Children's Health

Access to Care and Utilization Among Children—Estimating the Effects of Public and Private Coverage. T. Selden, J. Hudson, Medical Care 44(5): May 2006, I-19-I-26. Examines the relationship between health insurance coverage and children's access to and utilization of medical care. Also examines indicators for ambulatory visits, well-child visits, dental visits, emergency room use, and inpatient hospital stays. (AHRQ 06-R039)

Advancing the Current Recommended Panel of Conditions for Newborn Screening: Committee Report. N. Green, P. Rinaldo, A. Brower, et al., Genetics in Medicine 9(11): November 2007, 792-796. Describes a new process for the nomination and review of conditions to the recommended universal newborn screening panel and calls for nominations. (AHRQ 08-R030)

Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures. P. Owens, M. Zodet, T. Berdahl, et al., Ambulatory Pediatrics, 8(4):July-August 2008, 219-240. Examines State differences in children's use of injury-related emergency department (ED) care across 14 States, benchmarking aggregate State estimates against national expenditure estimates for outpatient injury-related ED care. (AHRQ 08-R082)

Burden of Illness for Children and Where We Stand in Measuring the Quality of this Health Care. M. Miller, P. Gergen, M. Honour, et al., Ambulatory Pediatrics 5(5): September-October 2005, 268-278. Lists high-priority conditions for children based on different vantage points for defining burden relative to both inpatient and outpatient care for children. (AHRQ 06-R004)

Compliance with Well-Child Visit Recommendations: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2000-2002. T. Selden, Pediatrics 118(6): December 2006, e1766-1778. Examines national compliance rates with recommendations for well-child visits using visit-level data for the period 2000-2002 from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. (AHRQ 07-R019)

The Correlation of Youth Physical Activity with State Policies. J. Cawley, C. Meyerhoefer, D. Newhouse, Contemporary Economic Policy 25(4): October 2007, 506-517. Estimates the correlation of student physical activity with a variety of State policies and the role of State policies in preventing childhood obesity through physical education and availability of parks and recreation. (AHRQ 08-R025)

Diarrhea- and Rotavirus-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children Less Than 5 Years of Age: United States, 1997 and 2000. M. Malek, A. Curns, R. Holman, et al., Pediatrics 117(6): June 2006, 1887-1892. Estimates the number and rate of diarrhea- and rotavirus-associated hospitalizations among U.S. children less than 5 years of age in 1997 and 2000 using the Kids' Inpatient Database, a sample of 10 percent of the uncomplicated births and 80 percent of other pediatric discharges. (AHRQ 07-R004)

A Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage. Y. Pylypchuk, T. Selden, Journal of Health Economics 27: July 2008, 1109-1128. Presents a multivariate decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic differences in children's health insurance using the 2004-2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. (AHRQ 08-R068)

Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured? K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach. CHIRI Issue Brief No. 7, May 2008, 6 pp. Summarizes findings from a Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI) project that studied patterns of insurance coverage for low-income children enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Kansas and New York. (AHRQ 08-0057)

Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications. J. Hudson, E. Miller, J. Kirby, Medical Care 45(11): November 2007, 1068-1075. Documents and explains racial/ethnic differences in the use of stimulant drugs among U.S. children. (AHRQ 08-R044)

Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Annual Report on Patterns of Coverage, Utilization, Quality, and Expenditures by a County Level of Urban Influence. F. Chevarley, P. Owens, M. Zodet, et al., Ambulatory Pediatrics 6(5): September-October 2006, 241-264. Examines child and hospital demographics and children's health care coverage, use, expenditures, and quality by a county-level measure of urban influence. (AHRQ 06-R079)

Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States. K. Yorita, R. Holman, J. Sejvar, et al., Pediatrics, 121:February 2008, 244-252. Describes the burden and epidemiologic features of infectious disease hospitalizations among infants younger than 1 year in the United States. (AHRQ 08-R049)

Management Tools for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). W. Welch, B. Rudolph, L. Blewett, et al., Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 29(4): October-December 2006, 272-282. Describes the state of the art in analytic tools to manage Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. (AHRQ 06-R081)

Max's Magical Delivery. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Discovery Communications, September 2004. A DVD for kids and parents to help fight childhood obesity, sponsored by the AHRQ, CDC, and Discovery Communications. (AHRQ 04-0088-DVD)

