tailieunhanh - Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts—Fiscal Year 2003

however, even with tested, low-cost solutions for maternal and neonatal health available, mothers and infants die needlessly. every year, more than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and many more are permanently disabled. 6 even when infants survive, their chance for a healthy and productive life is much diminished by the death or disability of the mother. additionally, nearly 4 million babies die each year before they are a month old, from birth asphyxia or conditions such as prematurity and serious infections, and more than 3 million are stillborn. 7, 8 When stillbirths (infants born dead after 28 weeks. | Research on Child and Adolescent Health New Starts Fiscal Year 2003 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with supporting and conducting research that will improve the quality safety efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. This fact sheet summarizes AHRQ initiatives in child and adolescent health care focusing on improving the quality safety efficiency and effectiveness of health care. In Fiscal Year 2003 AHRQ announced support for million over the life of new intramural and extramural research projects including grants contracts and interagency agreements. Improving Quality and Increasing Safety Project Funded under Program Announcement PA for AHRQ s Small Research Grant Program. This program provides support for new investigators or researchers new to health care services issues and encourages preliminary exploratory or innovative research in new or previously unexamined areas. Racial Differences in PhysicianPatient Communication. Principal Investigator Thomas Campbell University of Rochester Rochester NY. Grant No. R03 HS13223 09 30 2003-09 29 2004 . This study will examine differences in the tone of voice of physicians when they talk with white compared to black adolescents. Previously collected audiotapes of interviews occurring during a preventive health visit will be analyzed. Forty interviews between a white primary care physician and black adolescents will be randomly selected and individually matched to two interviews between the same physician and 2 white adolescents creating 80 matched black white pairs for analysis. Identifying clinically significant differences in physicians nonverbal communication with black patients compared to white patients will help to understand and address racial disparities in the quality of health care communication. Project Funded under AHRQ s PA for Health Services Research. This PA supports projects focusing on a wide range of topics under AHRQs .