Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, March 6, 2015

American Family Physician
Flake ZA, Linn BS, Hornecker JR. Practical selection of antiemetics in the ambulatory setting. Am Fam Physician 2015 Mar 1; 91(5):293-6. [Uses AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Braun MM, Barstow CH, Pyzocha NJ. Diagnosis and management of sodium disorders: hyponatremia and hypernatremia. Am Fam Physician 2015 Mar 1; 91(5):299-307. [Uses AHRQ's NGC as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Lindsay TJ, Vitrikas KR. Evaluation and treatment of infertility. Am Fam Physician 2015 Mar 1; 91(5):308-14. [Uses AHRQ's NGC as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Sears JM, Bowman SM, Hogg-Johnson S. Disparities in occupational injury hospitalization rates in five states (2003-2009). Am J Ind Med 2015 May; 58(5):528-40. [Uses 2003-2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Bateman BT, Huybrechts KF, Fischer MA, et al. Chronic hypertension in pregnancy and the risk of congenital malformations: a cohort study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2015 Mar; 212(3):337.e1-14. [Uses cohort data from the Medicaid Analytical eXtract database, funded by R01 HS10533.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Pasquali SK, He X, Jacobs JP, et al. Measuring hospital performance in congenital heart surgery: administrative versus clinical registry data. Ann Thorac Surg 2015 Mar; 99(3):932-8. [Uses the AHRQ methodology related to reporting mortality outcomes wit SAS Software, Version 4.5, as published on AHRQ's Quality Indicators Web site.] Select to access the abstract.

BMC Health Services Research
Missios S, Bekelis K. Drivers of hospitalization cost after craniotomy for tumor resection: creation and validation of a predictive model. BMC Health Serv Res 2015 Mar 4; 15:85. [Uses 2005-2010 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Cancer
Bartlett EK, Simmons KD, Wachtel H, et al. The rise in metastasectomy across cancer types over the past decade. Cancer 2015 Mar 1; 121(5):747-57. [Uses 2000-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mellinger JL, Richardson CR, Mathur AK, et al. Variation among United States hospitals in inpatient mortality for cirrhosis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2015 Mar; 13(3):577-84; quiz e30. [Uses 2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dotters-Katz SK, Patel E, Grotegut CA, et al. Acute infectious morbidity in multiple gestation. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol 2015; 2015:173261. [Uses 2008-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

JACC. Heart Failure
Lima FV, Parikh PB, Zhu J, et al. Association of cardiomyopathy with adverse cardiac events in pregnant women at the time of delivery. JACC Heart Fail 2015 Mar; 3(3):257-66. [Uses 2006-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Neumeyer AM, O'Rourke JA, Massa A, et al. Brief report: bone fractures in children and adults with autism spectrum disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 2015 Mar; 45(3):881-7. [Uses 2010 HCUP Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Ghomrawi HM, Eggman AA, Pearle AD. Effect of age on cost-effectiveness of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty compared with total knee arthroplasty in the U.S. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2015 Mar 4; 97(5):396-402. [Uses HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Burn Care & Research
Veeravagu A, Yoon BC, Jiang B, et al. National trends in burn and inhalation injury in burn patients: results of analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. J Burn Care Res 2015 Mar-Apr; 36(2):258-65. [Uses 1998-2008 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Murthy SB, Moradiya Y, Shah S, et al. In-hospital outcomes of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in patients with primary brain tumors. J Clin Neurosci 2015 Mar; 22(3):474-8. [Uses 2002-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Korbel L, Spencer JD. Diabetes mellitus and infection: an evaluation of hospital utilization and management costs in the United States. J Diabetes Complications 2015 Mar; 29(2):192-5. [Uses 2006-2011 HCUP NEDS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Pediatrics
Ragsdale L, Zhong W, Morrison W, et al. Pediatric exposure to opioid and sedation medications during terminal hospitalizations in the United States, 2007-2011. J Pediatr 2015 Mar; 166(3):587-93.e1. [Uses HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

PLOS ONE
Schmeltz MT, Sembajwe G, Marcotullio PJ, et al. Identifying individual risk factors and documenting the pattern of heat-related illness through analyses of hospitalization and patterns of household cooling. PLoS One 2015 Mar 5; 10(3):e0118958. [Uses 2001-2010 HCUP NIS data. ] Select to access the abstract.

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Michet [Iii] CJ III , Achenbach SJ, Crowson CS, et al. Hospitalization rates and utilization among patients with giant cell arteritis: a population-based study from 1987 to 2012. Semin Arthritis Rheum 2015 Aug; 45(1):70-4. [Uses HCUP Clinical Classifications Software.] Select to access the abstract.

Spine Journal
Brodell DW, Jain A, Elfar JC, Mesfin A. National trends in the management of central cord syndrome: an analysis of 16,134 patients. Spine J 2015 Mar 1; 15(3):435-42. [Uses 2003-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Wound Repair and Regeneration
Shanmugam VK, Fernandez SJ, Evans KK, et al. Postoperative wound dehiscence: predictors and associations. Wound Repair Regen 2015 Mar; 23(2):184-90. [Uses AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicator 14.] Select to access the abstract.