AHRQ-Related Articles, January 2, 2015

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Rhoades RR, Beebe LA. Tobacco control and prevention in Oklahoma: best practices in a preemptive state. Am J Prev Med 2015 Jan; 48(1 Suppl 1):S6-S12. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Mushtaq N, Boeckman LM, Beebe LA. Predictors of smokeless tobacco cessation among telephone quitline participants. Am J Prev Med 2015 Jan; 48(1 Suppl 1):S54-60. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Beebe LA, Bush T. Post-cessation weight concerns among women calling a state tobacco quitline. Am J Prev Med 2015 Jan; 48(1 Suppl 1):S61-4. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Leuthard JL, Beebe LA, Halstead L, Olson KD, Roysdon JW. Increased evidence-based tobacco treatment through Oklahoma hospital system changes. Am J Prev Med 2015 Jan; 48(1 Suppl 1):S65-70. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, 2008, and AHRQ publication, Reasons for Being Admitted to the Hospital Through the Emergency Department, 2003.] Select to access the abstract.

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Sanchez GV, Roberts RM, Albert AP, Johnson DD, Hicks LA. Effects of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary care providers on antibiotic selection, United States. Emerg Infect Dis 2014 Dec; 20(12):2041-7. [Cites AHRQ publication, Primary Care Workforce and Stats: Overview, 2012.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA Internal Medicine
Redberg RF. The importance of postapproval data for dabigatran. JAMA Intern Med 2015 Jan; 175(1):25. [Comments on AHRQ-funded article by Hernandez et al. published in the same issue.]

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Caruso TJ, Marquez JL, Wu DS, Shaffer JA, Balise RR, Groom M, Leong K, Mariano K, Honkanen A, Sharek PJ. Implementation of a standardized postanesthesia care handoff increases information transfer without increasing handoff duration. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2015; 41(1):35-42. [Mentions AHRQ's recommendations to focus on handoff processes to improve patient safety, citing AHRQ publication, Patient Safety Primers: Handoffs and Signouts, 2012, and AHRQ-funded Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, 2001.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Stockmann C, Ross JS, Sherwin CM, Reilly CA, McDowell B, Fassl B, Nkoy F, Maloney CG, Spigarelli MG. Rate of asthma trial outcomes reporting on ClinicalTrials.gov and in the published literature. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2014 Dec; 134(6):1443-6. [Notes that seventh author's (Nkoy F) institution has received previous funding through grants R18 HS18166-01A1 and R18 HS18678-01A1.]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Marek KD, Stetzer F, Adams SJ, Bub LD, Schlidt A, Colorafi KJ. Cost analysis of a home-based nurse care coordination program. J Am Geriatr Soc 2014 Dec; 62(12):2369-76. [Cites AHRQ publication, Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
JA Knottnerus, Tugwell P. Knowledge synthesis to improve practice requires up-to-date definitions, content, methods, and techniques. J Clin Epidemiol 2014 Dec; 67(12):1289-90. [Comments on AHRQ-funded article by Seida, Dryden, and Hartling published in the same issue.]

Medical Care
Samuel CA, Zaslavsky AM, Landrum MB, Lorenz K, Keating NL. Developing and evaluating composite measures of cancer care quality. Med Care 2015 Jan; 53(1):54-64. [Mentions the number of quality measures on cancer care in AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse^TM.] Select to access the abstract.

Proceedings (Baylor University Medical Center)
Dixon JL, Papaconstantinou HT, Hodges B, Korsmo RS, Jupiter D, Shake J, Sareyyupoglu B, Rascoe PA, Reznik SI. Redundancy and variability in quality and outcome reporting for cardiac and thoracic surgery. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2015 Jan; 28(1):14-7. [Summarizes findings from studies comparing data from AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators with data from other clinical databases, citing articles by Meguerditchian et al. (J Surg Oncol, 2010) and Lawson et al. (Ann Surg, 2012).] Select to access the abstract.