Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, February 13, 2015

American Journal of Psychiatry
Golberstein E, Busch SH, Zaha R, Greenfield SF, Beardslee WR, et al. Effect of the Affordable Care Act's young adult insurance expansions on hospital-based mental health care. Am J Psychiatry 2015 Feb 1; 172(2):182-9. [Uses 2005-2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data, State Inpatient Databases (SID) data for California, and State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) data for California.] Select to access the abstract.

Cancer
Kircher SM, Johansen ME, Nimeiri HS, Richardson CR, Davis MM. Impact of Medicare Part D on out-of-pocket drug costs and medical use for patients with cancer. Cancer 2014 Nov 1; 120(21):3378-84. [Uses 2002-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Badheka AO, Chothani A, Mehta K, Patel NJ, Deshmukh A, et al. Utilization and adverse outcomes of percutaneous left atrial appendage closure for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation in the United States: influence of hospital volume. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2015 Feb; 8(1):42-8. [Uses 2010 HCUP SEDD and SID data for nine states.] Select to access the abstract.

Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions
Alkhouli M, Zack CJ, Zhao H, Shafi I, Bashir R. Comparative outcomes of catheter-directed thrombolysis plus anticoagulation versus anticoagulation alone in the treatment of inferior vena caval thrombosis. Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2015 Feb; 8(2):e001882. [Uses 2005-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Blum AB, Egorova NN, Sosunov EA, Gelijns AC, DuPree E, et al. Impact of socioeconomic status measures on hospital profiling in New York City. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2014 May; 7(3):391-7. [Uses AHRQ’s socioeconomic status (SES) index (Moy, Greenberg, and Borsky, Health Aff, 2008).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Cavallaro P, Rhee AJ, Chiang Y, Itagaki S, Seigerman M, et al. In-hospital mortality and morbidity after robotic coronary artery surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2015 Feb; 29(1):27-31. [Uses 2008-2010 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ’s Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998).] Select to access the abstract.

Chiang Y, Hosseinian L, Rhee A, Itagaki S, Cavallaro P, et al. Questionable benefit of the pulmonary artery catheter after cardiac surgery in high-risk patients. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2015 Feb; 29(1):76-81. [Uses 2000-2010 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ’s Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
Gandhi PK, Gentry WM, Ma Q, Bottorff MB. Cost-effectiveness analysis of allopurinol versus febuxostat in chronic gout patients: a U.S. payer perspective. J Manag Care Spec Pharm 2015 Feb; 21(2):165-75. [Uses 2012 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access therabstract.

Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
Walls A, Pierce M, Krishnan N, Steehler M, Harley EH Jr. Pediatric head and neck complications of Streptococcus pneumoniae before and after PCV7 vaccination. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2015 Feb; 152(2):336-41. [Uses 1997-2009 HCUP Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pediatrics and Neonatology
Egbe A, Uppu S, Lee S, Stroustrup A, Ho D, et al. Congenital malformations in the newborn population: a population study and analysis of the effect of sex and prematurity. Pediatr Neonatol 2015 Feb; 56(1):25-30. [Uses 2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Permanente Journal
Dehal A, Abbas A, Hussain F, Johna S. Risk factors for neck hematoma after thyroid or parathyroid surgery: ten-year analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Perm J 2015 Winter; 19(1):22-8. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP NIS data and the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index as described in the AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992).] Select to access the abstract.

Public Health
Rosenbaum BP, Kshettry VR, Kelly ML, Weil RJ. Diagnoses associated with the greatest years of potential life lost for in-hospital deaths in the United States, 1988-2010. Public Health 2015 Feb; 129(2):173-81. [Uses 1988-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Spine
Paul JC, Lonner BS, Toombs CS. Greater operative volume is associated with lower complication rates in adolescent spinal deformity surgery. Spine  2015 Feb 1; 40(3):162-70. [Uses 2001-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Cho SK, Egorova NN. The association between insurance status and complications, length of stay, and costs for pediatric idiopathic scoliosis. Spine  2015 Feb 15;40(4):247-56. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Spine Journal
Schoenfeld AJ, Wahlquist TC. Mortality, complication risk, and total charges after the treatment of epidural abscess. Spine J 2015 Feb 1; 15(2):249-55. [Uses 2006-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.