AHRQ-Related Articles, December 5, 2014

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Lee JG, Matthews AK, McCullen CA, Melvin CL. Promotion of tobacco use cessation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people: a systematic review. Am J Prev Med 2014 Dec; 47(6):823-31. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored guideline,  Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Health Services Research
Zinn JS, Romano PS. Best of the 2014 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Health Serv Res 2014 Dec; 49(6):1721-3. [Comments on articles by Reiter, Jiang (AHRQ researcher) and Wang and by Wisk et al. (which uses Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data), both in same issue.]

Wang JJ, Cha J, Sebek KM, McCullough CM, Parsons AS, Singer J, Shih SC. Factors related to clinical quality improvement for small practices using an EHR. Health Serv Res 2014 Dec; 49(6):1729-46. [Cites AHRQ publication,  Selecting Health Outcome Measures for Clinical Quality Measures, 2014, and AHRQ-sponsored Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, 2001.] Select to access the abstract.

Casalino LP. Categorizing accountable care organizations: moving toward patient-centered outcomes research that compares health care delivery systems. Health Serv Res 2014 Dec; 49(6):1875-82. [Cites AHRQ publication, Identifying Key Areas for Delivery System Research, 2014.]

Blewett LA, Hempstead K. The need for state health services and policy research. Health Serv Res 2014 Dec; 49(6):2035-40. [Comments on article by Wherry et al. in same issue which uses Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.]

Hospital Peer Review
Are we just teaching to the test? Hosp Peer Rev 2014 Dec; 39(12):133-6. [Quotes in opening paragraph AHRQ's basic definition of quality health care: “Quality health care means doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right person and having the best possible results.”]

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume)
Levin PE. Apples, oranges, and national databases. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014 Dec 3; 96(23):e193. [Comments on article by Bohl et al. (J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2014), which uses Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.]

Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics
Rocque BG, Kelly MP, Miller JH, Li Y, Anderson PA. Bone morphogenetic protein-associated complications in pediatric spinal fusion in the early postoperative period: an analysis of 4658 patients and review of the literature. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2014 Dec; 14(6):635-43. [Cites 2009 HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) data on pediatric spinal fusions as reported in articles by Dodwell et al. (JAMA, 2012) and Jain et al. (J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2013).] Select to access the abstract.