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Subject Index

Agency Information
Children's Health
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical Preventive Services
Consumer Information and Education
Data Development and Use
Dental Health
Effectiveness Health Care
Elderly/Long-Term Care
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Care Costs and Utilization
Health Care Markets/Managed Care
Health Information Technology
Health Insurance/Access to Care
Health Services Research
Hospitals
Minority Health
Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
Patient Safety/Medical Errors
Pay for Performance
Primary Care
Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Quality of Care
Statistical and Methodological Research
Treating Tobacco Use
Women's Health


Health Care Markets/Managed Care

Cost Shifting Under Managed Behavioral Health Care
Have State Caps on Malpractice Awards Increased the Supply of Physicians?
Health Care Markets: Concepts, Data, Measures, and Current Research Challenge
Impacts of Mental Health Parity and Managed Care in One Large Employer Group: A Reexamination, The
Medicaid Markets and Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals
Preventable Hospitalization and Medicaid Managed Care: Does Race Matter
Responses of Israeli HMOs to Environmental Change Following the National Health Insurance Law: Opening the Black Box
Shape of Demand: What Does It Tell Us About Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Antidepressants? The
Sustaining and Improving Hospital Performance: The Effects of Organizational and Market Forces

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Health Information Technology

Adoption Gap: Health Information Technology in Small Physician Practices, The
Advancing Personalized Health Care Through Health Information Technology: An Update from the American Health Information Community's Personalized Health Care Workgroup
Bar-Coded Medication Administration: Decisionmaker Brief
Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
Chronic Disease Management: Decisionmaker Brief
Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support in Long-Term Care Facilities: Costs and Benefits to Stakeholders
Computerized Provider Order Entry: Decisionmaker Brief
Getting to "Smart" Health Care
Health Information Technology, Costs and Benefits
Introduction to the JGIM Special Issue on Health Information Technology
Moving Closer to a Rapid-Learning Health Care System
Telehealth: Decisionmaker Brief
Unintended Consequences of Information Technologies in Health Care—An Interactive Sociotechnical Analysis

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Health Insurance/Access to Care

Access to Care and Utilization Among Children—Estimating the Effects of Public and Private Coverage
Access to Health Care: Does Neighborhood Residential Instability Matter?
Access to Health Care for Nonmetro and Metro Latinos of Mexican Origin in the United States
Accuracy of Reported Insurance Status in the MEPS, The
Changes in Hospital Readmissions for Diabetes-Related Conditions: Differences by Payer
Children's Eligibility and Coverage: A Look Ahead
Consumer-Oriented Strategies for Improving Health Benefit Design: An Overview
Coverage for Mental Health Treatment: Do the Gaps Still Persist?
Demand for Dependent Health Insurance: How Important is the Cost of Family Coverage? The
Dental Care Use: Does Dental Insurance Truly Make a Difference in the U.S.?
Diffusion of New Technology and Payment Policies: Coronary Stents
Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage, A
Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured?
Do HMOs Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations for Medicare Beneficiaries?
Employer Coverage of Clinical Preventive Services in the United States (From Evidence-Based Practice to Practice-Based Evidence)
Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Annual Report on Patterns of Coverage, Utilization, Quality, and Expenditures by a County Level of Urban Influence
Health Insurance Coverage During a 24-Month Period: A Comparison of Estimates from Two National Health Surveys
Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take-Up
Health, Preventive Health Care, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability
Immigrants and the Use of Preventive Care in the United States
Impact of Increased Tax Subsidies on the Insurance Coverage of Self-Employed Families: Evidence from the 1996-2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, The
Impact of Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) Implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP
Impact of SCHIP on Insurance Coverage of Children, The
Impact of Survey Attrition on Health Insurance Coverage Estimates in a National Longitudinal Health Care Survey, The
Informed Participation in TennCare by People with Disabilities
Management Tools for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Medicare Payment for Selected Adverse Events: Building the Business Case for Investing in Patient Safety
Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Fee-for-Service Care Management Programs: A User's Guide
Parity for Whom? Exemptions and the Extent of State Mental Health Parity Legislation
Pathways to Coverage: The Changing Roles of Public and Private Sources
Primary Care Physicians' Perceptions of the Effect of Insurance Status on Clinical Decision Making
Prior Health Care Experiences of Adolescents Who Enroll in SCHIP
Questions and Answers About Health Insurance: A Consumer Guide
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Usual Source of Health Care, 2002
Responses of Israeli HMOs to Environmental Change Following the National Health Insurance Law: Opening the Black Box
Rural Areas and Children's Health Care Coverage, Use, Expenditures, and Quality: Policy Implications
SCHIP Enrollees with Special Health Care Needs and Access to Care
Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003
State Differences in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, 2003
Tax Subsidies for Employment-Related Health Insurance: Estimates for 2006
Trends in Medical Care Costs, Coverage, Use and Access: Research Findings From the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Who Enrolls in Oregon's Premium Assistance Program and How Do They Fare?
Workers Who Decline Employment-Related Health Insurance

