Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, July 3, 2016

Badheka AO, Singh V, Patel NJ, et al. Trends of hospitalizations in the United States from 2000 to 2012 of patients >60 years with aortic valve disease. Am J Cardiol 2015 Jul 1; 116(1):132-41. [Uses 2000-2012 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Becerra MB, Becerra BJ, Banta JE, et al. Impact of Clostridium difficile infection among pneumonia and urinary tract infection hospitalizations: an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. BMC Infect Dis 2015 Jul 1; 15:254. [Uses 2009-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Park H, Adeyemi AO, Rascati KL. Direct medical costs and utilization of health care services to treat pneumonia in the United States: an analysis of the 2007-2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Clin Ther 2015 Jul; 37(7):1466-76.e1. [Uses 2007-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Chan JK, Gardner AB, Taylor K, et al. The centralization of robotic surgery in high-volume centers for endometrial cancer patients--a study of 6560 cases in the U.S. Gynecol Oncol 2015 Jul; 138(1):128-32. [Uses 2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Skopec L, Musco T, Sommers BD. A potential new data source for assessing the impacts of health reform: Evaluating the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Healthc 2014 Jul; 2(2):113-20. [Uses 2008-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Menendez ME, Ring D, Heng M. Proximal humerus fracture with injury to the axillary artery: a population-based study. Injury 2015 Jul; 46(7):1367-71. [Uses 2002-2011 HCUP NIS data.]  Select to access the abstract.

Wen T, Attenello FJ, Wu B, Ng A, Cen SY, Mack WJ. The July effect: an analysis of never events in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. J Hosp Med 2015 Jul; 10(7):432-8. [Uses 2008-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Pant C, Desai M, Deshpande A, et al. Esophageal variceal bleeding in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis. J Hosp Med 2015 Jul; 10(7):453-6. [Uses 2002-2012 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Corliss BM, Hooten KG, Gul SS, et al. Establishing standard performance measures in adult traumatic brain injury patients. Neurosurgery 2015 Jul; 77(1):44-50. [Estimates incidence of AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) using 2002-2011 HCUP NIS data.]  Select to access the abstract.

Cecchini M, Sassi F. Preventing obesity in the USA: impact on health service utilization and costs. Pharmacoeconomics 2015 Jul; 33(7):765-76. [Uses 1997-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Jensen GA, Salloum RG, Hu J, et al. A slow start: use of preventive services among seniors following the Affordable Care Act's enhancement of Medicare benefits in the U.S. Prev Med 2015 Jul; 76:37-42. [Uses 2008-2010 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Jimenez DE, Cook BL, Kim G, et al. Relationship between general illness and mental health service use and expenditures among racially-ethnically diverse adults >/=65 years. Psychiatr Serv 2015 Jul; 66(7):727-33. [Uses 2004-2011 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Stansfeld SA, Shipley M. Noise sensitivity and future risk of illness and mortality. Sci Total Environ 2015 Jul 1; 520:114-9. [Uses study cohort data from the Whitehall II study, previously funded by AHRQ.] Select to access the abstract.

Missios S, Bekelis K. Spine surgery and malpractice liability in the United States. Spine J 2015 Jul; 15(7):1602-8. [Uses 2005-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Wu JX, Beni CE, Zanocco KA, Sturgeon C, et al. Cost-effectiveness of long-term every three-year versus annual postoperative surveillance for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer. Thyroid 2015 Jul; 25(7):797-803. [Uses 2008-2011 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.