Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

August 18 2009 20090818

Personalized Medicine's Frontier Is Coming Into View

Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• Chapter 5a. Presentation Content
• Consumer Information and Education
• Great American Smokeout (2002-May)
• Health Services Research and Life Sciences Education
• Improving Health Care Quality: Guide for Patients and Families
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors

Audio & Video

December 1 2012 20121201

Introduction

Clinicians & Providers

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• A Call for Action on Primary Care and Public Health Integration
• AHRQ Data, Statistics, and Tools
• AHRQ Publications Catalog
• AHRQ Research on Caring for Children With Asthma
• AHRQ Research on Diabetes Care
• Academic Health Centers and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Baggage, Buckets, Basics, and Bottles
• Access Research Activities Newsletter
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Agency Information
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Appendix A: Examples of Research Products
• Asthma Care Quality for Children with Minority-serving Providers
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Cases of Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Can Be Identified from ICD-9-CM Coded Data
• Chapter 1. Introduction and Methods
• Chapter 2: Effective Health Care Program Activities
• Chapter 3: Getting Involved in the Research Process
• Chapter 4. Using Research
• Chapter 5a. Presentation Content
• Child Health Services Research Speaker Series
• Children's Health
• Chronic Care for Low-Income Children with Asthma
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Code Status Discussions at Hospital Admission Are Not Associated with Patient and Surrogate Satisfaction with Hospital Care: Results from the Multicenter Hospitalist Study
• Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Consumer Information and Education
• Data Development and Use
• Derivation and Reliability of an Instrument To Estimate Medical Benefit of Emergency Treatment
• Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
• Effective Health Care
• Effects of Documentation-based Decision Support on Chronic Disease Management
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Elderly/Long-Term Care
• Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Environmental Scan of Instruments to Inform Consumer Choice in Assisted Living Facilities
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures
• HIV Treatment Adherence, Drug Resistance, Virologic Failure: Evolving Concepts
• Health Care Costs
• Health Care Costs and Utilization
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Health Services Research
• Hospital-reported Data on the Pneumonia Quality Measure ‘Time to First Antibiotic Dose" are not Associated with Inpatient Mortality
• Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
• Managed Care Features and Chronic Conditions
• Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
• Minority Health
• Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
• Partnership for Health Clinician Fact Sheets
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities
• Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial
• Perioperative Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients with Sleep Apnea after Noncardiac Surgery
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Program on Health Outcomes Presentations
• Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
• Quality of Care
• Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
• Relationship between Chemotherapy Use and Cognitive Impairments in Older Women with Breast Cancer: Findings from a Large Population-based Cohort
• Research and Policy Efforts Related to CHIRI™
• Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission
• Standard Definitions of Adherence for Infrequent Yet Repeated Health Behaviors
• Strategies to Improve Communication Between Pharmacists and Patients
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• The Relationship between the Emergent Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Quality Measure and Inpatient Myocardial Infarction Mortality
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Tools for Research: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS®)
• Tools for Research: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: PHS Clinical Practice Guideline
• Who Should Participate?
• Women's Health

Hospital & Health System Resources

• AHRQ Data, Statistics, and Tools
• AHRQ Publications Catalog
• AHRQ Research on Caring for Children With Asthma
• Access Research Activities Newsletter
• Agency Information
• Appendix A: Examples of Research Products
• Assemble the Team
• Award Recipients
• Background Quality Improvement Team Information Form
• CEO and Senior Leader Checklist
• CUSP Toolkit Spread Facilitator Notes
• CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes
• CUSP Toolkit: Spread Presentation Slides
• CUSP Toolkit: The Role of the Nurse Manager
• Chapter 1. Introduction and Program Overview
• Chapter 2: Effective Health Care Program Activities
• Chapter 3: Getting Involved in the Research Process
• Chapter 4. Using Research
• Chapter 5a. Presentation Content
• Children's Health
• Chronic Care for Low-Income Children with Asthma
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Conducting a Morning Briefing
• Consumer Information and Education
• Culture Check-Up Tool
• Data Development and Use
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Effective Health Care
• Elderly/Long-Term Care
• Environmental Scan of Instruments to Inform Consumer Choice in Assisted Living Facilities
• Eradicating Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections Statewide: The Hawaii Experience
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Health Care Costs and Utilization
• Health Information Technology
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Health Services Research
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
• Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report
• Infection Checklist
• Managed Care Features and Chronic Conditions
• Minority Health
• Observing Patient Care Rounds
• Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
• Quality of Care
• Shadowing Another Professional Tool
• Strategies to Improve Communication Between Pharmacists and Patients
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Understand the Science of Safety:
• Who Should Participate?
• Women's Health

