Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, January 9, 2015

Academic Emergency Medicine
Pant C, Sferra TJ, Olyaee M, Gilroy R, Anderson MP, Rastogi A, Pandya PK, Deshpande A. Emergency department visits related to Clostridium difficile infection: results from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2006 through 2010. Acad Emerg Med 2015 Jan; 22(1):117-9. [Uses 2006-2010 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Hematology
Giri G, Pathak R, Aryal MR, Karmacharya P, Bhatt VR, Martin MG. Seasonal and regional variation of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in the United States: insights from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Am J Hematol 2015 Jan; 90(1):E24. [Uses 2009-2011 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.]

American Journal of Managed Care
Axon RN, Gebregziabher M, Craig J, Zhang J, Mauldin P, Moran WP. Frequency and costs of hospital transfers for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions.   Am J Manag Care 2015 Jan; 21 (1):51-59. [Uses a modification of AHRQ's recommended ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) coding scheme, citing Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions on AHRQ's Archive Web site; also cites AHRQ National Quality Measures Clearinghouse^TM measure summary, Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: Age-Standardized Acute Care Hospitalization Rate for Conditions Where Appropriate Ambulatory Care Prevents or Reduced the Need for Admission to the Hospital, per 100,000 Population Younger than Age 75 Years, 2008.] Select to access the abstract.

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine
Movahed MR, Khan MF, Hashemzadeh M, Hashemzadeh M. Age adjusted nationwide trends in the incidence of all cause and ST elevation myocardial infarction associated cardiogenic shock based on gender and race in the United States. Cardiovasc Revasc Med 2015 Jan-Feb; 16(1):2-5. [Uses 1996-2006 HCUP NIS data.]

Congenital Heart Disease

Egbe A, Uppu S, Lee S, Stroustrup A, Ho D, Srivastava S. Temporal variation of birth prevalence of congenital heart disease in the United States. Congenit Heart Dis 2015 Jan-Feb; 10(1):43-50. [Uses 1998 and 2008 HCUP data.] Select to access the abstract.

Critical Care Medicine
Ani C, Farshidpanah S, Bellinghausen Stewart A, Nguyen HB. Variations in organism-specific severe sepsis mortality in the United States: 1999-2008. Crit Care Med 2015 Jan; 43(1):65-77. [Uses 1999-2008 HCUP NIS data; cites AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 23: Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection Rate, Version 4.5.] Select to access the abstract.

Epilepsia
Lin Y, Harris DA, Curry DJ, Lam S. Trends in outcomes, complications, and hospitalization costs for hemispherectomy in the United States for the years 2000-2009. Epilepsia 2015 Jan; 56(1):139-46. [Uses 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 HCUP Kids Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA Internal Medicine
Gellad WF, Zhao X, Thorpe CT, Mor MK, Good CB, Fine MJ. Dual use of Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare benefits and use of test strips in veterans with type 2 diabetes mellitus. JAMA Intern Med 2015 Jan; 175(1):26-34. [Uses the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index described in AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992).] Select to access the abstract.

Makam AN, Nguyen OK. Use of cardiac biomarker testing in the emergency department. JAMA Intern Med 2015 Jan; 175(1):67-75. [Uses HCUP Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) for ICD-9-CM.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Wu J, Davis-Ajami ML, Noxon V. Patterns of use and expenses associated with mail-service pharmacy in adults with diabetes. J Am Pharm Assoc 2015 Jan-Feb; 55(1):41-51. [Uses 2006-2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, population characteristics described in AHRQ publication, Comparing Population Characteristics of Persons Purchasing Prescribed Drugs from Other Outlets, 2005, and the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index described in AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Medical Economics
Rizzo JA, Chen J, Gunnarsson CL, Naim A, Lofland JH. Adjusting for comorbidities in cost of illness studies. J Med Econ 2015 Jan; 18(1):12-28. [Uses 2000-2007 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Pant C, Sferra TJ, Barth BA, Deshpande A, Minocha A, Qureshi WA, Olyaee M, Anderson MP. Trends in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in children within the United States, 2000-2009. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2014 Jul; 59(1):57-60. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP KID data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Bauer NS, Anand V, Carroll AE, Downs SM. Secondhand smoke exposure, parental depressive symptoms and preschool behavioral outcomes. J Pediatr Nurs 2015 Jan-Feb; 30(1):227-35. [Uses data from the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation (CHICA) system, which is supported by grants R01 HS17939, R01 HS18453, and R01 HS20640.]  Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Sexual Medicine
Ali SK, Reveles KR, Davis R, Mortensen EM, Frei CR, Mansi I. The association of statin use and gonado-sexual function in women: a retrospective cohort analysis. J Sex Med 2015 Jan; 12(1):83-92. [Uses AHRQ's HCUP CCS and the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index described in AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Schairer WW, Nwachukwu BU, Lyman S, Craig EV, Gulotta LV. National utilization of reverse total shoulder arthroplasty in the United States. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2015 Jan; 24(1):91-7. [Uses 2011 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998).] Select to access the abstract.

