Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, April 10, 2015

American Journal of Surgery
Hall EC, Hashmi ZG, Zafar SN, Zogg CK, Cornwell EE, 3rd, Haider AH. Racial/ethnic disparities in emergency general surgery: explained by hospital-level characteristics? Am J Surg 2015 Apr; 209(4):604-9. [Uses 2000-2008 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Harrison MA, Hegarty SE, Keith SW, Cowan SW, Evans NR, 3rd. Racial disparity in in-hospital mortality after lobectomy for lung cancer. Am J Surg 2015 Apr; 209(4):652-8. [Uses 2008-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Annals of Internal Medicine
Zacharioudakis IM, Zervou FN, Mylonakis E. Models in the development of clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med 2015 Apr 7; 162(7):529-30. [Uses AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

BJU International
Sammon JD, Pucheril D, Abdollah F, Varda B, Sood A, Bhojani N, Chang SL, Kim SP, Ruhotina N, Schmid M, et al. Preventable mortality after common urological surgery: failing to rescue? BJU Int 2015 Apr; 115(4):666-74. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data 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.

Critical Care Medicine
Goodwin AJ, Rice DA, Simpson KN, Ford DW. Frequency, cost, and risk factors of readmissions among severe sepsis survivors. Crit Care Med 2015 Apr; 43(4):738-46. [Uses 2011 HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID) data for California, Florida, and New York, HCUP Clinical Classifications Software, and AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998).] Select to access the abstract.

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
Schlussel AT, Lustik MB, Johnson EK, Maykel JA, Champagne BJ, Goldberg JE, Steele SR. Do the advantages of a minimally invasive approach remain in complex colorectal procedures? A nationwide comparison. Dis Colon Rectum 2015 Apr; 58(4):431-43. [Uses 2008-2011 HCUP NIS data and HCUP comorbidity software.] Select to access the abstract.

European Journal of Public Health
Astier-Pena MP, Torijano-Casalengua ML, Olivera-Canadas G, Silvestre-Busto C, Agra-Varela Y, Maderuelo-Fernandez JA. Are Spanish primary care professionals aware of patient safety? Eur J Public Health 2015 Apr 4; epub ahead of print. [Uses the Spanish version of AHRQ's Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture and data from the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2012 User Comparative Database Report, 2012.] Select to access the abstract.

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Abougergi MS, Travis AC, Saltzman JR. The in-hospital mortality rate for upper GI hemorrhage has decreased over 2 decades in the United States: a nationwide analysis. Gastrointest Endosc 2015 Apr; 81(4):882-8.e1. [Uses 19889-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Health Affairs
Hsia RY, Nath JB, Baker LC. California emergency department visit rates for medical conditions increased while visit rates for injuries fell, 2005-11. Health Aff 2015 Apr; 34(4):621-6. [Uses HCUP Clinical Classifications Software.] Select to access the abstract.

Health Services Research
Berkowitz SA, Traore CY, Singer DE, Atlas SJ. Evaluating area-based socioeconomic status indicators for monitoring disparities within health care systems: results from a primary care network. Health Serv Res 2015 Apr; 50(2):398-417. [Uses AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR), 2011, as the source for selected domains of health care and 2012 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey data.] Select to access the abstract.