Policymaker Resources

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• A Call for Action on Primary Care and Public Health Integration
• AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference
• AHRQ Data, Statistics, and Tools
• AHRQ Publications Catalog
• Access Research Activities Newsletter
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Agency Information
• Appendix A: Examples of Research Products
• Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Chapter 2: Effective Health Care Program Activities
• Chapter 3: Getting Involved in the Research Process
• Chapter 4. Using Research
• Children's Health
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Consumer Information and Education
• Data Development and Use
• Diabetes Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide
• Direction of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States and the Role of AHRQ
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Effective Health Care
• Elderly/Long-Term Care
• Eradicating Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections Statewide: The Hawaii Experience
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• HCUP: Questions and Answers
• HCUP: Webinar Transcript (Part 1)
• Health Care Costs and Utilization
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Health Services Research
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
• Minority Health
• Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial
• Perioperative Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients with Sleep Apnea after Noncardiac Surgery
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Preventable Hospitalization Costs and Mapping Tool
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
• Quality of Care
• Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
• Selected Research on Children's Health Insurance
• Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
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• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
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• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research Tami L. Wahl, American Association for Health Freedom
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
• Who Should Participate?
• Women's Health

Research Activities Newsletter Articles

May 1 2013 20130501

Research Activities, May 2013

April 1 2013 20130401

Research Activities April 2013, No. 392

March 15 2013 20130315

Research Activities March 2013, No. 391

February 1 2013 20130201

Research Activities February 2013, No. 390

January 1 2013 20130101

Research Activities January 2013, No. 389

December 1 2012 20121201

Research Activities December 2012, No. 388

November 1 2012 20121101

Research Activities, November 2012, No. 387

October 1 2012 20121001

Research Activities, October 2012, No. 386

September 1 2012 20120901

Research Activities September 2012, No. 385

July 1 2012 20120701

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June 1 2012 20120601

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May 1 2012 20120501

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April 1 2012 20120401

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March 1 2012 20120301

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February 1 2012 20120201

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January 1 2012 20120101

Research Activities, January 2012, No. 377

December 1 2011 20111201

Research Activities, December 2011, No. 376

November 1 2011 20111101

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August 1 2011 20110801

Research Activities, August 2011, No. 372

July 1 2011 20110701

Research Activities, July 2011, No. 371

June 1 2011 20110601

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May 1 2011 20110501

Research Activities, May 2011, No. 369

April 1 2011 20110401

Research Activities, April 2011, No. 368

March 1 2011 20110301

Research Activities, March 2011, No. 367

February 1 2011 20110201

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January 1 2011 20110101

Research Activities, January 2011, No. 365

December 1 2010 20101201

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November 1 2010 20101101

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October 1 2010 20101001

Research Activities, October 2010, No. 362

September 1 2010 20100901

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August 1 2010 20100801

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July 1 2010 20100701

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June 1 2010 20100601

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Research Activities, March 2010, No. 355

February 1 2010 20100201

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Fact Sheets

April 30 2013 20130430

AHRQ Research and Other Activities Relevant to American Indians and Alaska Natives

September 1 2012 20120901

AHRQ Research on Diabetes Care

September 1 2012 20120901

AHRQ-Funded Research on Health Care for Asian Americans/Pacific Islands

September 1 2012 20120901

Award Recipients

September 1 2012 20120901

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

September 1 2012 20120901

Excellence Centers to Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities (EXCEED)

September 1 2012 20120901

Health Care for Minority Women

September 1 2012 20120901

Managed Care Features and Chronic Conditions

September 1 2012 20120901

Partnership for Health Clinician Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Private-Sector Use of AHRQ Research

September 1 2012 20120901

Research Agenda for Primary Care

September 1 2009 20090901

AHRQ Activities Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Addres

June 1 2005 20050601

Chronic Care for Low-Income Children with Asthma

December 1 2000 20001201

Child Health Services Research Speaker Series

February 1 2000 20000201

AHRQ Research on Caring for Children With Asthma

Full Research Reports

December 1 2012 20121201

Chapter 1. Introduction and Program Overview

December 1 2012 20121201

Chapter 5a. Presentation Content

December 1 2012 20121201

Environmental Scan of Instruments to Inform Consumer Choice in Assisted Living Facilities

December 1 2012 20121201

Highlights, 2009 (continued 1)