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Health Services Research

Assessing and Understanding Measurement Equivalence in Health Outcome Measures: Issues for Further Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
Completeness of Cause of Injury Coding in Healthcare Administrative Databases in the United States, 2001
Cost-Effective Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Comparisons of Patient Safety
Creating and Synthesizing Evidence with Decision Makers in Mind: Integrating Evidence from Clinical Trials and Other Study Designs
Developing a Research Agenda for Assisted Living
Development of a CAHPS® Instrument for Nursing Home Residents (NHCAHPS), The
Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Risk Adjustment of Hospital Mortality
Funding Opportunities in Knowledge Translation: Review of the AHRQ's "Translating Research into Practice" Initiatives, Competing Funding Agencies, and Strategies for Success
Global Self-Rated Mental Health: Associations with Other Mental Health Measures and with Role Functioning
Go Out or Stay In: The Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Alcohol Use and Drinking and Driving Patterns Among College Students
Health Limitations and Quality of Life Associated with Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases by Phase of Care
Identifying, Categorizing, and Evaluating Health Care Efficiency Measures
Improving Depiction of Benefits and Harms: Analyses of Studies of Well-Known Therapeutics and Review of High-Impact Medical Journals
Increasing the Relevance of Research to Health Care Managers: Hospital CEO Imperatives for Improving Quality and Lowering Costs
Interdisciplinary Research: The Role of Nursing Education
Intersections for Mutual Success in Nursing and Health Services Research
National Survey of Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks, A
On Modelling Response Propensity for Dwelling Unit (DU) Level Non-Response Adjustment in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Organizational Climate: Implications for the Home Healthcare Workforce
Performance of Performance Measurement, The
Population-Based Trends in Volumes and Rates of Ambulatory Lumbar Spine Surgery
Resource Guide to AHRQ Child and Youth Health and Health Care Services Data
So What? The Challenge of Doing "Need to Know" versus "Would Like to Know" Research
Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Hospital Inefficiency: A Review of Empirical Issues and an Assessment of Robustness
Study Designs for Effectiveness and Translation Research: Identifying Trade-offs
Understanding and Enhancing the Value of Hospital Discharge Data
Validity of ICD-9-CM Codes in Identifying Postoperative Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, The

