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Title Index

Title Index


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M

Making Policy When the Evidence Is in Dispute
Management of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis: Clinician's Guide
Management of Uterine Fibroids: An Update of the Evidence
Management Tools for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Mass Casualty Incident, Training Hospital Staff to Respond
Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide
Mass Prophylaxis: Building Blocks for Community Preparedness
Max's Magical Delivery
Medicaid Coverage and Utilization of Adult Dental Services
Medical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-Based Relation
Medicare Payment for Selected Adverse Events: Building the Business Case for Investing in Patient Safety
Medication Errors: Why They Happen and How They Can Be Prevented
Meditation Practices for Health
Melatonin for Treatment of Sleep Disorders
Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age. Your Checklist for Health
Menopause-Related Symptoms, Management
MEPSnet
Mind-Body Interventions, Gastrointestinal Conditions
Minority Healthcare Quality, Improvement Strategies
More on RotaShield and Intussusception: The Role of Age at the Time of Vaccination
Motorcycle-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 2001
Moving Closer to a Rapid-Learning Health Care System
Multiple Sclerosis, Criteria to Determine Disability
Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Prevention of Chronic Disease

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N

National Estimate of the Elective Primary Cesarean Delivery Rate, A
National Estimates of Antidepressant Medication Use Among U.S. Children, 1997-2002
National Estimates of Medication Use in Nursing Homes: Findings From the 1997 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and the 1996 Medical Expenditure Survey
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Brochure
National Healthcare Disparities Report (2006)
National Healthcare Quality Report (2006)
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ Tutorial
National Trends in the Costs of Bariatric Surgery
Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Brochure
Necrotising Enterocolitis Hospitalisations Among Neonates in the United States
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Access to Health Care
Neonatal Circumcision: Cost-Effective Preventive Measure or "the Unkindest Cut of All?"
Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia, Management
New Cardiovascular Drugs: Patterns of Use and Association with Non-Drug Health Expenditures
Next Steps After Your Diagnosis: Finding Information and Support
Next Steps After Your Diagnosis: Ten Important Questions to Ask Your Doctor After a Diagnosis
Not Your Father's PE: Obesity, Exercise, and the Role of Schools
Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care
Nurses' Working Conditions: Implications for Infectious Disease
Nursing Home Spending Patterns in the 1990s: The Role of Nursing Home Competition and Excess Demand
Nursing Homes in Public Health Emergencies: Special Needs and Potential Roles

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Obesity, Pharmacological and Surgical Treatment
OBRA 1987 and the Quality of Nursing Home Care
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects in Type II Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Other Diseases
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Arrhythmogenic Mechanisms in Culture Studies
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Asthma
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Cancer
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Cardiovascular Disease
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Child and Maternal Health
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Cognitive Functions
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Eye Health
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Mental Health
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Effects on Organ Transplantation
Opportunity for Health Services Research: The AHRQ Furthers Nursing Practice, An
Optimizing Surge Capacity: Hospital Assessment and Planning
Optimizing Surge Capacity: Regional Efforts in Bioterrorism Readiness
Organizational Climate: Implications for the Home Healthcare Workforce
Organizational Research with Impact: Working Backwards
Organizational Silence and Hidden Threats to Patient Safety
Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women, Diagnosis and Monitoring
Ovarian Cancer, Genomic Tests for Detection and Management

