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Other Research & Data

• A guided care approach helps curb health care costs of elderly patients with chronic conditions
• A simple question identifies patients with low health literacy
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• AHRQ releases pharmacy health literacy modules for faculty
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Black Medicare patients less likely than whites to follow their doctor's instructions on taking medicines
• Black mothers skeptical of relationship between infant sleep position and SIDS
• Black physicians are less likely to have implicit preferences for blacks or whites
• Communications between patients with HIV and their providers differ along racial and substance use lines
• Deaf patients who use American Sign Language receive more preventive care if their clinician also uses sign language
• Depression, hearing impairment, and health literacy influence older adults' abilities to self-manage their care
• Different attitudes among blacks and whites affect their preference for same-race physicians
• Health literacy issues less of a problem for patients with dental versus medical conditions
• Health literacy level has no impact on frequency of blood-glucose monitoring for inner-city patients with diabetes
• Hispanics with HIV have different communication styles with their health care providers than whites
• Inner-city minority adults with chronic asthma are more likely to take inhaled medicine if they believe in its benefits
• Interactive graphics for expressing health risks: Development and qual
• Korean Americans with high blood pressure who are confident they can achieve blood pressure control are more likely to do so
• Language barriers related to increased hospital readmissions for Chinese- and Spanish-speaking patients
• Low health literacy linked to higher risk of death and more emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Lower educational level increases the likelihood of preclinical changes in mobility in older women
• Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood
• Men and blacks less likely to be aware of cancer screening benefits
• Most Mexican patients prefer their rheumatologist to make treatment decisions for them
• Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
• New AHRQ campaign encourages Hispanics to work with their doctors to make the best treatment decisions
• Patients with adult-onset diabetes with limited health literacy more likely to suffer hypoglycemic episodes
• Patients with limited health literacy less likely to use an Internet portal for diabetes and other health information
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening
• Racial and ethnic minority groups are less aware than whites of genetic testing for cancer risk
• Re-engineered discharge project dramatically reduces return trips to the hospital
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• Regular home blood pressure measurement raises the likelihood of blood pressure control among Korean Americans
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• Simple tool to measure health literacy in patients with HIV successfully predicts medication adherence
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Simplified drug warnings improve patients' understanding of what to do or avoid when given a particular prescription
• Studies examine black mothers' choices for infant sleep position and location
• Telephone counseling helps Korean Americans who speak little English improve hypertension management
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• Treatment by physicians with same race and language as the patient may improve medication adherence
• U.S.-born Mexican women who have adopted U.S. culture may be more at risk for cervical cancer
• Web videonovela series helps Spanish-speaking patients compare treatments for diabetes
• While young women are knowledgeable about the HPV vaccine, many have yet to be vaccinated to prevent cervical cancer
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy

Other News & Events

• No consistent association found between volume or quality and outcomes of complex surgeries for cancer
• 'Piece-rate' performance incentives for physicians improve childhood immunization rates
• 1 in 10 computer-generated prescriptions include at least one error
• 2008 HCUP Facts and Figures report provides statistics on hospital visits
• 2008 Nationwide Inpatient Sample released
• 2009 HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) now available
• 2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample released
• 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award recipients announced
• 24-hour intensivist care in ICUs can lead to cost savings for the sickest patients admitted at night
• 24-hour staffing of intensive care units with intensivists has benefits as well as some tradeoffs for patients and physicians
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• 9/11 attacks may have caused miscarriages of male fetuses
• A "diabetes dashboard" screen helps clinicians quickly and accurately access patient data needed for quality diabetes care
• A certain type of stroke increases risk of death and poor outcome
• A customized computer drug alert requiring active provider response is no more effective than a passive alert
• A few preoperative factors can be used to predict inpatient deaths following surgery
• A five-point checklist can help public report sponsors avoid misclassifying the performance of health care providers
• A guided care approach helps curb health care costs of elderly patients with chronic conditions
• A high percentage of patients with sickle cell disease self-discharge from hospital care
• A hospital's ability to rescue patients from complications after high-risk surgery determines mortality rates
• A large proportion of hospitalized children receive numerous medications during their hospitalization
• A new study links biomarker of brain injury to microemboli occurring during cardiac surgery
• A program for laboratory monitoring of renin-angiotensin system drugs is cost-effective for certain high-risk patients
• A simple question identifies patients with low health literacy
• A simple test can help assess how accurately patients report colorecta
• A small number of drugs are used most commonly during pediatric hospitalizations
• A standard enzyme assay may help screen for rickets in breast-fed infants not given vitamin D supplements
• A structured goal-setting approach can improve care outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes
• A usual source of care may be more important than insurance on children's receipt of preventive health counseling
• ADHD medications don't increase serious heart risks in children or adults
• AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference plenary session videos available
• AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference Registration Now Open
• AHRQ Announces Two New Funding Opportunities
• AHRQ Annual Conference focuses on implementing research at the frontlines of care
• AHRQ Annual Conference to Webcast the Plenary Sessions
• AHRQ Awards $34 Million To Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections
• AHRQ Awards $34 Million To Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections
• AHRQ Begins Project to Develop a Registry of Patient Registries Database
• AHRQ Conference Snapshot
• AHRQ Director Participates in Kaiser Family Foundation Webcast on Health Disparities
• AHRQ Director Stepping Down Later this Year
• AHRQ Director's Commentary Provides Insight on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform
• AHRQ Evidence Review Addresses Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Orthopedic Surgery
• AHRQ Handbook Helps Physician Practices Implement Interactive Preventive Health Records
• AHRQ Health IT Portfolio 2009 Annual Report Now Available
• AHRQ Offers Guidance on How to Design Physician Performance Feedback Report
• AHRQ Patient Safety Project Reduces Bloodstream Infections by 40 Percent
• AHRQ Releases 2011 State Snapshots
• AHRQ Releases New Medication Reconciliation Tool for Hospitals
• AHRQ Releases New Spanish-Language Guides for Patients
• AHRQ Releases Training Modules to Help Improve Safety in Nursing Homes
• AHRQ Report Examines Patient and Family Engagement Activities
• AHRQ Reports Find Cardiac Care Is Improving But Quality and Access Still Lag for Many Americans
• AHRQ Research Summaries for Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Now Available
• AHRQ Seeks Nominations for the Effective Health Care Stakeholder Group
• AHRQ State Snapshots Expanded to Include New Data on Health Insurance Coverage
• AHRQ State Snapshots expanded to include new data on health insurance
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• AHRQ Stats: AHRQ publishes statistics on hospital stays among obese adults and children and hospital stays for hip and knee replacement
• AHRQ Stats: Adult asthma rates nearly doubled in past decade
• AHRQ Study Examines Adverse Drug Events Caused by Medication Administration Errors
• AHRQ Study Shows Using Bar-code Technology with eMAR Reduces Medication Errors
• AHRQ To Host December 18 Web Conference on Patient-Clinician Communication Using Health IT
• AHRQ Toolkit Can Help Hospitals Lower Preventable Readmissions
• AHRQ Tools Support Teamwork and Patient Safety Awareness Week
• AHRQ Toolsets Available to Help Pharmacists and Physicians Implement E-Prescribing
• AHRQ Webcast on health outcomes of carotid revascularization to air August 19
• AHRQ adds new guides to supplement ischemic heart disease comparative effectiveness review
• AHRQ and Ad Council encourage men to take preventive steps in their health care
• AHRQ and the American College of Cardiology collaborate on study of implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• AHRQ announces CERTs awards
• AHRQ announces funding opportunity on patient-centered outcomes research dissemination
• AHRQ announces patient safety and medical liability demonstration projects
• AHRQ awards $34 million to expand fight against healthcare-associated infections
• AHRQ awards $34 million to expand fight against healthcare-associated infections
• AHRQ awards $4.5 million to create clinical preventive services research centers
• AHRQ awards grants for the redesign and transformation of primary care practice
• AHRQ awards grants for the science of public reporting
• AHRQ director helps consumers navigate the health care system in a new advice column on the Web
• AHRQ director stepping down later this year
• AHRQ expert discusses trends and challenges in health information technology
• AHRQ free online tutorials teach how to use HCUP data
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• AHRQ introduces new online technical tutorial series with first module on HCUP sample design
• AHRQ launches Healthcare 411 en Español
• AHRQ launches Healthy Men Web site
• AHRQ launches its new Facebook page
• AHRQ launches new HCUP databases and tools Webinar series
• AHRQ offers free toolkit to strengthen medication reconciliation
• AHRQ offers interactive tool to analyze national and State health care data
• AHRQ offers public reporting organizations communications tips
• AHRQ patient safety indicator can be used to identify cases of hospital-acquired collapsed lung
• AHRQ publishes cancer hospitalization statistics
• AHRQ publishes evidence report on the relationship of alcohol consumption to breast and colorectal cancer
• AHRQ publishes first evaluation highlight on CHIPRA quality demonstration grant program
• AHRQ releases 2007 hospital emergency department data
• AHRQ releases Common Formats for patient safety reporting in skilled nursing facilities
• AHRQ releases Common Formats for patient safety reporting in skilled nursing facilities
• AHRQ releases MONAHRQ Version 2.0
• AHRQ releases first primary care workforce facts and stats series
• AHRQ releases new CME/CE activities
• AHRQ releases new CME/CE courses
• AHRQ releases new Spanish language guides on women's health, cholesterol treatment, and other topics
• AHRQ releases new health literacy tool
• AHRQ releases new report on pain management of hip fracture
• AHRQ releases new series on closing the quality gap
• AHRQ releases pharmacy health literacy modules for faculty
• AHRQ releases plain-language guides on cystic fibrosis
• AHRQ releases report on designing consumer reporting systems for patient safety events
• AHRQ releases supplemental files for tracking repeat visits to different hospital settings
• AHRQ releases tool to help Spanish-speaking consumers reduce medication errors
• AHRQ releases training modules to help improve the safety of nursing home residents
• AHRQ releases new and improved Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
• AHRQ report examines impact of human resource patterns on quality and safety
• AHRQ report examines the effect of quality improvement interventions on palliative care
• AHRQ report finds teamwork and followup as strengths of medical offices but work pressure and pace are problematic
• AHRQ report finds unclear value of pretesting autoimmune disorder patients before prescribing thiopurine drugs
• AHRQ report reveals use of Medicaid home and community-based services
• AHRQ report shows that parent training is effective for treating young children with ADHD
• AHRQ reports summarize quality gaps across health care
• AHRQ researchers! Let us know about your pending publications and real-life impact of AHRQ research
• AHRQ reviews evidence on multigene panels for prostate cancer risk assessment
• AHRQ reviews highlight treatment options for rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis
• AHRQ safety project reduces bloodstream infections by 40 percent
• AHRQ seeks comments on a proposed children's health care quality measures project
• AHRQ seeks new topic nominations for U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• AHRQ solicits measures of children's health care quality for CHIPRA 2013
• AHRQ tool that measures patients' home health care experiences to be implemented by CMS
• AHRQ toolkit can help hospitals lower preventable readmissions
• AHRQ toolkit helps hospitals improve antibiotic selection to reduce deadly C. difficile infections
• AHRQ toolkit helps to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers
• AHRQ updates 2001 evidence report on treating acute otitis media
• AHRQ updates report on oral diabetes medications' effectiveness and safety
• AHRQ's 2011 Annual Conference set for September 18-21
• AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program Technical Brief on Stroke Care Is Available
• AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program presentations from the Eisenberg Conference Series 2010 are now available
• AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange offers innovative solutions to caring for women with gestational diabetes
• AHRQ's MONAHRQ® is one of six winners in the HHSinnovates program
• AHRQ's annual conference focuses on innovation and collaboration
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• AHRQ's health IT 2010 annual report is available
• AHRQ, Ad Council Launch Conozca las preguntas Campaign
• AHRQ, Ad Council launch Conozca las preguntas campaign
• AHRQ-Funded Study Finds Patient Characteristics and Preferences Can Impact the Use of Patient Portals
• AHRQ-funded medical liability and patient safety initiative shows promise for reducing patient harm, lawsuits, and costs
• AHRQ-funded report shows promise in detecting surgical site infections
• Abnormal electrocardiogram results nearly double the risk of cardiovascular-related death for patients without heart disease
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• About three fourths of patients in the United States estimated to remain in HIV care
• About three-fourths of patients in the United States estimated to remain in HIV care
• Abused women have higher risks for numerous medical disorders
• Acamprosate safe and efficacious in treating alcohol dependence
• Acceptance of "smart" intravenous infusion pumps is growing among nurses, but challenges remain
• Access to care for patients with lupus affected by several local factors
• Accessible services in primary care practices promote preventive health screenings and care
• Accuracy of ultrasound for ectopic pregnancy in the emergency department is not helped by measuring a key pregnancy hormone
• Aching back sends more than 3 million to emergency departments
• Acupuncture helps with depression during pregnancy
• Adding another medication rather than switching medications may benefit more from augmentation of treatment with another medication than from switching medications
• Adding incentive payments to pay-for-performance hospital program boosts payments to hospitals treating more disadvantaged patients
• Adequate financial bonuses and peer support motivate providers to adhere to evidence-based treatment guidelines
• Adherence interventions may help patients with hepatitis C