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Hospitals

Accidental Iatrogenic Pneumothorax in Hospitalized Patients
Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Results of a National Survey
Ambulatory Surgery in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures
Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders
CAHPS Hospital Survey: Development, Testing, and Use, The
Care of Adults with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2004
Changes in Hospital Readmissions for Diabetes-Related Conditions: Differences by Payer
Cost of Hospitalization for Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants in the United States
Current Status of Surge Research
Decontamination of Children: Preparedness and Response for Hospital Emergency Departments
Designing for Safety: Evidence-Based Design and Hospitals
Disparities Between Two Common Data Sources on Hospital Nurse Staffing
Do HMOs Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations for Medicare Beneficiaries?
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Implications for Accessibility, Quality, and Safety
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Opportunities for Research
Emergency Preparedness Atlas: U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need to Know
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook
Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Risk Adjustment of Hospital Mortality
Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills: A Module-Based Approach
Evidence Shows Cost and Patient Safety Benefits of Emergency Pharmacists
Factors Associated with High-Quality/Low-Cost Hospital Performance
Forging a New Path to Medication Safety with Emergency Pharmacists
HCUPnet
Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Care for Women's Cancers
Hospital and Demographic Influences on the Disposition of Transient Ischemic Attack
Hospital Charges Attributable to a Primary Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases in Older Adults in the United States, 1998-2004
Hospital Inpatient Costs for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2007 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2008 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2009 Comparative Database Report
How Do Hospital Organizational Structure and Processes Affect Quality of Care? A Critical Review of Research Methods
How Often Are Potential Patient Safety Events Present on Admission?
Impact of Medical Errors on Ninety-Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients, The
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction
Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Contributions of High-Reliability Theory and Normal Accident Theory
Increasing the Relevance of Research to Health Care Managers: Hospital CEO Imperatives for Improving Quality and Lowering Costs
Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States
Inpatient Quality Indicators
Limiting Nurse Overtime and Promoting Other Good Working Conditions Influences Patient Safety
Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: The Effects of Controlling for Quality and Patient Burden of Illness
Medicaid Markets and Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals
Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Brochure
Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit: Challenges and Opportunities
Pediatric Hospital Surge Capacity in Public Health Emergencies
Potential Benefits and Problems with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry: Analysis of a Voluntary Medication Error-Reporting Database
Preventable Hospitalization and Medicaid Managed Care: Does Race Matter?
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement
Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
Reducing Hospitalizations from Long-Term Care Settings
Relationship Between Performance Measurement and Accreditation: Implications for Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Renewed Growth in Hospital Inpatient Cost Since 1998: Variation Across Metropolitan Areas and Leading Clinical Conditions
Reopening Shuttered Hospitals to Expand Surge Capacity
Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003
Sleepless in the Hospital: Evidence Mounts that Tired Caregivers May Compromise Quality
Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Hospital Inefficiency: A Review of Empirical Issues and an Assessment of Robustness
Sustaining and Improving Hospital Performance: The Effects of Organizational and Market Forces
Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills
Trends in Intussusception Hospitalizations Among U.S. Infants, 1993-2004: Implications for Monitoring the Safety of the New Rotavirus Vaccination Program
Understanding and Enhancing the Value of Hospital Discharge Data

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Insurance. Go to Health Insurance/Access to Care
Long-Term Care. Go to Elderly/Long-Term Care
Managed Care. Go to Health Care Markets/Managed Care
Markets. Go to Health Care Markets/Managed Care
Measuring Health Care Quality. Go to Quality of Care
Medical Effectiveness Research. Go to Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
Medical Errors. Go to Patient Safety/Medical Errors

Mental Health/Substance Abuse

Care of Adults with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2004
Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, A
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Coverage for Mental Health Treatment: Do the Gaps Still Persist?
Dementia, Pharmacological Treatment
Depression, CYP450 Testing for Adults Treated with SSRIs
Eating Disorders, Management
Effect of Dysthymia on Receipt of HAART by Minority HIV-Infected Women
Efficacy and Comparative Effectiveness of Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics
Global Self-Rated Mental Health: Associations with Other Mental Health Measures and with Role Functioning
Impacts of Mental Health Parity and Managed Care in One Large Employer Group: A Reexamination, The
Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
National Estimates of Antidepressant Medication Use Among U.S. Children, 1997-2002
Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk Was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Cognitive Function
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Mental Health
Parity for Whom? Exemptions and the Extent of State Mental Health Parity Legislation
Perinatal Depression, Prevalence and Screening
Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression
Quick-Reference Guide for Clinicians: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Self-Rated Mental Health and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Service Use
Shape of Demand: What Does It Tell Us About Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Antidepressants? The
Substance Abuse Treatment in Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Role of Patient-Provider Discussions
Tobacco Use, Prevention, Cessation, and Control
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Clinician, Tearsheet Pad
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Prenatal Care Provider, Tearsheet Pad

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Methodological Research. Go to Statistical and Methodological Research

Minority Health

Access to Health Care for Nonmetro and Metro Latinos of Mexican Origin in the United States
Closing the Health Care Disparities Gap: Turning Evidence Into Action
Community Variation: Disparities in Health Care Quality Between Asian and White Medicare Beneficiaries
Coping with Toothache Pain: A Qualitative Study of Low-Income Persons and Minorities
Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage, A
Effect of Dysthymia on Receipt of HAART by Minority HIV-Infected Women
Eliminating Asthma Disparities Through Multistakeholder Partnerships
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications
Exploring and Crossing the Disparity Divide in Cancer Mortality
Gaps in Data for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the National Healthcare Disparities Report
Gender Differences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Quality of Care for Diabetes
Improving Quality and Reducing Disparities: The Role of Nurses
Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
Measuring Trends in Racial/Ethnic Health Care Disparities
Minority Healthcare Quality, Improvement Strategies
National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008
Preventable Hospitalization and Medicaid Managed Care: Does Race Matter?
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Usual Source of Health Care, 2002
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Assessments of Interactions with Providers: Disparities or Measurement Biases?
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Individual Workplace Injury Risk Trajectories: 1988-1998
Re-examination of Distance as a Proxy for Severity of Illness and the Implications for Differences in Utilization by Race/Ethnicity: A
Self-Rated Mental Health and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Service Use
Trends in Racial Disparities Among the Elderly for Selected Procedures

