Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, February 20, 2015

American Family Physician
Earwood JS, Thompson TD. Hemoptysis: evaluation and management. Am Fam Physician 2015 Feb 15; 91(4):243-9. [Uses AHRQ’s National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

American Heart Journal
Ziaeian B, Sharma PP, Yu TC, Johnson KW, Fonarow GC. Factors associated with variations in hospital expenditures for acute heart failure in the United States. Am Heart J 2015 Feb; 169(2):282-289.e15. [Uses 2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Cardiology
Singh V, Patel NJ, Badheka AO, Arora S, Patel N, et al. Comparison of outcomes of balloon aortic valvuloplasty plus percutaneous coronary intervention versus percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty alone during the same hospitalization in the United States. Am J Cardiol 2015 Feb 15; 115(4):480-6. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data, the AHRQ-funded adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index described in AHRQ-funded article by Deyo, Cherkin, and Ciol (J Clin Epidemiol, 1992), and AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), Version 4.4, 2012.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Smith AM, Wuerth BA, Wiemken TL, Arnold FW. Prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection presenting to US EDs. Am J Emerg Med 2015 Feb; 33(2):238-43. [Uses 2006-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Maxwell BG, Mooney JJ, Lee PH, Levitt JE, Chhatwani L, et al. Increased resource use in lung transplant admissions in the lung allocation score era. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015 Feb 1; 191(3):302-8. [Uses 2000-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
O'Keefe KA, Eberhard ML, Shafir SC, Wilkins P, Ash LR, et al. Cysticercosis-related hospitalizations in the United States, 1998-2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2015 Feb; 92(2):354-9. [Uses 1998-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Surgeon
Masoomi H, Paydar KZ, Evans GR, Tan E, Lane KT, et al. Does immediate tissue expander placement increase immediate postoperative complications in patients with breast cancer? Am Surg 2015 Feb; 81(2):143-9. [Uses 2006-2010 NHUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Walkey AJ, Lagu T, Lindenauer PK. Trends in sepsis and infection sources in the United States. A population-based study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015 Feb; 12(2):216-20. [Uses 2003-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Hughes K, Abdulrahman H, Prendergast T, Rose DA, Ongu'ti S, et al. Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in nonagenarians. Ann Vasc Surg 2015 Feb; 29(2):183-8. [Uses 1997-2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Blood
Goel R, Ness PM, Takemoto CM, Krishnamurti L, King KE, et al. Platelet transfusions in platelet consumptive disorders are associated with arterial thrombosis and in-hospital mortality. Blood 2015 Feb 26; 125(9):1470-6. [Uses 2007-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Cardiology Journal
Garg J, Krishnamoorthy P, Palaniswamy C, Pandey A, Ahmad H. Predictors of in-hospital mortality in coronary artery dissection: findings from the National Inpatient Sample 2009-2010. Cardiol J 2015; 22(2):135-40. [Uses 2009-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Current Medical Research & Opinion
Pant C, Olyaee M, Sferra TJ, Gilroy R, Almadhoun O, et al. Emergency department visits for gastrointestinal bleeding in children: results from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample 2006-2011. Curr Med Res Opin 2015 Feb; 31(2):347-51. [Uses 2006-2011 HCUP Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS).] Select to access the abstract.

European Journal of Public Health
Gutacker N, Bloor K, Cookson R. Comparing the performance of the Charlson/Deyo and Elixhauser comorbidity measures across five European countries and three conditions. Eur J Public Health 2015 Feb; 25 Suppl 1:15-20. [Uses AHRQ’s Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998) 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.

Hepatology
Collier MG, Tong X, Xu F. Hepatitis A hospitalizations in the United States, 2002-2011. Hepatology 2015 Feb; 61(2):481-5. [Uses 2002-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

JAMA Internal Medicine
Fleischman RJ, Kaji AH, Diaz VM, McKenzie K, Soltero P, et al. A simple intervention to improve hospital flow from emergency department to inpatient units. JAMA Intern Med 2015 Feb; 175(2):289-90. [Uses AHRQ’s Emergency Severity Index, Version 4.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
How JA, Abitbol J, Lau S, Gotlieb WH, Abenhaim HA. The impact of qualitative research on gynaecologic oncology guidelines. J Obstet Gynaecol Can 2015 Feb; 37(2):138-44. [Uses AHRQ’s NGC as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Laryngoscope
Zhu H, Das P, Roberson DW, Jang J, Skinner ML, et al. Hospitalizations in children with preexisting tracheostomy: a national perspective. Laryngoscope 2015 Feb; 125(2):462-8. [Uses 2009 HCUP Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Neurosurgical Focus
Wilson D, Jin DL, Wen T, Carmichael JD, Cen S, et al. Demographic factors, outcomes, and patient access to transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease: analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 2002 to 2010. Neurosurg Focus 2015 Feb; 38(2):E2. [Uses 2002-2010 HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Northwestern Law & Economics Research Papers
Zabinski Z, Black BS. The deterrent effect of tort law: evidence from medical malpractice reform. Northwest Law Econ Res Pap 2015 Feb 15; 13-09. [Uses AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) and 1999-2010 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) SID and NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pediatric Neurosurgery
Shweikeh F, Sunjaya D, Nuno M, Drazin D, Adamo MA. National trends, complications, and hospital charges in pediatric patients with Chiari malformation type I treated with posterior fossa decompression with and without duraplasty. Pediatr Neurosurg 2015; 50(1):31-7. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP KID 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 sex and prematurity. Pediatr Neonatol 2015 Feb; 56(1):25-30. [Uses 2008 HCUP NIS data.] 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.

Quality Management in Health Care
Alemi F, Jasper H. An alternative to satisfaction surveys: let the patients talk. Qual Manag Health Care 2014 Jan-Mar; 23(1):10-9. [Uses AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey.] Select to access the abstract.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Zhang Q, Takeda H. Promoting health informatics for multidisciplinary education in patient safety: a master course program in Japan. Stud Health Technol Inform 2013; 192:992. [Uses topics in AHRQ publication, Envisioning Patient Safety in the Year 2025: Eight Perspectives as a study intervention.] Select to access the abstract.

Surgical Infections
Lemaire A, Dombrovskiy V, Batsides G, Scholz P, Solina A, et al. The effect of Clostridium difficile infection on cardiac surgery outcomes. Surg Infect 2015 Feb; 16(1):24-8. [Uses 2002-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.