September 1 2012 20120901

ACSUS: Health Care Use

September 1 2012 20120901

Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial Stewardship

January 1 2012 20120101

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report

February 1 2011 20110201

Chapter 1. Introduction and Methods

Other Research & Data

• The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
• A Call for Action on Primary Care and Public Health Integration
• AHCPR Is Streamlining Its Grant Application Submission and Review Proc
• AHCPR Policy on the Inclusion of Children in Health Services Research
• AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference
• AHRQ Analyses of MEPS Data Inform Estimates of the Number of Long-Term Uninsured
• AHRQ Data, Statistics, and Tools
• AHRQ Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Initiative
• AHRQ Publications Catalog
• AHRQ Releases MONAHRQ Version 2.0
• AHRQ Research in Action
• AHRQ Section 508 Technical Assistance Center: Overview
• AHRQ Stats
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• Academic Health Centers and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Baggage, Buckets, Basics, and Bottles
• Access Research Activities Newsletter
• Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
• Administration on Aging
• Agency Information
• Allergen-specific immunotherapy is safe and effective for treating nasal allergies and mild asthma
• American Hospital Association
• American Pharmacy Services Corporation
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
• Aspirin/warfarin combination reduces the risk of blood clots after aortic valve replacement surgery
• Assemble the Team, Facilitator Notes
• Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
• Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
• Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc.
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the Technology Evaluation Center (TEC)
• British Columbia Ministry of Health
• Building the Science of Public Reporting
• CHRISTUS® Schumpert Health System
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Care processes in nursing home and residential long-term care settings may benefit people with dementia
• Chapter 3: Getting Involved in the Research Process
• Children's Health
• Clinical Focus*
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical tool helps to estimate predicted benefit from radiation therapy for older women with breast cancer
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Combined oral contraceptives effective in treating abnormal uterine bleeding
• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Consumer Information and Education
• Data Development and Use
• Depressed patients who report distressing adverse events with citalopram are likely to have similar events with other kinds of antidepressants
• Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
• Developing and Strengthening Scientific Methods for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Direction of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States and the Role of AHRQ
• Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured?
• Dosing frequency has greater impact than pill burden on medication adherence by patients with newly diagnosed HIV
• Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
• Effective Health Care
• Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
• Elderly/Long-Term Care
• Electronic health records improve primary care of diabetes
• Electronic standing orders help primary care practices improve screenings and immunizations
• Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Enhancements to electronic health records can improve the diagnosis and management of depression
• Eradicating Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections Statewide: The Hawaii Experience
• Ethica Health and Retirement Communities
• Evidence Development for Topics Identified as National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Facilitator Notes
• Family Violence Prevention Fund
• Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures
• From the Director
• HCUPnet
• HIV Treatment Adherence, Drug Resistance, Virologic Failure: Evolving Concepts
• Health Canada
• Health Care Costs
• Health Care Costs and Utilization
• Health Care Effectiveness and Outcomes Research (HEOR) Study Section Members
• Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Research (HCQER) Study Section Members
• Health Care Research Training (HCRT) Study Section Members
• Health Information Systems in Small Practices
• Health Information Technology
• Health Insurance/Access to Care
• Health Services Research
• Health Services Research Core Competencies
• High-risk infants have better survival when delivered at hospitals with highlevel neonatal intensive care units
• Hill Country Memorial Hospital; University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
• Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
• Hospital stroke mortality ratings vary by type of stroke
• Hospital-reported Data on the Pneumonia Quality Measure ‘Time to First Antibiotic Dose" are not Associated with Inpatient Mortality
• Indian River Memorial Hospital
• Indiana State Department of Health
