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Articles of Interest

Articles of Interest is a weekly compilation of articles appearing in recently released journals and newsletters. It 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.
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2009

Date	Top Item
8/14/09	The Development of an Independent Rater System to Assess Residents' Competence in Invasive Procedures
8/7/09	Mortality Probability Model III and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II: Assessing Their Value in Predicting Length of Stay and Comparison to APACHE IV
7/31/09	Finding Your Way: Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions
7/24/09	Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Older Women with Lymph Node-positive, Operable Breast Cancer
7/17/09	Identifying and Using Good Practice Guidelines
7/10/09	Finding Your Way: Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions
7/3/09	Colorectal Cancer Screening by Primary Care Physicians: Recommendations and Practices, 2006-2007
6/26/09	Linking Inpatient Clinical Registry Data to Medicare Claims Data Using Indirect Identifiers
6/19/09	Association between Mortality and Persistent Use of Beta Blockers and Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction and Coronary Artery Disease
6/12/09	Truth or Consequences: The Intertemporal Consistency of Adolescent Self-report on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
6/5/09	Reporting Hospitals' Antibiotic Timing in Pneumonia: Adverse Consequences for Patients?
5/29/09	More Work Is Needed To Protect Medical Residents from Fatigue and Potential Errors, IOM Report Finds
5/22/09	The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa: An Evaluation of Outcomes
5/15/09	Differences in Specialist Consultations for Cardiovascular Disease by Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Insurance Status, and Site of Primary Care
5/8/09	Nomenclature and Definitions for Emergency Department HIV Testing: Report from the 2007 Conference of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing Consortium
5/1/09	Disclosing Harmful Pathology Errors to Patients
4/24/09	Availability of Data for Measuring Physician Quality Performance
4/17/09	CMS's Hospital-acquired Condition Lists Link Hospital Payment, Patient Safety
4/10/09	Challenges and Pathways for Clinical and Translational Research
4/3/09	Survey of Physicians Regarding Clinical Pharmacy Services in Academic Emergency Departments
3/27/09	Tax-exempt Hospitals and Community Benefits: A Review of State Reporting Requirements
3/20/09	Osteoporosis Pharmacotherapy and Counseling Services in U.S. Ambulatory Care Clinics: Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Interventions
3/13/09	Patient-physician Connectedness and Quality of Primary Care
3/6/09	Intern to Attending: Assessing Stress among Physicians
2/27/09	Differences in Initial Severity of Illness between Black and White Emergency Department Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure
2/20/09	Direct Paramedic Transport of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Centers: A Decision Analysis
2/13/09	A Reengineered Hospital Discharge Program to Decrease Rehospitalization: A Randomized Trial
2/6/09	Intern to Attending: Assessing Stress Among Physicians
1/30/09	Ending Cervical Cancer Screening: Attitudes and Beliefs from Ethnically Diverse Older Women
1/23/09	A Study of the Relational Aspects of the Culture of Academic Medicine
1/16/09	Substance Abuse and Hospitalization for Mood Disorder among Medicaid Beneficiaries
1/9/09	Association between Statin Use and Risk for Keratinocyte Carcinoma in the Veterans Affairs Topical Tretiinoin Chemoprevention Trial
1/2/09	Benchmarking Physician Performance: Reliability of Individual and Composite Measures

