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| Publication No. |
Title |
Date |
| 05-R028 |
An Analysis of Administrative Data Found that Proximate Clinical Event Ratios Provided a Systematic Approach to Identifying Possible Iatrogenic Risk Factors or Complications |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R027 |
Using Standardized Patients in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination as a Patient Safety Tool |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R026 |
Rural-Urban Differences in Employment-Related Health Insurance |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R025 |
Long-term Effectiveness of Weight-Loss Interventions in Adults with Pre-Diabetes: A Review |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R024 |
Hospitalization and Death Associated with Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions Among Elderly Nursing Home Residents |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R023 |
From Information on Quality to Quality Information |
Jan-05 |
| 05-R022 |
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions Among Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Their Scope and Associated Resident and Facility Characteristics |
Jan-05 |
| 05-R021 |
It's Your Health: Use Your Medications Safely |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R020 |
Improving the Use and Safety of Medications in Women Through Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity Analysis: Introduction |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R019 |
Gender Differences in Drug Use and Expenditures in a Privately Insured Population of Older Adults |
Feb-05 |
| 05-R018 |
AHRQ Children's Health Services Research |
Dec-04 |
| 05-R017 |
Improving Patient Safety—Five Years after the IOM Report |
Dec-04 |
| 05-R016 |
An Opportunity for Health Services Research: The AHRQ Furthers Nursing Practice | Dec-04 |
| 05-R015 |
Motorcycle-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 2001 |
Dec-04 |
| 05-R014 |
Translation Research: Where Do We Go From Here? |
Dec-04 |
| 05-R013 |
Organizational Research with Impact: Working Backwards |
Dec-04 |
| 05-R012 |
Challenges in Healthcare Systems and Women's Caregiving Roles |
Nov-04 |
| 05-R011 |
Childhood Obesity: Is there Effective Treatment? |
Nov-04 |
| 05-R010 |
The Influence of Rural Location on Utilization of Formal Home Care: The Role of Medicaid |
Nov-04 |
| 05-R008 |
News from AHRQ - Evidence-based Resources for Nurses: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
Nov-04 |
| 05-R006 |
Nurses' Working Conditions: Implications for Infectious Disease |
Oct-04 |
| 05-R005 |
AHRQ Update - Evidence-based Health Care 2004: AHRQ Moves Research to Translation and Implementation |
Oct-04 |
| 05-R004 |
Changing Organizations for Their Likely Mass-Casualties Future |
Oct-04 |
| 05-R003 |
Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation |
Oct-04 |
| 05-R002 |
Effects of Nursing Home Ownership Type and Resident Payer Source on Hospitalization for Suspected Pneumonia |
Oct-04 |
| 05-R001 |
The First National Reports on United States Healthcare Quality and Disparities | Oct-04 |
| Publication No. |
Title |
Date |
| 04-R070 |
First, Do No Harm: The Perils of Shift Work |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R069 |
New Evidence on Hospital Profitability by Payer Group and the Effects of Payer Generosity |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R068 |
Burden of Illness in Cancer Survivors: Findings from a Population-Based National Sample |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R067 |
Tracking Changes in Eligibility and Coverage Among Children, 1996-2002 |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R066 |
SCHIP's Impact in Three States: How do the Most Vulnerable Children Fare? |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R065 |
Children's Health Coverage: A Quarter-Century of Change |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R064 |
Looking Inside the Nation's Medicine Cabinet: Trends in Outpatient Drug Spending by Medicare Beneficiaries, 1997 and 2001 |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R063 |
Commentary - Multiple Risk Factors Interventions. Are We Up to the Challenge? |
Sep-04 |
| 04-R062 |
Market Watch: Exploring the Business Case for Improving the Quality of Health Care for Children |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R061 |
Mental Health Disorders Among Individuals with Mental Retardation: Challenges to Accurate Prevalence Estimates |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R060 |
Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R059 |
Hospital Admissions Associated with Nontraumatic Dental Emergencies in a Medicaid Population |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R058 |
Postoperative Adverse Events in Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R057 |