• Infectious Disease Society of America; American Thoracic Society
• Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
• Intrinsic alteration in immunoregulation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis has implications for treating osteolysis
• Japan Chronic Disease Self-Management Association
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California
• Local Health Guide, Seattle
• Lost productivity of people with epilepsy results in significant economic burden
• Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
• Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health
• Medical Benefit Alternatives
• Medical Care Research and Review: Supplement
• Medication reconciliation meets its MATCH
• Memorandum on Statutory Confidentiality Protection of Research Data
• Mercy Hospital and Unity Hospital; Allina Hospitals and Clinics
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Minority Health
• More and stronger research needed on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent PTSD
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage, Mental Health Utilization, and Spending for Low-Income Individuals
• National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality; American Academy of Pediatrics
• Near-Elderly Adults, Ages 55-64: Health Insurance Coverage, Cost, and Access
• Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
• News and Notes
• No consensus on efficacy, safety, and applicability of feeding and nutrition interventions for adolescents with cerebral palsy
• North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation
• Not enough HIV patients are receiving aspirin for primary prevention of heart disease
• Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
• PCA3 test may be more accurate at predicting prostate cancer than tPSA in men identified as at-risk
• Patient Safety/Medical Errors
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities
• Patient-centered medical homes cost-effectively improve patient experience and quality of care for seniors
• Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial
• Patients Not Ready To Make A Quit Attempt Now (The "5 R's")
• Patients returning home after hospitalization for stroke benefit from medication coaching by telephone
• Patients who move among medical groups have higher care costs and use than those who stay in the same group
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Percentage of families with fullyear health insurance coverage for both child and parent fell during 1998 to 2008
• Perceptions of quality and safety decline as the size of medical practices increases
• Perioperative Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients with Sleep Apnea after Noncardiac Surgery
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Poor preconception mental health a major factor in pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes
• Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Prevention
• Primary Care
• Public Health Service
• Quality improvement initiative reduces serious safety events in pediatric hospital patients
• Quality measure compliance for children’s asthma care reduces hospital readmissions
• Quality of Care
• Racial disparities shown in the postsurgical treatment of elderly women with early-stage breast cancer
• Register for May 3 Conference on Advancing Quality Improvement Science for Children’s Healthcare Research
• Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
• Relationship between Chemotherapy Use and Cognitive Impairments in Older Women with Breast Cancer: Findings from a Large Population-based Cohort
• Reprints of Articles by Staff
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Research Briefs
• Review compares approaches for determining need for stenting in patients with coronary artery disease
• Risk of death increases in nursing home residents after exposure to typical antipsychotics
• Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission
• Several psychological and drug treatments appear effective for improving outcomes for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder
• Some interventions may prevent weight gain
• Standard Definitions of Adherence for Infrequent Yet Repeated Health Behaviors
• State of Alaska
• State of Alaska
• State of New Hampshire
• State of Oregon
• State of Vermont
• State of Washington
• State of Washington
• Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs
• Studies in Meta-analyses
• Study Section Research Foci
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
• Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud
• The Impact of Medicaid Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) on Office-Based Physician Supply in Alabama and Georgia
• The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
• Training Videos
• University of Buenos Aires
• University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
• Use of antibiotics is common among older adults and varies across regions
• Utah's Hospital Comparison Reports Using MONAHRQ
• Web videonovela series helps Spanish-speaking patients compare treatments for diabetes
• Women less likely to undergo cesarean deliveries if their doctors listen and respond to their concerns
• Women's Health

