Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets (CDOM): Staff Biographies

Anne Elixhauser

Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She participates in the processing, documentation, and production of two of AHRQ's databases produced through the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)—the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the Kid's Inpatient Database (KID). She has worked to develop AHRQ Comorbidity Software, AHRQ Quality Indicators, Clinical Classifications Software, and other tools for use with discharge abstract data, as well as HCUPnet, a Web-based query tool for hospital data. She is currently involved in the development a new tool—MONAHRQ—which will allow data organizations to input their data and output a Web site which they can host.

Dr. Elixhauser's research experience has spanned a wide array of topic areas, including technology assessment; economic analyses of preventive interventions; differences in use of health care resources by gender, race, ethnicity, and insurance status; cost-effectiveness analysis of prevention, pharmaceuticals, and devices; measurement of comorbidities using administrative data; medication compliance; development of patient classification systems and quality of care indicators; and merging clinical and administrative data. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Pediatrics, Health Affairs, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Journal of Public Health Policy, Medical Care, Diabetes Care, Health Services Research, and Health Economics. Dr. Elixhauser has a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from St. Louis University and has clinical experience as a physician assistant.

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