Prevention Health Care Quality in America: Findings from the First National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R056 |
The Rate and Cost of Hospital Readmissions for Preventable Conditions |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R055 |
AHRQ's FY 2005 Budget Request: New Mission, New Vision |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R054 |
Antiretroviral Therapy and Health Care Utilization: A Study of Privately Insured Men and Women with HIV Disease |
Aug-04 |
| 04-R053 |
Managed Care and Preventable Hospitalization Among Medicaid Adults |
Jul-04 |
| 04-R052 |
First, Do No Harm: Avoiding the Near Misses |
Jul-04 |
| 04-R051 |
Provider Competition and Health Care Quality: Challenges and Opportunities for Research |
Jul-04 |
| 04-R050 |
HIV Patients in the HCUP Database: A Study of Hospital Utilization and Costs |
Jul-04 |
| 04-R049 |
Tax Incidence and Net Benefits in the Market for Employment-Related Insurance: Sensitivity of Estimates to the Incidence of Employer Costs |
Jul-04 |
| 04-R048 |
First, Do No Harm: Are You Tired? |
Jun-04 |
| 04-R047 |
Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals: A National Picture in 2000 |
Jun-04 |
| 04-R046 |
Dental Insurance Visits and Expenditures Among Older Adults |
Jun-04 |
| 04-R045 |
Outcomes Research - Priorities For An Evolving Field |
May-04 |
| 04-R044 |
A Wake-Up Call To Advance Women's Health |
May-04 |
| 04-R043 |
Hispanic Healthcare Disparities: Challenging the Myth of a Monolithic Hispanic Population | Apr-04 |
| 04-R042 |
Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: 2002 Report on Trends in Access, Utilization, Quality, and Expenditures |
Apr-04 |
| 04-R041 |
Assessing the Nation's Progress Toward Elimination of Disparities in Health Care | Apr-04 |
| 04-R040 |
Predicting EuroQoL EQ-5D Preference Scores from the SF-12 Health Survey in a Nationally Representative Sample |
Apr-04 |
| 04-R039 |
Home Care Before and After the Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Shifts in Financing and Services |
Apr-04 |
| 04-R038 |
The Effects of HMO Penetration on Preventable Hospitalizations |
Mar-04 |
| 04-R037 |
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Performance Indicators as Related-But Often Misunderstood-Tools |
Mar-04 |
| 04-R036 |
Hindsight Bias, Outcome Knowledge and Adaptive Learning |
Mar-04 |
| 04-R035 |
Administrative Data Based Patient Safety Research: A Critical Review |
Mar-04 |
| 04-R034 |
Patient Safety: Research Methods for a New Field/Organizing Patient Safety Research to Identify Risks and Hazards |
Mar-04 |
| 04-R033 |
Do Consumer-Directed Health Benefits Favor the Young and Healthy? |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R032 |
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Activities in Patient Safety Research |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R031 |
Pediatric Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Setting |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R030 |
How Has Small Group Market Reform Affected Employee Health Insurance Coverage? |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R029 |
The Roles of Government in Improving Health Care Quality and Safety |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R028 |
Limits to the Safety Net: Teaching Hospital Faculty Report on their Patients' Access to Care |
Feb-04 |
| 04-R027 |
Subclinical Thyroid Disease-Scientific Review and Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management |
Jan-04 |
| 04-R026 |
Measuring the Quality of Children's Health Care: A Prerequisite to Action |
Jan-04 |
| 04-R025 |
Quality Measures for Children's Health Care |
Jan-04 |
| 04-R024 |
Exploring Residency Match Violations in Family Practice |
Jan-04 |
| 04-R023 |
Trends in Nursing Home Expenses, 1987 and 1996 |
Jan-04 |
| 04-R022 |
African American Church Participation and Health Care Practices |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R021 |
Emergency Department Crowding: Consensus Development of Potential Measures |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R020 |
Improving Women's Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: The Feasibility and Desirability of Stratified Reporting of Objective Performance Measures |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R019 |
Effects of Facility Characteristics on Departures from Assisted Living: Results from a National Study |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R018 |
Is Outpatient Care Associated with Lower use of Inpatient and Emergency Care? An Analysis of Persons with HIV Disease |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R017 |
Children with Special Health Care Needs Enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Patient Characteristics and Health Care Needs |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R016 |
The Role of Race and Ethnicity in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Four States: Are There Baseline Disparities, and What Do They Mean for SCHIP? |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R015 |