• Adherence to bipolar medications may also promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy
• Adjusting hospital admissions by day can help with overcrowding in children's hospitals
• Administration of antimicrobials just prior to surgery reduces the risk of surgical site infections
• Administrative data alone are insufficient to understand equivalence of two common blood pressure drugs
• Admission Rates from Emergency Departments Vary Widely
• Admission rates from emergency departments vary widely
• Adolescent females living in disadvantaged neighborhoods are at increased risk for obesity
• Adolescents with higher socioeconomic status at greater risk for substance abuse during early adulthood
• Adults with individual and employment-related health insurance report similar, often good, access to care
• Advanced type of cancer radiation reduces side effects, but impact on cancer control is unclear
• Advantage of high survival rates among low-weight black infants has waned over time
• Adverse drug event surveillance tailored to hospitalized children
• Adverse drug reactions a major cause of unplanned hospitalizations of elderly veterans
• Adverse events occurring during pediatric sedation are recorded in charts but not always reported
• Affordable Care Act likely to create uncertainties in Medicaid enrollment, costs, and physician workforce needs
• Aging causes changes in the brain's white matter, which is worsened by hypertension and other vascular problems
• Alcohol may be misused by residents in assisted living places
• Alcohol screening questionnaire can help identify high-risk drinkers with increased postoperative health care use
• Aldosterone antagonist therapy at hospital discharge linked to modest reduced risk of rehospitalization for heart failure
• Although the patient-centered medical home is a promising model of care, more studies are needed to assess its effectiveness
• Americans, especially blacks, spend substantial periods of time uninsured
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• An automated phone response system can help track adverse drug events in primary care patients
• An empowerment-based educational approach improves understanding and knowledge for patients with diabetes
• Analyzing electronic health record data can help identify the overuse of cervical cancer screening
• Anemia is common among nursing home residents and affects their physical functioning
• Announcements: New public reporting funding opportunity
• Announcements: Opportunities to improve primary care services for adults with complex needs highlighted in new white paper and brief
• Annual Quality and Disparities Reports Include Data on Rates of Patient Safety, Obesity and Health Insurance Improved
• Annual quality and disparities reports include data on health care-associated infections, obesity, and health insurance
• Annual screening for malignancy among children with spina bifida with cystoplasty unlikely to be cost effective
• Anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy increases risk for certain mycobacteria infections
• Antibiotic resistance is prevalent and varied in long-term-care facilities
• Antibiotics are modestly more effective than no treatment for middle ear infections in children
• Antidepressant use rises while psychotherapy declines
• Antidepressants may help some HIV patients stick to their complex medication regimens
• Antipsychotic choices in nursing homes partly influenced by nursing home’s prescribing culture
• Antipsychotic medications linked to occurrence of diabetes in children
• Antipsychotic use among the elderly boosts risk of stroke
• Antipsychotic use doubles for very young children, while mental health visits are few
• Antiretroviral switching strategies to treat HIV improve survival and are cost-effective in resource-limited countries
• Anxiety is common among older adults receiving care from aging services agencies
• Approximately 5 percent of seniors report one or more cognitive disorders
• Archive of Webcast on integrating comparative effectiveness research into everyday practice available
• Arizona and Maryland see great drop in in-hospital deaths from pneumonia
• Arterial and perfusion imaging help guide treatment for stroke patients when symptom onset is unknown
• Assessment of hospital computerized physician order entry systems finds many medication errors are missed
• Asthma project helps resident physicians improve care for minority patients
• Atul Gawande is plenary speaker at AHRQ's annual conference September 26-29
• Atypical antipsychotic medications increase fracture risk in patients with Parkinson's disease
• Automated quality measures can be used to improve asthma care
• Automated screening of patient electronic medical records is only the first step to identifying a medication problem
• Awareness of turning points shared by abused women can help health care workers provide counseling
• Bariatric surgery before pregnancy reduces the risk of gestational diabetes in obese women
• Bariatric surgery is not linked to lower costs among individuals with diabetes
• Behavioral counseling is an effective treatment for alcohol misuse
• Behavioral health providers are generally positive about health information exchanges
• Being a caregiver linked to poor health behaviors among baby boomers
• Being foreign-born affects access to care
• Being overweight does not have a negative impact on quality of life af
• Being overweight does not have a negative impact on quality of life after a kidney transplant
• Being overweight prior to transplant surgery slows improvement in the physical functioning of liver transplant patients
• Benefits and risks of helicopter transport for trauma patients investigated
• Benefits of active surveillance therapy for localized prostate cancer not yet demonstrated
• Benefits of case management for chronic illness limited
• Benefits of chemotherapy for elderly patients with lung cancer must be weighed against risk of long-term toxicities
• Benefits under the Affordable Care Act would have reduced out-of-pocket expenses
• Best strategies to treat traumatic brain injury patients are unclear
• Beta blockers are underused in patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Better adherence to diabetes medications means fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits
• Better hospital quality of care for the elderly is associated with lower mortality after discharge
• Bevacizumab, when added to chemotherapy regimen for elderly patients with lung cancer, does not increase survival rates
• Birth Defects May Be Linked to High Blood Pressure, Not Use of ACE Inhibitors in Early Pregnancy
• Birth defects may be linked to high blood pressure, not use of ACE inhibitors in early pregnancy
• Black Medicare patients less likely than whites to follow their doctor's instructions on taking medicines
• Black and Hispanic Medicare patients with hip fracture wait longer for surgery than white patients
• Black children are more likely to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix than white children
• Black male prisoners in North Carolina have considerably lower mortality rates than black residents of that State
• Black mothers skeptical of relationship between infant sleep position and SIDS
• Black patients are negatively affected by clinicians' attitudes about race
• Black physicians are less likely to have implicit preferences for blacks or whites
• Blacks and patients at hospitals with a high percentage of black patients more likely to suffer adverse events
• Blacks express more concerns about telemedicine than Hispanics
• Blacks have higher rates of pituitary adenoma
• Blacks have longer PSA screening intervals than whites
• Blacks have worse colorectal cancer survival rates than whites
• Blacks hospitalized for high blood pressure five times more often than
• Blacks less likely than whites to use either statins or aspirin in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
• Blacks treated at community health centers are less likely than Hispanics or whites to have controlled blood pressure
• Blacks who receive heart transplants have poorer survival than other racial groups
• Blacks with lung cancer have higher mortality rates than whites
• Blood infections most costly hospital care in 2009
• Blood pressure control persists after physician-pharmacist intervention ends
• Body fat distribution in obese trauma patients is not linked to increased inflammation, infections, or mortality
• Bone Marrow Transplant is Beneficial for Some Rare Childhood Diseases
• Bone marrow transplant is beneficial for some rare pediatric conditions
• Both laparoscopic and open surgical techniques found effective for moving undescended testicles to normal position
• Bowel incontinence and other clinical factors predict the development of pressure ulcers
• Brand-name drugs not better than generics for controlling epilepsy
• Breast cancer is associated with higher health care use and costs for women covered by fee-for-service Medicaid
• Breathing retraining techniques may help adult asthma
• Brief on multidisciplinary pain programs for chronic noncancer pain available
• Brief outlines strategies to put patients at the center of primary care
• Brief psychotherapy helps multiple sclerosis patients with insomnia and depression
• Bronchitis and asthma most commonly treated conditions among children
• Bundled payments for heart failure disease management programs can save money while reducing readmissions
• Bundling payments reduces health care spending
• C-reactive protein testing is not more effective than an educational intervention to decrease antibiotic prescriptions for patients seen for acute cough
• CME module offered on in-hospital off-label uses of recombinant factor VIIa
• COPD drug triad associated with reduced death and hospitalization rates
• Calcium from food linked to lower risk for prostate cancer
• California nurse staffing mandate did not reduce nursing workforce skill levels
• Call for papers for special issue of Health Services Research on mixed methods in health care delivery system research
• Cancer patients more likely to face higher cost burdens than those with other chronic conditions
• Cardiac procedures can lead to substantial radiation exposure for patients
• Care for patients with HIV remains expensive
• Care process model to treat feverish infants with possible serious bacterial infections improves outcomes, lowers costs
• Care processes in nursing home and residential long-term care settings
• Care processes in nursing home and residential long-term care settings may benefit people with dementia
• Care setting affects likelihood that children with persistent asthma will receive inhaled steroids
• Careful design of personal health records can improve the delivery of preventive care
• Caregiver dissatisfaction affects outpatient care for the elderly with dementia
• Caregivers for advanced cystic fibrosis patients want to discuss intensive treatments and symptom relief
• Certain Americans pay more than 10 percent of their family income to pay for medical expenses
• Certain antibiotics increase the risk of treatment failure in children with MRSA-related skin and soft-tissue infections
• Certain factors can help prepare families to bring infants home from neonatal intensive care units
• Certain factors increase risk of medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• Certain factors linked to risk of early death of intensive care patients after discharge
• Certain hospital characteristics influence mortality after complications following high-risk surgery
• Certain hospital strategies lower mortality rates for heart attack patients
• Certain medications are associated with functional decline in the elderly
• Certain medications are effective in reducing restless leg syndrome symptoms
• Certain patients with lupus are more likely to end up in the emergency department three or more times a year
• Certain women are at greater risk for mental health problems during pregnancy
• Cesarean delivery rates may not be a useful measure of obstetric quality
• Challenges abundant for practices that use fax referrals to smoking cessation quitlines
• Characteristics of care facilities may influence when elderly breast cancer patients receive radiation therapy
• Chemotherapy and radiation therapy for lung cancer linked to cardiac disorders
• Chemotherapy that contains anthracyclines is associated with later cardiac illness in breast cancer patients
• Children are commonly exposed to ionizing radiation from medical diagnostic imaging procedures
• Children of working mothers face more health problems
• Children whose parents lack a usual source of care are more likely to have unmet medical needs
• Children with ADHD from larger families more likely to use stimulants
• Children with a medical home more likely to receive health screenings and advice
• Children with cerebral palsy who undergo gait assessment before surgery are less likely to need additional surgery later
• Children with health insurance are less likely to receive needed services if their parents are uninsured
• Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis are at high risk of hospital stays that involve bacterial infections
• Children with special health care needs with disabilities have greater unmet health care needs than those without disabilities
• Children's hospitals are pressed to capacity by response to pandemic outbreaks
• Children's underenrollment in State health insurance programs may be due in part to parents' confusion about coverage
• Children's unmet health needs similar for low- and middle-income families with either public or private insurance
• Children's use of asthma controller drugs doubles
• Cholesterol and diabetes drugs lead drug spending for the elderly
• Chronic Care Model linked to exercise discussions during primary care office visits for diabetes
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• Clinical algorithm can identify and locate serious internal bleeding related to oral anticoagulant use
• Clinical decision support systems are effective but research is needed to promote widespread use
• Clinical inertia may represent good clinical judgment in hypertension telemanagement
• Clinical informatics monitoring tool helps reduce adverse drug events in nursing home settings
• Clinical quality measures useful in estimating quality across different electronic health records
• Clinician and Patient Resources Now Available on ADHD Treatment Options
• Clinician and patient resources now available on ADHD treatment options
• Clinicians Perform "Chart Biopsies" to Prepare for Patient Handoffs
• Clinicians cautioned about use of antihypertensive in children receiviing kidney transplants who take tacrolimus
• Clinicians find triggers and algorithms in e-prescribing software helpful in avoiding inappropriate medications in older adults
• Clinicians from pediatrics, family medicine, and geriatrics appointed to lead the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• Clinicians should be cautious when prescribing one class of diabetes drugs for patients at high risk for heart attack
• Clinicians' adoption and use of electronic prescribing is likely linked to their views on technology
• Clopidogrel increases bleeding risk in cardiac patients with drug-eluting stents
• Clostridium difficile infection rate has risen among hospitalized children since late 1990s
• Co-occurring mental disorders such as PTSD and panic disorder prompt the depressed to seek earlier treatment
• Colonoscopy is best at diagnosing lower intestinal bleeding
• Colony-stimulating factor is effective in reducing infection for elderly patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on chemotherapy
• Colorectal cancer screening is mostly underused, but problems with overuse and misuse remain
• Colorectal cancer screening still underused
• Combination diuretic therapy for heart failure appears useful, but needs a stronger evidence base
• Combination treatment reduces acute kidney injury due to infusion of contrast dye during cardiac catheterization
• Combining strategies cuts hospitals’ healthcare-associated infection rates
• Common sleep disorder contributes to work disability and need to modify work duties
• Communication problems between hospitalists and primary care providers lead to postdischarge problems for seniors
• Communications between patients with HIV and their providers differ along racial and substance use lines
• Community health center collaboratives improve care quality but have little impact on disparities
• Community hospitals care for psychiatric patients in medical-surgical beds when psychiatric units are full
• Community hubs ensure better care for the most vulnerable
• Comparative effectiveness report on osteoarthritis updated
• Compliance is low for computer alerts recommending conversion from intravenous to oral medications
• Complications after kidney cancer surgery are linked with decreased long-term survival
• Complications and in-hospital deaths more frequent among patients who undergo anterior rather than posterior spine fusion