Maternal and Child Health Journal
Kuo DZ, Melguizo-Castro M, Goudie A, Nick TG, Robbins JM, Casey PH. Variation in child health care utilization by medical complexity. Matern Child Health J 2015 Jan; 19(1):40-8. [Uses 2007-2009 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pediatrics
Neuman MI, Alpern ER, Hall M, Kharbanda AB, Shah SS, Freedman SB, Aronson PL, Florin TA, Mistry RD, Berry JG. Characteristics of recurrent utilization in pediatric emergency departments. Pediatrics 2014 Oct; 134(4):e1025-31. [Uses AHRQ's HCUP Chronic Condition Indicator classification system.]  Select to access the abstract.

Coller RJ, Nelson BB, Sklansky DJ, Saenz AA, Klitzner TS, Lerner CF, Chung PJ. Preventing hospitalizations in children with medical complexity: a systematic review. Pediatrics 2014 Dec; 134(6):e1628-47. [Uses AHRQ's RTI Item Bank to Assess Risk of Bias and Confounding, citing Assessing Risk of Bias and Confounding in Observational Studies of Interventions or Exposures: Further Development of the RTI Item Bank, 2013.] Select to accessabstract.

Prior M, McManus M, White P, Davidson L. Measuring the "triple aim" in transition care: a systematic review. Pediatrics 2014 Dec; 134(6):e1648-61. [Uses example measures from AHRQ publication, Early Evidence on the Patient-Centered Medical Home, 2012, to guide categorization of transition measures within the domains of experience, population health, and cost; cites AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center technical brief protocol, Transitions of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2013.] Select to access the abstract.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Giladi AM, Chung KC, Aliu O. Changes in use of autologous and prosthetic postmastectomy reconstruction after Medicaid expansion in New York state. Plast Reconstr Surg 2015 Jan; 135(1):53-62. [Uses 1998-2006 HCUP SID data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pregnancy Hypertension
Mahmood E, Rana S, Shahul SS. Racial and socio-economic disparities in maternal and fetal death among preeclamptic and eclamptic deliveries: an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Pregnancy Hypertens 2019 Jan; 5(1):116-7. [Uses 2004-2011 HCUP NIS data.]

Public Health
An R. Health care expenses in relation to obesity and smoking among U.S. adults by gender, race/ethnicity, and age group: 1998-2011. Public Health 2015 Jan; 129(1):29-36. [Uses 1998-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Urologic Oncology
Roghmann F, Antczak C, McKay RR, Choueiri T, Hu JC, Kibel AS, Kim SP, Kowalczyk KJ, Menon M, Nguyen PL, et al. The burden of skeletal-related events in patients with prostate cancer and bone metastasis. Urol Oncol 2015 Jan; 33(1):17.e9-18. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data and the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index described in AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992).] Select to access the abstract.

Urology
Hautmann RE, Abol-Enein H, Lee CT, Mansson W, Mills RD, Penson DF, Skinner EC, Studer UE, Thueroff JW, Volkmer BG. Urinary diversion: how experts divert. Urology 2015 Jan; 85(1):233-8. Uses 1998-2005 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.