Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ▲ Articles of Interest is a weekly compilation of articles appearing in recently released journals and newsletters

Articles of Interest

2012

Date	Top Item
8/3/12	Race, Place, and Obesity: the Complex Relationships among Community Racial/Ethnic Composition, Individual Race/Ethnicity, and Obesity in the United States
7/27/12	Patient Safety-focused Medication Therapy Management: Challenges Affecting Future Implementation
7/20/12	Age-related Changes in Antidepressant Pharmacokinetics and Potential Drug-drug Interactions: A Comparison of Evidence-based Literature and Package Insert Information
7/13/12	Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures
7/6/12	Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
6/29/12	Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007
6/22/12	Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology
6/15/12	A Call for Action on Primary Care and Public Health Integration
6/8/12	Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial
6/1/12	Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
5/25/12	Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
5/18/12	Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
5/11/12	Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
5/4/12	The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
4/27/12	The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
4/20/12	Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
4/13/12	Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
4/6/12	Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
3/30/12	Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
3/23/12	Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
3/16/12	Predictors of Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensives in Community Health Centers
3/9/12	Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
3/2/12	Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Study
2/24/12	Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
2/17/12	Provider-patient Adherence Dialogue in HIV Care: Results of a Multisite Study
2/10/12	Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
2/3/12	Diabetes Data Group vs Carpenter-Coustan Criteria to Diagnose Gestational Diabetes
1/27/12	Prediction Is Very Hard, Especially about the Future
1/20/12	A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
1/13/12	Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
1/6/12	Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs