Research by Others Using AHRQ Data or Products, August 21, 2015

Polgreen LA, Suneja M, Tang F, et al. Increasing trend in admissions for malignant hypertension and hypertensive encephalopathy in the United States. Hypertension  2015 May;65(5):1002-7. [Uses 2000-2011 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Rasu RS, Bawa WA, Suminski R, et al. Health literacy impact on national healthcare utilization and expenditure. Int J Health Policy Manag  2015 Aug 17;4(11):747-55. [Uses 2005-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Liu J, Elkassabany N, Poultsides L, et al. Staging bilateral total knee arthroplasty during the same hospitalization: the impact of timing. J Arthroplasty  2015 Jul;30(7):1172-6. [Uses 1998-2010 HCUP NIS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Duquette S, Soleimani T, Hartman B, et al. Does payer type influence pediatric burn outcomes? A national study using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database. J Burn Care Res  2015 Aug 17; epub ahead of print. [Uses HCUP Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) data.] Select to access the abstract.

Wilson FA, Stimpson JP, Wang Y. Inconsistencies exist in national estimates of eye care services utilization in the United States. J Ophthalmol  2015;2015:435606. [Uses 2012 MEPS data.] Select to access the abstract.

Lee WC, Phillips CD, Ohsfeldt RL. Do rural and urban women experience differing rates of maternal rehospitalizations? Rural Remote Health  2015 Jul-Sep;15(3):3335. [Uses 2011 HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), and State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) data for California, and uses AHRQ’s Clinical Classifications Software.] Select to access the abstract.