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Articles of Interest

March 28, 2008

This weekly compilation of articles appearing in recently released journals and newsletters includes:

Articles funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) or authored by AHRQ researchers.
Articles mentioning or discussing AHRQ staff, activities, and publications/products.
Articles related to AHRQ-funded Evidence-based Practice Centers.
Articles related to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force or Put Prevention into Practice program.
Articles mentioning the National Healthcare Disparities Report and National Healthcare Quality Report.
Other research using AHRQ data or products.

AHRQ-Funded/Authored Articles

Administration and Policy in Mental Health
Hoover DR, Akincigil A, Prince JD, et al. Medicare inpatient treatment for elderly non-dementia psychiatric illnesses 1992-2002; length of stay and expenditures by facility type. Adm Policy Ment Health 2008 Feb 22. [Epub ahead of print. Supported by grant HS 016097.]

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Wu AC, Smith L, Bokhour B, et al. Racial/ethnic variation in parent perceptions of asthma. Ambul Pediatr 2008 Mar-Apr; 8(2):89-97. [Supported by grant T32 HS000063.]

DeVoe JE, Graham A, Krois L, et al. Mind the gap in children s health insurance coverage: does the length of a child's coverage gap matter? Ambul Pediatr 2008 Mar-Apr; 8(2):129-34. [Supported by grants 5 F32 HS014645 and 1 K08 HS16181.]

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Bijur P, Berard A, Nestor J, et al. No racial or ethnic disparity in treatment of long-bone fractures. Am J Emerg Med 2008 Mar; 26(3):270-4. [Supported by grant 1 RO1 HS13924.]

Carter MW, Gupta S. Characteristics and outcomes of injury-related ED visits among older adults. Am J Emerg Med 2008 Mar; 26(3):296-303. [Supported by grant 1 P20 HS15930-01.]

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Bowen ME, Ray WA, Arbogast PG, et al. Increasing exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008 Mar; 198(3):291.e1-e5. [Supported by grant HS10384.]

Caughey AB, Washington AE, Kuppermann M. Perceived risk of prenatal diagnostic procedure-related miscarriage and Down syndrome among pregnant women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008 Mar; 198(3):333.e1-e8. [Supported by grant U01 HS07373.]

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Tanabe P, Persell SD, Adams JG, et al. Increased blood pressure in the emergency department: pain, anxiety, or undiagnosed hypertension? Ann Emerg Med 2008 Mar; 51(3):221-9. [Supported by grant R03 HS015619-01A1.]

Cosby KS, Roberts R, Palivos L, et al. Characteristics of patient care management problems identified in emergency department morbidity and mortality investigations during 15 years. Ann Emerg Med 2008 Mar; 51(3):251-261, 261.e1. [Supported by grant 5 P20 HS011552.]

Hsia RY, Macisaac D, Baker LC. Decreasing reimbursements for outpatient emergency department visits across payer groups from 1996 to 2004. Ann Emerg Med 2008 Mar; 51(3); 265-274, 274.e1-e5. [Supported by grant R01 HS013920-01; uses data from AHRQ's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) from 1996-2004.]

British Journal of Cancer
Uronis HE, Currow DC, McCrory DC, et al. Oxygen for relief of dyspnoea in mildly- or non-hypoxaemic patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Cancer 2008 Jan; 98(2):294-9. [Supported by grant 5 T32 HS000079.]

Health Care Management Science
Clement JP, Valdmanis VG, Bazzoli GJ, et al. Is more better? An analysis of hospital outcomes and efficiency with a DEA model of output congestion. Health Care Manag Sci 2008 Mar; 11(1):67-77. [Supported by grant HS13094-03.]

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Simon SR, McCarthy ML, Kaushal R, et al. Electronic health records: which practices have them, and how are clinicians using them? J Eval Clin Pract 2008 Feb; 14(1):43-7. [Supported by grant 1 UC1 HS015397.]

Journal of Healthcare Management
Jiang HJ, Lockee C, Bass K, Fraser I. Board engagement in quality: findings of a survey of hospital and system leaders. J Healthcare Manag 2008 Mar; 53(2):121-35. [First and fourth authors are researcher in and director of AHRQ's Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, respectively.]

Journal of Patient Safety
Clancy CM. Forging a new path to medication safety with emergency pharmacists. J Patient Saf 2008 Mar; 4(1):1-2. [Author is AHRQ director.]

Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics
Wren TA, Sheng M, Bowen RE, et al. Concurrent and discriminant validity of Spanish language instruments for measuring functional health status. J Pediatr Orthop 2008 Mar; 28(2):199-212. [Supported by grant 5 R01 HS014169.]

Journal of Trauma
Dossett LA, Swenson BR, Heffernan D, et al. High levels of endogenous estrogens are associated with death in the critically injured adult. J Trauma 2008 Mar; 64(3):580-5. [Supported by grant T32 HS013833.]

Journal of Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse
McElhinny ML, Hooper C. Reducing hospital-acquired heel ulcer rates in an acute care facility: an evaluation of a nurse-driven performance improvement project. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs 2008 Jan-Feb; 35(1):79-83. [Uses definition of pressure ulcers and staging recommendations from AHRQ clinical practice guidelines on AHRQ Web site.]

Patient
Cantor SB, Volk RJ, Krahn MD, et al. Concordance of couples prostate cancer screening recommendations from a decision analysis. Patient 2008; 1(1):11-19. [Supported by grant R01 HS08992.]

