Articles of Interest: All Years | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Articles of Interest: All Years | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Articles of Interest: All Years

Articles of Interest is a weekly compilation of articles appearing in recently released journals and newsletters. It includes:

• Articles funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) or authored by AHRQ researchers.
• Articles mentioning or discussing AHRQ staff, activities, and publications/products.
• Articles related to AHRQ-funded Evidence-based Practice Centers.
• Articles related to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force or Put Prevention into Practice program.
• Articles mentioning the National Healthcare Disparities Report and National Healthcare Quality Report.
• Other research using AHRQ data or products.

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2014

June202014

Development, Implementation, and Dissemination of the I-PASS Handoff Curriculum: a Multisite Educational Intervention To Improve Patient Handoffs

June132014

Access to Care for Patients with Time-sensitive Conditions in Pennsylvania

June62014

Prevalence and Treatment of Pain in EDs in the United States, 2000 to 2010

May302014

Qualitative Investigation of a Brief Chronic Pain Screening Tool in HIV-infected Patients

May232014

Cigarette Smoking, Desire To Quit, and Tobacco-related Counseling Among Patients at Adult Health Centers

May162014

A Pilot Study Describing Access to Emergency Care in Two States Using a Model Emergency Care Categorization System

May92014

School-located Influenza Vaccination: Can Collaborative Efforts Go the Distance?

May22014

Development and Validation of a Discharge Planning Index for Achieving Home Discharge after Hospitalization for Acute Stroke among Those Who eceived Rehabilitation Services

April252014

Traumatic Intracranial Injury in Intoxicated Patients with Minor Head Traumas

April182014

Setting Performance Targets in Pay for Performance Programmes: What Can We Learn from QOF?

April112014

Urinary Catheter Use and Appropriateness in U.S. Emergency Departments, 1995-2010

April42014

Randomized Trial of an Electronic Personal Health Record for Patients with Serious Mental Illnesses

March282014

Documentation of the 5 As for Smoking Cessation by PCPs across Distinct Health Systems

March212014

Child and Adolescent Health Care Quality and Disparities: Are We Making Progress?

March142014

Evidence-based Narratives to Improve Recall of Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: a Randomized Experiment

March72014

Preoperative Thrombocytopenia and Postoperative Outcomes after Noncardiac Surgery

February282014

Physician Financial Incentives and Care for the Underserved in the United States

February212014

Statin Use and Infections in Veterans with Cirrhosis

2013

November292013

Strict Smoke-free Home Policies Among Smoking Parents in Pediatric Settings

November222013

Reported Racial Discrimination, Trust in Physicians, and Medication Adherence Among Inner-city African Americans with Hypertension

November152013

Factors Associated with Smoking in HIV-infected Patients and Potetial Barriers to Cessation

November82013

AUDIT-C Scores as a Scaled Marker of Mean Daily Drinking, Alcohol Use Disorder Severity, and Probability of Alcohol Dependence in a U.S. General Population Sample of Drinkers

November12013

Collaborative Practice Improvement for Childhood Obesity in Rural Clinics: The Healthy Eating Active Living Telehealth Community of Practice (HEALTH COP)

October252013

Outcomes Among Chronically Ill Adults in a Medical Home Prototype

October182013

Impact of Choice of Imaging Modality Accompanying Outpatient Exercise Stress Testing on Outcomes and Resource Use after Revascularization for Acute Coronary Syndromes

October112013

The Feasibility and Accuracy of Evaluating Lipid Management Performance Metrics Using an Electronic Health Record

October42013

QTc Interval Screening in an Opioid Treatment Program

September272013

Importance of Mixed Methods in Pragmatic Trials and Dissemination and Implementation Research

September202013

Differences in the Outcome of Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions at Teaching Versus Non-teaching Hospitals

September132013

A Comprehensive Framework for Data Quality Assessment in CER

September62013

Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine: the C-Change Learning Action Network and its Impact at Participating Medical Schools

