AHRQ-Related Articles, July 25, 2014

American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs
Lama Tamang TG, Tang L, Chuang J, Patel RJ, Wong ND. Examining risk factor goal attainment and adherence to treatment among US heart failure patients: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2010. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs 2014 Feb; 14(1):41-9. [Cites HCUP statistical brief, Readmissions to US Hospitals by Diagnosis, 2010.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA Internal Medicine
Devlin MK, Kozij NK, Kiss A, Richardson L, Wong BM. Morning handover of on-call issues: opportunities for improvement. JAMA Intern Med 2014 Sep 1; 174(9):1479-85. [Cites AHRQ publication, Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, Volume 2, 2008, as accessed on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Bookshelf Web site.] Select to access the abstract.

Neurology
Zahuranec DB, Lisabeth LD, Sánchez BN, Smith MA, Brown DL, Garcia NM, Skolarus LE, Meurer WJ, Burke JF, Adelman EE, et al. Intracerebral hemorrhage mortality is not changing despite declining incidence. Neurology 2014 Jun 17; 82(24):2180-6. [Reports receipt of AHRQ funding for other research by eighth (Meurer WJ), tenth (Adelman EE), and eleventh (Morgenstern LB) authors under grant R18 HS17690.] Select to access the abstract.

Nutricion Hospitalaria
Arribas L, Frías L, Creus G, Parejo J, Urzola C, Ashbaugh R, Pérez-Portabella C, Cuerda C. Document of standardization of enteral nutrition access in adults. Nutr Hosp 2014 Jul 1; 30(n01):1-14. [Uses "criteria of the Agency for Health-care Research and Quality (AHRQ) to classify the evidence (Grade of Recommendation A, B, or C)."] Select to access the abstract.

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
Raza UA, Khursheed T, Irfan M, Abbas M, Irfan UM. Prescription patterns of general practitioners in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pak J Med Sci 2014 May; 30(3):462-5. [Cites AHRQ publication, Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events to Decrease Hospital Costs, 2001, as published on the AHRQ Web site.] Select to access the abstract.

Quality Management in Health Care
Hudson SM, Hiott DB, Cole J, Davis R, Egan BM, Laken MA. Increasing capacity for quality improvement in underresourced primary care settings. Qual Manag Health Care 2014 Jul-Sep; 23(3):155-62. [Cites AHRQ publication, Building Quality Improvement Capacity in Primary Care: Supports and Resources, 2013, as published on the AHRQ Web site and described as a "helpful toolbox to assist practices in their QI efforts."] Select to access the abstract.

Madan A, Fowler JC, Allen JG, Ellis TE, Hardesty S, Groat M, OʼMalley F, Woodson H, Mahoney J, Frueh BC, Oldham J. Assessing and addressing patient satisfaction in a longer-term inpatient psychiatric hospital: preliminary findings on the Menninger Quality of Care measure and methodology. Qual Manag Health Care 2014 Jul-Sep; 23(3):178-87. [Discusses and cites AHRQ’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey, citing HCAHPS: Patients’ Perspectives of Care Survey (as published on the CMS Web site), CAHPS Hospital Survey and Summary of HCAHPS Survey Results: October 2011 to September 2012 Discharges (both published on the HCAHPS Online Web site), and AHRQ publication, Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey: Field Test Report: Survey Evaluation, 2001.] Select to access the abstract.

Shewchuk RM, Carlson GL, Klosterman M, Cullen S, Qu H. Frictions as barriers to perioperative alignment: results from a latent class analysis. Qual Manag Health Care 2014 Jul-Sep; 23(3):188-200. [Cites AHRQ-funded/authored article by Zhan et al. (Health Aff, 2006).] Select to access the abstract.