AHRQ-Related Articles, June 26, 2015

Grootendorst P. How effective is the Medicare Part D drug plan? Ann Intern Med 2015 Jun 16; 162(12):869-70. [Comments on AHRQ-funded study by Briesacher et al. (Ann Intern Med, 2015).] Select to access the abstract.

Drill down into Patient Safety Indicator 7. Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies 2015 Jun; 15(6):7-10. [Discusses AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 7.]

Gold RS. Accidental laceration criteria misunderstood. Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies 2015 Jun; 15(6):10-12. [Discusses AHRQ PSI 15.]

Hauser RG. Underutilization of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in older patients. JAMA2015 Jun 23-30; 313(24):2429-30. [Comments on AHRQ-funded study by Pikorney et al. in same issue.] Select to access the abstract.

Glaser JB, Wong D, Maroun R. Flaws in patient safety measures. JAMA 2015 Jun 23-30; 313(24):2494-5. [Discusses AHRQ’s PSIs.] Select to access the abstract.

Rajaram R, Barnard C, Bilimoria KY. Flaws in patient safety measures--reply. JAMA 2015 Jun 23-30; 313(24):2495. [Discusses AHRQ PSIs.] Select to access the abstract.

Bilimoria KY, Hoyt DB, Lewis F. Making the case for investigating flexibility in duty hour limits for surgical residents. JAMA Surg 2015 Jun; 150(6):503-4. [Cites AHRQ-funded Institute of Medicine report Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety, 2009.] Select to access the abstract.

Upchurch GR, Jr. The controversy surrounding surgical care improvement project-venous thromboembolism process measures. JAMA Surg 2015 Jun; 150(6):527-8. [Comments on AHRQ-funded study by Bilimoria et al. (JAMA, 2013).] Select to access the abstract.

Baucom RB, Phillips SE, Ehrenfeld JM, et al. Association of perioperative hypothermia during colectomy with surgical site infection. JAMA Surg 2015 Jun; 150(6):570-5. [Uses the American Society of Anesthesiologists quality measure (attributed to AHRQ) “Anesthesiology and critical care: percentage of patients, regardless of age, undergoing surgical or therapeutic procedures under general or neuraxial anesthesia of 60 minutes duration or longer for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia, OR at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 36 degrees Centigrade (or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded within 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time,” as profiled on AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC).] Select to access the abstract.

Stamos MJ. Lessons learned in intraoperative hypothermia: coming in from the cold. JAMA Surg 2015 Jun; 150(6):575-6. [Cites the use of the American Society of Anesthesiologists quality measure (attributed to AHRQ) “Anesthesiology and critical care: percentage of patients, regardless of age, undergoing surgical or therapeutic procedures under general or neuraxial anesthesia of 60 minutes duration or longer for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia, OR at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 36 degrees Centigrade (or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded within 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time,” as profiled on AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC), in article by Baucom et al. in same issue.] Select to accessabstract.

Zabbo CP, Welzbacher KE, Rivard L, et al. The extinction of triage. R I Med J (2013) 2015 Jun; 98(6):30-2. [Cites AHRQ publication Emergency Severity Index Implementation Handbook, 2005.] Select to access the abstract.