August302013

Temporal Trends in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Outcomes among Older Patients in the United States

August232013

Suspected Extracolonic Neoplasms Detected on CT Colonography: Literature Review and Possible Outcomes

August162013

Using AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to Detect Postdischarge Adverse Events in the Veterans Health Administration

August92013

Prevalence and Clinical Importance of Alternative Causes of Symptoms Using a Renal Colic Computed Tomography Protocol in Patients with Flank or Back Pain and Absence of Pyuria

August22013

Educational Videos to Reduce Racial Disparities in ICD Therapy Via Innovative Designs (VIVID): a Randomized Clinical Trial

July262013

Counseling to Reduce High-risk Sexual Behavior in HIV Care: a Multi-center, Direct Observation Study

July192013

Understanding HIV Screening in the Emergency Department: Is Perception Reality?

July122013

Does Health Care Role and Experience Influence Perception of Safety Culture Related to Preventing Infections?

July52013

A Practical Approach for Content Mining of Tweets

June282013

Effect of Emergency Department Crowding on Outcomes of Admitted Patients

June212013

Are We Targeting the Right Metric for Heart Failure?

June142013

Choosing Wisely: Highest-cost Trends in Outpatient Neurology

June72013

Outcomes of Second Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Regimens among HIV-infected Persons in Clinical Care

May312013

Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: 13 Years of Evidence

May242013

Trends in Reporting Methadone-associated Cardiac Arrhythmia, 1997-2011

May172013

Variability in Performance Measures for Assessment of Hypertension Control

May102013

Doing Well by Doing Good: Assessing the Cost Savings of an Intervention To Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in a Hawaii Hospital

May32013

Rate Versus Rhythm Control for Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Clinical Practice: Results from the ORBIT-AF Registry

April262013

Emergency Research: Using Exception from Informed Consent, Evaluation of Community Consultations

April192013

HIV Infection and Glycemic Response to Newly Initiated Diabetic Medical Therapy

April122013

Characteristics of U.S. emergency departments that offer routine human immunodeficiency virus screening

April52013

Stress Imaging Use and Repeat Revascularization Among Medicare Patients with High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease

March292013

Effect of a Clinic-Wide Social Marketing Campaign to Improve Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection

March222013

Dementia and Risk of Adverse Warfarin-Related Events in the Nursing Home Setting

March152013

Comparative-effectiveness Research to Aid Population Decision Making by Relating Clinical Outcomes and Quality-adjusted Life Years

March82013

Risk Factors for Drug-Resistant Streptococcus Pneumonia and Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Outpatient Community-Acquired Pneumonia

March12013

Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Trends in Racial-ethnic, Income, and Insurance Disparities Over Time 2002-2009

February222013

Cost-effectiveness of Medicare Drug Plans in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

February152013

Emerging Analytical Techniques for Comparative Effectiveness Research

February82013

Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes Associated with Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Major Noncardiac Surgery

February12013

Exploratory Study of Nursing Home Factors Associated with Successful Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Tools for Pressure Ulcer Prevention

January252013

Getting Answers We Can Believe In: Methodological Considerations When Using Electronic Clinical Data for CER and PCOR

January182013

Antenatal Identification of Major Depressive Disorder: a Cohort Study

January112013

Smoking Is Bad for Babies: Obstetric Care Providers' Use of Best Practice Smoking Cessation Counseling Techniques

January42013

Malignant CTA Collateral Profile is Highly Specific for Large Admission DWI Infarct Core and Poor Outcome in Acute Stroke

2012

December282012

Implementation of Automated Reporting of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Among Veterans Affairs Laboratories: a Retrospective Study

December212012

Health Care Utilization in HIV-infected Patients: Assessing the Burden of Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection

December142012

Aid-assisted Decision Making and Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Randomized Controlled Trial

December72012

Patterns of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Impact on HIV RNA among Patients in North America

November302012

Experiences of Care among Medicare Beneficiaries with ESRD: Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Survey Results

November162012

Projecting U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Needs: 2010-2025

November122012

Patient-centered Medical Home Cost Reductions Limited to Complex Patients

November92012

Comparative Effectiveness of Sulfonylurea and Metformin Monotherapy on cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cohort study.