• Complications increase mortality of trauma patients
• Computer display helps reduce the rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia in surgical intensive care units
• Computer system compares well with clinicians in assessing, but not treating children with asthma
• Computerized Provider Order Entry Cuts Medication Error Likelihood in Half
• Computerized clinical decision support may promote contraceptive counseling for women prescribed teratogenic medications
• Computerized clinical decision support produces only modest savings for nursing home residents with impaired kidney function
• Computerized decisionmaking systems improve physician prescribing for long-term-care residents
• Computerized provider order entry significantly reduces medication err
• Computerized tomography angiography may help determine appropriate treatment for stroke patients
• Connecting local providers to academic medical centers using video improved hepatitis C outcomes
• Consider local health care systems when designing services for the uninsured
• Consolidating blood draws may help reduce blood loss in critically ill children
• Consumer and clinician summaries now available on chronic pelvic pain treatment options
• Consumers choose "high-value" health care providers when given combined cost and quality information
• Contact isolation of new patients reduces adherence to process-of-care quality measures for pneumonia
• Continuing beta blockers after noncardiac surgery improves patient outcome
• Contrast-enhanced CT scans do not increase the risk of kidney failure in patients with acute stroke
• Conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs show differing safety risks among older nursing home residents
• Coronary risk information may improve prescribing practices
• Corporate social responsibility as well as profit motivates executives
• Cost of family coverage provided by employers 1.5 times more in 2009 than in 2000
• Cost of hospital treatment for blood infection surges
• Cost of hospitalization highest among the non-elderly
• Cost-effectiveness analysis supports genetic testing before patients with metastatic colorectal cancer are given irinotecan
• Costly, ineffective tests used more often than more effective, but inexpensive tests to diagnose peripheral neuropathy
• Costs of congenital heart operations vary among hospitals
• Counseling education does not significantly boost residents' dietary counseling of patients with diabetes
• Creating networks to provide social support for the homeless may improve health outcomes
• Criminal justice system may create and aggravate health disparities among minorities
• Crisis checklists for the operating room can improve safety and management
• Criteria used to identify "drugs to avoid" in the elderly are not very accurate
• Cultural myths may prevent low-income black women from exercising during pregnancy
• Data Points report on disease prevalence and Medicare reimbursement is available
• Deaf patients who use American Sign Language receive more preventive care if their clinician also uses sign language
• Deaths from hospital complications drop, disparities remain
• Decision modeling can demonstrate potential trade-offs between survival and quality of life in advance directives
• Decision support in the electronic record improves asthma care
• Decision support intervention prompts clinicians to update patients' problem lists in their medical records
• Decision support may aid emergency physicians in interpreting benign from serious eye movement patterns in dizzy patients
• Defense expenses for medical malpractice claims have risen faster than settlement amounts
• Delay in filling a blood-thinner prescription after procedures to implant a drug-eluting stent is risky
• Delaying the control of blood pressure among middle-aged adults with diabetes
• Delays in reporting medical errors at Japanese hospital nearly triple that of United States hospital
• Demographic and health factors influence the type of prostate cancer screening received by men over age 40
• Dental bills high in California
• Dependent elderly people are adversely affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Depending on a woman's age, hysterectomy may be the best option for resolving chronic pelvic pain and heavy bleeding
• Depressed patients with anxiety who fail initial antidepressant therapy may benefit from adding a second drug
• Depression, falls, and low blood sugar affect quality of life as much as diabetes complications in older adults with diabetes
• Depression, hearing impairment, and health literacy influence older adults' abilities to self-manage their care
• Despite more widespread prescribing of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, disparities remain
• Despite recommendations against it, early discharge of late-preterm newborns remains common
• Despite their helpfulness to guiding care, home blood pressure readings are rarely documented in routine clinical care
• Detailed, up-to-date medication lists help prevent errors
• Developing community health resources entices more elderly patients to seek hospital care locally
• Diabetes substantially affects school dropout rates and wages
• Diabetes testing plummets among poor, minority, and inner-city adults
• Diabetes treatment involves more multidrug regimens and high financial burden
• Diagnosing and treating depression gets better in nursing homes but some disparities remain
• Diagnosis and treatment rates for depression in older adults have grown over time, with medication edging out therapy
• Diagnostic coding formulas underestimate hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of COPD
• Diet and medication adherence can reduce cardiovascular disease for patients with type 2 diabetes
• Differences in the costs of drugs prescribed lead to regional variation in Medicare Part D drug spending
• Different attitudes among blacks and whites affect their preference for same-race physicians
• Dilators more cost-effective than surgery for correcting congenital condition in females
• Disadvantages in housing, food, and health care all predict health declines in older Americans
• Discharge to skilled nursing facilities after a heart attack or heart failure explains little of variation in hospital readmissions
• Disclosure of funding sources affects physician evaluation of research studies
• Disease that springs from water parasites may also be a risk factor for HIV for women in sub-Saharan Africa
• Disparities Report highlights health care challenges for minorities, underscores importance of Affordable Care Act
• Disparities in adherence to blood pressure medications exist among older minorities
• Disparities widen in the use of asthma medications
• Dissemination and implementation of clinical trial results are needed to encourage recommended practices
• Distance-based training in spirometry use increases the quality of asthma diagnosis
• Doctor's comments during a child's physical exam can affect whether parents push for antibiotics
• Doctors remain remiss in advising overweight patients about healthy eating
• Doctors typically agree with surrogates' decisions on care
• Doctors underprescribe warfarin to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure
• Domestic violence on the decline but young women are at highest risk
• Dr. Atul Gawande Discusses Challenges in Health Care with Attendees at AHRQ's Annual Conference
• Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Dr. Maullik Joshi, Debra Ness, and Dr. James Mold
• Drug discontinuation effects are not limited to psychoactive drugs, but may be important for cardiovascular drugs as well
• Drug expenses for children with asthma more than doubled in 10 years
• Drug industry-sponsored patient assistance programs are seldom used by older adults
• Drug interaction decision support software has limitations and pharmacists' knowledge of support features is limited
• Drug monitoring may be improved by the use of health information technology and clinical pharmacists
• Drug-eluting stents appear safe for older patients with chronic kidney disease
• Drugs to treat hepatitis B may not prevent patients from liver disease later
• Dual Veterans Administration/Medicare users are not hospitalized more for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• Dual therapy may be slightly less effective than triple therapy for chronic infection with hepatitis C virus
• Duplicate medication order errors increase after computerized provider order entry is implemented
• E-prescribing for managing medication refills has not reached its full potential
• E-prescribing systems within electronic health records reduce ambulatory prescribing errors in community-based practices
• EMS transport is underused by patients with a certain type of heart attack
• Early and intensive intervention for a flu pandemic is effective and cost-effective
• Early followup with a physician reduces readmissions for Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure
• Education and income influence the black–white crossover in mortality at advanced ages
• Educational intervention helps doctors and patients split statin tablets to save money for patients and payers
• Effective Health Care Program develops new papers, continuing medical education courses, and faculty slides
• Effectiveness of active surveillance for men with localized prostate cancer is unclear
• Effectiveness of noninvasive diagnostic tests for breast abnormalities depends on woman's history
• Effects of antidepressants on suicidal thoughts and behavior differ by age group
• Elderly blacks less likely than elderly whites to receive a depression diagnosis or treatment
• Elderly colon cancer patients receiving chemotherapy after surgery are at risk for various toxicities
• Elderly lung cancer patients experience more adverse events during chemotherapy than younger patients
• Elders and families find it difficult to interpret data from passive sensors that help monitor elderly activity
• Elders' preferences for end-of-life care are not captured by documentation in their medical records
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• Electronic alerts do not increase risk-appropriate care for patients with chest pain
• Electronic health record decision support improves the care of children with ADHD
• Electronic health record tools help physicians identify and counsel overweight patients
• Electronic health record-based medication monitoring improves patient compliance in primary care clinics
• Electronic health records can help detect diagnostic errors in primary care
• Electronic health records help researchers harness data
• Electronic health records improve diabetes care and outcomes
• Electronic health records improve nursing care, coordination, and patient safety
• Electronic health records in community health centers provide a better picture of care than insurance claims data
• Electronic medical record boosts documentation of test results, but still falls short for patient notification and test followup
• Electronic medical records reduce negative outcomes and related costs after patient safety events occur
• Electronic order sets can help treatment conform to guidelines for antibiotic use after surgery
• Electronic prescribing improves safety, but with a small increase in physician time
• Electronic prescribing with clinical decision support reduces medication errors in community-based practices
• Electronic standing orders increase delivery of preventive services
• Emergency Preparedness Resource Inventory updated
• Emergency department patients and visitors are most interested in education about stress and depression
• Emergency department treatment of asthma with systemic corticosteroids is not always timely
• Emergency departments have increasingly become the health care safety net for adults insured by Medicaid
• Emergency departments treat 3.5 million crash victims a year
• Emergency physicians suggest ways to reduce errors in patient handoffs during shift changes
• Employees in small businesses more likely to have high-premium health plans
• Employees' share of health plan premium costs up dramatically
• Empowerment approach to diabetes education works better than the traditional didactic approach
• Enrollment in Medicare Advantage managed care plans reduces racial/ethnic disparities in primary care quality in some States
• Epilepsy drugs do not appear to increase suicide risk in patients with bipolar disorder
• Epoetin and Darbepoetin Reduce Need for Transfusions, Increase Risk of Blood Clots for Anemia in Cancer Patients, Review Finds
• Evaluation of TeamSTEPPS® implementation finds improved teamwork and clinical outcomes
• Even with universal health insurance, the homeless in Canada encounter barriers to obtaining health care
• Evidence is weak on whole-body vibration therapy for osteoporosis
• Evidence lacking on best approaches to treat autism in teens and young adults
• Evidence lacking on devices used with percutaneous coronary interventions
• Evidence lacking on effectiveness of antipsychotics for children
• Evidence lacking on how to match wheelchairs with patients
• Evidence lacking on optimal transition-of-care programs for heart attack and stroke patients following hospitalization
• Evidence lacking on transition-of-care programs for heart attack and stroke patients after hospital discharge
• Evidence lacking to support surgery for pelvic pain
• Evidence report examines health IT impact on medication management
• Evidence report finds modest and short-term benefit of complementary and alternative therapy for back and neck pain
• Evidence report on safety of probiotics published
• Evidence-based care processes are associated with improved outcomes for heart failure
• Evidence-based strategies substantially reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in ICUs
• Experienced primary care physicians want to know about your clinical status while you are in the hospital
• Expert workshop discusses disparities in health care quality and role of health IT in underresourced settings
• Experts call for integrating mental health into primary care
• Experts propose new Health Literate Care Model
• Experts seek better diagnosis and treatment for women's urinary incontinence and chronic pelvic pain
• Extended use of antiviral drugs found to be safe and effective in preventing symptomatic influenza
• Extended use of medications to prevent blood clots may benefit patients after major orthopedic surgery
• Extending use of anti-clotting medication following major orthopedic surgery may help prevent post-operative blood clots
• FACE cards have a small positive effect on hospital patients' ability to identify their physicians
• Factors identified that influence preventable hospitalization rates in small areas over time
• Factors linked to racial or ethnic disparities in U.S. fetal death rates differ among groups
• Failure to order and follow up medical tests are leading causes of diagnostic errors
• Fecal occult blood tests and followup need to be better targeted to healthy older adults
• Fever over 100°F following multiple infant vaccinations is rare
• Fewer heart bypass surgeries performed
• Fewer patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis die while awaiting liver transplants than those with other liver diseases
• Fewer public psychiatric hospital beds may lead to higher suicide rates
• Fewer than 1 in 5 emergency departments implement recommendations for HIV screening
• Final 2014 clinical quality measures available
• Financial performance has modest effect on nursing home quality improvement
• Flawed State apology and disclosure laws dilute their intended impact on malpractice suits
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• For 1 in 10 Medicaid patients, it's back to the hospital in a month
• For elderly patients with depression, cost-sharing insurance policies reduce drug use without increasing use of care
• For hypertensive patients with diabetes, blood pressure drops quicker with more frequent interactions with clinicians
• For-profit dialysis chains have higher mortality rates than non-profit dialysis chain
• Foreign-born patients are more likely to have a form of tuberculosis that resists a common drug used in treatment
• Four drugs to treat chronic heart failure found similarly effective
• Four million hospital admissions potentially unnecessary
• Fragmentation of care for complex diabetes patients may be associated with greater use of the emergency department
• Free TeamSTEPPS® training opportunities
• Free patient education videos, pamphlets available in Spanish
• Free, innovative new online resource for hospital quality reporting now available
• Friends' behavior and parental values influence rates of unprotected vaginal intercourse among teens
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• Full use of evidence-based therapies for heart failure could save nearly 70,000 lives each year
• Gaps in insurance coverage linked to less receipt of preventive services by patients with diabetes
• Gender trumps religiosity in older Mexican Americans' views on physician-assisted suicide