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Parkinson's Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment
Patient Safety, Effects of Working Conditions
Patient Safety Indicators
Patient Safety Practices, Making Health Care Safer
Pay for Performance: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Payment Matters? The Next Chapter
Pediatric Quality Indicators
Pediatric Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness; A Resource for Pediatricians
Perinatal Depression: Prevalence and Screening
Periodic Health Evaluation, Value
Periodontitis, Scaling and Root Planing Therapy
Physical Activity, General Population and Cancer Patients and Survivors
Pneumonia in Nursing Home Residents: Factors Associated With In-Home Care of EverCare Enrollees
Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults, The
Pocket Guide to Good Health for Children, The
Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+, The
Population-Based Trends in Volumes and Rates of Ambulatory Lumbar Spine Surgery
Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression
Potential Benefits and Problems with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry: Analysis of a Voluntary Medication Error-Reporting Database
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions Among Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Their Scope and Associated Resident and Facility Characteristics
PowerPoint Slides, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Prescription Drugs and the Changing Concentration of Health Care Expenditures
Prescription Drugs and the Changing Patterns of Treatment for Mental Disorders, 1996-2001
Pressure Ulcer Treatment. Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians
Pressure Ulcers in Adults: Prediction and Prevention. Clinical Practice Guideline Number 3
Pressure Ulcers in Adults: Prediction and Prevention. Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians
Preventable Hospitalization and Medicaid Managed Care: Does Race Matter?
Preventing Pressure Ulcers. A Patient's Guide
Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
Prevention Quality Indicators
Preventive Care, Economic Incentives
Preventive Health Examinations: A Comparison Along the Rural—Urban Continuum
Primary Care Physicians' Perceptions of the Effect of Insurance Status on Clinical Decision Making
Prior Health Care Experiences of Adolescents Who Enroll in SCHIP
Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion
Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
Process Utility in Breast Biopsy
Project XTREME: Cross-Training Respiratory Extenders
Provider-Specific Report Cards: A Tool for Health Sector Accountability in Developing Countries
Purchaser Strategies to Influence Quality of Care: From Rhetoric to Global Applications

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Q

Quality-Based Payment: Six Case Examples
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
Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Quitting Helps You Heal Faster, Hospital Card

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R

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 and Ethnic Differences in the Mental Health Problems and Use of Mental Health Care
Racial and Gender Disparities in Receipt of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Persist in a Multistate Sample of HIV Patients in 2001
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Potentially Preventable Readmissions: The Case of Diabetes
Rating Systems for Strength of Scientific Evidence
Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children
Reconciling Medical Expenditure Estimates from the MEPS and NHEA, 2002
Recovering from Heart Problems Through Cardiac Rehabilitation. Patient Guide
Recursive Partitioning-Based Preoperative Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Redesigning Health Systems for Quality: Lessons from Emerging Practices
Relationship Between Performance Measurement and Accreditation: Implications for Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Relative Value in Healthcare: Costeffectiveness of Interventions
Relevance of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators for Children's Hospitals
Renal Artery Stenosis Treatments: A Guide for Consumers
Renewed Growth in Hospital Inpatient Cost Since 1998: Variation Across Metropolitan Areas and Leading Clinical Conditions
Reopening Shuttered Hospitals to Expand Surge Capacity
Reoperation Rates Following Lumbar Spine Surgery and the Influence of Spinal Fusion Procedures
Report of Nationally Representative Values for the Noninstitutionalized US Adult Population for 7 Health-Related Quality-of- Life Scores
Responses of Israeli HMOs to Environmental Change Following the National Health Insurance Law: Opening the Black Box
Rhinitis, Allergic and Nonallergic, Management
Rhinitis Allergic, in the Working-Age Population
Riding the Rollercoaster: The Ups and Downs in Out-of-Pocket Spending Under the Standard Medicare Drug Benefit
Risk of Aprotinin: A Conflict of Evidence, The
Rocky Mountain Regional Care Model for Bioterrrorist Events
Role of Information Technology and Surveillance Systems in Bioterrorism Readiness, The
Rural Areas and Children's Health Care Coverage, Use, Expenditures, and Quality: Policy Implications
Rural-Urban Differences in Employment- Related Health Insurance

