Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, April 24, 2015

Yew KS, Cheng EM. Diagnosis of acute stroke. Am Fam Physician 2015 Apr 15; 91(8):528-36. [Uses AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Moss DA, Snyder MJ, Lu L. Options for women with unintended pregnancy. Am Fam Physician 2015 Apr 15; 91(8):544-9. [Uses AHRQ's NGC as a data source.] Select to access the abstract.

Sommers T, Corban C, Sengupta N, Jones M, Cheng V, et al. Emergency department burden of constipation in the United States from 2006 to 2011. Am J Gastroenterol 2015 Apr; 110(4):572-9. [Uses 2006-2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) National Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Maruotti A, Raponi V, Lagona F. Handling endogeneity and nonnegativity in correlated random effects models: Evidence from ambulatory expenditure. Biom J 2015 Apr 21; epub ahead of print. [Uses 1996-2000 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Carthon JM, Lasater KB, Sloane DM, Kutney-Lee A. The quality of hospital work environments and missed nursing care is linked to heart failure readmissions: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals. BMJ Qual Saf 2015 Apr; 24(4):255-63. [Uses AHRQ's Elixhauser comorbidity measures (Elixhauser et al., Med Care, 1998) and cites AHRQ-funded systematic review by Kane et al. (Med Care, 2007) on registered nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes.] Select to access the abstract.

Kolte D, Khera S, Aronow WS, Palaniswamy C, Mujib M, et al. Regional variation in the incidence and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States. Circulation 2015 Apr 21; 131(16):1415-25. [Uses 2003-2011 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Barnes AJ, Hanoch Y, Rice T. Determinants of coverage decisions in health insurance marketplaces: consumers' decision-making abilities and the amount of information in their choice environment. Health Serv Res 2015 Feb; 50(1):58-80. [Uses healthcare utilization questions adapted from the 2009 MEPS Household Component and 2009 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Schoell SL, Doud AN, Weaver AA, Barnard RT, Meredith JW, Stitzel JD, Martin RS. Predicting patients that require care at a trauma center: analysis of injuries and other factors. Injury 2015 Apr; 46(4):558-63. [Uses 1998-2007 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Sacco P, Unick GJ, Kuerbis A, Koru AG, Moore AA. Alcohol-related diagnoses in hospital admissions for all causes among middle-aged and older adults: trends and cohort differences from 1993 to 2010. J Aging Health 2015 Apr 22. [Uses 1993-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Al-Qurayshi ZH, Hauch AT, Slakey DP, Kandil E. Retained foreign bodies: risk and outcomes at the national level. J Am Coll Surg 2015 Apr; 220(4):749-59. [Uses 2003-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

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. [HCUP] Select to access the abstract.

Wang HH, Wiener JS, Ferrandino MN, Lipkin ME, Routh JC. Complications of surgical management of upper tract calculi in spina bifida patients: analysis of nationwide data. J Urol 2015 Apr; 193(4):1270-4.  [Uses 1998-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Tong X, Spradling PR. Increase in nonhepatic diagnoses among persons with hepatitis C hospitalized for any cause, United States, 2004-2011. J Viral Hepat 2015 Apr 20. Epub ahead of print [Uses 2004-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Iqbal S, Li R, Gargiullo P, Vellozzi C. Relationship between Guillain-Barre syndrome, influenza-related hospitalizations, and influenza vaccine coverage. Vaccine 2015 Apr 21; 33(17):2045-9. [Uses 2000-2009 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.