Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, January 16, 2015

American Family Physician
Worster B, Zawora MQ, Hsieh C. Common questions about wound care. Am Fam Physician 2015 Jan 15; 91(2):86-92. [Uses AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Maness DL, Khan M. Disability evaluations: more than completing a form. Am Fam Physician 2015 Jan 15; 91(2):102-9. [Uses AHRQ's NGC and AHRQ Web site resources as data sources.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Cardiology
Incidence of emergency department visits for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a recent six-year period in the United States. Ward MJ, Kripalani S, Zhu Y, Storrow AB, Dittus RS, Harrell FE Jr, Self WH. Am J Cardiol 2015 Jan 15; 115(2):167-70. [Uses 2006-2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

CMAJ Open
Gagliardi AR, Brouwers MC, Bhattacharyya OK. The development of guideline implementation tools: a qualitative study. CMAJ Open 2015 Jan 13; 3(1):E127-33. [Uses AHRQ's NGC as a data source for applicable guidelines.] Select to access the abstract.

European Journal of Pediatrics
Bennett WE Jr, Hendrix KS, Thompson-Fleming RT, Downs SM, Carroll AE. Early cow's milk introduction is associated with failed personal-social milestones after 1 year of age. Eur J Pediatr 2014 Jul; 173(7):887-92. [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.

Health Affairs
Cole ES, Campbell C, Diana ML, Webber L, Culbertson R. Patient-centered medical homes in Louisiana had minimal impact on Medicaid population's use of acute care and costs. Health Aff 2015 Jan; 34(1):87-94. [Uses patient-centered medical home (PCMH) methodology from AHRQ publication, Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?, 2011, and AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998).] Select to access the abstract.

Catlin MK, Poisal JA, Cowan CA. Out-of-pocket health care expenditures, by insurance status, 2007-10. Health Aff 2015 Jan; 34(1):111-6. [Uses 2007-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Cunningham PJ. The share of people with high medical costs increased prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Health Aff 2015 Jan; 34(1):117-24. [Uses 2001-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Damberg CL, Elliott MN, Ewing BA. Pay-for-performance schemes that use patient and provider categories would reduce payment disparities. Health Aff 2015 Jan; 34(1):134-42. [Uses Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey measures.] Select to access the abstract.

Blavin F, Shartzer A, Long SK, Holahan J. An early look at changes in employer-sponsored insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Health Aff 2015 Jan; 34(1):170-7. [Uses 2013 MEPS Insurance Component data in comparison with study findings.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA
Iqbal J, Ginsburg O, Rochon PA, Sun P, Narod SA. Differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and cancer-specific survival by race and ethnicity in the United States. JAMA 2015 Jan 13; 313(2):165-73. [Uses race/ethnicity categorizations from Table 3.2: Race and Ethnicity Categories Collected by Various Data Sources: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement, 2010, and Defining Categorization Needs for Race and Ethnicity Data: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement, 2010, both published on the AHRQ Web site.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Capra G, Liming B, Boseley ME, Brigger MT. Trends in orbital complications of pediatric rhinosinusitis in the United States. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2015 Jan; 141(1):12-7. [Uses 2000 and 2009 HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Movahed MR, Khan MF, Hashemzadeh M, Hashemzadeh M. Gradual decline in the age-adjusted in-hospital mortality rate from STEMI-related cardiogenic shock irrespective of cause, race or gender with persistent higher mortality rates in women despite multivariate adjustment. J Invasive Cardiol 2014 Jan; 26(1):7-12. [Uses 1996-2006 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of General Internal Medicine
Katz DA, McCoy K, Sarrazin MV. Does improved continuity of primary care affect clinician-patient communication in VA? J Gen Intern Med 2014 Jul; 29 Suppl 2:S682-8. [Uses CAHPS Health Plan communication subscale and two-item shared decision-making measure.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Pediatric Urology
Liu DB, Ellimoottil C, Flum AS, Casey JT, Gong EM. Contemporary national comparison of open, laparoscopic, and robotic-assisted laparoscopic pediatric pyeloplasty. J Pediatr Urol 2014 Aug; 10(4):610-5. [Uses 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 HCUP KID data.] Select to access the abstract.

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Gebhart A, Young M, Phelan M, Nguyen NT. Impact of accreditation in bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2014 Sep-Oct; 10(5):767-73. [Uses 2008-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

World Neurosurgery
Qureshi AI, Adil MM, Suri MF. Rate of use and determinants of withdrawal of care among patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage in the United States. World Neurosurg 2014 Nov; 82(5):e579-84. [Uses 2002-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.