• General hospitals are stepping up specialty services in response to competition from single specialty hospitals
• Genetic risk for obesity in children boosts risk for obesity in adulthood
• Genotype information can make the predicted therapeutic dose of warfarin more accurate
• Geographic information system reveals primary care needs of Hispanics
• Giving birth to a small gestational age infant increases likelihood of later maternal ischemic heart disease
• Giving consumers easy-to-understand information on health care quality and costs boosts the choice of high-value care
• Glaucoma treatments can lower eye pressure
• Going smooth can help relieve weekday crowding at children's hospitals
• Good communication with the doctor treating their child for cancer improves parental satisfaction with their role in decisions
• Grant applications requested that focus on health care for priority populations
• Greater use of preventive measures needed for hospitalized patients with suspected venous thromboembolism
• Growth in Medicaid patient hospital admissions outpace those for privately insured patients
• Growth in the physician assistant workforce will be insufficient to meet future needs of primary care
• Guide helps consumers reduce medication errors
• Guide to clinical preventive services now available
• Guideline familiarity does not equal guideline adherence
• Guideline management of inpatient cellulitis and cutaneous abscess reduces antibiotic use
• HCUP 2010 NEDS database now available
• HCUP 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database released
• HCUP Data Users' Workshop registration closing soon
• HCUP Releases 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
• HCUP offers new online tutorial series modules
• HCUP offers new online tutorial series' modules
• HCUP releases 2009 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
• HCUP releases 2009 facts and figures report on hospital-based care
• HHS Awards $473 Million in Patient-centered Outcomes Research Funding
• HHS Issues New Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions
• HHS Releases National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Report
• HHS Releases New Online Patient Safety Training Resources for Clinicians and Patient Advocates
• HHS Secretary Released the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Report
• HHS Secretary appoints members to AHRQ National Advisory Council
• HHS Seeks Comments on National Health Care Quality Strategy and Plan
• HHS awards $473 million in patient-centered outcomes research funding
• HIV outcomes and medication use are similar between rural and urban HIV patients
• HIV patients are at risk for being prescribed wrong drug combinations
• HIV patients with psychiatric disorders are less likely to discontinue HAART
• HIV treatment costs much more when patients start treatment later in the disease
• HIV/AIDS drugs have varied effects on lipid levels
• Half of all annual medical expenditures are for chronic diseases
• Hard-of-hearing individuals more likely to report difficulties in accessing care
• Having a usual source of care as well as insurance reduces unmet health needs
• Having a usual source of care is as important as having insurance in reducing children’s unmet health care needs
• Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
• Having poor family relationships increases the risk for depression
• Hawaii's experience shows that a national collaborative effort can reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections
• Headache and nausea most common side effects among adults and adolescents taking antidepressants
• Health Care Quality Gaps and Disparities Persist in Every State
• Health Care Quality Gaps and Disparities Persist in Every State
• Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, But Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist
• Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, But Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist, According to New AHRQ Reports
• Health Literacy Toolkit Published
• Health Services Research extends call for papers on health IT
• Health care costs of obesity are passed off to obese workers
• Health care quality still improving slowly, but disparities and gaps in access to care persist
• Health care-associated infections greatly increase the length and cost of hospital stays
• Health information exchange can save money by reducing admissions from the emergency department
• Health information technology improves care and saves lives
• Health information technology improves the timely availability of diagnostic information
• Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
• Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
• Health literacy issues less of a problem for patients with dental versus medical conditions
• Health literacy level has no impact on frequency of blood-glucose monitoring for inner-city patients with diabetes
• Health plan choices are associated with lower premiums for employees
• Health plans vary widely in the prescribing of antibiotics
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• Heart attack victims should use emergency transport services, not self or family to get to the hospital
• Heart block in children following heart surgery increases length of hospital stay and total costs
• Heart disease, cancer, and mental disease among the most costly conditions for women
• Heart disease, cancer, and trauma-related disorders among the most costly conditions for men
• Heart failure hospitalization and mortality rates drop between 1998 and 2008
• Heart-lung machine may be considered for certain patients with H1N1 influenza with acute respiratory failure
• Helicopter transport to trauma centers improves patient survival over ambulance transport
• Hepatitis C infection does not increase the risk for heart attack
• High performance on quality measures linked to financial benefits for nursing homes
• High rates of paper-based prescribing errors found among community-based primary care providers
• High-volume hospitals have low rates of adverse events for high-risk surgeries
• Higher in-hospital complication rate for primary posterior versus primary anterior cervical fusion
• Higher nurse-patient ratios result in societal cost benefits for some hospital areas
• Higher risk of death or heart attack in first 90 days after cardiac patients stop taking clopidogrel
• Higher scores as a patient-centered medical home linked to higher operating costs
• Hispanics settling in ‘new’ destinations are more likely to have unmet health needs than those settling in traditional areas
• Hispanics with HIV have different communication styles with their health care providers than whites
• Home visits help pregnant, Medicaid-insured women alleviate depressive symptoms
• Homeless and underserved women may not be receiving empiric treatment
• Homeless recent immigrants are healthier than other homeless individuals
• Hospital Compare data may not help surgical patients find hospitals with better outcomes
• Hospital boards adopt practices to enhance oversight on quality of care
• Hospital charges for 1 in 20 hospital stays average $18,000 a day
• Hospital charges for the uninsured have soared
• Hospital charges surpass the trillion dollar mark
• Hospital deaths from heart failure cut by half over 7 years
• Hospital discharge software slightly boosts patient and outpatient physician satisfaction
• Hospital emergency departments get tips from AHRQ on how to reduce crowding and better triage patients
• Hospital heart attack deaths plummet
• Hospital lung cancer surgery volume is not correlated with lower mortality
• Hospital readmissions for COPD highest among black patients
• Hospital readmissions higher for chronic conditions
• Hospital report cards on coronary bypass surgery are more accurate when based on 2-year data
• Hospital risk managers more likely than physicians to recommend error disclosure, but less likely to apologize
• Hospital stays involving C. difficile infections leveled off after 300 percent increase since 1993
• Hospital volume does not predict mortality for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery
• Hospital-acquired infections dramatically increase trauma patients' risk of in-hospital death and hospital stay
• Hospitalists modestly improve quality of care
• Hospitalization rates have declined over 5 years for patients with HIV infection, but disparities still exist
• Hospitalizations for Medication and Illicit Drug-Related Conditions on the Rise Among Americans Ages 45 and Older
• Hospitalizations for bacterial pneumonia in Texas towns bordering Mexico three times higher than the national average
• Hospitalizations for children with influenza and skin infections increased in the last decade
• Hospitalizations for eating disorders declined, but big increase seen in pica disorder
• Hospitalizations for kids with inflammatory bowel disease are frequent and costly
• Hospitalizations for medication and illicit drug-related conditions on the rise among Americans aged 45 and older
• Hospitals face dilemmas about disclosure of large-scale adverse events
• Hospitals serving large minority populations have higher ambulance diversion rates
• Hospitals vary greatly in the quality of their trauma care
• Hospitals vary widely in their use of dopamine and dobutamine in preterm/low birthweight neonates
• Hospitals with a high volume of sepsis admissions have lowest mortality rates
• Hospitals with a teamwork culture have better patient safety climates
• Hospitals with more patients who receive angioplasty within 90 minutes of a heart attack have lower mortality rates
• How community pharmacies decide how and whether to provide immunization services
• How much employees pay for health care coverage depends on where they live
• Human Growth Hormone Shows Promise in treating Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms
• Human factors challenges in home health care
• Human growth hormone shows promise in treating cystic fibrosis symptoms
• Human rhinovirus linked to bronchiolitis and upper respiratory infections among healthy term infants
• Human-computer interaction evaluation can inform the redesign of computerized clinical reminders
• Hydroxychloroquine still underused by patients with lupus, but use more likely if treated by rheumatologists
• ICU bed allocation: clinicians prioritize "rescuing" a critically ill patient over societal benefit
• ICU nurses show increasing acceptance of electronic health records
• ICU scoring system better predicts the risk of death for trauma patients
• ICUs in Michigan Sustain Zero Blood Stream Infections for Up to 2 Years
• ICUs in Michigan sustain zero bloodstream infections for up to 2 years
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• Immersive simulation training for CPR shows no benefit over standard training
• Immigrant labor negatively affects natives' health insurance coverage
• Immigrants to the United States and Canada have worse access to care than native-born counterparts
• Impact of anti-arthritis drug on lipid levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis remains unclear
• Impact of self-esteem and academic achievement on substance use and sexual initiation differs among boys and girls
• Implantable heart defibrillator is effective in reducing deaths among older heart failure patients
• Implementing a clinical practice guideline helps children with pneumonia get proper antibiotics
• Important information about CHIPRA core set of recommended health care quality measures released
• Improvements are needed to better measure mental health care quality
• Improving care for patients with disabilities
• Improving quality of care for falls and urinary incontinence also improves quality of life in elderly patients
• In vitro fertilization has advantages over natural conception for couples who both carry the cystic fibrosis trait
• Including FDA hotline in print drug ads has small effect on adverse event reporting by consumers
• Increased child hospitalizations are associated with the mother's mental state and confidence in parenting
• Increased estradiol levels during critical illness are associated with higher mortality
• Increased fluid and supplemental treatments may reduce recurrence of kidney stones
• Increased use of anesthesiologists in screening colonoscopy found to raise costs, but risks and benefits are still unknown
• Increasing body mass index lowers quality of life in obese individuals
• Increasing premiums and other costs in Oregon's Medicaid program in 2003 led many to drop out
• Increasing the number of coronary angiography facilities led to a reduction in racial disparities in New Jersey
• Individuals who seek care for coughs and colds in emergency departments have social support
• Infliximab may be riskier than etanercept for younger patients with arthritis
• Informal caregivers of older adults need more practical information to care for loved ones
• Infrequent physician use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators presents potential risks to patient safety
• Inhaler costs contribute to medication nonadherence for Medicare patients with chronic pulmonary disease
• Initiative shows how health IT can advance patient-centered care
• Injection of hyaluronic acid, a natural joint lubricant, appears effective in reducing pain from wear and tear on the knee
• Inmates remain at risk for HIV and HCV after release from prison
• Inner-city minority adults with chronic asthma are more likely to take inhaled medicine if they believe in its benefits
• Innovations show the benefits of using phone-based care management
• Innovative software cuts costs and time for States to report hospital quality information to the public
• Instrument that measures quality of life for breast cancer survivors can be used for other cancers
• Insulin pump and glucose monitoring improve blood-sugar control for diabetes patients
• Insulin pump and glucose monitoring improve blood-sugar control for patients with type 1 diabetes
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer yields fewer side effects than other radiation treatments
• Intensive Care Units for Newborns See Sharp Drop in Bloodstream Infections
• Intensive care units for newborns in nine States see sharp drop in bloodstream infections
• Interactive graphics for expressing health risks: Development and qual
• Interdisciplinary team training with in-situ simulation helps reduce adverse events in obstetric patients
• Internet-based personal health records helpful to most HIV/AIDS patients who used them
• Intravenous fentanyl can be given safely to trauma patients for pain in the prehospital setting
• Introducing the electronic Preventive Services Selector Widget
• Introduction of hospice services by nursing homes does not significantly affect nursing assistant staffing
• Iron and zinc co-supplementation seems to be most helpful for children in developing countries
• JAMA special issue focuses on comparative effectiveness research
• Japanese cultural beliefs linked to increased female infant mortality in 1966, the year of the fire horse
• Job, family, and other factors play a role in nurses quitting their jobs and how much they work
• Ketorolac, a pain medication, is underused in children operated on for
• Key treatments for high blood pressure and high blood lipids do not reduce elderly patients' risk of limited mobility
• Kidney stone rates in children may be on the rise
• Kidney-sparing surgery for children with renal tumors has equivalent in-hospital results to kidney removal surgery
• Knee replacements up dramatically among adults 45 to 64 years old
• Korean Americans with high blood pressure who are confident they can achieve blood pressure control are more likely to do so
• Label changes, manufacturer's warning letter did not reduce use of propofol for conscious sedation in children
• Laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications varies greatly
• Laboratory tests can accurately detect two clotting-factor mutations that raise risk of blood clots
• Lack of folic acid supplementation for nonpregnant women means missed opportunities to prevent neural tube defects in children
• Lack of time, resources to blame for primary care doctors rarely counseling women on birth-defect-causing drugs
• Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths Among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Landmark initiative to reduce healthcare-associated infections cuts deaths among Medicare patients in Michigan ICUs
• Language barriers related to increased hospital readmissions for Chinese- and Spanish-speaking patients
• Large variations in Medicare payments for surgery underscore savings potential from bundled payment programs
• Large vessel occlusion after a mini stroke predicts functional decline
• Launch of open-access journal on electronic clinical data
• Leapfrog survey may not accurately report use of safe practices in trauma centers
• Learning networks can help implement strategies to improve emergency department patient flow