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2008

Date	Top Item
12/26/08	Sixty-four-slice Computed Tomography of the Coronary Arteries: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Low-risk Chest Pain
12/19/08	Finding Your Way: What To Do Before You Leave the Hospital
12/12/08	Effectiveness of Random and Focused Review in Detecting Surgical Pathology Error
12/05/08	Ethnic Variations in Diagnosis, Treatment, Socioeconomic Status, and Survival in a Large Population-based Cohort of Elderly Patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
11/28/08	Multiple Sclerosis: Impact of Physical Activity on Psychosocial Constructs
11/21/08	Effect of Racial Differences on Ability to Afford Prescription Medications
11/14/08	American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium Proceedings
11/7/08	Physical Activity, White Blood Cell Count, and Lung Cancer Risk in a Prospective Cohort Study
10/31/08	Race and Surgical Outcomes: It Is Not All Black and White
10/24/08	Increased Neonatal Mortality among Normal-weight Birth beyond 41 Weeks of Gestation in California
10/17/08	Implementing After-hours Pharmacy Coverage for Critical Access Hospitals in Northeast Minnesota
10/10/08	The Effect of a Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgical Patients: a Randomized Trial
10/3/08	Impact of a Patient-centered Technology on Medication Errors During Pediatric Emergency Care
9/26/08	Examining the Value of Electronic Health Records on Labor and Delivery
9/19/08	The Quality and Disparities Reports: Why Is Progress so Slow?
9/12/08	Management of Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit
9/5/08	Whistleblower-initiated Enforcement Actions against Health Care Fraud and Abuse in the United States, 1996 to 2005
8/29/08	Medicare HMO Impact on Utilization at the End of Life
8/22/08	Blood Glucose Variability Is Associated with Mortality in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
8/15/08	Development and Validation of a Taxonomy of Defects
8/8/08	Racial Differences in Competing Risks of Mortality and ESRD after Acute Myocardial Infarction
8/1/08	Medicare Inpatient Treatment for Elderly Non-dementia Psychiatric Illnesses 1992-2002
7/25/08	Phosphate Levels and Blood Pressure in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: A Longitudinal Study
7/18/08	Diagnosis and Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease in Diverse Populations
6/27/08	Alcohol Misuse and Report of Recent Depressive Symptoms among ED Patients
6/20/08	Male Reproductive Proteins and Reproductive Outcomes
6/13/08	A Trauma Mortality Prediction Model Based on the Anatomic Injury Scale
6/6/08	Intimate Partner Violence among Men: Prevalence, Chronicity, and Health Effects
5/30/08	Education Is Associated with Physical Activity among American Indian Elders
5/23/08	Out-of-pocket and Total Cost of Fixed-dose Combination Antihypertensive and their Components
5/16/08	Accuracy of Short-interval Follow-up Mammograms by Patient and Radiologist Characteristics
5/9/08	Does Participation in the Food Stamp Program Increase the Prevalence of Obesity and Health Care Spending?
5/2/08	Assessment of the Scientific Soundness of Clinical Performance Measures: A Field Test of the National Committee for Quality Assurances Colorectal Cancer Screening Measure
4/25/08	Rhythm Versus Rate Control in the Contemporary Management of Atrial Fibrillation In-hospital
4/18/08	Association between Cancer Risk Perception and Screening Behavior among Diverse Women
4/11/08	Trends in Charges and Payments for Nonhospitalized Emergency Department Pediatric Visits, 1996-2003
4/4/08	The Effect of High Nursing Surveillance on Hospital Cost
3/28/08	Medicare Inpatient Treatment for Elderly Non-dementia Psychiatric Illnesses, 1992-2002
3/21/08	Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential
3/14/08	The Quality of Care Received by HIV Patients Without a Primary Provider
3/7/08	Hospital and Demographic Influences on the Disposition of Transient Ischemic Attack
2/29/08	Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Pediatric Bloodstream Infections because of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species
2/22/08	Rapid Progression among HIV/Hepatitis C Virus-co-infected Adults
2/15/08	A Geospatial Analysis of Emergency Transport and Inter-hospital Transfer in ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
2/8/08	Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, and PTSD among Pregnant Latina Women
2/1/08	Planning for Pharmacy Health Information Technology in Critical Access Hospitals
1/28/08	Associations between Housing Instability and Food Insecurity with Health Care Access in Low-income Children
1/25/08	Hospital Discharge against Advice after Myocardial Infarction: Deaths and Readmissions
1/18/08	Designing for Safety: Evidence-based Design and Hospitals
1/4/08	What Constitutes Maintenance Asthma Care? The Pediatrician's Perspective