Press Releases

April 13 2010 20100413

Annual Quality and Disparities Reports Include Data on Rates of Health Care-Associated Infections, Obesity and Health Insurance

News & Numbers

March 7 2012 20120307

Hospital Readmission Rates Higher for Chronic Conditions

January 12 2011 20110112

One-Fifth of the U.S. Population Has No Doctor or Other Usual Source of Medical Care

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

August 18 2009 20090818

Personalized Medicine's Frontier Is Coming Into View

Other News & Events

• 1 in 10 computer-generated prescriptions include at least one error
• 2008 HCUP Facts and Figures report provides statistics on hospital visits
• 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 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 hospital's ability to rescue patients from complications after high-risk surgery determines mortality rates
• A simple test can help assess how accurately patients report colorecta
• AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference plenary session videos available
• AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference
• AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference Registration Now Open
• 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 Data, Statistics, and Tools
• AHRQ Director Participates in Kaiser Family Foundation Webcast on Health Disparities
• AHRQ Evidence Review Addresses Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Orthopedic Surgery
• AHRQ Handbook Helps Physician Practices Implement Interactive Preventive Health Records
• AHRQ Publications Catalog
• AHRQ Releases 2011 State Snapshots
• AHRQ Releases New Medication Reconciliation Tool for Hospitals
• AHRQ Releases New Spanish-Language Guides for Patients
• 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 Research on Diabetes Care
• AHRQ Seeks Nominations for the Effective Health Care Stakeholder Group
• AHRQ Stats
• AHRQ Stats
• 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 Toolsets Available to Help Pharmacists and Physicians Implement E-Prescribing
• AHRQ announces CERTs awards
• AHRQ awards $34 million to expand fight against healthcare-associated infections
• 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 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 new HCUP databases and tools Webinar series
• AHRQ offers free toolkit to strengthen medication reconciliation
• AHRQ patient safety indicator can be used to identify cases of hospital-acquired collapsed lung
• AHRQ publishes first evaluation highlight on CHIPRA quality demonstration grant program
• AHRQ releases new Spanish language guides on women's health, cholesterol treatment, and other topics
• 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 reveals use of Medicaid home and community-based services
• AHRQ reports summarize quality gaps across health care
• 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 toolkit can help hospitals lower preventable readmissions
• AHRQ toolkit helps hospitals improve antibiotic selection to reduce deadly C. difficile infections
• AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program Technical Brief on Stroke Care Is Available
• 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
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• 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
• Adherence interventions may help patients with hepatitis C
• Adjusting hospital admissions by day can help with overcrowding in children's hospitals
• 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
• Adults with individual and employment-related health insurance report similar, often good, access to care
• Adverse drug reactions a major cause of unplanned hospitalizations of elderly veterans
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• 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
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• 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
• 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
• 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
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• Automated quality measures can be used to improve asthma care
• 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
• Benefits and risks of helicopter transport for trauma patients investigated
• Benefits of case management for chronic illness limited
• Benefits under the Affordable Care Act would have reduced out-of-pocket expenses
• Best strategies to treat traumatic brain injury patients are unclear
• 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
• Black and Hispanic Medicare patients with hip fracture wait longer for surgery than white patients
• Black male prisoners in North Carolina have considerably lower mortality rates than black residents of that State
• Black patients are negatively affected by clinicians' attitudes about race
• Blacks and patients at hospitals with a high percentage of black patients more likely to suffer adverse events
• Blacks have higher rates of pituitary adenoma
• Blacks treated at community health centers are less likely than Hispanics or whites to have controlled blood pressure
• Blood infections most costly hospital care in 2009
• Bone Marrow Transplant is Beneficial for Some Rare Childhood Diseases
• 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
• Breathing retraining techniques may help adult asthma
• Brief on multidisciplinary pain programs for chronic noncancer pain available
• Brief psychotherapy helps multiple sclerosis patients with insomnia and depression
• Bundling payments reduces health care spending
• Calcium from food linked to lower risk for prostate cancer
• Call for papers for special issue of Health Services Research on mixed methods in health care delivery system research
• 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
• Careful design of personal health records can improve the delivery of preventive care
• Certain antibiotics increase the risk of treatment failure in children with MRSA-related skin and soft-tissue infections
• 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
• Cesarean delivery rates may not be a useful measure of obstetric quality
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• Characteristics of care facilities may influence when elderly breast cancer patients receive radiation therapy
• Children are commonly exposed to ionizing radiation from medical diagnostic imaging procedures
• Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis are at high risk of hospital stays that involve bacterial infections
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• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical decision support systems are effective but research is needed to promote widespread use
• Clinical quality measures useful in estimating quality across different electronic health records
• Clopidogrel increases bleeding risk in cardiac patients with drug-eluting stents
• 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
• Combining strategies cuts hospitals’ healthcare-associated infection rates
• 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
• 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
• Consolidating blood draws may help reduce blood loss in critically ill children
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• Consumer and clinician summaries now available on chronic pelvic pain treatment options
• Contact isolation of new patients reduces adherence to process-of-care quality measures for pneumonia
• Continuing beta blockers after noncardiac surgery improves patient outcome
• Conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs show differing safety risks among older nursing home residents
• Corporate social responsibility as well as profit motivates executives