Who's Enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? An Overview of Findings from the Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI) |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R014 |
The Effect of HMO Competition on Gatekeeping, Usual Source of Care, and Evaluations of Physician Thoroughness |
Dec-03 |
| 04-R013 |
Researching Disparities: Strategies for Primary Data Collection |
Nov-03 |
| 04-R012 |
Research Into Practice III: Doctor Performance and Public Accountability |
Nov-03 |
| 04-R011 |
AHRQ Update: Strengthening the Health Services Research to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care |
Nov-03 |
| 04-R010 |
Insurance Status of HIV-infected Adults in the Post-Haart Era: Evidence from the United States |
Nov-03 |
| 04-R009 |
Patterns of Coping Among Persons With HIV Infection: Configurations, Correlates, and Change |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R008 |
Recent Trends in HIV-Related Inpatient Admissions 1996-2000—A 7-State Study |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R007 |
Standardized Reporting of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Proposal from the Conference on Guideline Standardization |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R006 |
Practical Clinical Trials - Increasing the Value of Clinical Research for Decision Making in Clinical and Health Policy |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R005 |
A Medicaid Population's Use of Physicians' Offices for Dental Problems |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R004 |
The Diverse Older HIV-Positive Population: A National Profile of Economic Circumstances, Social Support, and Quality of Life |
Nov-03 |
| 04-R003 |
The Effectiveness of a Community/Academic Health Center Partnership in Decreasing the Level of Blood Pressure in an Urban African-American Population |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R002 |
Kawasaki Syndrome Hospitalizations in the United States, 1997 and 2000 |
Oct-03 |
| 04-R001 |
Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization |
Oct-03 |
| Publication No. |
Title |
Date |
| 03-R066 |
Variation in Preventive Service Use Among the Insured and Uninsured: Does Length of Time Without Coverage Matter? |
Oct-03 |
| 03-R065 |
AHRQ: A Tradition of Evidence |
Oct-03 |
| 03-R064 |
Model-Based Sampling for Persons with High Health Expenditures: Evaluating Accuracy and Yield with the 1997 MEPS |
Oct-03 |
| 03-R063 |
Variation in Racial and Ethnic Differences in Consumer Assessments of Health Care |
Oct-03 |
| 03-R062 |
Rising Health Care Expenditures and the Employment of People with High-Cost Chronic Conditions |
Oct-03 |
| 03-R061 |
The ABC's of Childrens Health Care: How the Medicaid Access, Burdens, and Coverage between 1987 and 1966 |
Sep-03 |
| 03-R060 |
Workers' Decisions to Take-Up Offered Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing the Importance of Out-of-Pocket Premium Costs |
Sep-03 |
| 03-R059 |
Regression-based Sampling for Persons with High health Expenditures: Evaluating Accuracy and Yield with the 1997 MEPS |
Sep-03 |
| 03-R058 |
Persistence in Health Expenditures in the Short Run: Prevalence and Consequences | Aug-03 |
| 03-R057 |
Rural-Urban Differences in Usual Source of Care and Ambulatory Service Use |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R056 |
Demographic Variation in SF-12 Scores: True Differences or Differential Item Functioning? |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R055 |
Has the Increase in HMO Enrollment with the Medicaid Population Changed the Pattern of Health Service Use and Expenditures? |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R054 |
Health Care Expenditure Burdens Among Elderly Adults: 1987 and 1996 |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R053 |
Design Strategies and Innovations in the MEPS |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R052 |
Foreword (Editorial) |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R051 |
Systematic Screening of Secondary Diagnoses in Medicare Administrative Data to Identify Candidate Risk Factors for the Principal Diagnosis |
Aug-03 |
| 03-R050 |
Psychiatric Symptoms, Impaired Function, and Medical Care Costs in an HMO Setting |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R049 |
Significance of Functional Status Data for Payment and Quality |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R048 |
Nursing the AHRQ: An Agenda |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R047 |
A Framework and Action Agenda for Quality Improvement in Rural Health Care |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R046 |
Use of Alternative Therapists Among People in Care for HIV in the US |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R045 |