November92012

Comparative Effectiveness of Sulfonylurea and Metformin Monotherapy on Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

November22012

Cost-effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination of Older Adults in the ED Setting

October192012

Rethinking Adherence

October122012

Factors that Mediate Racial/ethnic Disparities in U.S. Fetal Death Rates

October52012

Study Protocol: the Back Pain Outcomes using Longitudinal Data (BOLD) Registry

October12012

Geographic Variation in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Among Older Adults

September282012

Medication Adherence in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Evidence-based Review

September212012

Neutrophil Gelatinase-associated Lipocalin (NGAL) and Kidney Injury Molecule 1 (KIM-1) as Predictors of Incident CKD Stage 3; the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)

September142012

Qualitative evaluation to explain success of multifaceted technology-driven hypertension intervention

September72012

Interpersonal Processes of Care and Cesarean Delivery in Two Health Care Settings

August312012

Long-term Care Facilities in Utah: a Description of Human and Information Technology Resources Applied to Infection Control Practice

August242012

Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization

August172012

Cardiovascular Safety of Central Nervous System Stimulants in Children and Adolescents: Population Based Cohort Study

August122012

Mental Healthcare Need and Service Utilization in Older Adults Living in Public Housing

August32012

Race, Place, and Obesity: the Complex Relationships among Community Racial/Ethnic Composition, Individual Race/Ethnicity, and Obesity in the United States

July272012

Patient Safety-focused Medication Therapy Management: Challenges Affecting Future Implementation

July202012

Age-related Changes in Antidepressant Pharmacokinetics and Potential Drug-drug Interactions: A Comparison of Evidence-based Literature and Package Insert Information

July132012

Federally Qualified Health Centers and Private Practice Performance on Ambulatory Care Measures

July62012

Emergency Department Case Volume and Patient Outcomes in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

June292012

Hospital Burden of Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United States, 2007

June222012

Automating Care Quality Measurement with Health Information Technology

June152012

A Call for Action on Primary Care and Public Health Integration

June82012

Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial

June12012

Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment

May252012

Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration

May182012

Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)

May112012

Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools

May42012

The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

April272012

The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care

April202012

Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening

April132012

Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams

April62012

Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States

March302012

Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling

March232012

Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review

March162012

Predictors of Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensives in Community Health Centers

March92012

Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care

March22012

Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Stud

February272012

Prediction Is Very Hard, Especially about the Future

February242012

Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start

February172012

Provider-patient Adherence Dialogue in HIV Care: Results of a Multisite Study

February102012

Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine

February32012

Diabetes Data Group vs Carpenter-Coustan Criteria to Diagnose Gestational Diabetes

January202012

A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections

January132012

Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study

January62012

Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs

2011

December302011

Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties

December232011

Health Information Systems in Small Practices

December162011

Lower mortality in Sepsis Patients Admitted through the ED vs Direct Admission

December92011

Nystagmus Assessments Documented by Emergency Physicians in Acute Dizziness Presentations: a Target for Decision Support?