• Leaving the emergency department without being seen more likely at hospitals that serve more low-income patients
• Leg compression devices are not a significant factor in in-hospital falls
• Length of stays in emergency departments varies considerably
• Less than half of pharmacy computer systems studied correctly identified drug-drug interactions
• Limited evidence of benefit of interventions during early stages of chronic kidney disease
• Limited evidence on best strategies during a mass casualty event
• Limited evidence prevents firm conclusions on psoriatic arthritis drug therapies
• Limited evidence prevents firm conclusions on rheumatoid arthritis drug therapies
• Little evidence for benefit of interventions in the early stage of chronic kidney disease
• Live or Web-based training improves clinical estimates of blood loss during childbirth
• Liver transplant patients who taper off or do not take corticosteroids after transplantation have better quality of life
• Living in Hispanic or black communities increases risk for obesity
• Longer use of electronic health records is not linked to improved quality of care
• Low Health Literacy Linked to Higher Risk of Death and More Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations
• Low health literacy linked to higher risk of death and more emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Low- and middle-income children with public and private insurance have similar rates of unmet health care needs
• Low-income patients who perceive more control over their diabetes have higher quality of life
• Low-income women with breast cancer are less likely to initiate chemotherapy
• Low-molecular-weight heparin often used in treating young trauma patients despite insufficient scientific evidence
• Lower complications are seen after laparoscopic kidney removal
• Lower educational level increases the likelihood of preclinical changes in mobility in older women
• Lower flu vaccination rates for black nursing home residents a cause for concern
• Lower mortality rates after surgery at high-volume hospitals due to fewer complications and other factors
• Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood
• MEPS household survey respondents tend to report some medical conditions more accurately than others
• MEPS respondents underreport emergency department and office visits, but accurately report hospital stays
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• MONAHRQ® 4.1 released
• MONAHRQ® gains momentum
• MRSA can spread slowly but surely in households
• Magnet® hospitals offer better work environment for nurses than non-Magnet hospitals
• Majority of conditions treated in emergency departments are treatable in primary care clinics
• Making nursing home quality reports public leads to improved posthospitalization care
• Mandated increases in nurse staffing levels unevenly affect uncompensated care growth rates in California hospitals
• Many Federal drug risk alerts fail to achieve the recommended changes in prescribing
• Many Texas residents cross Mexican border to obtain health care services
• Many black parents believe soft bedding will keep their infants safe from sudden infant death syndrome
• Many challenges remain in the design and use of consumer health informatics interventions
• Many factors are likely to slow the adoption of pay for performance in dentistry
• Many homeless women are reluctant to get free Pap smears
• Many hospitalized children receive numerous medications, raising potential safety concerns
• Many minority patients do not receive or complete colorectal cancer screening tests in urban, primary care settings
• Many non-oral medications appear to effectively treat acute migraines in emergency department patients
• Many older adults with mental health problems do not believe they need
• Many patients with coronary artery disease who could benefit from cardiac rehabilitation are not referred for this treatment
• Many patients with diabetes who reach the Medicare Part D drug coverage gap don't talk about drug costs with their doctors
• Many primary care patients are at risk for obstructive sleep apnea, but few are sent for testing
• Many surgeons do not discuss advance directives with their patients before surgery
• Many unhealthy people remain happy because they adapt to their medical conditions
• Market competition has only marginal effect on hospital performance for heart failure
• Market forces underlie provision of peritoneal dialysis by dialysis facilities
• Married couples who have twins are more likely to divorce
• Measure of inappropriate prescribing predicts risk of adverse drug eve
• Measure of inappropriate prescribing predicts risk of adverse drug eve
• Measuring quality of care for middle ear infection has many pitfalls
• Medicaid MCOs don't boost care access for the disabled or lower Medicaid expenditures
• Medicaid drug restrictions may lead to adverse events for psychiatric patients
• Medicaid nursing home reimbursement affects nursing homes' approach to end-of-life care
• Medicaid pay-for-performance program in Massachusetts fails to improve quality during first-year
• Medicaid providers face common barriers to meaningful use
• Medical complications add 30 percent to employers' chronic care costs
• Medical home concept not well defined in 2007 legislation
• Medical home for children and youth improves delivery of preventive services without raising expenditures
• Medical residents can use quality improvement methods to promote obesity screening
• Medical students, interns, and residents need training to disclose medical errors
• Medicare Advantage enrollees are admitted to hospitals with higher mortality rates than Medicare fee-for-service enrollees
• Medicare Part D coverage gap reduces antidepressant use in the elderly
• Medicare Part D enrollees have higher cost-sharing amounts for brand name prescription drugs than those in employer plans
• Medicare Part D reduces out-of-pocket costs and modestly boosts prescription volume
• Medicare managed care reduced preventable hospitalizations in 2004 more than fee-for-service Medicare
• Medicare nonpayment for certain hospital-acquired conditions has not reduced certain infections in hospitals
• Medicare payment caps on home care add to the family caregiving burden, especially among lower-income families
• Medicare pays for nearly half of rural hospital stays
• Medicare reimbursement changes lessen regional disparities for home health services
• Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients less likely to receive drug-eluting stents than the privately insured
• Medicare-insured patients with head or neck cancer differ little in mortality risk because of race or ethnicity
• Medication changes are not always documented properly in physician notes or the electronic medical record
• Medication review technique may help identify drug-related problems in the elderly
• Medication safety indicators can guide improvement in primary care drug selection, dosing, and monitoring
• Medication side effects, injuries up dramatically
• Medications differ in their effect on risk of foot ulcers and limb amputations in patients with diabetes
• Medications for low bone density prevent fractures in women with osteoporosis
• Men and blacks less likely to be aware of cancer screening benefits
• Men more likely to be readmitted to hospital after discharge
• Men shy away from routine medical appointments
• Mental demands of pediatric hospital pharmacy staff have varying effects on likelihood of medication errors and adverse events
• Mental disorders and/or substance abuse related to one of every eight emergency department cases
• Mental illness is common and left untreated in older public housing residents
• Mental status deficits a major factor in elderly falls in the hospital
• Metformin just as effective as other medications for treating type 2 diabetes
• Metformin remains the medication of first choice in treating type 2 diabetes
• Midwest hospitals lead in newborn male circumcision rates
• Minimally invasive heart treatments have reduced bypass surgeries and influenced valve repair and replacement
• Minimally invasive prostatectomy in young men has fewer complications
• Minority patients are less likely to have surgery performed by high-volume surgeons and hospitals
• Minority patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer are less likely to receive hospice services than whites
• Minority pediatricians are more likely to care for minority children
• Minority status has no effect on patient outcomes in the intensive care unit
• Minority-serving hospitals have problems with quality of care and patient satisfaction
• Modeling inequalities helps to develop cervical cancer screening strategies that can improve outcomes and reduce disparities
• Modifying pediatric quality care measures may capture more care services
• More Research Is Needed To Compare Therapies for Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Liver for colorectal cancer metastasis to the liver
• More Research on Child Maltreatment Urgently Needed, AHRQ Report Says
• More adults with diabetes are getting flu shots
• More evidence is needed on biomarkers to detect iron deficiency anemia in CKD patients
• More evidence needed on benefit of additional procedure for diagnosing plasma cell cancer
• More hospitals with angioplasty capability have not improved access to the procedure
• More nursing home residents are receiving hospice care
• More patients are being prescribed antidepressants by non-psychiatrists and without a psychiatric diagnosis
• More patients with anxiety disorders are being prescribed antipsychotic medications by office-based psychiatrists
• More research is needed on outcomes after maternal-fetal surgery
• More research needed on coronary artery disease treatments for women
• More research needed to compare therapies for colorectal cancer metastases is to the liver
• More research needed to evaluate self-measured blood pressure monitoring
• More rural Americans treated in emergency departments for eye injuries
• More safeguards needed to prevent adverse drug events caused by medication administration errors
• More seniors getting pneumonia shots, but some lag behind
• More stress means worse asthma in inner-city adults
• More than 20,000 emergency room visits for air and paintball gun injuries in 2008
• More than a quarter of patients do not fill prescriptions for new medications
• More than half of U.S. employers offered health insurance and about one-third offered dental insurance in 2006
• More than half of all hospital procedures are outpatient
• More than half of women do not get regular mammograms
• More than one in five hospital patients in 2008 were born in 1933 or earlier
• Mortality rate and major complications have declined among adult trauma patients cared for in trauma centers
• Most American women experience complications during delivery
• Most Mexican patients prefer their rheumatologist to make treatment decisions for them
• Most acute-care hospitals follow national guidelines for the prevention and treatment of MRSA infections
• Most adults with lactose intolerance can tolerate the amount of lactose in a cup of milk
• Most children can delay their first dental visit until age 3 without affecting later dental outcomes
• Most children receiving palliative care live for more than a year after beginning such treatment
• Most patients with type 2 diabetes suffer an adverse event between office visits
• Most process-of-care events do not harm transplant patients, but they boost costs and lengthen hospital stays
• Most public hospitals are in rural areas
• Most spending on children's health care in Medicaid and CHIP goes for children with chronic health problems
• Mother-infant interactions associated with use of health services
• Mothers' medical appointments may be a link to getting daughters vaccinated for human papillomavirus
• Moving adolescents with sickle cell disease from pediatric to adult care hampered by lack of knowledgeable adult hematologists
• Muscle Training Effective in Treating Urinary Incontinence for Women
• Muscle training effective in treating urinary incontinence for women
• Mycobacterial pulmonary disease more likely to affect women
• National Awards Program to Recognize Achievements in Eliminating Healthcare-Associated Infections
• National Quality Strategy offers free communications toolkit
• National Quality Strategy released
• Nationwide survey shows free clinics provide care to nearly 2 million patients
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• Nearly 4 million adults reported being treated for kidney disease between 2003 and 2007
• Nearly 9 percent of children experience agitation during sedation for nonsurgical procedures
• Nearly one-fourth of parents of children with special health care needs have cut back on or quit work to care for them
• Nearly one-third of emergency department visits involve nonideal care events
• Nearly two-thirds of mothers with depression do not receive adequate care for their condition
• Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
• Neighborhood surroundings may affect whether children are overweight
• Neighborhoods, abuse, and anxiety contribute to low birth weights
• New ACTION II partnerships awards
• New AHRQ Campaign Encourages Hispanics to Work with Their Doctors to Make the Best Treatment Decisions
• New AHRQ Data Show Healthcare-associated Infections Greatly Increase the Length and Cost of Hospital Stays
• New AHRQ Evidence Report on Active Surveillance Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer Now Available
• New AHRQ Funding Opportunity Announcements for Comparative Effectiveness Delivery System Research Released
• New AHRQ Report Encourages Adoption of Patient Safety Strategies
• New AHRQ Report Finds Teamwork and Follow-Up as Strengths of Medical Offices but Work Pressure and Pace are Problematic
• New AHRQ Report Highlights Hospitals' Progress in Reducing Bloodstream Infections
• New AHRQ Review Finds Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy Safe and Effective for Treating Nasal Allergies and Mild Asthma
• New AHRQ Reviews Examine Screening for and Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus
• New AHRQ Safety Culture Report Shows Strengths, Areas for More Effort in Nursing Homes
• New AHRQ Study Finds Failure to Order Needed Tests a Leading Cause of Diagnostic Errors
• New AHRQ Toolkit Helps Medical Practices Examine the Impact of Health IT on Workflow
• New AHRQ Toolkit Supports Hospital Efforts To Improve Quality and Safety
• New AHRQ campaign encourages Hispanics to work with their doctors to make the best treatment decisions
• New AHRQ evidence report details top patient safety strategies
• New AHRQ evidence report published on inhaled nitric oxide therapy for preterm infants
• New AHRQ guides offer hospitals advice on emergency evacuation, assessment, and recovery
• New AHRQ handbook helps practices implement interactive preventive health records
• New AHRQ podcasts focus on coronary artery disease, reducing medication costs, and telemedicine in schools
• New AHRQ podcasts focus on cystic fibrosis and health literacy
• New AHRQ podcasts focus on prevention of falls, motorcycle-related head injuries, and pressure sores
• New AHRQ public reports on provider performance are available for consumer Web page
• New AHRQ report examines who visits hospital public reporting Web sites and why
• New AHRQ report on women at risk for diabetes is available
• New AHRQ resource available for developing or improving public reporting Web sites
• New AHRQ resource helps communities connect those at risk to health care services
• New AHRQ resource helps to improve nursing home care
• New AHRQ tool assesses patient safety culture in pharmacies
• New AHRQ white paper helps decisionmaking and consistency in public reporting
• New Ad Campaign Urges Patients To Consider Medical Treatment Options
• New Federal resources help hospitals plan, carry out, and evaluate emergency preparedness exercises
• New Health IT Common Format for Adverse Event Reporting
• New Health IT Common Format for adverse event reporting
• New Patient-Centered Medical Home Brief and White Paper Now Available
• New Quality Initiatives Should Push Pace of Health Care Improvement
• New Spanish-language Guides Help Consumers with Treatments for Common Illnesses
• New Spanish-language guides inform decisions about heart disease and other illnesses
• New Study Finds E-Prescribing Is Safe and Efficient, but Barriers Remain
• New Web Platforms Promote Effective Health Care Program Resources
• New Web Videonovela Series Helps Spanish-Speaking Patients Compare Treatments for Diabetes
• New Web page for evaluation of CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program
• New ad campaign urges patients to consider medical treatment options
• New approach reduces microemboli responsible for neurologic injury following open-heart surgery
• New brief and white paper suggest ways to improve patient-centered medical home evidence and evaluations
• New brief outlines strategies to put patients at the center of primary care