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2007

Date	Top Item
12/28/07	Elucidating the Relationship Between Negative Affectivity and Symptoms: The Role of Illness-specific Affective Responses
12/21/07	Executive Summary: Knowledge Translation in Emergency Medicine: Establishing a Research Agenda and Guide Map for Evidence Uptake
12/14/07	Is Parental Aggravation Associated with Childhood Overweight? An Analysis of the National Survey of Children's Health 2003
12/7/07	Developing Guidelines in Musculoskeletal Disorders
11/30/07	Evidence-based Practice: AHRQ's Role in Generating and Disseminating Knowledge
11/23/07	Outpatient Use of Anticoagulants, Rate-controlling Drugs, and Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Atrial Fibrillation
11/16/07	Is Power Everything? What Can We Learn from Large Data Sets?
11/9/07	Predictors of AIDS-related Morbidity and Mortality in a Southern U.S. Cohort
11/2/07	Characterizing Emergency Department Discussions About Depression
10/26/07	The Native Telehealth Outreach and Technical Assistance Program: A Community-based Approach to the Development of Multimedia-focused Health Care Information
10/19/07	Factors Contributing to Maternal Birth-related Trauma
10/12/07	Medication Errors Among Acutely Ill and Injured Children Treated in Rural Emergency Departments
10/5/07	Adverse Drug Events in Pediatric Outpatients
9/28/07	Making the Connection; the Importance of Engagement and Retention in HIV Medical Care
9/21/07	Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language To Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
9/14/07	Connexin37 (GJA4) Genotype Predicts Survival After an Acute Coronary Syndrome
9/7/07	Interval and Clinical Cohort Studies: Epidemiological Issues
8/31/07	Does Simulation Iimprove Patient Safety?
8/24/07	Repeated Hospitalizations Predict Mortality in the Community Population with Heart Failure
8/17/07	Comparative Effectiveness of Beta-adrenergic Antagonists on the Risk of Rehospitalization in Adults with Heart Failure
8/10/07	Are Some Screening Tests Doing More Harm Than Good?
8/3/07	National Study of the Relation of Primary Care Shortages to Emergency Department Utilization
7/27/07	Impact of Hospital Formularies on Fluoroquinolone Prescribing in Emergency Departments
7/20/07	Vital-sign Abnormalities As Predictors of Pneumonia in Adults with Acute Cough Illness
7/13/07	Electronic Health Record Use and the Quality of Ambulatory Care in the United States
7/6/07	Acanthosis Nigerians and Diabetes Risk Factors
6/29/07	Urine Cytology Discrepancies: Frequency, Causes, and Outcomes
6/22/07	Does Concordance Between Data Sources Vary by Medical Organization Type?
6/15/07	Discharge Dilemmas as System Failures
6/8/07	Perceived Racial Discrimination and Nonadherence to Screening Mammography Guidelines: Results from the Race Differences in the Screening Mammography Process Study
6/1/07	Performance Measures Have a Major Effect on Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Review
5/25/07	Medication Beliefs as Mediators of the Health Literacy/Antiretroviral Adherence Relationship in HIV-infected Individuals
5/18/07	Revised Pediatric Emergency Assessment Tool (RePEAT): A Severity Index for Pediatric Emergency Care
5/11/07	TeamSTEPPS: Assuring Optimal Teamwork in Clinical Settings
5/4/07	Ethics Consultation in United States Hospitals: A National Survey
4/27/07	The Landscape of the AHRQ Health Information Technology Portfolio
4/20/07	Maternal and Obstetric Complications of Pregnancy Are Associated With Increasing Gestational Age at Term
4/13/07	Obesity Counseling and Guidelines in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study
4/6/07	Limited Effectiveness of Antiviral Treatment for Hepatitis C in an Urban HIV Clinic
3/30/07	Perceived Racial Discrimination and Nonadherence to Screening Mammography Guidelines: Results from the Race Differences in the Screening Mammography Process Study
3/23/07	Measuring Children's Health Care Quality
3/16/07	Advances in Bariatric Surgery for Obesity: Laparoscopic Surgery
3/9/07	Blood, Omega-3 and Trans-fatty Acids in Middle-aged Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
3/2/07	Academic Health Center Management of Chronic Diseases through Knowledge Networks: Project ECHO
2/23/07	Data Quality in the Outpatient Setting: Impact on Clinical Decision Support Systems
2/16/07	Association of Comorbidity with Physical Disability in Older HIV-infected Adults
2/9/07	Influence of Provider and Practice Characteristics on Melanoma Care
2/2/07	Improved Health Care Among Children with Special Health Care Needs after Enrollment into the State Children's Health Insurance Program
1/19/07	Assessment of a Physician Response to Glycemic Control in Diabetic Patients Presenting with an Acute Coronary Syndrome
1/12/07	A Comparison of Outcomes Resulting from Generalist vs. Specialist Care for a Single Discrete Medical Condition
1/5/07	Trends in Postoperative Length of Stay After Bypass Surgery