December22011

To Report or To Not Report: Examination of the Initial Primary Care Management of Suspicious Childhood Injuries

November252011

Variations in Ambulance Use in the United States: the Role of Health Insurance

November182011

Professional Challenges of Non-U.S.-born International Medical Graduates and Recommendations for Support during Residency Training

November112011

How to Get the Best Value for Your Health Insurance Plans: Do Homework during Open Enrollment to Save Money

November42011

Comparison of Different Approaches to Confounding Adjustment in a Study on the Association of Antipsychotic Medication with Mortality in Older Nursing Home Patients

October282011

Which Treatments Work Best for You? Information Helps with Right Care, Treatment Decisions

October212011

Interventions to Reduce 30-day Rehospitalization: A Systematic Review

October142011

A National Collaborative for Reducing Health Care-associated Infections: Current Initiatives, Challenges, and Opportunities

October72011

Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities

September302011

The Utility of the Integrated Design of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to Inform Mortality Related Studies

September302011

Quality Measurement of Medication Monitoring in the "Meaningful Use" Era

September232011

Quality of Care for Gastrointestinal Conditions: A Primer for Gastroenterologists

September162011

Eradicating Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections Statewide: The Hawaii Experience

September92011

Persons Newly Diagnosed with HIV Infection Are at High Risk for Depression and Poor Linkage to Care: Results from the Steps Study

August302011

Scaling Up Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Potential Impact of Gender Disparities and Changes in Condom Use Behaviors on Heterosexual HIV Transmission

August192011

HIV Treatment Adherence, Drug Resistance, Virologic Failure: Evolving Concepts

August122011

Off-label Drug Use and Promotion: Balancing Public Health Goals and Commercial Speech

August52011

Characterizing and Fostering Charity Care in the Surgeon Workforce

July292011

Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality

July152011

A Resident-led Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Obesity Screening

July82011

Resource Burden at Children's Hospitals Experiencing Surge Volumes During the Spring H1N1 Influenza Pandemic

July12011

Hospital-reported Data on the Pneumonia Quality Measure ‘Time to First Antibiotic Dose" are not Associated with Inpatient Mortality

June242011

Research Priorities for Palliative and End-of-life Care in the Emergency Setting

June172011

A National Collaborative for Reducing Health Care-associated Infections: Current Initiatives, Challenges, and Opportunities

June102011

Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality

June32011

Academic Health Centers and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Baggage, Buckets, Basics, and Bottles

May272011

Making the Right Thing the Easy Thing To Do

May202011

Advancing the Science of Patient Safety

May132011

Impact of NRTIs on Lipid Levels among a Large HIV-infected Cohort Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Clinical Care

May62011

Public Health Insurance in Oregon: Underenrollment of Eligible Children and Parental Confusion about Children's Enrollment Status

April222011

Leveraging Certified Nursing Assistant Documentation and Knowledge To Improve Clinical Decision Making: the On-time Quality Improvement Program To Prevent Pressure Ulcers

April152011

Screening Mammography Use in Medicare Beneficiaries Reflects 4-year Mortality Risk

April82011

Lower Mortality in Sepsis Patients Admitted Through the ED vs Direct Admission

April12011

Hepatic Steatosis Associated with Increased Central Body Fat by Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry and Uncontrolled HIV in HIV/Hepatitis C Co-infected Persons

March252011

Health Information Technology: Turning the Patient-centered Medical Home from Concept to Reality

March182011

Code Status Discussions at Hospital Admission Are Not Associated with Patient and Surrogate Satisfaction with Hospital Care: Results from the Multicenter Hospitalist Study

March112011

Trends in Comorbidity, Disability, and Polypharmacy in Heart Failure

March42011

Decreased Antibiotic Utilization after Implementation of a Guideline for Inpatient Cellulitis and Cutaneous Abscess

February252011

The Effect of Triage Diagnostic Standing Orders on Emergency Department Treatment Time

February182011

Learn the Signs and Treatments for Heart Disease

February112011

Associations between Minimum Wage Policy and Access to Health Care: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1996-2007

February42011

Effects of Documentation-based Decision Support on Chronic Disease Management

January282011

Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction in 58 U.S. Emergency Departments

January212011

Culturally Appropriate Storytelling To Improve Blood Pressure: A Randomized Trial

January142011

Perioperative Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients with Sleep Apnea after Noncardiac Surgery

January72011

Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States