Social Science and Medicine
Paez KA, Allen JK, Carson KA, et al. Provider and clinic cultural competence in a primary care setting. Soc Science Med 2008 Mar; 66(5):1204-16. [Supported by grant R01 HS013645.]

AHRQ-Related Articles

Journal of Patient Safety
Riley W, Liang BA, Rutherford W, et al. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: d eveloping an error reporting system to improve patient safety. J Patient Saf 2008 Mar; 4(1):13-17. [Cites AHRQ-sponsored publication, Current Research on Patient Safety in the United States: A Report to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Patient Safety Foundation, 2000.]

Sheridan S, Conrad N, King S, et al. Disclosure through our eyes. J Patient Saf 2008 Mar; 4(1):18-26. [Cites AHRQ press release, "National Quality Forum Finds Consensus on 30 Patient Safety Practices," 2003; cites AHRQ-funded article by Gallagher et al. (J Clin Outcomes Manag, 2005.]

Bahl V, Thompson MA, Commisky EL, et al. Developing an adverse event reporting system using administrative data. J Patient Saf 2008 Mar; 4(1):31-37. [Cites AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) on the AHRQ Web site; cites articles discussing/using the PSIs (Bahl et., Med Care, in press, and Sedman et al. (Pediatrics, 2004; Cites AHRQ-authored article by Zhan et al. (Med Care, 2007.]

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)/Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP)-Related Articles

Archives of Internal Medicine
Murff HJ, Peterson NB, Fowke JH, et al. Colonoscopy screening in African Americans and whites with affected first-degree relatives. Arch Intern Med 2008 Mar; 168(6):625-31.] Cites USPSTF recommendations on screening for colorectal cancer (Ann Intern Med, 2002).]

JAMA
Screening during pregnancy. JAMA 2008 Mar 26; 299(12):1417. [Briefly summarizes updated USPSTF recommendations on screening for vaginosis during pregnancy (Ann Intern Med, 2008).]

Evidence-based Practice Centers-Related Articles

Journal of Patient Safety
Blais R, Bruno D, Bartlett G, et al. Can we use incident reports to detect hospital adverse events? J Patient Saf 2008 Mar; 4(1):9-12. [Cites AHRQ Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, Making Healthcare Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices, 2001.]

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Finout-Overholt E, O'Mathuna DP, Kent B. How systematic reviews can foster evidence-based clinical decisions. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs 2008 First Quarter; 5(1):45-8. [Discusses AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) program and cites EPC overview on AHRQ Web site.]

National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)/National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR)-Related Articles

JAMA
Voelker R. Decades of work to reduce disparities in health care produce limited success. JAMA 2008 Mar 26; 299(12):1411-13. [Includes data on change in disparities in core quality measures over time from AHRQ's NHDR, 2007.]

Research By Others Using AHRQ Data or Products

Archives of Internal Medicine
Yang AL, Vadhavkar S, Singh G, et al. Epidemiology of alcohol-related liver and pancreatic disease in the United States. Arch Intern Med 2008 Mar; 168(6):649-56. [Uses 1988-2004 data from AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS).]

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Ziegler-Graham K, MacKenzie EJ, Ephraim PL, et al. Estimating the prevalence of limb loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2008 Mar; 89(3):422-9. [Uses 1988-1999 HCUP NIS data.]

British Journal of Ophthalmology
Lad EM, Nguyen TC, Morton JM, et al. Retinopathy of prematurity in the United States. Br J Ophthalmol 2008 Mar; 92(3):320-25. [Uses 1997-2002 HCUP NIS data.]

Cancer
Jones JA, Qazilbash MH, Shih YC, et al. In-hospital complications of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for lymphoid malignancies. Cancer 2008 Mar 1; 112(5):1096-105. [Uses 2000-2001 HCUP NIS data.]

Critical Care Medicine
Zilberberg MD, Luippold RS, Sulsky S, et al. Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation, hospital resource utilization, and mortality in the United States. Crit Care Med 2008 Mar; 36(3):724-30. [Uses 2003 data from AHRQ's HCUP NIS.]

Gastroenterology
Kaplan GG, McCarthy EP, Ayanian JZ, et al. Impact of hospital volume on postoperative morbidity and mortality following a colectomy for ulcerative colitis. Gastroenterology 2008 Mar; 134(3):680-7. [Uses 1995-2005 HCUP NIS data.]

Journal of Head Trauma and Rehabilitation
Selassie AW, Zaloshnja E, Langlois JA, et al. Incidence of long-term disability following traumatic brain injury hospitalization, United States, 2003. J Head Trauma Rehabil 2008 Mar-Apr; 23(2):123-31. [Uses 2003 HCUP NIS data.]

Journal of Neurotrauma
Boakye M, Patil CG, Santarelli J, et al. Laminectomy and fusion after spinal cord injury: national inpatient complications and outcomes. J Neurotrauma 2008 Mar; 25(3):173-83. [Uses 1993-2002 HCUP NIS data.]

Neurosurgery
Boakye M, Patil CG, Santarelli J, et al. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: complications and outcomes after spinal fusion. Neurosurgery 2008 Feb; 62(2):455-62. [Uses 1993-2002 HCUP NIS data.]

Social Science and Medicine
Adler N, Singh-Manoux A, Schwatz J, et al. Social status and health: a comparison of British civil servants in Whitehall II with European- and African-Americans in CARDIA. Soc Sci Med 2008 Mar; 66(5):1034-45. [Uses study cohort from Whitehall II study, previously funded by AHRQ.]

Current as of March 2008

Internet Citation:

Articles of Interest, March 28, 2008. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/articles/art032808.htm