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Nursing Homes. Go to Elderly/Long-Term Care
Obstetrics. Go to Women's Health
Oral Health. Go to Dental Health

Outcomes and Effectiveness Research

Aprotinin Use in Thoracic Aortic Surgery: Safety and Outcomes
Are Lumbar Spine Reoperation Rates Falling with Greater Use of Fusion Surgery and New Surgical Technology?
Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries
Cardiac Device Implantation in the United States from 1997 through 2004: A Population-Based Analysis
Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) Brochure
CERTs Annual Report Year 6
Comparison of Outcomes Resulting from Generalist vs. Specialist Care for a Single Discrete Medical Condition, A
Disparities Between Two Common Data Sources on Hospital Nurse Staffing
Effect on Health Outcomes of a Community-Based Medication Therapy Management Program for Seniors with Limited Incomes
End-of-Life Care and Outcomes
Evidence on the Chronic Care Model in the New Millennium
Evidence on the Effectiveness of Management for Malignant Pleural Effusion: A Systematic Review, The
Getting to "Smart" Health Care
Healthcare Utilization and Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery
Health-Related Quality of Life After Mitral Valve Repairs and Replacements
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults with Diabetes
Incidence and Short-Term Outcomes of Primary and Revision Hip Replacement in the United States
Literacy and Health Outcomes
Practice Makes Perfect: A Volume-Outcome Study of Hospital Patients with HIV Disease
Pressure Ulcer Plan Is Working
Recursive Partitioning-Based Preoperative Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Reoperation Rates Following Lumbar Spine Surgery and the Influence of Spinal Fusion Procedures
Transformation of Health Care at the Front Line

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Patient Safety/Medical Errors

Accidental Iatrogenic Pneumothorax in Hospitalized Patients
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Results of a National Survey
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Quality and Disparities Reports Emphasize Patient Safety
AHRQ Web M&M
Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders
Care Transitions: A Threat and an Opportunity for Patient Safety
Communication Failure: Basic Components, Contributing Factors, and the Call for Structure
Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support in Long-Term Care Facilities: Costs and Benefits to Stakeholders
Cost-Effective Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Comparisons of Patient Safety
Designing for Safety: Evidence-Based Design and Hospitals
DoD Medical Team Training Programs: An Independent Case Study Analysis
Evaluating the Patient Safety Indicators: How Well Do They Perform on Veterans Health Administration Data?
Evidence Shows Cost and Patient Safety Benefits of Emergency Pharmacists
Forging a New Path to Medication Safety with Emergency Pharmacists
Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2007 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2008 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2009 Comparative Database Report
How Often Are Potential Patient Safety Events Present on Admission?
How Useful Are Voluntary Medication Error Reports? The Case of Warfarin-Related Medication Errors
Impact of Medical Errors on Ninety-Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients, The
Improving Patient Safety by Instructional Systems Design
Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Contributions of High-Reliability Theory and Normal Accident Theory
Improving the Complex Nature of Care Transitions
Improving the Health Care Work Environment: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach
Improving the Health Care Work Environment: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy
Initiating Transformational Change to Enhance Patient Safety
Intensive Care Unit, Patient Safety, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The
Issues in the Design of Training for Quality and Safety
Keeping Our Promises: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in Health Care Reliability; Foreword to a Special Issue of Health Services Research
Limiting Nurse Overtime and Promoting Other Good Working Conditions Influences Patient Safety
Medicaid Markets and Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals
Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Medical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-Based Relation
Medicare Payment for Selected Adverse Events: Building the Business Case for Investing in Patient Safety
Mistake-Proofing in Health Care: Lessons for Ongoing Patient Safety Improvements
Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes
New Patient Safety Organizations Lower Roadblocks to Medical Error Reporting
Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Organizational Silence and Hidden Threats to Patient Safety
Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses
Patient Safety, Effects of Working Conditions
Patient Safety Improvement Corps: Tools, Methods, and Techniques for Improving Patient Safety
Patient Safety in Nursing Practice
Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit: Challenges and Opportunities
Pediatric Quality Indicators
Performance of Performance Measurement, The
Practice Makes Perfect: A Volume-Outcome Study of Hospital Patients with HIV Disease
Pressure Ulcer Plan Is Working
Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion
Putting the Patient in Patient Safety
Quality Tools to Improve Care and Prevent Errors
Relationship Between Performance Measurement and Accreditation: Implications for Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Sensemaking of Patient Safety Risks and Hazards
Simulation in Health Care: Setting Realistic Expectations
Sleepless in the Hospital: Evidence Mounts that Tired Caregivers May Compromise Quality
Struggling to Invent High-Reliability Organizations in Health Care Settings: Insights from the Field
TeamSTEPPS™: Assuring Optimal Teamwork in Clinical Settings
TeamSTEPPS™ Instructor Guide
Team STEPPS Multimedia Resource Kit
TeamSTEPPS™: Optimizing Teamwork in the Perioperative Setting
Team STEPPS Pocket Guide
TeamSTEPPS™ Poster
TeamSTEPPS Rapid Response System Module, CD
Tracking Rates of Patient Safety Indicators Over Time: Lessons from the Veterans Administration
Training Health Care Professionals for Patient Safety
Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality
Triggers and Targeted Injury Detection Systems (TIDS) Expert Panel Meeting: Conference Summary
Using Patient Safety Indicators to Estimate the Impact of Potential Adverse Events on Outcomes