• Costly, ineffective tests used more often than more effective, but inexpensive tests to diagnose peripheral neuropathy
• Criminal justice system may create and aggravate health disparities among minorities
• Crisis checklists for the operating room can improve safety and management
• Cultural myths may prevent low-income black women from exercising during pregnancy
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• Decision modeling can demonstrate potential trade-offs between survival and quality of life in advance directives
• 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
• Delaying the control of blood pressure among middle-aged adults with diabetes
• 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
• Despite more widespread prescribing of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, disparities remain
• Diabetes substantially affects school dropout rates and wages
• Diabetes treatment involves more multidrug regimens and high financial burden
• Differences in the costs of drugs prescribed lead to regional variation in Medicare Part D drug spending
• Direction of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States and the Role of AHRQ
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• EMS transport is underused by patients with a certain type of heart attack
• 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
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• 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
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• Elders and families find it difficult to interpret data from passive sensors that help monitor elderly activity
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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 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 standing orders increase delivery of preventive services
• 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 lacking on best approaches to treat autism in teens and young adults
• Evidence lacking on effectiveness of antipsychotics for children
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Experienced primary care physicians want to know about your clinical status while you are in the hospital
• Experts propose new Health Literate Care Model
• Experts seek better diagnosis and treatment for women's urinary incontinence and chronic pelvic pain
• Extending use of anti-clotting medication following major orthopedic surgery may help prevent post-operative blood clots
• 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
• Fecal occult blood tests and followup need to be better targeted to healthy older adults
• Fewer patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis die while awaiting liver transplants than those with other liver diseases
• Final 2014 clinical quality measures available
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• Four drugs to treat chronic heart failure found similarly effective
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• Gaps in insurance coverage linked to less receipt of preventive services by patients with diabetes
• Genetic risk for obesity in children boosts risk for obesity in adulthood
• 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
• Guide to clinical preventive services now available
• 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
• HHS Awards $473 Million in Patient-centered Outcomes Research Funding
• HHS Issues New Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions
• 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 Seeks Comments on National Health Care Quality Strategy and Plan
• HHS awards $473 million in patient-centered outcomes research funding
• Hard-of-hearing individuals more likely to report difficulties in accessing care
• 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
• Headache and nausea most common side effects among adults and adolescents taking antidepressants
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• 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
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• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
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• Health Services Research extends call for papers on health IT
• Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
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• Heart block in children following heart surgery increases length of hospital stay and total costs
• 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 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 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
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• Hispanics settling in ‘new’ destinations are more likely to have unmet health needs than those settling in traditional areas
• Homeless and underserved women may not be receiving empiric treatment
• Hospital emergency departments get tips from AHRQ on how to reduce crowding and better triage patients
• Hospital readmissions for COPD highest among black patients
• Hospital report cards on coronary bypass surgery are more accurate when based on 2-year data
• 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
• Hospitalizations for Medication and Illicit Drug-Related Conditions on the Rise Among Americans Ages 45 and Older
• Hospitalizations for kids with inflammatory bowel disease are frequent and costly
• Hospitals serving large minority populations have higher ambulance diversion rates
• Hospitals vary widely in their use of dopamine and dobutamine in preterm/low birthweight neonates
• Human Growth Hormone Shows Promise in treating Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms
• Human growth hormone shows promise in treating cystic fibrosis symptoms
• Human-computer interaction evaluation can inform the redesign of computerized clinical reminders
• ICU bed allocation: clinicians prioritize "rescuing" a critically ill patient over societal benefit
• ICUs in Michigan Sustain Zero Blood Stream Infections for Up to 2 Years
• Implementing a clinical practice guideline helps children with pneumonia get proper antibiotics
• Improving care for patients with disabilities
• Including FDA hotline in print drug ads has small effect on adverse event reporting by consumers
• 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 the number of coronary angiography facilities led to a reduction in racial disparities in New Jersey
• Infliximab may be riskier than etanercept for younger patients with arthritis
• Infrequent physician use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators presents potential risks to patient safety
• Initiative shows how health IT can advance patient-centered care
• Inmates remain at risk for HIV and HCV after release from prison
• 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 in nine States see sharp drop in bloodstream infections
• 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
• Japanese cultural beliefs linked to increased female infant mortality in 1966, the year of the fire horse
• Key treatments for high blood pressure and high blood lipids do not reduce elderly patients' risk of limited mobility
• Label changes, manufacturer's warning letter did not reduce use of propofol for conscious sedation in children
• 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
• 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
• Learning networks can help implement strategies to improve emergency department patient flow
• 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
• 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
• Low Health Literacy Linked to Higher Risk of Death and More Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations
• 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 flu vaccination rates for black nursing home residents a cause for concern
