Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, September 26, 2014

Academic Emergency Medicine
Murtagh Kurowski E, Byczkowski T, Grupp-Phelan JM. Comparison of emergency care delivered to children and young adults with complex chronic conditions between pediatric and general emergency departments. Acad Emerg Med 2014 Jul; 21(7):778-84. [Uses 2008 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Heart Journal
Patel H, Shivaraju A, Fonarow GC, Xie H, Gao W, Shroff AR, Vidovich MI. Temporal trends in the use of intraaortic balloon pump associated with percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States, 1998-2008. Am Heart J 2014 Sep; 168(3):363-373.e12. [Uses 1998-2008 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Fulton-Kehoe D, Garg RK, Turner JA, Bauer AM, Sullivan MD, Wickizer TM, Franklin GM. Opioid poisonings and opioid adverse effects in workers in Washington state. Am J Ind Med 2013 Dec; 56(12):1452-62. [Uses 2004-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Raman SV, Raker CA, Sung VW. Concomitant apical prolapse repair and incontinence procedures: trends from 2001-2009 in the United States. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2014 Sep; 211(3):222.e1-5. [Uses 2001-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Surgery
Mull HJ, Borzecki AM, Loveland S, Hickson K, Chen Q, MacDonald S, Shin MH, Cevasco M, Itani KM, Rosen AK. Detecting adverse events in surgery: comparing events detected by the Veterans Health Administration Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Patient Safety Indicators. Am J Surg 2014 Apr; 207(4):584-95. [Uses AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs).] Select to access the abstract.

Wormer BA, Swan RZ, Williams KB, Bradley JF 3rd, Walters AL, Augenstein VA, Martinie JB, Heniford BT. Outcomes of pancreatic debridement in acute pancreatitis: analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample from 1998 to 2010. Am J Surg 2014 Sep; 208(3):350-62. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Adepoju L, Qu W, Kazan V, Nazzal M, Williams M, Sferra J. The evaluation of national time trends, quality of care, and factors affecting the use of minimally invasive breast biopsy and open biopsy for diagnosis of breast lesions. Am J Surg 2014 Sep; 208(3):382-90. [Uses 2008-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Schneider LF, Albornoz CR, Huang J, Cordeiro PG. Incidence of pneumothorax during tissue expander-implant reconstruction and algorithm for intraoperative management. Ann Plast Surg 2014 Sep; 73(3):279-81. [Uses 1998-2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Surgery
Morton JM, Garg T, Nguyen N. Does hospital accreditation impact bariatric surgery safety? Ann Surg 2014 Sep; 260(3):504-8; discussion 508-9. [Uses 2010 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ's PSIs).] Select to access the abstract.

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
Tang DH, Gilligan AM, Romero K. Economic burden and disparities in healthcare resource use among adult patients with cardiac arrhythmia. Appl Health Econ Health Policy 2014 Feb; 12(1):59-71. [Uses 2004-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

BMJ Quality and Safety
Keebler JR, Dietz AS, Lazzara EH, Benishek LE, Almeida SA, Toor PA, King HB, Salas E. Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety. BMJ Qual Saf 2014 Sep; 23(9):718-26. [Uses AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS.] Select to access the abstract.

Singh H, Meyer AN, Thomas EJ. The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from three large observational studies involving US adult populations. BMJ Qual Saf 2014 Sep; 23(9):727-31. [Uses as data sources AHRQ-funded studies by Murphy et al. (BMJ Qual Saf, 2014) and Singh et al. (BMJ Qual Saf, 2012).] Select to access the abstract.

Kim Y, Oh J, Jha A. Contribution of hospital mortality variations to socioeconomic disparities in in-hospital mortality. BMJ Qual Saf 2014 Sep; 23(9):741-8. [Uses AHRQ's Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs).] Select to access the abstract.