• New children’s electronic health record format announced
• New clinician and consumer research summaries on treatment-resistant depression available
• New clinician research summary available on adjunctive devices for acute coronary syndrome
• New comparative effectiveness review released on traumatic brain injury and depression
• New effectiveness review discusses treatment options for inguinal hernia
• New guide available for developing observational comparative effectiveness research
• New guide available on the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
• New guide helps TeamSTEPPS® trainers learn how to teach simulation
• New guide helps patients take care of themselves after hospital discharge
• New guidelines help clinicians assess and treat maladaptive aggression in youth
• New guides compare benefits and risks of GERD treatments
• New guides describe comparative effectiveness of therapies for autism, diabetes, and pain management of hip fracture
• New guides on rotator cuff tears in adults are available
• New health information technology funding opportunity on advancing health services through system modeling research
• New look for AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site
• New measure helps evaluate interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections
• New patient decision aid and other resources available on osteoporosis medications
• New report examines impact of health information technology on workflow in outpatient settings
• New report proposes research agenda to transform health care based on principles of industrial system engineering
• New report shows strengths and areas for improvement in nursing homes
• New report shows vaginal birth after cesarean is safe for most women
• New research examines use of nitrous oxide for labor pain
• New resource helps hospitals get up to speed on safety culture
• New resource identifies care coordination measures
• New resources available for comparing osteoarthritis pain medications
• New resources to care for community-dwelling patients during emergency events
• New review evaluates treatment options for plaque psoriasis
• New rule on when to have a trauma surgeon meet a transported trauma patient is found more sensitive than existing criteria
• New study counters the urban legend that insurers won't cover patients who leave the hospital prematurely
• New study finds e-prescribing is safe and efficient, but barriers remain
• New study finds rotator cuff injuries treatable, but evidence unclear whether surgery is preferable
• New surveys evaluate culturally competent and health-literate care
• New technical brief covers surgeries for seven fetal conditions
• New technical brief on stroke care published
• New tool aims to guide formulary role in drug prescribing
• New tool developed to reduce risks to patients during clinical handoffs
• New tool released that improves the safety of care for nursing home residents
• New toolkit helps medical practices examine the impact of health IT on workflow
• New tools help improve patient safety for those with limited English
• Newer antidepressants equally effective in treating major depressive disorder
• Newer antidepressants equally effective in treating major depressive disorder
• New report on the impact of human factors on home health care quality and safety is available
• Nighttime-Breathing Treatments Backed by Strongest Evidence Among Options to Treat Sleep Apnea
• Nighttime-breathing treatments backed by strongest evidence among options to treat sleep apnea
• Nine percent of adults with hypertension have resistant hypertension
• No additional benefit seen with remote offsite monitoring of ICU patients
• No evidence of serious cardiovascular events in children and young adults using medications for ADHD
• No greater risk or mortality observed for endoscopic vein harvesting for coronary bypass surgery
• No link found between chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer and later cognitive impairment
• No link found between stimulant treatment of youth with ADHD and cardiovascular problems
• No short-term risk of severe cardiac events seen in children taking central nervous system stimulants
• No significant link found between treatments used for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and development of cancer
• No single strategy is uniformly successful in reducing cesarean section
• Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation improves COPD patient outcomes
• Nonphysicians can be trained to assess residents' competence in catheter insertion
• Nonplatinum chemotherapy agents more likely to lead to hospitalizations for older women with ovarian cancer
• Nonsurgical method for diagnosing breast cancer is safe and nearly as effective as surgical biopsy
• Not enough evidence to recommend fecal DNA testing for adults at average risk for colorectal cancer
• Nuclear kidney scans in children with urinary tract infections increase costs and radiation exposure
• Number of Americans prescribed anticonvulsant drugs has nearly doubled
• Nurse survey identifies important but underused end-of-life care skills
• Nurse-facilitated guided care for elders and their caregivers leads to improved perceptions of quality of care
• Nurses in hospital units with a higher proportion of short-term patients take longer to respond to patient call lights
• Nurses with higher education levels rate themselves as having more clinical expertise and are sought out for their guidance
• Nursing home hospice patients are not receiving adequate treatment for nonpain symptoms
• Nursing home physicians and nurses struggle with communication barriers
• Nursing home studies focus on the costs of staff turnover rates and selective admission of patients
• Nursing home users of information technology start to see its benefits
• Nursing homes more often voluntarily terminate from Medicare and Medicaid programs in States with strong quality regulations
• Nursing homes using more agency staff have lower quality of care
• Nursing shortage may have adverse impact on public health emergency preparedness
• Obese patients with hypertension and diabetes have a greater risk of dying after noncardiac surgery
• Obesity among South Carolina children differs by age, gender, and race
• Obesity rates are higher among sexually abused and lesbian women
• Obstetrician malpractice claims lead to small reduction in inpatient deliveries, but not C-section rates
• Occupational back injuries lead to increased financial and domestic hardship for black and young workers
• Octogenarians fare well after aortic valve replacements
• Off-label use of atypical antipsychotics not supported by evidence for some conditions
• Older Americans getting pneumonia shots, but not enough
• Older black women with breast cancer do not receive beneficial chemotherapy as often as white women
• Older medications for epilepsy obtain better control but have more adverse effects
• Older patients with chronic conditions have greater risk of problems and death following bilateral knee replacement
• Older persons with chronic kidney disease and lower systolic blood pressure have higher mortality rates
• Older women with breast cancer experience more complications with brachytherapy than whole breast irradiation
• Older, busier clinicians who see complex patients are more likely to use novel electronic health record (EHR) functions
• One in 13 U.S. adults report access to specialists to be a "big problem"
• One in 16 women hospitalized for childbirth has diabetes
• One in four U.S. adults reported having high blood pressure in 2008
• One in four patients experiences revolving-door hospitalizations
• One patient safety indicator may offer a glimpse at a hospital's overall safety record
• 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
• One-third of patients with hospital-acquired infections are readmitted
• Only 75 percent of HIV patients stay in care
• Only one-third of adolescents are screened for emotional health during routine physicals
• Operating room procedures account for nearly half of hospitals' treatment costs
• Opioid prescriptions for treating chronic abdominal pain doubled between 1997 and 2008
• Opioid-naïve nursing home residents are commonly prescribed long-acting opioids, a potentially dangerous practice
• Opportunities for Advancing Delivery System Research: AHRQ Meeting Summary Available Online
• Opportunities for advancing delivery system research-AHRQ meeting summary now online
• Opportunities to pursue bachelor's degrees may be limited for nurses in rural hospitals
• Oral chemotherapy drugs not immune to medication errors
• Oregon and Vermont show fewest hospitalizations for children with asthma
• Organizational culture distinguishes top-performing hospitals in patient outcomes from heart attack
• Outcomes of trauma patients depend heavily on whether recommended practices are followed
• Outpatient advice on pediatric medication safety is inadequate
• Over 3 million look to hospitals for headache relief
• Overcrowding in emergency departments increases the risk of preventable medical errors
• Overweight or obese patients have higher health care expenditures
• Pain management in emergency departments has improved but can still be better
• Pandemic, disaster could overwhelm U.S. critical care capacity in certain regions
• Paper previsit reminders for doctors do not add value to electronic reminders from an electronic health record system
• Paramedics sometimes interrupt CPR to open airway
• Parental reports more accurate than electronic health records in documenting child diet and exercise counseling
• Parents and primary care physicians are satisfied with children's use of nonurgent emergency department services
• Parents are satisfied with telemedicine care for their child's obesity
• Parents continue to weigh vaccine benefits with adverse effects when deciding to vaccinate their children
• Parents find telemedicine care of children in school and childcare to be helpful and convenient
• Parents of adults with mental illness face the challenges of being an aging caregiver
• Parents using electronic kiosk provide more accurate clinical information than emergency room providers
• Partial kidney removal offers survival advantage for elderly patients with small tumors
• Participation in reporting quality data can be costly for physicians and practices
• Partnership for Patients initiative launched to improve care and lower costs for Americans
• Partnership for Patients to Improve Care and Lower Costs for Americans
• Patient Web portals improve diabetes care and outcomes
• Patient decision aids can reduce uncertainty in decisions about whether to undergo total knee replacement
• Patient flow strategies may help to address emergency department crowding
• Patient gender does not influence the management or diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in the elderly, but affects outcome
• Patient outcomes are better than hospital volume for identifying high-quality bariatric surgery centers
• Patient preferences are important when making clinical decisions for those who can't, but other factors also play a role
• Patient surveys are an additional useful tool for identifying adverse events occurring during hospital stays
• Patient tool helps determine adherence to asthma medication
• Patient-centered interactive health records can improve use of preventive services
• Patient-centered medical home Web site launched
• Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends wait for major procedures
• Patients at small urban hospitals are more likely to suffer from pressure sores than those at small rural hospitals
• Patients hospitalized for burn injuries in New York have comparable outcomes at major burn centers
• Patients more likely to follow medication regimens if they share their doctor's beliefs about causes of health outcomes
• Patients often say good things about their physicians on rate-your-doc Web sites, but are less positive about system issues
• Patients recovering from stroke tend to continue using secondary preventive medications
• Patients recovering in the hospital from total knee or hip replacement have increased risk of falls
• Patients taking only salmeterol seen in the emergency department for asthma more likely to be hospitalized
• Patients transferred to the intensive care unit within 24 hours of admission
• Patients treated for heart failure in the emergency department fare better if there is an electronic health record available
• Patients who are treated with empathy during office visits get over colds faster
• Patients who find it easy to access primary care are more likely to receive selected preventive services
• Patients who suffer strokes and are seen at designated stroke centers fare better in the short and long run
• Patients who take a proton-pump inhibitor with medicine to prevent blood clots are less likely to be hospitalized for bleeding ulcers
• Patients who undergo knee ligament reconstruction do better when the doctor or hospital perform it frequently
• Patients with adult-onset diabetes with limited health literacy more likely to suffer hypoglycemic episodes
• Patients with chronic diseases who pay coinsurance less likely to refill their medication than those with fixed copayments
• Patients with coronary artery disease who get ongoing support from their community pharmacy may adhere better to medications
• Patients with financial worries or no insurance delay going to the hospital for a heart attack
• Patients with heart failure are older, have more illnesses, and take more medications than earlier
• Patients with hepatitis C virus infection who adhere to their drug regimen are more likely to show long-term benefit
• Patients with inherited cancer syndrome need help with decisions and long-term support from their surgeons
• Patients with limited health literacy less likely to use an Internet portal for diabetes and other health information
• Patients with myelodysplastic syndrome have shorter survival times if they have coexisting medical conditions
• Patients with sepsis fare better when admitted via the emergency department rather than directly to the hospital
• Patients with sickle cell disease employ various strategies to control their pain
• Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack suffer high levels of depression and undertreatment with antidepressants
• Patients with type 2 diabetes express mixed reactions to a mobile phone and Web-based disease management program
• Patients' income and where they live influence hospitalization for chronic lung disease
• Pay-for-performance did not spur more rapid quality improvement among low-performing hospitals
• Pay-for-performance does not improve care quality in the short term in safety-net settings
• Pay-for-performance project showed early gains but tapered in the fourth and fifth years
• Payment reform highlighted in special journal issue
• Pediatric cardiology centers vary in treatment of infants with single-ventricle congenital heart disease
• Pediatric care providers identify desired characteristics for computerized flu vaccination alerts
• Pediatric emergency department visits surged during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, but few children were hospitalized
• Pediatric nurses express differing perspectives on palliative care
• Pediatric visits for ADHD have risen and the condition is increasingly being managed by psychiatrists
• Pediatricians need to make greater efforts to screen and counsel overweight adolescents
• Pelvic ultrasound imaging by emergency physicians is highly effective in ruling out ectopic pregnancy
• People harmed by unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide poisoning results in hospital costs of more than $26 million
• Perceived lower social standing linked to unplanned pregnancies
• Perceived reputation and other factors influence consumers' hospital choices
• Perception of racial discrimination among blacks linked to socioeconomic position
• Performance measures for gastroenterology can lead to improved accountability
• Performance measures requiring antibiotics for pneumonia have not boosted antibiotic use in nonpneumonia patients
• Performing cardiac catheterization and heart surgery on different hospital admissions may reduce risk of kidney damage
• Person-to-person transmission of E. coli resistant to fluoroquinolone drugs is rare among hospital patient
• Personality factors play a role in responsiveness to disease self-management programs
• Persons with mental disorders switching from Medicaid to Medicare drug coverage may have drug access problems
• Pharmacists have limited awareness of the capabilities of their pharmacy information systems
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Pharmacy, medical, and nurse practitioner students need more education on drug-drug interactions
• Physical therapy may improve outcomes for adults with knee pain
• Physician champions key to successful quality improvement projects
• Physician personality factors do not seem to influence whether patients with symptoms undergo extended diagnostic evaluations
