programs
• Organizational characteristics and chronic disease care: A conceptual model
• Primary care physician gender impacts HA1C levels
• Temporal trends in asthma drug utilization among adults
• The architecture of chronic care improvement: Patients, physicians, and organization of care
• The relationship between HA1C variation and health care cost
• Utilization of controller medications among adults receiving asthma drugs

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Data Issues

• HMO membership patterns: Patient characteristics, and implications for benefit structures and resource utilization

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Evaluating Care Delivery

• Capitated primary care physician compensation: Impact on care for enrolles with diabetes and hypertension
• Delivery of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in a managed care organization
• Evaluation of a drop-in group medical appointment (DIGMA) care model in Colorado
• Patient expectations and satisfaction
• Patient preferences for access to care
• Screening and treatment for osteoporosis in older individuals with fractures

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Epidemiology

• Receipt of surveillance mammography among breast cancer survivors

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Health Services Research

• Measuring emergency department crowding and hospital capacity

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Immunizations

• Safety of Inactivated Flu Vaccine Among Children

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Infectious Disease

• Bioterrorism surveillance using automated ambulatory care encounter records
• Population surveillance through electronic medical charts

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Mental Health

• Better communication may improve SSRI adherence

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Pharmacoepidemiology

• Compliance with pharmacologic therapy for osteoporosis
• Decreasing antibiotic use in U.S. children: 1995-2000
• The detection of preventable adverse drug events among ambulatory geriatric patients

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Recruitment/Medical Group

• Medical group and clinic recruitment in health services research

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Research Administration/Project Management

• Identification of incident colon cancer cases using claims data
• Time and budget requirements for multiple IRB approvals in health services research

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Special Populations

• Contact and cognitive performance in elderly women
• Risk factors for allergic sensitization in an HMO birth cohort of midwestern children
• Utilization of a managed Medicaid population to validate a software program designed to determine ethnicity

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Translating Research into Practice

• Performance characteristics of rapid, quantitative d-dimer assays for outpatient evaluation of venous thromboembolism
• Progress report on tobacco control in non-profit HMOs
• Screening adolescent females and males during health supervision visits: Translating research into practice

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