Back to the Future |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R044 |
Use of Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Health Care in the US |
Jul-03 |
| 03-R043 |
Health Services Research: From Galvanizing Attention to Creating Action |
Jun-03 |
| 03-R042 |
Patient Safety Events During Pediatric Hospitalization |
Jun-03 |
| 03-R041 |
Quality Improvement: Getting to How |
May-03 |
| 03-R040 |
SSI Enrollees' Health Care in TennCare |
May-03 |
| 03-R039 |
Process Utility for Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease |
May-03 |
| 03-R038 |
Predictors and Outcomes of Frequent Emergency Department Users |
May-03 |
| 03-R037 |
Multiple Hospitalizations for Patients with Diabetes |
May-03 |
| 03-R036 |
Quality Report Cards and Nursing Home Quality |
May-03 |
| 03-R035 |
Develop of a Risk-Adjusted Urinary Incontinence Outcome Measure of Quality of Nursing Homes |
May-03 |
| 03-R034 |
Hyperbaric Oxygen for Treating Wounds |
Apr-03 |
| 03-R033 |
International Medical Graduates and the Primary Care Workforce for Rural Underserved Areas |
Apr-03 |
| 03-R032 |
A Systematic Review of Pneumatic Compression for Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Venous Ulcers |
Apr-03 |
| 03-R031 |
Employer Offers, Private Coverage, and the Tax Subsidy for Health Insurance: 1987-1996 |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R030 |
A Call to Excellence: How the Federal Government's Health Agencies are Responding to the Call for Improved Patient Safety and Accountability in Medicine |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R029 |
Spending and Service Use Among People with the Fifteen Most Costly Medical Conditions, 1997 |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R028 |
Pathways to Access: Health Insurance, the Health Care Delivery System and Racial/Ethnic Dispar |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R027 |
A National Profile of Patient Safety in US Hospitals |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R026 |
Volume Thresholds and Hospital Characteristics in the US |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R025 |
Hospitalization for Firearm-Related Injuries in the US, 1997 |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R024 |
An Analysis of Oral Surgical Dental Visits by Provider Type, 1996 |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R023 |
Federal Initiatives: The AHRQ Supports an Array of IT Initiatives to Improve Healthcare Quality |
Mar-03 |
| 03-R022 |
Individual and Contextual Risks of Death Among Race and Ethnic Groups in the US |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R021 |
Ambulatory Patient Safety: What We Know and Need To Know |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R020 |
Measuring Ambulatory Health Care Use in the US: A Comparison of 1996 Estimates Across Four Federal Surveys |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R019 |
Things My Data Never Told Me |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R018 |
Outcomes Research in Pediatric Settings: Recent Trends and Future Directions |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R017 |
Understanding the Seasonal Pattern of Childhood Asthma: Results from the NCICAS |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R016 |
Medicare Quality Improvement: Bad Apples or Bad Systems? |
Feb-03 |
| 03-R015 |
Health Care for Children and Youth in the US: 2001 Annual Report on Access, Utilization, Quality and Expenditures |
Jan-03 |
| 03-R014 |
Primary Care, HMO Enrollment and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions |
Jan-03 |
| 03-R013 |
Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) |
Dec-02 |
| 03-R012 |
Plan Characteristics and SSI Enrollees' Access To and Quality of Care in Four TennCare MCOs |
Dec-02 |
| 03-R011 |
Crossing the Quality Chasm in Emergency Medicine |
Dec-02 |
| 03-R010 |
Measuring the Quality of Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Programs |
Dec-02 |
| 03-R009 |
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care |
Dec-02 |
| 03-R008 |
Private Dental Coverage. Who Has It and How Does It Influence Dental Visits and Expenditures? |
Nov-02 |
| 03-R007 |
Latino Adults' Health Insurance Coverage: An Examination of Mexican and Puerto Rican Subgroup Differences |
Nov-02 |
| 03-R006 |
The Cost-Effectiveness of an Inner-City Asthma Intervention for Children |
Nov-02 |
| 03-R005 |
When is "Good Enough"? The Role and Responsibility of Physicians to Improve Patient Safety |
Nov-02 |
| 03-R004 |
The Impact of Endometrial Ablation on Hysterectomy Rates in Women with Benign Uterine Conditions in the US |
Nov-02 |
| 03-R003 |
Outcomes and Effectiveness Research: Capacity Building for Nurse Researchers at the AHRQ |
Oct-02 |
| 03-R002 |
Principles of Preventive Care |
Oct-02 |
| 03-R001 |
Impact of Differential Item Functioning on Age and Gender Differences in Functional Disability |
Oct-02 |
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