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2006

Date	Top Item
12/29/06	Duration of Outpatient Fecal Colonization Due to Escherichia Coli Isolates with Decreased Susceptibility to fluoroquinolones
12/15/06	Developing Models for Patient Flow and Daily Surge Capacity Research
12/8/06	Patient Safety in the Clinical Laboratory: A Longitudinal Analysis of Specimen Identification Errors
12/1/06	The Science of Surge
11/24/06	Health Behavior Goals of Cardiac Patients after Hospitalization
11/17/06	Infants at Risk: When Nurse Fatigue Jeopardizes Quality Care
11/10/06	Hospital Disaster Preparedness in Los Angeles County
11/03/06	Effectiveness of Toyota Process Redesign in Reducing Thyroid Gland Fine-needle Aspiration Error
10/27/06	How Many Attempts Are Required To Accomplish Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation?
10/13/06	Presence of Numerous Stop Codons in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Proviral DNA Sequences from Patients with Virological Response to HAART
10/06/06	Veterans Affairs Primary Care Organizational Characteristics Associated with Better Diabetes Control
9/29/06	Physicians' Views of Interventions To Reduce Medical Errors: Does Evidence of Effectiveness Matter?
9/22/06	Facilitators and Barriers to 10 National Quality Forum Safe Practices
9/15/06	Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children
9/8/06	Patient Concerns about Medical Errors in Emergency Departments
9/1/06	Does the Content of Primary Care Visits Differ by the Racial Composition of Physicians' Practices?
8/25/06	Triage and Diagnosis of Chest Pain in Rural Hospitals: Implementation of the ACI-TIPI in the High Plains Research Network
8/18/06	Characteristics of Motorcycle-related Hospitalization: Comparing States with Different Helmet Laws
8/11/06	Risk Factors for Deaths Occurring Within 30 Days and 1 Year After Hospital Discharge for Cardiac Surgery Among Pediatric Patients
3/10/06	Recursive Partitioning-based Preoperative Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
3/3/06	Effects of Critical Care Nurses' Work Hours on Vigilance and Patients' Safety
2/24/06	Potential Benefits and Problems with Computerized Prescriber Order Entry: Analysis of a Voluntary Medication Error-reporting Database
2/17/06	Use of Dialysis Educators Beyond Nurses and Physicians and Outcomes in Patients with Kidney Failure
2/10/06	Influenza Vaccination among Children with Asthma in Medicaid Managed Care
2/3/06	Physician Conceptions of Responsibility to Individual Patients and Distributive Justice in Health Care
1/27/06	Employer Coverage of Clinical Preventive Services in the United States
1/20/06	An Operational Definition of Frailty Predicted Death, Hip Fracture, and Hospitalization in Older Women
1/13/06	The Association of Partner Abuse with Risky Sexual Behaviors among Women and Men with HIV/AIDS
1/6/06	Morbidity and Mortality Online Forum: the AHRQ Examines, Updates Cases Involving Error

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