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SCHIP Enrollees with Special Health Care Needs and Access to Care
Sensemaking of Patient Safety Risks and Hazards
Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003
Severity of Illness, Race, and Choice of Local Versus Distant Hospitals Among the Elderly
Sinusitus, Acute Bacterial—Update
Small Cell Lung Cancer, Management
Some Tips on Getting Funding for Health Services Research
Soy Effects on Health Outcomes
Speech/Language Disorders, Criteria for Determining Disability
Spinal Cord Injury, Management of Neurogenic/Neuropathic Pain
Spinal Cord Injury, Pulmonary Disease
Spinal Cord Injury, Sexuality and Reproductive Health
Spinal Stenosis, Degenerative Lumbar, Treatment
State Differences in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, 2003
State Level Estimates: Medical Expendiure Panel Survey
Statistics on Health Care Expenditures: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Statistics on Health Insurance: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Statistics on Prescribed Drugs: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Step-by-Step Guide to Delivering Clinical Preventive Services: A Systems Approach, A
Strategies to Support Quality-Based Purchasing: A Review of the Evidence
Stroke, Evaluation and Treatment
Struggling to Invent High-Reliability Organizations in Health Care Settings: Insights from the Field
Suboptimal Prescribing in Elderly Outpatients: Potentially Harmful Drug-Drug and Drug-Disease Combinations
Surge Capacity—Education and Training for a Qualified Workforce
Surge Capacity: Facilities and Equipment
Surge Tool Kit and Facility Checklist
Surgery Choices for Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Sustaining and Improving Hospital Performance: The Effects of Organizational and Market Forces
Systems for Grading the Quality of Evidence and the Strength of Recommendations I: Critical Appraisal of Existing Approaches

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T

Tax Subsidies for Employment-Related Health Insurance: Estimates for 2006
Team STEPPS Instructor Guide
Team STEPPS Multimedia Resource Kit
Team STEPPS Pocket Guide
Team STEPPS Poster
Telemedicine for the Medicare Population—Update
Third National Reports on Healthcare Quality and Disparities in the United States, The. National Data for Targeting Improvements
Tobacco Use, Prevention, Cessation, and Control
Toilet Training
Total Knee Replacement
Toward Optimal Screening Strategies for Older Women
Tracking Rates of Patient Safety Indictors Over Time: Lessons From the Veterans Administration
Training Health Care Professionals for Patient Safety
Translating Research Into Evidence-Based Nursing Practice and Evaluating Effectiveness
Translating Research Into Nursing Practice: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Translation Research: Where Do We Go From Here?
Treating Pressure Sores. Consumer Guide
Treatment of Pressure Ulcers. Clinical Practice Guideline Number 15
Treatment of Primary and Secondary Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy, Management
Trends in Children's Antibiotic Use: 1996 to 2001
Trends in Medical Care Costs, Coverage, Use and Access: Research Findings From the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Trends in Prescription Drug Expenditures by Medicaid Enrollees

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Use and Costs of Bariatric Surgery and Prescription Weight-Loss Medications
User's Guide to Registries Evaluating Patient Outcomes: Summary
Using Standardised Patients in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination as a Patient Safety Tool
Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators to Improve Health Care Quality
Using the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports for Executive Decision Making
Utility of Probabilistic Models to Identify Individuals with Future High Medical Expenditures, The

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Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
Violence Prevention in Adolescents
Vision and Oral Health Needs of Individuals With Intellectual Disability
Visits to Non-Dentist Health Care Providers for Dental Problems

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W

What You Need to Know About Episiotomy
Who Can't Pay for Health Care?
Who Enrolls in Oregon's Premium Assistance Program and How Do They Fare?
Women and Medicines: What You Need to Know
Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age. Your Checklist for Health
Women's Health Care Utilization and Expenditures
Worker-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment
Workers Who Decline Employment-Related Health Insurance
Wound Healing, Laser Treatment and Vacuum-Assisted Closure

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Y

You Can Quit Smoking, Card
You Can Quit Smoking, Consumer Guide
You Can Quit Smoking Kit
You Can Quit Smoking, Poster
Your Medicine: Play It Safe

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