Women's Health

Bariatric Surgery: What Women Need to Know. C. Clancy, Nursing for Women's Health 12(1): February/March 2008, 21-24. Describes bariatric surgery and its use in women, including safety and risks associated with the procedure and the important role nurses can play in interacting with female bariatric surgery patients. (AHRQ 08-R061)

The Cost of Being a Woman: A National Study of Health Care Utilization and Expenditures for Female-Specific Conditions. K. Kjerulff, K. Frick, J. Rhoades, et al., Women's Health Issues 17:2007, 13-21. Describes health care use for female-specific conditions—such as gynecologic disorders, pregnancy-related conditions, and menopausal symptoms—including incremental expenditures attributable to these conditions and overall incremental expenditures across a woman's lifespan. (AHRQ 07-R057)

Effect of Immediate Reading of Screening Mammograms on Medical Care Utilization and Costs After False-Positive Mammograms. K. Stewart, P. Neumann, S. Fletcher, et al., Health Services Research 42(4): August 2007, 1464-1482. Examines whether decreased anxiety associated with immediate reading of screening mammograms results in lower downstream health care use and costs among women with false-positive mammograms. (AHRQ 07-R067)

The FIBROID Registry: Report of Structure, Methods, and Initial Results. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health, October 2005, 76 pp. Presents an analysis of the findings from the Fibroid Registry for Outcomes Data (FIBROID) to prospectively collect high-quality data on uterine artery embolization. (AHRQ 05(06)-RG008)

Health, Preventive Health Care, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability. F. Chevarley, J. Thierry, C. Gill, et al., Women's Health Issues 16(6): November-December 2006, 297-312. Presents national estimates on the health, preventive health care, and health care access of women with disabilities aged 18 and older. (AHRQ 07-R037)

Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Care for Women's Cancers. HCUP Highlights Issue 2, September 2006, 6 pp. Summarizes findings on hospital use, outpatient surgery use, hospital charges, and changing practice patterns for the care of breast and gynecologic cancers. (AHRQ 06-0038)

Preventive Health Examinations: A Comparison Along the Rural-Urban Continuum. S. Larson, R. Correa-de-Araujo, Women's Health Issues 16:2006, 80-88. Examines differences in reports of preventive health service utilization in four types of counties. (AHRQ 06-R045)

Quality of Health Care for Older Women: What Do We Know? B. Kosiak, J. Sangl, R. Correa-de-Araujo, Women's Health Issues 16:2006, 89-99. Establishes a rough baseline for the quality of care, primarily preventive care, received by older women compared to older men, using selected measures and data of the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Highlights significant differences between women and men, as well as differences for racial, ethnic, and education subgroups. (AHRQ 06-R046)

Women with Diabetes: Quality of Health Care, 2004-2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 2008, 92 pp. Uses national data sets to show gaps in knowledge about quality of care among women with diagnosed diabetes. Examines quality of care for U.S. women with and without diagnosed diabetes and presents 15 measures of health care quality showing the use of services in several areas. (AHRQ 08(09)-0099)

Women with Diagnosed Diabetes Across the Life Stages: Underuse of Recommended Preventive Care Services. M. Owens, G. Beckles, K. Ho, et al., Journal of Women's Health 17(9): November 2008, 1415-1423. Examines the quality of care that women with diabetes receive and assesses how receipt of some clinical preventive services and screening for common conditions associated with diabetes vary according to socioeconomic factors. (AHRQ 09-R018)

Women's Health Care Utilization and Expenditures. A. Taylor, S. Larson, R. Correa-de-Araujo, Women's Health Issues 16:2006, 66-79. Examines women's use and expenditures for medical care in the United States by sociodemographic characteristics. (AHRQ 06-R044)

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