Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, January 23, 2015

Annals of Surgery
Tsai TC, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Patient satisfaction and quality of surgical care in US hospitals. Ann Surg 2015 Jan; 261(1):2-8. [Uses 2010 and 2011 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data.] Select to access the abstract.

Chest
Ford ES, Murphy LB, Khavjou O, Giles WH, Holt JB, Croft JB. Total and state-specific medical and absenteeism costs of COPD among adults aged ≥18 years in the United States for 2010 and projections through 2020. Chest 2015 Jan; 147(1):31-45. [Uses 2006-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Clinical Cardiology
Afana M, Brinjikji W, Cloft H, Salka S. Hospitalization costs for acute myocardial infarction patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States are substantially higher than Medicare payments. Clin Cardiol 2015 Jan; 38(1):13-9. [Uses 2001-2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data and HCUP Cost-to-Charge Ratio Files, 2011.] Select to access the abstract.

Clinical Therapeutics
LaMori JC, Shoheiber O, Mody SH, Bookhart BK. Inpatient resource use and cost burden of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in the United States. Clin Ther 2015 Jan 1; 37(1):62-70. [Uses 2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Congenital Heart Disease
Bhatt AB, Rajabali A, He W, Benavidez OJ. High resource use among adult congenital heart surgery admissions in adult hospitals: risk factors and association with death and comorbidities. Congenit Heart Dis 2015 Jan-Feb; 10(1):13-20. [Uses 2005-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

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 1998-2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
Shah RU, Henry TD, Rutten-Ramos S, Garberich RF, Tighiouart M, Bairey Merz CN. Increasing percutaneous coronary interventions for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the United States: progress and opportunity. JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2015 Jan; 8(1 Pt B):139-46. [Uses 2003-2011 HCUP NIS data, AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998), and Comorbidity Software.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of the American Heart Association
Shaefi S, O'Gara B, Kociol RD, Joynt K, Mueller A, Nizamuddin J, Mahmood E, Talmor D, Shahul S. Effect of cardiogenic shock hospital volume on mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock. J Am Heart Assoc 2015 Jan 5; 4(1):e001462. [Uses 2004-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to acces the abstract.

Journal of Burn Care Research
Satahoo SS, Parikh PP, Naranjo D, Davis JS, Duncan RC, Pizano LR, Namias N, Schulman CI. Are burn patients really at risk for thrombotic events? J Burn Care Res 2015 Jan-Feb; 36(1):100-4. [Uses 2005-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Myers J, Smith M, Woods C, Espinosa C, Lehna C. The effect of transfers between health care facilities on costs and length of stay for pediatric burn patients. J Burn Care Res 2015 Jan-Feb; 36(1):178-83. [Uses 2003, 2006, and 2009 HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID).]  Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
Arab K, Oddy L, Patenaude V, Abenhaim HA. Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in renal transplant recipients. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2015 Jan; 28(2):162-7. [Uses 2003-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Papillon-Smith J, Imam B, Patenaude V, Abenhaim HA. Population-based study on the effect of socioeconomic factors and race on management and outcomes of 35,535 inpatient ectopic pregnancies. J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2014 Sep-Oct; 21(5):914-20. [Uses 2003-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Neurological Surgery: Part A, Central European Neurosurgery
Sarmiento JM, Mukherjee D, Nosova K, Schievink WI, Alexander MJ, Patil CG, Nuno MA. Predictors of treatment delay in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients. J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2015 Jan; 76(1):46-55. [Uses 2002-2007 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
McClelland S 3rd, Ukwuoma OI, Lunos S, Okuyemi KS. The natural history of Dandy-Walker syndrome in the United States: A population-based analysis. J Neurosci Rural Pract 2015 Jan; 6(1):23-6. [Uses1997-2003 KID data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
Zhang HJ, Patenaude V, Abenhaim HA. Maternal outcomes in pregnancies affected by varicella zoster virus infections: population-based study on 7.7 million pregnancy admissions. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2015 Jan; 41(1):62-8. [Uses 2003-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Rural Health
Johnson CE, Bush RL, Harman J, Bolin J, Evans Hudnall G, Nguyen AM. Variation in utilization of health care services for rural VA enrollees with mental health-related diagnoses. J Rural Health 2015 Jul; 31(3):244-53. [Uses 1999-2009 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Zafar SN, Shah AA, Hashmi ZG, Efron DT, Haut ER, Schneider EB, Schwartz D, Velopulos CG, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH. Outcomes after emergency general surgery at teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 Jan; 78(1):69-76; discussion 76-7. [Uses 2005-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Hemmila MR, Cain-Nielsen AH, Wahl WL, Vander Kolk WE, Jakubus JL, Mikhail JN, Birkmeyer NJ. Regional collaborative quality improvement for trauma reduces complications and costs. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 Jan; 78(1):78-85; discussion 85-7. [Uses AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998) and their point system modification by Van Walraven et al. (Med Care, 2009).  Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Urology
Wang HH, Wiener JS, Ross SS, Routh JC. Emergent care patterns in patients with spina bifida: a case-control study. J Urol 2015 Jan; 193(1):268-73. [Uses 2006-2010 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ’s Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998). Select to access the abstract.

Pediatrics
Byington CL, Wilkes J, Korgenski K, Sheng X. Respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in hospitalized infants and young children. Pediatrics 2015 Jan; 135(1):e24-31. [Uses 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 HCUP KID data.] Select to access the abstract.

State Health Access Data Assistance Center
Planalp C, Sonier J, Fried B. State-level trends in employer-sponsored health insurance. State Health Access Data Assist Cent 2015. Online. [Uses 2004/2005-2008/2009 and 2008/2009-2012/2013 MEPS Insurance Component data.]

Women’s Health Issues
Xiang X. Serious psychological distress as a barrier to cancer screening among women. Womens Health Issues 2015 Jan-Feb; 25(1):49-55. [Uses 2007, 2009, and 2011 MEPS data; discusses U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening for cervical cancer and screening for breast cancer (Ann Intern Med, 2012 and 2009).] Select to access the abstract.