Clinicians & Providers

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Cases of Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Can Be Identified from ICD-9-CM Coded Data
• Code Status Discussions at Hospital Admission Are Not Associated with Patient and Surrogate Satisfaction with Hospital Care: Results from the Multicenter Hospitalist Study
• Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Derivation and Reliability of an Instrument To Estimate Medical Benefit of Emergency Treatment
• Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
• Effects of Documentation-based Decision Support on Chronic Disease Management
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures
• Hospital-reported Data on the Pneumonia Quality Measure ‘Time to First Antibiotic Dose" are not Associated with Inpatient Mortality
• Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
• Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Relationship between Chemotherapy Use and Cognitive Impairments in Older Women with Breast Cancer: Findings from a Large Population-based Cohort
• Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission
• Standard Definitions of Adherence for Infrequent Yet Repeated Health Behaviors
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• The Relationship between the Emergent Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Quality Measure and Inpatient Myocardial Infarction Mortality
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007

Policymaker Resources

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment

Research Activities Newsletter Articles

November 1 2010 20101101

Research Activities, November 2010, No. 363

Other Research & Data

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
• Hospital-reported Data on the Pneumonia Quality Measure ‘Time to First Antibiotic Dose" are not Associated with Inpatient Mortality
• Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
• Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Relationship between Chemotherapy Use and Cognitive Impairments in Older Women with Breast Cancer: Findings from a Large Population-based Cohort
• Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission
• Standard Definitions of Adherence for Infrequent Yet Repeated Health Behaviors
• Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment

Press Releases

February 6 2013 20130206

New Children's Electronic Health Record Format Announced

January 24 2013 20130124

Intensive Care Units for Newborns in Nine States See Sharp Drop in Bloodstream Infections

January 16 2013 20130116

Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety During Surgical Crises

November 6 2012 20121106

AHRQ National Advisory Council To Meet November 9

Other News & Events

• 9/11 attacks may have caused miscarriages of male fetuses
• A simple test can help assess how accurately patients report colorecta
• AHRQ Conference Snapshot
• AHRQ director helps consumers navigate the health care system in a new advice column on the Web
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• AHRQ patient safety indicator can be used to identify cases of hospital-acquired collapsed lung
• AHRQ releases new Spanish language guides on women's health, cholesterol treatment, and other topics
• AHRQ releases new and improved Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
• AHRQ report finds unclear value of pretesting autoimmune disorder patients before prescribing thiopurine drugs
• AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange offers innovative solutions to caring for women with gestational diabetes
• Aching back sends more than 3 million to emergency departments
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Approximately 5 percent of seniors report one or more cognitive disorders
• Black and Hispanic Medicare patients with hip fracture wait longer for surgery than white patients
• Blacks and patients at hospitals with a high percentage of black patients more likely to suffer adverse events
• Blacks have higher rates of pituitary adenoma
• Blood infections most costly hospital care in 2009
• Brief on multidisciplinary pain programs for chronic noncancer pain available
• Brief psychotherapy helps multiple sclerosis patients with insomnia and depression
• Certain Americans pay more than 10 percent of their family income to pay for medical expenses
• Cesarean delivery rates may not be a useful measure of obstetric quality
• Children are commonly exposed to ionizing radiation from medical diagnostic imaging procedures
• Clopidogrel increases bleeding risk in cardiac patients with drug-eluting stents
• Colonoscopy is best at diagnosing lower intestinal bleeding
• Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Dr. Maullik Joshi, Debra Ness, and Dr. James Mold
• Electronic medical record boosts documentation of test results, but still falls short for patient notification and test followup
• Employees' share of health plan premium costs up dramatically
• Fecal occult blood tests and followup need to be better targeted to healthy older adults
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• From the Director
• Growth in Medicaid patient hospital admissions outpace those for privately insured patients
• HHS awards $473 million in patient-centered outcomes research funding
• Healthcare 411
• Healthcare 411
• Heart-lung machine may be considered for certain patients with H1N1 influenza with acute respiratory failure
• Higher risk of death or heart attack in first 90 days after cardiac patients stop taking clopidogrel
• Hospital readmissions for COPD highest among black patients
• Hospital report cards on coronary bypass surgery are more accurate when based on 2-year data
• Human growth hormone shows promise in treating cystic fibrosis symptoms
• Innovations show the benefits of using phone-based care management
• Internet-based personal health records helpful to most HIV/AIDS patients who used them
• Landmark initiative to reduce healthcare-associated infections cuts deaths among Medicare patients in Michigan ICUs
• MRSA can spread slowly but surely in households
• Medical home concept not well defined in 2007 legislation
• Most adults with lactose intolerance can tolerate the amount of lactose in a cup of milk
• Most public hospitals are in rural areas
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• New AHRQ white paper helps decisionmaking and consistency in public reporting
• New ad campaign urges patients to consider medical treatment options
• New guide available on the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
• Nurses in hospital units with a higher proportion of short-term patients take longer to respond to patient call lights
• Off-label use of atypical antipsychotics not supported by evidence for some conditions
• One-fifth of mothers do not receive recommended antenatal corticosteroids before delivery of premature infants
• One-fifth of the U.S. population has no doctor or other usual source of medical care
• Operating room procedures account for nearly half of hospitals' treatment costs
• Oral chemotherapy drugs not immune to medication errors
• Pediatric emergency department visits surged during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, but few children were hospitalized
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Physicians who use electronic health records more intensively are more likely to use patient registries to improve care
• Plenary sessions at AHRQ annual meeting focus on connecting the dots between research and practice
• Potentially avoidable hospitalizations high among Medicare and Medicaid patients
• Premiums for some family plans cost $20,000 or more
• Primary care model helps treat underserved patients with hepatitis C virus infection
• Prostate cancer deaths drop, but blacks still most likely to die
• Report finds DMARDs effective in treating juvenile arthritis
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Routine osteoporosis screening recommended for all women over age 65
• Six of every 10 rural emergency departments visits made by poor patients
• Stroke recurrence rates vary by U.S. region
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• Uncertainty surrounds use of terbutaline to prevent preterm birth
• Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will help health providers improve care
• Updated GERD research reviews and summaries available
• Updated report highlights hospitals' progress in reducing bloodstream infections
• Various factors affect providers' ability to identify spoken drug names
• Visit the AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web Site
• Whistleblowers in pharmaceutical fraud cases pursue Federal lawsuits for moral reasons, not money