Critical Care Medicine
Bradford MA, Lindenauer PK, Wiener RS, Walkey AJ. Do-not-resuscitate status and observational comparative effectiveness research in patients with septic shock. Crit Care Med 2014 Sep; 42(9):2042-7. [Uses 2007 HCUP State Inpatient Datatabases (SID) data for California.] Select to access the abstract.

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Pellegrino P, Carnovale C, Perrone V, Salvati D, Gentili M, Brusadelli T, Antoniazzi S, Pozzi M, Radice S, Clementi E. Epidemiological analysis on two decades of hospitalisations for meningitis in the United States. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2014 Sep; 33(9):1519-24. [Uses 1993-2011 HCUP NIS and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Hospital Pediatrics
Lopez MA, Cruz AT, Kowalkowski MA, Raphael JL. Trends in hospitalizations and resource utilization for pediatric pertussis. Hosp Pediatr 2014 Sep; 4(5):269-75. [Uses 1997-2009 HCUP KID data.] Select to access the abstract.

International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology
Villwock JA, Goyal P. Early versus delayed treatment of primary epistaxis in the United States. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2014 Jan; 4(1):69-75. [Uses 2008-2010 HCUP NIS data Select to access the abstract.

Villwock JA, Villwock M, Deshaies E, Goyal P. Significant increases of pituitary tumors and resections from 1993 to 2011. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2014 Sep; 4(9):767-70. [Uses 1993-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Italian Journal of Pediatrics
Luciano L, Lenzi J, McDonald KM, Rosa S, Damiani G, Corsello G, Fantini MP. Empirical validation of the "Pediatric Asthma Hospitalization Rate" indicator. Ital J Pediatr 2014 Jan 21; 40:7. [Uses the Pediatric Asthma Hospitalization Rate indicator from AHRQ's Pediatric Quality Indicators.] Select to access the abstract.

Lenzi J, Luciano L, McDonald KM, Rosa S, Damiani G, Corsello G, Fantini MP. Empirical examination of the indicator 'pediatric gastroenteritis hospitalization rate' based on administrative hospital data in Italy. Ital J Pediatr 2014 Feb 11; 40:14. [Uses AHRQ's Pediatric Quality Indicators.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Obesity
Chen HJ, Liu Y, Wang Y. Socioeconomic and demographic factors for spousal resemblance in obesity status and habitual physical activity in the United States. J Obes 2014; 2014:703215. [Uses 2006-2008 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

JSLS: Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
Cohen SL, Vitonis AF, Einarsson JI. Updated hysterectomy surveillance and factors associated with minimally invasive hysterectomy. JSLS 2014 Jul; 18(3). pii: e2014.00096. [Uses 2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Ward NT, Ramamoorthy SL, Chang DC, Parsons JK. Laparoscopic appendectomy is safer than open appendectomy in an elderly population. JSLS 2014 Jul; 18(3). pii: e2014.00322. [Uses 1998-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pediatrics and Neonatology
Egbe A, Uppu S, Lee S, Stroustrup A, Ho D, Srivastava S. Congenital malformations in the newborn population: a population study and analysis of the effect of gender and prematurity. Pediatr Neonatol 2014 Sep 26. pii: S1875-9572(14)00132-6. [Uses 2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

PeerJ
Park MD, Bhattacharya J, Park K. Differences in healthcare expenditures for inflammatory bowel disease by insurance status, income, and clinical care setting. PeerJ 2014 Sep 23; 2:e587. [Uses 1996-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Quality of Life Research
Tang DH, Gilligan AM, Romero K. Association of patient demographics on quality of life in a sample of adult patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Qual Life Res 2014 Feb; 23(1):129-34. [Uses 2004-2009 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Le QA. Probabilistic mapping of the health status measure SF-12 onto the health utility measure EQ-5D using the US-population-based scoring models. Qual Life Res 2014 Mar; 23(2):459-66. [Uses 2003 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Vaccine
Wilson FA, Wang Y, Stimpson JP. Universal paid leave increases influenza vaccinations among employees in the U.S. Vaccine 2014 May 1; 32(21):2441-5. [Uses 2006-2010 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.