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Agency Information
Children's Health
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Consumer Information and Education
Data Development and Use
Dental Health
Effective Health Care
Elderly/Long-Term Care
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Care Costs and Utilization
Health Information Technology
Health Insurance/Access to Care
Health Services Research
Hospitals
Minority Health
Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
Patient Safety/Medical Errors
Pay for Performance
Prevention
Primary Care
Quality of Care
Statistical and Methodological Research
Treating Tobacco Use
Women's Health


Access to Care. Go to Health Insurance/Access to Care

Agency Information

AHRQ Annual Highlights 2010
AHRQ Publications Order Form

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Children's Health

Accuracy of a Computerized Clinical Decision-Support System for Asthma Assessment and Management
Adjuvant Treatment for Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Trends in Hospital Use and Quality
Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Children's Health Care Quality
Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes
The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Measures Initiatives: Moving Forward to Improve Measurement, Care, and Child and Adolescent Outcomes
Committee Report: Method for Evaluating Conditions Nominated for Population-Based Screening of Newborns and Children
Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinician Guide
Containing Costs and Improving Care for Children in Medicaid and CHIP
Cost Sharing in Medicaid and CHIP: How Does It Affect Out-of-Pocket Spending?
Demographic Variability, Vaccination, and the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rotavirus Epidemics
Do Adolescents with Emotional or Behavioral Problems Respond to Cigarette Prices?
Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured?
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Antidepressant Use Among Adolescents
Families with Mixed Eligibility for Public Coverage: Navigating Medicaid, CHIP, and Uninsurance
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children and Young Adults
Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the Pediatric Population
Hospitalizations for Kawasaki Syndrome Among Children in the United States, 1997-2007
Human Growth Hormone for Children with Cystic Fibrosis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Identifying Children’s Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP: An Evidence-Informed, Publicly Transparent Expert Process
Impact of Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) Implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP
Kid's Inpatient Database
Long-Term Followup After Diagnosis Resulting from Newborn Screening: Statement of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children
Mental Health Needs of Low-Income Children with Special Health Care Needs
Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures
Pediatric Quality Indicators
Public Role in Promoting Child Health Information Technology
Racial Disparities in Diarrhea-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children in Five U.S. States, Before and After Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine
Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Incidence of Kawasaki Syndrome Among Children in Hawaii
Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (rhGH) in the Treatment of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
Reduction in Acute Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations Among U.S. Children After Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine: Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data from 18 U.S. States
Resource Guide to AHRQ Child and Youth Health and Health Care Services Data
Screening of Infants for Hyperbilirubinemia to Prevent Chronic Bilirubin Encephalopathy
Stimulant Medication Use in Children: A 12-Year Perspective
Supplementing Iron and Zinc: Double Blind, Randomized Evaluation of Separate or Combined Delivery
Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Transforming Children's Health Care Quality and Outcomes—A Not-So-Random Non-Linear Walk Across the Translational Continuum
Use of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone for Pediatric Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: Clinician Guide
What Has Been Learned About Expanding Children's Health Insurance? Highlights from CHIRI
Youth Motorcycle-Related Brain Injury by State Helmet Law Type: United States, 2005-2007
Youth Motorcycle-Related Hospitalizations and Traumatic Brain Injuries in the United States in 2006

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Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, A
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users: Consumer Guide
Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians
Quick-Reference Guide for Clinicians: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Quitting Helps You Heal Faster, Hospital Card
You Can Quit Smoking, Pocket Card
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Clinician, Tearsheet Pad
You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Prenatal Care Provider, Tearsheet Pad

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Consumer Information and Education

