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Research Studies is a compilation of published research articles funded by AHRQ or authored by AHRQ researchers.
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1 to 3 of 3 Research Studies DisplayedGeanacopoulos AT, Neuman MI, Michelson KA
Cost of pediatric pneumonia episodes with or without chest radiography.
Researchers sought to assess the costs of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) episodes with and without chest radiograph (CXR) among children discharged from the pediatric emergency department. Their retrospective cohort study used data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State ED and Inpatient Databases on children aged 3 months to 18 years with CAP in eight states from 2014 to 2019. The results indicated that use of CXR for CAP diagnosis is associated with lower costs when considering the subsequent provision of care among patients who need additional health care after initial emergency department discharge.
AHRQ-funded; HS026503; HS000063.
Citation: Geanacopoulos AT, Neuman MI, Michelson KA .
Cost of pediatric pneumonia episodes with or without chest radiography.
Hosp Pediatr 2024 Feb; 14(2):146-52. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2023-007506.
Keywords: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Children/Adolescents, Pneumonia, Respiratory Conditions, Community-Acquired Infections
Ali KJ, Farley DO, Speck K
Measurement of implementation components and contextual factors in a two-state healthcare quality initiative to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia.
The authors sought to develop and field test an implementation assessment tool for assessing progress of hospital units in implementing improvements for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in a two-state collaborative. They found that a relatively small number of barriers were found to have important negative effects on implementation progress, including barriers related to workload and time issues. They modified coaching provided to the unit teams to reinforce training in weak spots that the interviews identified.
AHRQ-funded; 290201000027I.
Citation: Ali KJ, Farley DO, Speck K .
Measurement of implementation components and contextual factors in a two-state healthcare quality initiative to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 Oct;35 Suppl 3:S116-23. doi: 10.1086/677832.
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Keywords: Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Patient Safety, Pneumonia, Prevention, Quality Improvement
Rothberg MB, Haessler S, Lagu T
Outcomes of patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia: worse disease or sicker patients?
The researchers sought to determine the contribution of healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) criteria to case-fatality rate. They found that, after adjustment for differences in patient characteristics, HCAP was associated with greater case-fatality rate than community-acquired pneumonia, possibly due to HCAP organisms or to HCAP criteria themselves.
AHRQ-funded; HS018723.
Citation: Rothberg MB, Haessler S, Lagu T .
Outcomes of patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia: worse disease or sicker patients?
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 Oct;35 Suppl 3:S107-15. doi: 10.1086/677829.
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Keywords: Community-Acquired Infections, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Mortality, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Pneumonia