• Physician recommendations for defibrillator therapy not influenced by race or gender
• Physician-pharmacist teams can help lower blood pressure
• Physicians aren't confident they can recognize infections from anthrax and other bioterrorism disease threats
• Physicians can use 10 strategies to manage abnormal test result alerts in electronic health records
• Physicians cultivate colleagues' esteem differently at low- and high-prestige hospitals
• Physicians face diagnostic difficulties in primary care for a variety of reasons
• Physicians in practices focused on quality improvement are less likely to be dissatisfied and stressed
• Physicians more reluctant to deactivate some life-sustaining devices than others
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening
• Physicians need to be better educated about FDA-approved indications for drugs and evidence for off-label drug use
• Physicians optimistic about potential for electronic prescribing but barriers to adoption still exist
• Physicians report care barriers for young adults with childhood onset
• Physicians support health information exchange but are concerned about paying monthly fees
• Physicians weigh the costs and benefits of integrating e-prescribing systems with electronic health records
• Physicians who use electronic health records more intensively are more likely to use patient registries to improve care
• Physicians with electronic health records are more able to generate patient registries
• Physicians' implicit racial attitudes influence prescribing of opioids for black children
• Physicians' reasons for deviating from quality guidelines are usually justified
• Physicians' unfamiliarity with electronic personal health records may slow their adoption
• Physicians' use of "we" during patient visits does not necessarily fos
• Physicians' use of "we" during patient visits does not necessarily foster patient-physician partnership
• Pilot study finds a low level of medication errors for look-alike, sound-alike drugs prescribed for children
• Planting seeds for change in primary care practice
• Plenary sessions at AHRQ annual meeting focus on connecting the dots between research and practice
• Pneumococcal disease continues to lead to substantial health care use and costs
• Pneumonia vaccine has not increased dangerous methicillin-resistant St
• Podcast series discusses the AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals
• Poorer patients less likely to receive specific treatment for head and neck cancer
• Positive outlooks may bring better outcomes for patients with heart failure
• Possible blood biomarkers for poorer asthma control identified
• Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with elevated hemoglobin A1c levels in low-income blacks with diabetes
• Potential role of physical therapy in ICU patients
• Potentially avoidable hospitalizations for heart failure lowest in mountain States
• Potentially avoidable hospitalizations high among Medicare and Medicaid patients
• Poverty, race, and gender are all factors in the epidemic of severely obese children
• Practice setting, ownership, and specialty all affect volume of charity care provided by physicians
• Pre-existing cardiovascular conditions linked to lower stimulant prescribing rates for adults with ADHD
• Predicting cardiovascular risk in patients with metabolic syndrome dep
• Predicting cardiovascular risk in patients with metabolic syndrome depends on definition used for the syndrome
• Premiums for some family plans cost $20,000 or more
• Prenatal screening for Group B streptococci often fails to live up to current screening and treatment guidelines
• Prescription drug purchases increase for digestive problems
• Prescription of antidepressants for children and adolescents by office-based physicians is typically done off-label
• Preventing pressure ulcers in the home requires creative solutions by nurses
• Preventive care for patients with lupus could be improved
• Preventive dental care saves money on total dental care for Medicare beneficiaries
• Price tag for treating back problems now totals $30.5 billion
• Primary anterior cervical fusion has lower in-hospital complication rates and deaths than posterior cervical fusion
• Primary care coordination is more difficult for patients who see many specialists
• Primary care doctors often don't know that a child sought care for asthma in the emergency department
• Primary care doctors prefer additional medical record information when making decisions about patient test results
• Primary care model helps treat underserved patients with hepatitis C virus infection
• Primary care organizational characteristics are linked to the self-management behaviors of patients with diabetes
• Primary care patients who see physician assistants and nurse practitioners are as complex as those who see doctors
• Primary care physicians feel responsible for assessing patients’ medication adherence, but rarely ask older patients about it directly
• Primary care physicians like e-prescribing systems, but make little use of their advanced features
• Primary care physicians spend a fifth of their time in patient care activities outside of office visits
• Primary care physicians' performance ratings depend on the makeup of their patient population
• Primary care practices can boost clinical preventive services with electronic health records and quality improvement support
• Primary care practices incur considerable costs for collecting data on diabetes quality improvement programs
• Primary care practices that take part in research networks report benefits beyond the study itself
• Primary care providers who provide contraceptive counseling increase patients' contraceptive use
• Primary care visits every 2 weeks linked to better treatment outcomes for patients with diabetes
• Procalcitonin guidance may lead to decreased antibiotic usage
• Process improvements in family practice lead to some improvements in intermediate outcomes
• Progestogens effective for preventing preterm births in single pregnancies
• Project helps those with spinal cord injury identify community and environmental barriers
• Prostate cancer deaths drop, but blacks still most likely to die
• Provider's communication style boosts results for acupuncture on arthritic knees
• Provider-patient dialogue could be improved to foster medication adherence in HIV care
• Providers miss opportunities to prevent depression in and discuss birth control with women with unplanned pregnancies
• Providers perceive e-prescribing as being very efficient
• Providing customized clinical information to patients and physicians does not improve diabetes care
• Provision of personal digital assistants alone does not help providers avoid drug-drug interactions
• Public insurance linked to longer perception of disease burden among children with asthma
• Public report cards prompt nursing homes to spend more on clinical services
• Public reporting of performance data seems to motivate and energize improvements to hospital performance
• Public reporting on quality of care has definite, if modest, effects on nursing home care improvement
• Published sources on warfarin interactions with other drugs, food, and supplements tend not to agree
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Quality improvement initiative successful in sustaining reduction in bloodstream infections caused by catheters
• Quality measures are not used with all patients who suffer heart attacks
• Quality of care is similar for safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals
• Race linked to lower use of shared electronic medical records by patients with diabetes
• Race/ethnic origin of mother and father influence whether the mother develops gestational diabetes
• Racial and ethnic minority groups are less aware than whites of genetic testing for cancer risk
• Radiation therapy linked to dry mouth in elderly patients with head and neck cancers
• Radionovela promotes awareness and knowledge of cervical cancer vaccine among Hispanic parents
• Rate of extrapulmonary TB highest among blacks
• Rates of Pneumonia Dramatically Reduced in Patients on Ventilators in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Rates of emergency department use greater among women and low-income, older, and rural Americans
• Rates of pneumonia dramatically reduced in patients on ventilators in Michigan intensive care units
• Re-engineered discharge project dramatically reduces return trips to the hospital
• Readmissions in 30 days or less account for 1 in 9 hospital admissions
• Recent trends in hospital use by children and youths are a mixed bag—lower for teen pregnancies, much higher for skin infections
• Recommendations on rounding pediatric doses may improve e-prescribing while reducing risk of adverse drug events
• Regional health information exchanges must do more to attract small practices
• Regional poverty boosts adults' chances of having unmet health care needs
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• Regular home blood pressure measurement raises the likelihood of blood pressure control among Korean Americans
• Relative inefficiency of rural critical access hospitals must be balanced against their contributions to care access and quality
• Remote intensive care monitoring is cost effective for sickest patients
• Remote supervision of stroke therapy is safe and effective at smaller hospitals
• Report Finds Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs Not Supported By Evidence for Some Conditions
• Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children with ADHD
• Report and designer's guide outlines the role of human factors in home health care
• Report available on clinical decision support tool to assess patients' risk for deleterious BRCA mutations
• Report examines quality improvement measurement in people with disabilities
• Report explores prevalence of hypertension and use of antihypertensive drugs
• Report finds DMARDs effective in treating juvenile arthritis
• Report shows physicians view e-prescribing features as cumbersome
• Requiring proof of citizenship cuts participation in Oregon's Medicaid family planning program
• Rescuer experience with out-of-hospital emergency intubation is often associated with improved patient survival
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• Research comparing diabetes medications helps patients and clinicians choose the right one
• Research review finds support for some off-label uses of atypical antipsychotic medications
• Research shows health IT enables quality measurement, but obstacles remain
• Researchers develop a task list to evaluate primary care workflow
• Residents should document sexual history during health care maintenance visits for older, asymptomatic adults
• Respiratory syncytial virus is more serious than the flu in young children
• Response to etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis can be predicted by 12 weeks
• Restorative care appears to lower emergency department visits and falls
• Restricting residents' working hours decreases teaching time but improves well-being
• Retention in HIV care is a problem for many patients
• Review examines Hepatitis C screening effects in adults
• Review looks at approaches to improve drug prescribing in nursing home
• Review looks at outcomes of patients at different types of long-term care facilities
• Review supports use of metformin as first-line therapy for patients without other contraindications
• Rise in prescription copays puts different patients at risk for nonadherence to medications
• Rising health care costs may have spurred more individuals to use complementary and alternative medicine
• Risk factors for cognitive decline still murky
• Risk of venous thromboembolism low for young trauma patients without a central venous catheter
• Risks high for elderly patients receiving angioplasty to fix narrowed heart artery
• Risks, Benefits of Emerging Heart Valve Replacement Technique Not Fully Understood
• Risks, benefits of emerging heart valve replacement technique not fully understood
• Rotavirus was culprit in one-fourth of children's diarrhea-related emergency department visits prior to vaccine
• Routine Osteoporosis Screening Recommended for All Women Over Age 65
• Routine opt-out HIV emergency department screening only slightly improves identification of patients with HIV infection
• Routine osteoporosis screening recommended for all women over age 65
• Routinely collecting clinical data can improve pneumococcal vaccination of rheumatology patients on immunosuppressant drugs
• Routing ambulances to cardiac surgery-equipped hospitals more cost-effective than building more such hospitals
• Rural and urban residents have similar perceptions of health care quality, despite differences in care delivery
• Rural counties experience funding and stigma problems in HIV prevention services
• Rural elderly with dementia are hospitalized more often for conditions that primary care visits might have caught
• Rural health care providers in California look to Telehealth to supply the training needed to manage childhood obesity
• Rural patients with a serious form of gallstone disease are less likely than urban patients to receive treatment
• Rural residents depend on physician offices for their osteoporosis testing
• Same-sex couples report more barriers to care and poorer interactions with providers than those in heterosexual marriages
• Satisfaction after hysterectomy linked to quality of life improvements
• Save May date for two AHRQ data user workshops
• School-age children treated most often for sports-related concussions
• Screening and treatment of subclinical thyroid dysfunction inadequately studied
• Screening based on risk factors and birth year boosts screening rates for hepatitis C
• Seasonal influenza has a substantial impact on activities of daily living in nursing home residents
• Self-management programs for patients with diabetes have a positive impact
• Self-measured blood pressure monitoring to manage hypertension may offer a small benefit
• Self-monitoring of blood pressure along with nurse counseling leads to greater blood pressure control
• Self-reported vision impairment does not always predict disability in older adults when other factors are present
• Sending health maintenance reminders to personal health records helps patients adhere to some screenings
• Seniors learn some things from prescription drug advertisements, but can also be misled
• Serious complications from bariatric surgery are fewer when done by high-volume hospitals and surgeons
• Several factors influence completion of chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage-III colon cancer
• Several risk factors point to the use of high-risk medications in older veterans
• Sex-related health differences associated with income and marital status
• Short spacing between children boosts the older child’s risk of behavioral and cognitive problems
• Signups soar for AHRQ's popular CME courses
• Similarly effective international guidelines for managing cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes vary in costs
• Simple tool to measure health literacy in patients with HIV successfully predicts medication adherence
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Simplified drug warnings improve patients' understanding of what to do or avoid when given a particular prescription
• Simulating equipment failures can be useful to hone anesthesia providers' skills
• Simulation training improves insertion of central venous catheters
• Simulation training in the operating room improves competency for the entire operating room team
• Single-lung transplantation for COPD improves access to transplantation without jeopardizing survival
• Six in 10 obese adults have joint pain
• Six of every 10 rural emergency departments visits made by poor patients
• Skill in estimating blood loss declines 9 months after Web-based training
• Sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension affect in-hospital outcomes of noncardiac surgery
• Social media use is one of many innovations in care delivery transforming the frontlines of care
• Socioeconomically disadvantaged blacks have the worst long-term outcomes from work-related low back pain
• Some adults with disabilities covered by Medicaid have significant out-of-pocket health expenses
• Some assessment tools and medications are effective for chronic cough
• Some diabetes practice guidelines do not reflect all available evidence
• Some noninvasive tests are better than others at detecting coronary artery disease in women
• Some patients are more satisfied when they are given usually unnecessary antibiotics for upper respiratory infections
• Some patients hospitalized for stroke more likely to keep taking drugs
• Some patients with bipolar disorder pray and meditate more than others
• Some personality factors may affect success of chronic illness self-management programs
• South Asians may not perceive themselves as being overweight or obese
• Southeastern and mid-Atlantic States have highest rate of sepsis-relat