Measuring Children's Health Care Quality. L. Simpson, D. Dougherty, D. Krause, et al., American Journal of Medical Quality 22(2): March/April 2007, 80-84. Examines the current status of activities to measure and improve child health care quality and to select priority areas for future work. Discusses the need for consensus development in children's health care quality, as well as increased public and private investment in activities to improve quality of care for children. (AHRQ 07-R051)

National Estimates of Antidepressant Medication Use Among U.S. Children, 1997-2002. B. Vitiello, S. Zuvekas, G. Norquist, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 45(3): March 2006, 217-219. Analyzes data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey between 1996 and 2002 to determine whether pediatric use of antidepressants continued to rise at a national level during the period 1997-2002. (AHRQ 06-R037)

Necrotising Enterocolitis Hospitalisations Among Neonates in the United States. R. Holman, B. Stoll, A. Curns, et al., Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 20:2006, 498-506. Estimates the rate and epidemiology of necrotising enterocolitis—the most common cause of gastrointestinal surgical emergencies among newborns—among infants younger than 1 month hospitalized in the United States. (AHRQ 07-R027)

Not Your Father's PE: Obesity, Exercise, and the Role of Schools. J. Cawley, C. Meyerhoefer, D. Newhouse, Education Next 4: Fall 2006, 61-66. Examines physical education (PE) requirements in schools and the contribution of PE to weight loss and the risk of obesity, as well as what happens when States require students to spend more time in the school gym or on the athletic fields. (AHRQ 07-R020)

Prior Health Care Experiences of Adolescents Who Enroll in SCHIP. J. Klein, E. Shenkman, C. Brach, et al., Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17(4): November 2006, 789-807. Presents the results of a survey of new adolescent enrollees in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in New York and Florida. Participants provided information about their health status, health care use, access, and unmet needs prior to SCHIP enrollment. (AHRQ 07-R032)

Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children. S. Zuvekas, B. Vitiello, G. Norquist, American Journal of Psychiatry 163(4): April 2006, 579-585. Compares trends in stimulant use among U.S. children during the periods 1987-1996 and 1997-2002. (AHRQ 06-R063)

Rural Areas and Children's Health Care Coverage, Use, Expenditures, and Quality: Policy Implications. D. Dougherty, L. Simpson, M. Mccormick, Ambulatory Pediatrics 6(5): September-October 2006, 265-267. Discusses the specific challenges rural children may face in receiving health care and suggests opportunities for policy development to promote improvements in the care of children in rural areas of this country. (AHRQ 06-R080)

SCHIP Enrollees with Special Health Care Needs and Access to Care. K. VanLandeghem, J. Boney, C. Brach, et al., CHIRI Issue Brief, No. 5, July 2006, 6 pp. Summarizes case studies of five States with a separate State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to determine whether children with special health care needs experienced problems in accessing health care services in SCHIP programs with limits and/or exclusions in coverage design. (AHRQ 06-0051)

Smoking in the Home and Children's Health. S. Hill, L. Liang, Tobacco Control, 17:February 2008, 32-37. Estimates for young children the annual excess health service use, expenditures, and disability bed days for respiratory conditions associated with exposure to smoking in the home in the United States. (AHRQ 08-R050)

Trends in Intussusception Hospitalizations Among U.S. Infants, 1993-2004: Implications for Monitoring the Safety of the New Rotavirus Vaccination Program. J. Tate, L. Simonsen, C. Viboud, et al., Pediatrics, 121(5):May 2008, e1125-e1132. Assesses intussusception hospitalization trends among U.S. infants for 1993-2004, provides estimates of hospitalization rates for intussusception for 2002-2004, and assesses variations in background rates by age, race/ethnicity, and surgical management. (AHRQ 08-R071)

Who Enrolls in Oregon's Premium Assistance Program and How Do They Fare? K. VanLandeghem, C. Brach, J. Bonney, et al., CHIRI™ Issue Brief, No. 6, February 2007, 6 pp. Compares characteristics and health care experiences of enrollees in two Oregon programs that provide health care for low-income children—the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program (FHIAP), Oregon's premium assistance program. (AHRQ 07-0022)

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