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• MRSA can spread slowly but surely in households
• Magnet® hospitals offer better work environment for nurses than non-Magnet hospitals
• Many Federal drug risk alerts fail to achieve the recommended changes in prescribing
• Many black parents believe soft bedding will keep their infants safe from sudden infant death syndrome
• Many hospitalized children receive numerous medications, raising potential safety concerns
• Many non-oral medications appear to effectively treat acute migraines in emergency department patients
• Many surgeons do not discuss advance directives with their patients before surgery
• Market competition has only marginal effect on hospital performance for heart failure
• Measure of inappropriate prescribing predicts risk of adverse drug eve
• Medicaid providers face common barriers to meaningful use
• Medical home concept not well defined in 2007 legislation
• Medical home for children and youth improves delivery of preventive services without raising expenditures
• Medicare Part D coverage gap reduces antidepressant use in the elderly
• 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, Medicaid, and uninsured patients less likely to receive drug-eluting stents than the privately insured
• Men more likely to be readmitted to hospital after discharge
• Mental illness is common and left untreated in older public housing residents
• Minimally invasive prostatectomy in young men has fewer complications
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• Minority-serving hospitals have problems with quality of care and patient satisfaction
• Modifying pediatric quality care measures may capture more care services
• 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 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 to compare therapies for colorectal cancer metastases is to the liver
• More safeguards needed to prevent adverse drug events caused by medication administration errors
• Mortality rate and major complications have declined among adult trauma patients cared for in trauma centers
• 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 public hospitals are in rural areas
• Mother-infant interactions associated with use of health services
• 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
• National Awards Program to Recognize Achievements in Eliminating Healthcare-Associated Infections
• National Quality Strategy offers free communications toolkit
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• 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
• 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 Finds Teamwork and Follow-Up as Strengths of Medical Offices but Work Pressure and Pace are Problematic
• 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 evidence report details top patient safety strategies
• New AHRQ handbook helps practices implement interactive preventive health records
• New AHRQ public reports on provider performance are available for consumer Web page
• 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 Health IT Common Format for Adverse Event Reporting
• New Patient-Centered Medical Home Brief and White Paper Now Available
• 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 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 guidelines help clinicians assess and treat maladaptive aggression in youth
• New measure helps evaluate interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections
• New patient decision aid and other resources available on osteoporosis medications
• New research examines use of nitrous oxide for labor pain
• New resources available for comparing osteoarthritis pain medications
• New review evaluates treatment options for plaque psoriasis
• New study counters the urban legend that insurers won't cover patients who leave the hospital prematurely
• 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 tools help improve patient safety for those with limited English
• Newer antidepressants equally effective in treating major depressive disorder
• No evidence of serious cardiovascular events in children and young adults using medications for ADHD
• 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
• Nuclear kidney scans in children with urinary tract infections increase costs and radiation exposure
• Number of Americans prescribed anticonvulsant drugs has nearly doubled
• Nurses in hospital units with a higher proportion of short-term patients take longer to respond to patient call lights
• Occupational back injuries lead to increased financial and domestic hardship for black and young workers
• Off-label use of atypical antipsychotics not supported by evidence for some conditions
• Older medications for epilepsy obtain better control but have more adverse effects
• Older women with breast cancer experience more complications with brachytherapy than whole breast irradiation
• One in 13 U.S. adults report access to specialists to be a "big problem"
• 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
• Opioid prescriptions for treating chronic abdominal pain doubled between 1997 and 2008
• Opportunities for advancing delivery system research-AHRQ meeting summary now online
• Oral chemotherapy drugs not immune to medication errors
• Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
• Outcomes of trauma patients depend heavily on whether recommended practices are followed
• Overcrowding in emergency departments increases the risk of preventable medical errors
• Paper previsit reminders for doctors do not add value to electronic reminders from an electronic health record system
• Parental reports more accurate than electronic health records in documenting child diet and exercise counseling
• Partial kidney removal offers survival advantage for elderly patients with small tumors
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• Patient decision aids can reduce uncertainty in decisions about whether to undergo total knee replacement
• Patient-centered interactive health records can improve use of preventive services
• Patients hospitalized for burn injuries in New York have comparable outcomes at major burn centers
• 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 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 find it easy to access primary care are more likely to receive selected preventive services
• Patients with coronary artery disease who get ongoing support from their community pharmacy may adhere better to medications
• Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack suffer high levels of depression and undertreatment with antidepressants
• Pay-for-performance did not spur more rapid quality improvement among low-performing hospitals
• Pay-for-performance project showed early gains but tapered in the fourth and fifth years
• Pediatric cardiology centers vary in treatment of infants with single-ventricle congenital heart disease
• Pediatric emergency department visits surged during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, but few children were hospitalized
• 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
• People harmed by unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide poisoning results in hospital costs of more than $26 million
• Perceived reputation and other factors influence consumers' hospital choices
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Physical therapy may improve outcomes for adults with knee pain
• Physicians face diagnostic difficulties in primary care for a variety of reasons
• Physicians optimistic about potential for electronic prescribing but barriers to adoption still exist
• Physicians who use electronic health records more intensively are more likely to use patient registries to improve care
• Physicians' implicit racial attitudes influence prescribing of opioids for black children