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Pay for Performance

Consumer Financial Incentives: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Modifying DRG-PPS to Include Only Diagnoses Present on Admission: Financial Implications and Challenges
Pay for Performance: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Payment Matters? The Next Chapter
Provider-Specific Report Cards: A Tool for Health Sector Accountability in Developing Countries
Quality-Based Purchasing in the United States: Applications in Developing Countries?
Strategies to Support Quality-Based Purchasing: A Review of the Evidence
Transformation of Health Care at the Front Line

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Pediatrics. Go to Children's Health
Practice Guidelines. Go to Clinical Practice Guidelines
Preventive Services. Go to Clinical Preventive Services

Primary Care

Alcohol Use Among HIV-Infected Persons in Care: Results of a Multi-Site Survey
Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty Events
Collection and Use of Cancer Family History in Primary Care
Describing Primary Care Encounters: The Primary Care Network Survey and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Evidence on the Chronic Care Model in the New Millennium
Health Emergency Assistance Line and Triage Hub (HEALTH) Model
How Well Do Family Physicians Manage Skin Lesions?
Impact of Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) Implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP
Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Practice: Innovative Strategies and Future Directions
Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
Lost in Translation: The Value of Qualitative Data
Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture
National Survey of Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks, A
Patient Self-Management Support Programs: An Evaluation
Perinatal Depression: Prevalence and Screening
Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression
Primary Care Physicians' Perceptions of the Effect of Insurance Status on Clinical Decision Making
Substance Abuse Treatment in Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Role of Patient-Provider Discussions

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Public Health Emergency Preparedness

Adapting Community Call Centers for Crisis Support: A Model for Home-Based Care and Monitoring
AHRQ's Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness Initiative
Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty Events
Bioterrorism Preparedness, Pediatric Anthrax
Community-Based Mass Prophylaxis: A Planning Guide for Public Health Preparedness
Current Status of Surge Research
Decontamination of Children: Preparedness and Response for Hospital Emergency Departments
Emergency Preparedness Atlas: U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need To Know
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook
Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills: A Module-Based Approach
Health Emergency Assistance Line and Triage Hub (HEALTH) Model
Home Health Care During an Influenza Pandemic: Issues and Resources
Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide
Nursing Homes in Public Health Emergencies: Special Needs and Potential Roles
Pediatric Hospital Surge Capacity in Public Health Emergencies
Pediatric Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness; A Resource for Pediatricians
Project XTREME: Cross-Training Respiratory Extenders
Reopening Shuttered Hospitals to Expand Surge Capacity
Rocky Mountain Regional Care Model for Bioterrrorist Events
School-Based Emergency Preparedness: A National Analysis and Recommended Protocol
Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills

