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• Safety-net patients are interested in using electronic communications with their health care providers

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Most surgeons expect patients to buy-in to postoperative life support prior to high-risk surgery

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Chart biopsy may improve emergency department handoffs when patients are admitted to the hospital

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Telemedicine may be a useful tool for managing hypertension, particularly among nondiabetic patients

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Review compares approaches for determining need for stenting in patients with coronary artery disease

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Patients who move among medical groups have higher care costs and use than those who stay in the same group

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Patients have a lower risk of dying in level I trauma center

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• 24-hour staffing of intensive care units with intensivists has benefits as well as some tradeoffs for patients and physicians

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

• Rural patients with a serious form of gallstone disease are less likely than urban patients to receive treatment

  Research Activities (2013), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).