• Spanish-language novella on managing type 2 diabetes available
• Special Issue of Health Services Research Examines Simulation Techniques
• Specific primary care strategies may improve medication safety
• Spending for prescriptions to control diabetes, cholesterol, and other metabolic conditions exceeds $52 billion
• Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety during Surgical Crises
• Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises
• State Medicaid Policy Changes Increasingly Driven by Evidence
• State regulation of care quality is costly to nursing homes
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy reviewed
• Stressed-out women may delay getting preventive care
• Stroke education program improves medication knowledge and satisfaction with health care providers' explanations
• Stroke recurrence rates vary by U.S. region
• Studies examine black mothers' choices for infant sleep position and location
• Studies examine impact of drug caps and pay for performance on care costs and outcomes
• Studies examine possible disparities surrounding implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Studies examine safety of pain killers among older adults
• Studies explore rapid treatment of sepsis and cardiac arrest
• Studies find emotional and health problems and elevated deaths among recently released prisoners
• Studies identify patients most and least likely to communicate with physicians using a secure Internet-based portal
• Studies link adverse drug interactions to elevated risk for hospitalization among the elderly
• Study Finds Automated Voice Response Systems Useful in Providing Follow-up Care
• Study Finds Consumers Choose High-Value Health Care Providers When Given Good Cost and Quality Information
• Study characterizes patients receiving out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation
• Study describes challenges of using electronic health record-derived measurements for quality reporting
• Study fails to find link between guideline-based emergency treatment for pediatric asthma and patient outcomes
• Study finds few clinically important differences between first- and second-generation medications for treating schizophrenia
• Study finds personal health records do not impact hypertension care
• Study finds potentially suboptimal use of antidepressants for residents in Veterans Affairs nursing homes
• Study finds regional differences in physicians' recommendations of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
• Study identifies attributes of surgeons more willing to provide charity care
• Study identifies costs of implementing electronic health records in network of physician practices
• Study identifies demographic and clinical factors related to fractures among older Americans
• Study identifies fractures most and least likely to be caused by osteoporosis
• Study identifies signals that may predict infant neurological impairment
• Study is first to show improved outcomes with postpartum depression screening and care
• Study looks at impact of FDA suicide risk advisory on antidepressant prescribing in children
• Study of Medicare beneficiaries validates Medical Expenditure Panel Survey's prescription drug data
• Study outlines factors associated with untreated diabetes
• Study projects savings by Affordable Care Act to individual health insurance policyholders
• Study provides insights into problems confronting quality improvement educational programs in rural hospitals
• Study provides rare look at patterns of use and spending for physical therapy
• Study questions usefulness of hospital readmission rates as marker of care quality for pediatric sickle cell disease
• Study recommends disclosure of medical mistakes that affect multiple patients
• Study results argue against decisions about screening colonoscopy based on age alone
• Study reveals high rates of rehospitalizations and emergency pain treatment for sickle cell disease
• Study reveals patterns of readmissions to the intensive care unit
• Study shows Guided Care benefits family caregivers, chronically ill older adults, and physicians, and may reduce costs
• Study suggests caution in interpreting impact of nurse staffing levels on postsurgical complication rates
• Study tracks hospitalization rates for various respiratory viruses
• Study uncovers the time spent on writing and viewing hospital electronic health records
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• Sulfonylurea medication linked to kidney function decline among patients with diabetes
• Superficial surgical site infections are a reliable measure of hospital quality
• Supplemental phenylketonuria therapies may help some
• Surgeons are more reluctant to withdraw postoperative life support for patients with complications from surgeon error
• Surgery and imaging rates for children's kidney stones are stable, but vary greatly from hospital to hospital
• Surgery for ureter congenital abnormality results in efficacy and long-term durability
• Surgical infection prevention measures reduce postoperative infections when used together, but not singly
• Surgical risk score does not work well for knee and hip replacement operations
• Surgical simulation training improves speed and confidence in residents learning endoscopic sinus surgery
• Survey finds rapid rise in antipsychotic use among young people
• Survival rates for colon cancer patients on chemotherapy improve with addition of oxaliplatin
• Symposium on new and emerging data methods published as a supplement to Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
• Systems to detect adverse drug events need buy-in from leaders and staff to become part of hospital routine
• Tactics to improve medication adherence in short-term shown effective
• Task Force Releases Screening Recommendations for Obesity in Kids and Teens
• Task Force updates recommendation on screening for bladder cancer in asymptomatic adults
• Task force recommends screening children and adolescents for obesity
• Team-based care of patients with hypertension improves control of blood pressure
• TeamSTEPPS® training module for primary care practices now available
• TeamSTEPPS® training module for primary care practices now available
• Teamwork key to long-term sustainability of health IT systems
• Technical specifications for AHRQ's Common Formats allow electronic collection of patient safety data
• Technology, Collaboration Help Improve Hepatitis C Outcomes in Community Settings, AHRQ-Funded Study Shows
• Teenage body size does not predict heart failure in older adults
• Telemedicine dermatology consultations change diagnoses and improve outcomes
• Telephone coaching improves quality of life for parents of children with asthma
• Telephone counseling helps Korean Americans who speak little English improve hypertension management
• The challenge of prioritizing care for complex patients
• The changing role of nurses
• The effects of direct-to-consumer drug advertising on statin use depends on the person's experience with the statin
• The financial burden from prescription drugs has declined for the nonelderly, but remains a problem for some groups
• The increase in pediatric stimulant use since 1996 mostly linked to treatment of ADHD in adolescents
• The likelihood of bacterial blood infections among patients with HIV has risen slightly in recent years
• The number of U.S. adults treated for diabetes more than doubled between 1996 and 2007
• The poor and less educated in Canada are more likely to use health care than their counterparts in the United States
• The proportion of high-risk drugs used by the elderly declined when they gained Medicare Part D coverage
• The quality of children's asthma care is affected by emergency department crowding
• The role of hospital care in general medical care has declined over time
• The stability of a usual source of care is important to the care of low-income children
• Thin evidence on non-drug strategies for treatment-resistant depression
• Thoracic surgeons can help patients stop smoking with a brief smoking cessation program
• Three Publications Highlight Human Factors Research
• Three new Medicaid-CHIP case studies now available
• Timely followup remains an issue with abnormal lab results in electronic health records
• To reduce hospital deaths, managing surgical complications may be as important as preventing them
• Tool assesses the readiness of black churches to engage in health disparities research
• Tough guy mentality prevents some men from seeking help for depression
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Transitioning to new electronic health records can result in potential safety problems
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• Trauma associated with mental health disorders but not substance abuse in homeless men
• Trauma care costs less at hospitals with lower mortality rates
• Trauma center patients treated after hours or on weekends have no difference in mortality rates
• Trauma centers vary in screening for deep vein thrombosis
• Trauma patients are more likely to die after a major complication in high-mortality hospitals
• Trauma patients often receive repeat CT imaging that increases radiation exposure and costs
• Trauma patients with hospital-acquired infections have poor outcomes, including increased mortality risk
• Trauma triage system tends to overestimate injury severity
• Treating Americans with diabetes cost hospitals $83 billion
• Treating blood infections tops annual hospital cost increases
• Treatment by physicians with same race and language as the patient may improve medication adherence
• Treatment for blocked carotid arteries varies depending on where you live
• Treatment guideline reduces hypoglycemic events in critically ill children
• Treatment without examination and lab tests appears effective for some women with vaginal symptoms
• Treatments Show Promise in Reducing Autism-related Behaviors, But Some Have Significant Side Effects
• Treatments show promise in reducing autism-related behaviors, but some have significant side effects
• Trends in diabetes treatment suggest more multidrug regimens, resulting in high financial burden on persons with diabetes and their families
• Trends in treating depression favor psychotropic medications over psychotherapy
• Trigger tools have potential to detect adverse events following outpatient surgery
• Tumor necrosis factor-antagonists in patients with autoimmune diseases showed no overall increased risk of hospitalizations for serious infections than non-biologic drugs
• Two Effective Health Care (EHC) program report series identify research needs and provide guidance on identifying gaps in clinical evidence
• Two approaches help identify cardiac surgery patients at risk for postoperative kidney failure
• Two courses added to HCUP Online Tutorial Series
• Two different tools help measure tracheal intubation adverse events and performance in pediatric intensive care units
• Two-thirds of State and local government workers get their health plans from their employer
• Two-thirds of State and local government workers get their health plans from their employers
• Two-thirds of people with diabetes miss some critically important exams to manage the disease
• Type of insurance affects use and intensity of postacute care for stroke survivors
• Types and rates of fungal infections vary among groups and treatment is often suboptimal
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force updates vision screening recommendation for young children
• U.S. employers lost nearly 3 weeks of work per employee due to sick da
• U.S. spends nearly $1 billion on blood thinners for adults
• U.S.-born Mexican women who have adopted U.S. culture may be more at risk for cervical cancer
• Uncertainty surrounds use of terbutaline to prevent preterm birth
• Uncontrolled asthma events among Massachusetts patients declined between 2002 and 2007
• Uninsured and Medicaid-insured emergency department patients are more likely to accept the screening than commercially insured patients
• Uninsured hospital stays surged from 2003 to 2008
• Uninsured patients respond well to paying a monthly retainer for primary care services
• Unionized hospital RNs slightly less satisfied with work than nonunionized RNs
• Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States has boosted its use of broad-spectrum antibiotics for respiratory infections
• Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will help health providers improve care
• Updated Effective Health Care Guides on Safety of Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes are Available
• Updated GERD research reviews and summaries available
• Updated Report Highlights Hospitals' Progress in Reducing Bloodstream Infections
• Updated report compares the effectiveness and risks of popular hypertension medications
• Updated report highlights hospitals' progress in reducing bloodstream infections
• Urinary Incontinence New Hope
• Use of bedside ultrasound by hospital emergency departments is not yet common practice
• Use of certain electronic health record features is associated with improved primary care quality measures
• Use of diabetes pills up, insulin use down
• Use of electronic prescribing has expanded among Massachusetts physicians
• Use of episiotomy and forceps during childbirth down, C-section rates up
• Use of physical restraint in nursing homes cut by half in 8 years
• Use of physician extenders associated with increase in antidepressant prescribing in nursing homes
• Use of physician extenders associated with increase in antidepressant prescribing in nursing homes, Figure
• Use of pulmonary artery catheters provides no patient benefit and increases costs
• Use of standardized feeding evaluation following surgery for congenital heart defect improves growth in affected newborns
• Using a terbutaline pump to prevent preterm birth may be beneficial, but evidence suggests caution
• Using bar-code technology with eMAR reduces medication administration and transcription errors
• Using quitlines with physician support improves smoking cessation
• Vaccines with names that look and sound alike can lead to vaccination errors
• Vaginal births after cesarean are safe for most women
• Variations exist in cardiac arrest care provided by emergency medical personnel
• Various factors affect providers' ability to identify spoken drug names
• Various factors influence the adoption of ergonomics in health care organizations
• Venous thromboembolism is rare in young trauma patients, but a better understanding of its risk factors is needed
• Veterans who use pharmacy services at VA facilities tend to be sicker, poorer, and have no alternative insurance
• Videonovela for Hispanics on managing diabetes uses family drama to educate patients and families
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• Volume of paid outpatient malpractice claims underscores need for greater patient safety efforts in this area
• Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque Technical Brief Is Available
• Vulnerable populations with heart failure less likely to receive early physician followup after discharge
• Watching patient stories on DVDs improves blood pressure control among blacks
• Ways to reduce contrast-induced acute kidney injury from imaging procedures in patients with cardiovascular disease
• Web videonovela series helps Spanish-speaking patients compare treatments for diabetes
• Web-based patient portal improves perceptions of patient-centeredness and receipt of preventive services
• Web-based programs help patients with diabetes feel empowered to take care of themselves
• Wellness education and physical therapy improve health and functioning of persons with multiple sclerosis
• Wheeled Mobility Service Delivery Review Highlights Need for Research
• When cancer drug went generic, its use declined
• When health plans share physicians, they may have less incentive to improve care quality
• When primary care providers apply fluoride varnish, young Medicaid-insured children have fewer cavities
• Where low-wage employees work, who their colleagues are, and spouses' wage level affect health insurance coverage and cost
• While treatments for miscarriage are safe, providers do not always offer them all to their patients
• While young women are knowledgeable about the HPV vaccine, many have yet to be vaccinated to prevent cervical cancer
• Whistleblowers in pharmaceutical fraud cases pursue Federal lawsuits for moral reasons, not money
• Why women are admitted to the hospital
• Women in jail are at increased risk of cervical cancer
• Women on Medicare with poor chances of living 4 more years often forego screening mammograms
• Women want clinicians to talk about the risk medications pose to an unborn child
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy
• Women's self-reported stress seems to jibe with a common stress biomarker
• Youth with HIV/AIDS and conduct disorder are less likely to use or adhere to antiretroviral therapy
• Youths initially diagnosed with ADHD receive an array of medications