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Quality of Care

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: Action Agendas for the Nation, The
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Quality and Disparities Reports Emphasize Patient Safety
AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: An Ever-Expanding Road Map for Improvement
All or None Measurement: Why We Know So Little About the Comprehensiveness of Care
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reported Medication Adherence in Hepatitis C Treatment
Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for State Action
Bar-Coded Medication Administration: Decisionmaker Brief
Be Prepared for Medical Appointments: Build Your Question List
Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders
Best Practice Implementation: Lessons Learned from 20 Partnerships
Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders
Breast Cancer Care in Women, Measuring Quality
Building Capacity for a Transformation Initiative: System Redesign at Denver Health
Burden of Illness for Children and Where We Stand in Measuring the Quality of this Health Care
CAHPS Hospital Survey: Development, Testing, and Use, The
Chronic Disease Management: Decisionmaker Brief
Closing the Health Care Disparities Gap: Turning Evidence Into Action
Closing the Quality Gap: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior
Closing the Quality Gap: Asthma Care
Closing the Quality Gap: Care Coordination
Closing the Quality Gap: Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Community Variation: Disparities in Health Care Quality Between Asian and White Medicare Beneficiaries
Computerized Provider Order Entry: Decisionmaker Brief
Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (CAHPS®): Evolving to Meet Stakeholder Needs
Design of the Physical Environment for Changing Healthcare Needs
Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs: A User's Guide
Development of a CAHPS® Instrument for Nursing Home Residents (NHCAHPS), The
Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for States
Disseminating QI Interventions
Do Trends in the Reporting of Quality Measures on the Nursing Home Compare Web Site Differ by Nursing Home Characteristics?
Do You Know the Right Questions to Ask?
Effectiveness of Continuing Medical Education
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Implications for Accessibility, Quality, and Safety
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Opportunities for Research
Enhancing Quality Improvement
Evaluating the Impact of Partnerships to Improve Clinical Quality
Evidence-Based Practice: AHRQ's Role in Generating and Disseminating Knowledge
Factors Associated with High-Quality/Low-Cost Hospital Performance
Finding Order in Heterogeneity: Types of Quality Improvement Intervention Publications
Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data
Guide to Health Care Quality
Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Annual Report on Patterns of Coverage, Utilization, Quality and Expenditures by a County Level of Urban Influence
Health, Spending and the Effort to Improve Quality in OECD Countries: A Review of the Data
Hospital and Demographic Influences on the Disposition of Transient Ischemic Attack
Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials
How Do Hospital Organizational Structure and Processes Affect Quality of Care? A Critical Review of Research Methods
Improving Depiction of Benefits and Harms: Analyses of Studies of Well-Known Therapeutics and Review of High-Impact Medical Journals
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction
Improving Quality and Reducing Disparities: The Role of Nurses
Improving the Complex Nature of Care Transitions
Informing Quality Health Care
Inpatient Quality Indicators
Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool: User's Guide
Issues in the Design of Training for Quality and Safety
Measuring Children's Health Care Quality
Missed Opportunities for Quality Improvement
Modifying DRG-PPS to Include Only Diagnoses Present on Admission: Financial Implications and Challenges
Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Fee-for-Service Care Management Programs: A User's Guide
National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008
National Healthcare Quality Report, 2008
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ Tutorial
Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care
Nursing Homes' Response to the Nursing Home Compare Report Card
Patient Self-Management Support Programs: An Evaluation
Pay for Performance: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Payment Matters? The Next Chapter
Pediatric Quality Indicators
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement
Process Utility in Breast Biopsy
Provider-Specific Report Cards: A Tool for Health Sector Accountability in Developing Countries
Publication of Quality Report Cards and Trends in Reported Quality Measures in Nursing Homes
Purchaser Strategies to Influence Quality of Care: From Rhetoric to Global Applications
Quality-Based Purchasing in the United States: Applications in Developing Countries?
Quality of Health Care for Older Women: What Do We Know?
Quality Tools to Improve Care and Prevent Errors
Questions Are the Answer
Redesigning Health Systems for Quality: Lessons from Emerging Practices
Relationship Between Performance Measurement and Accreditation: Implications for Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Report of Nationally Representative Values for the Noninstitutionalized U.S. Adult Population for 7 Health-Related Quality-of-Life Scores
Role of the Physical Environment in Crossing the Quality Chasm, The
Rural Areas and Children's Health Care Coverage, Use, Expenditures, and Quality: Policy Implications
SCIP: Making Complications of Surgery the Exception Rather than the Rule
Simulation in Health Care: Setting Realistic Expectations
Sleepless in the Hospital: Evidence Mounts that Tired Caregivers May Compromise Quality
Strategic Orientation and Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality and Measures: An Application of the Miles and Snow Typology
Sustainability of Partnership Projects: A Conceptual Framework and Checklist
TeamSTEPPS™: Optimizing Teamwork in the Perioperative Setting
Telehealth: Decisionmaker Brief
Third National Reports on Healthcare Quality and Disparities in the United States, The. National Data for Targeting Improvements
"3Ts" Road Map to Transform U.S. Health Care: The "How" of High-Quality Care, The
Unintended Consequences of Information Technologies in Health Care—An Interactive Sociotechnical Analysis
Using the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports for Executive Decision Making
Women with Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005