• Physicians' use of "we" during patient visits does not necessarily fos
• 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
• Podcast series discusses the AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals
• Potentially avoidable hospitalizations high among Medicare and Medicaid patients
• Predicting cardiovascular risk in patients with metabolic syndrome dep
• Premiums for some family plans cost $20,000 or more
• Prescription of antidepressants for children and adolescents by office-based physicians is typically done off-label
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• Primary care model helps treat underserved patients with hepatitis C virus infection
• Primary care physicians feel responsible for assessing patients’ medication adherence, but rarely ask older patients about it directly
• 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
• Private-Sector Use of AHRQ Research
• 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
• Prostate cancer deaths drop, but blacks still most likely to die
• Provider-patient dialogue could be improved to foster medication adherence in HIV care
• Provision of personal digital assistants alone does not help providers avoid drug-drug interactions
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
• Quality improvement collaborative improves outcomes in children with inflammatory bowel disease
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• 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
• 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
• Rates of Pneumonia Dramatically Reduced in Patients on Ventilators in Michigan Intensive Care Units
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• Register for April 25-26 Conference on Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability
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• Register for May 8 HCUP Data Users’ Workshop
• Register for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data Users' Workshop
• Register now for AHRQ's fourth annual conference
• Registration now open for TeamSTEPPS® training in 2013
• Remote intensive care monitoring is cost effective for sickest patients
• 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
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• Research shows health IT enables quality measurement, but obstacles remain
• Researchers develop a task list to evaluate primary care workflow
• Response to etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis can be predicted by 12 weeks
• Restorative care appears to lower emergency department visits and falls
• Retention in HIV care is a problem for many patients
• Review examines Hepatitis C screening effects in adults
• 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
• 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
• Rural patients with a serious form of gallstone disease are less likely than urban patients to receive treatment
• Same-sex couples report more barriers to care and poorer interactions with providers than those in heterosexual marriages
• Save May date for two AHRQ data user workshops
• 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-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
• 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
• Short spacing between children boosts the older child’s risk of behavioral and cognitive problems
• Single-lung transplantation for COPD improves access to transplantation without jeopardizing survival
• Skill in estimating blood loss declines 9 months after Web-based training
• Some assessment tools and medications are effective for chronic cough
• Some noninvasive tests are better than others at detecting coronary artery disease in women
• South Asians may not perceive themselves as being overweight or obese
• Spanish-language novella on managing type 2 diabetes available
• Spending for prescriptions to control diabetes, cholesterol, and other metabolic conditions exceeds $52 billion
• Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises
• State Medicaid Policy Changes Increasingly Driven by Evidence
• Stroke education program improves medication knowledge and satisfaction with health care providers' explanations
• Stroke recurrence rates vary by U.S. region
• 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 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 identifies demographic and clinical factors related to fractures among older Americans
• 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 projects savings by Affordable Care Act to individual health insurance policyholders
• 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 results argue against decisions about screening colonoscopy based on age alone
• Study reveals patterns of readmissions to the intensive care unit
• Study tracks hospitalization rates for various respiratory viruses
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• Sulfonylurea medication linked to kidney function decline among patients with diabetes
• Supplemental phenylketonuria therapies may help some
• Surgeons are more reluctant to withdraw postoperative life support for patients with complications from surgeon error
• Surgery for ureter congenital abnormality results in efficacy and long-term durability
• 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
• Tactics to improve medication adherence in short-term shown effective
• Task Force Releases Screening Recommendations for Obesity in Kids and Teens
• TeamSTEPPS® training module for primary care practices now available
• Teamwork key to long-term sustainability of health IT systems
• Telemedicine dermatology consultations change diagnoses and improve outcomes
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research
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• Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research Tami L. Wahl, American Association for Health Freedom
• 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 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
• Tool assesses the readiness of black churches to engage in health disparities research
• Tough guy mentality prevents some men from seeking help for depression
• 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
• Treatment guideline reduces hypoglycemic events in critically ill children
• 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
• 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 different tools help measure tracheal intubation adverse events and performance in pediatric intensive care units
• Type of insurance affects use and intensity of postacute care for stroke survivors
• Uncertainty surrounds use of terbutaline to prevent preterm birth
• Uninsured and Medicaid-insured emergency department patients are more likely to accept the screening than commercially insured patients
• 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 highlights hospitals' progress in reducing bloodstream infections
• 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
• Variations exist in cardiac arrest care provided by emergency medical personnel
• Various factors affect providers' ability to identify spoken drug names
• Videonovela for Hispanics on managing diabetes uses family drama to educate patients and families
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• Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque Technical Brief Is Available
• Vulnerable populations with heart failure less likely to receive early physician followup after discharge
• 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
• Wheeled Mobility Service Delivery Review Highlights Need for Research
• When cancer drug went generic, its use declined
• Whistleblowers in pharmaceutical fraud cases pursue Federal lawsuits for moral reasons, not money
• Women in jail are at increased risk of cervical cancer
• Women's Health