International Emergency Nursing
Scheetz LJ. Injury patterns, severity and outcomes among older adults who sustained brain injury following a same level fall: a retrospective analysis. Int Emerg Nurs 2015 Apr; 23(2):162-7. [Uses 2009 HCUP SID data for New York.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
Xin H. How do high cost-sharing policies for physician care affect inpatient care use and costs among people with chronic disease? J Ambul Care Manage 2015 Apr-Jun; 38(2):100-8. [Uses 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Arthroplasty
Perfetti DC, Boylan MR, Naziri Q, Khanuja HS, Urban WP. Does sickle cell disease increase risk of adverse outcomes following total hip and knee arthroplasty? A nationwide database study. J Arthroplasty 2015 Apr; 30(4):547-51. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
Opotowsky AR, Moko LE, Ginns J, Rosenbaum M, Greutmann M, Aboulhosn J, Hageman A, Kim Y, Deng LX, Grewal J, et al. Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma in cyanotic congenital heart disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2015 Apr; 100(4):1325-34. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Emergency Medicine
Xin H, Kilgore ML, Sen BP, Blackburn J. Can nonurgent emergency department care costs be reduced? Empirical evidence from a U.S. nationally representative sample. J Emerg Med 2015 Apr 3; epub ahead of print. [Uses 2010-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal for Healthcare Quality
Xin H, Kilgore ML, Sen BP. Is access to and use of primary care practices that patients perceive as having essential qualities of a patient-centered medical home associated with positive patient experience? Empirical evidence from a U.S. nationally representative sample. J Healthc Qual 2015 Apr 4; epub ahead of print. [Uses 2010-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Neurosurgery
Fargen KM, Neal D, Blackburn SL, Hoh BL, Rahman M. Health disparities and stroke: the influence of insurance status on the prevalence of patient safety indicators and hospital-acquired conditions. J Neurosurg 2015 Apr; 122(4):870-5. [Uses 2002-2011 HCUP NIS data and AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs).] Select to access theabstract.

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
Shweikeh F, Al-Khouja L, Nuno M, Johnson JP, Drazin D, Adamo MA. Disparities in clinical and economic outcomes in children and adolescents following surgery for tethered cord syndrome in the United States. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2015 Apr; 15(4):427-33. [Uses 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
El-Messidi A, Patenaude V, Abenhaim HA. Incidence and outcomes of women with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in pregnancy: a population-based study on 7.9 million births. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2015 Apr; 41(4):582-9. [Uses 2003-2011 HCUP NIS data; epub version included in 1/26/15-1/30/15 Articles of Interest (archived).] Select to access the abstract.

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Polites SF, Habermann EB, Zarroug AE, Wagie AE, Cima RR, Wiskerchen R, Moir CR, Ishitani MB. A comparison of two quality measurement tools in pediatric surgery—the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric versus the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Pediatric Quality Indicators. J Pediatr Surg 2015 Apr; 50(4):586-90. [Uses AHRQ's Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDQIs.] Select to access the abstract.

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Friedman AM, Ananth CV, Prendergast E, D'Alton ME, Wright JD. Evaluation of third-degree and fourth-degree laceration rates as quality indicators. Obstet Gynecol 2015 Apr; 125(4):927-37. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Qureshi HA, Ference EH, Tan BK, Chandra RK, Kern RC, Smith SS. National trends in retropharyngeal abscess among adult inpatients with peritonsillar abscess. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2015 Apr; 152(4):661-6. [Uses 2003-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Matros E, Albornoz CR, Razdan SN, Mehrara BJ, Macadam SA, Ro T, McCarthy CM, Disa JJ, Cordeiro PG, Pusic AL. Cost-effectiveness analysis of implants versus autologous perforator flaps using the BREAST-Q. Plast Reconstr Surg 2015 Apr; 135(4):937-46. [Uses 2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Quality Management in Health Care
Najjar P, Kachalia A, Sutherland T, Beloff J, David-Kasdan JA, Bates DW, Urman RD. A multidisciplinary three-phase approach to improve the clinical utility of patient safety indicators. Qual Manag Health Care 2015 Apr-Jun; 24(2):62-8. [Uses AHRQ's PSIs.] Select to access the abstract.

Urology
Varda BK, McNabb-Baltar J, Sood A, Ghani KR, Kibel AS, Letendre J, Menon M, Sammon JD, Schmid M, Sun M, et al. Urolithiasis and urinary tract infection among patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a review of US emergency department visits between 2006 and 2009. Urology 2015 Apr; 85(4):764-70. [Uses 2006-2009 HCUP Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.