AHRQ-Related Articles, October 24, 2014

American Journal of Transplantation
Massie AB, Kucirka LM, Segev DL. Big data in organ transplantation: registries and administrative claims. Am J Transplant 2014 Aug; 14(8):1723-30. [Discusses the use of Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and State Inpatient Databases (SID) data in conducting organ transplantation research.]  Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Internal Medicine
Taichman DB. Whose line is it anyway? Ann Intern Med 2014 Oct 21; 161(8):56-7. [Comments on AHRQ-funded article by Chopra et al. (Ann Intern Med, 2014).]

BMJ Quality and Safety
Provenzano A, Rohan S, Trevejo E, Burdick E, Lipsitz S, Kachalia A. Evaluating inpatient mortality: a new electronic review process that gathers information from front-line providers. BMJ Qual Saf 2015 Jan; 24(1):31-7. [Cites AHRQ-funded Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, 2001.] Select to access the abstract.

Healthcare Purchasing News
Nadeau della Vecchia K. Fiscal tension driving pressure management reforms. Healthc Purch News 2014 Oct; online. [Cites data from AHRQ publications, Pressure Ulcer Toolkit and Nurse Staffing Fact Sheet, both published on the AHRQ Web site.]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Safdar N, Anderson DJ, Braun BI, Carling P, Cohen S, Donskey C, Drees M, Harris A, Henderson DK, Huang SS, et al. The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 May; 35(5):480-93. [Cites AHRQ-funded/authored articles by Pronovost et al. (N Engl J Med, 2006) and Clancy (J Nurs Care Qual, 2010, and Am J Med Qual, 2010).] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA
Rubin R. Analysis reveals large increase in hospitalizations in recent years among older patients prescribed opioids. JAMA 2014 Oct 22-29; 312(16):1621-3. [Reviews AHRQ statistical brief, Hospital Inpatient Utilization Related to Opioid Overuse Among Adults, 1993-2012, 2014.]

JAMA Internal Medicine
Flanders SA, Greene MT, Grant P, Kaatz S, Paje D, Lee B, Barron J, Chopra V, Share D, Bernstein SJ. Hospital performance for pharmacologic venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and rate of venous thromboembolism : a cohort study. JAMA Intern Med 2014 Oct; 174(10):1577-84. [Notes first author's and last author's (Bernstein SJ) receipt of AHRQ grants for other work.]

JAMA Pediatrics
Berry JG, Blaine K, Rogers J, McBride S, Schor E, Birmingham J, Schuster MA, Feudtner C. A framework of pediatric hospital discharge care informed by legislation, research, and practice. JAMA Pediatr 2014 Oct; 168(10):955-62; quiz 965-6. [Cites data from AHRQ's HCUPnet on pediatric patient discharges.]Select to access the abstract.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Sittig DF, Classen DC, Singh H. Patient safety goals for the proposed Federal Health Information Technology Safety Center. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2014 Oct 20; epub ahead of print. [Cites AHRQ-authored articles by Clancy (former AHRQ director) (Am J Med Qual, 2010, and J Patient Saf, 2009).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Athletic Training
Valier AR, Jennings AL, Parsons JT, Vela LI. Benefits of and barriers to using patient-rated outcome measures in athletic training. J Athl Train 2014 Sep-Oct; 49(5):674-83. Notes AHRQ's receipt of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for comparative effectiveness research.]    Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Neurosurgery
Marcus LP, McCutcheon BA, Noorbakhsh A, Parina RP, Gonda DD, Chen C, Chang DC, Carter BS. Incidence and predictors of 30-day readmission for patients discharged home after craniotomy for malignant supratentorial tumors in California (1995-2010). J Neurosurg 2014 May; 120(5):1201-11. [Mentions AHRQ's establishment of  "timely follow-up appointment scheduling as an important component of the discharge workflow that may reduce readmission," citing AHRQ Research Activities summary, Re-engineered Discharge Project Dramatically Reduces Return Trips to the Hospital, 2011.] Select to access the abstract.

Newsletter: Health and Ageing (Geneva Association)
Direct-to-consumer advertising and its impact on health insurance markets. Nwslett Health Ageing 2014 Oct; (31)1-4. [Extracted from AHRQ-authored article by Encinosa, Meyerhoefer, Zuvekas, and Du (Geneva Pap Risk Ins, 2014).]

PLOS Medicine
Smith GC. Variation in caesarean section rates in the US: outliers, damned outliers, and statistics. PLoS Med 2014 Oct 21; 11(10):e1001746. [Reviews article by Kozhimannil et al. in same issue, which uses  2009-2010 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicator 33: Primary Cesarean Delivery Rate, Uncomplicated, 2014.]  Select to access the abstract.