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Research. Go to Health Services Research; Outcomes and Effectiveness Research; Statistical and Methodological Research

Statistical and Methodological Research

Assessing and Understanding Measurement Equivalence in Health Outcome Measures: Issues for Further Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
Completeness of Cause of Injury Coding in Healthcare Administrative Databases in the United States, 2001
Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage, A
Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Risk Adjustment of Hospital Mortality
Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003
Utility of Probabilistic Models to Identify Individuals with Future High Medical Expenditures, The

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Treating Tobacco Use

Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, A
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users, Consumer Guide
Helping Smokers Quit, A Guide for Clinicians
Quick-Reference Guide for Clinicians: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Quitting Helps You Heal Faster, Hospital Card
Smoking in the Home and Children's Health
Tobacco Use, Prevention, Cessation, and Control
You Can Quit Smoking, Pocket Card
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Clinician, Tearsheet Pad
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Prenatal Care Provider, Tearsheet Pad

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Utilization of Health Care. Go to Health Care Cost and Utilization

Women's Health

Bariatric Surgery in Women of Reproductive Age: Special Concerns for Pregnancy
Bariatric Surgery: What Women Need to Know
Breast Cancer Care in Women, Measuring Quality
Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries
Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
Cost of Being a Woman: A National Study of Health Care Utilization and Expenditures for Female-Specific Conditions, The
Effect of Dysthymia on Receipt of HAART by Minority HIV-Infected Women
Effect of Immediate Reading of Screening Mammograms on Medical Care Utilization and Costs After False-Positive Mammograms, The
Effectiveness of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Effectiveness of Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities
Episiotomy Use in Obstetrical Care
FIBROID Registry: Report of Structure, Methods, and Initial Results, The
Fracture Prevention Treatments for Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: Clinician's Guide
Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data
Gender Differences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure Associated with Comorbidities
Gender Differences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Quality of Care for Diabetes
Health, Preventive Health Care, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability
Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Care for Women's Cancers
Impact of Gene Expression Profiling Tests on Breast Cancer Outcomes
Management of Uterine Fibroids: An Update of the Evidence
Menopause-Related Symptoms, Management
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Child and Maternal Health
Osteoporosis Treatments that Help Prevent Broken Bones: A Guide for Women After Menopause
Outcomes of Maternal Weight Gain
Ovarian Cancer, Genomic Tests for Detection and Management
Perinatal Depression: Prevalence and Screening
Preventive Health Examinations: A Comparison Along the Rural-Urban Continuum
Process Utility in Breast Biopsy
Quality of Health Care for Older Women: What Do We Know?
Surgery Choices for Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Therapeutic Management, Delivery, and Postpartum Risk Assessment and Screening in Gestational Diabetes
What You Need To Know About Episiotomy
Women and Medicines: What You Need to Know
Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age. Your Checklist for Health
Women: Stay Healthy at 50+—Checklists for Your Health
Women with Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005
Women with Diagnosed Diabetes Across the Life Stages: Underuse of Recommended Preventive Care Services
Women's Health Care Utilization and Expenditures
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Prenatal Care Provider, Tearsheet Pad

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