ACE Inhibitors and ARBs to Protect Your Heart? A Guide for Patients Being Treated for Stable Coronary Heart Disease
Antidepressant Medicines: A Guide for Adults with Depression
Be More Involved in your Health Care
Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely
Choosing Medicines for High Blood Pressure: A Review of the Research on ACEIs, ARBs, and DRIs
Choosing Pain Medicine for Osteoarthritis: A Guide for Consumers
Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs. A Guide for Adults
Conoce las Preguntas (Know the Questions)
Considerations for the Design of Safe and Effective Consumer Health IT Applications in the Home
Depression After Brain Injury: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
DMARDs for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Do You Know the Right Questions to Ask?
Explore Your Treatment Options
Finding Your Way: What to Do Before You Leave the Hospital
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Gestational Diabetes: A Guide for Pregnant Women
Having a Breast Biopsy: A Guide for Women and Their Families
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users, Consumer Guide
Healthy Men
Managing Osteoarthritis Pain with Medicines: A Review of the Research for Adults
Managing Pain from a Broken Hip: A Guide for Adults and Their Caregivers
Measuring Your Blood Pressure at Home: A Review of the Research for Adults
Medicines for Type 2 Diabetes: A Review of the Research for Adults
Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age
Men: Stay Healthy at 50+
Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Guide for Adults
Osteoporosis Treatments that Help Prevent Broken Bones: A Guide for Women After Menopause
Premixed Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults
Questions Are the Answer, DVD
Questions Are the Answer, Notepads
Quitting Helps You Heal Faster, Hospital Card
Quitting Smoking—You Can Do It
Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Guide for Adults
Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer with Medicine: A Guide for Women
Renal Artery Stenosis Treatments: A Guide for Consumers
Rheumatoid Arthritis Medicines: A Guide for Adults
Staying Active and Healthy with Blood Thinners
Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital
Thinking About Having Your Labor Induced? A Guide for Pregnant Women
Treating and Preventing C-diff Infections: A Review of the Research for Adults and Their Caregivers
Treating High Cholesterol: A Guide for Adults
Treating Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Men with Localized Prostate Cancer
Treating Sleep Apnea: A Review of the Research for Adults
Treatment Options for GERD or Acid Reflux Disease: A Review of the Research for Adults
Treatment Options for Rotator Cuff Tears: A Guide for Adults
Twenty Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
Understanding Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer: A Guide for Adults and Their Caregivers
What You Need to Know About Episiotomy
Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age
Women: Stay Healthy at 50+
You Can Quit Smoking, Pocket Card
Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots
Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe.

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Cost of health care. Go to Health care cost and utilization

Data Development and Use

Advancing Research Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Assessment of the Impact of Two Distinct Survey Design Modifications on Health Care Utilization Estimates in the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey
Can State Databases Be Used to Develop a National, Standardized Hospital Nurse Staffing Database?
Common Formats Allow Uniform Collection and Reporting of Patient Safety Data by Patient Safety Organizations
Conducting Quantitative Synthesis When Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
Emergency Department Care in the United States: A Profile of National Data Sources
GRADE Guidelines: 9. Rating Up the Quality of Evidence
HCUPnet
Impact of Survey Design Modifications on Health Insurance Coverage Estimates in a National Longitudinal Health Care Survey, The
Implications of the Accuracy of MEPS Prescription Drug Data for Health Services Research
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: A National Information Resource to Support Healthcare Cost Research and Inform Policy and Practice, The
MEPSnet
Methodological Considerations in Generating Provider Performance Scores for Use in Public Reporting: A Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives
Modifying ICD-9-CM Coding of Secondary Diagnoses to Improve Risk-Adjustment of Inpatient Mortality Rates
Race and Ethnicity Reporting in Statewide Hospital Data: Progress and Future Challenges in a Key Resource for Local and State Monitoring of Health Disparities
Resource Guide to AHRQ Child and Youth Health and Health Care Services Data
Translating Frontiers into Practice: Taking the Next Steps Toward Improving Hospital Efficiency
Validating Household Reports of Health Care Use in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

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Effective Health Care

ACE Inhibitors and ARBs to Protect Your Heart? A Guide for Patients Being Treated for Stable Coronary Heart Disease
ACEIs, ARBs, or DRI for Adults with Hypertension: Clinician Research Summary
ACEIs or ARBs for Adults with Hypertension: Clinician's Guide
Adding ACEIs and/or ARBs to Standard Therapy for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Benefits and Harms; Clinician Guide
Adding ACEIs and/or ARBs to Standard Therapy for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Benefits and Harms; Policymaker Summary
Adding the Patient Perspective to Comparative Effectiveness Research
Adjunctive Devices for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Adjuvant Treatment for Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Advancing Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) Program Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Keeping Up-to-Date in a Rapidly Evolving Field, The
AHRQ's DEcIDE Network
AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program: Why Comparative Effectiveness Matters
Analgesics for Osteoarthritis
Analgesics for Osteoarthritis: An Update of the 2006 Comparative Effectiveness Review
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) and Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs) for Treating Essential Hypertension
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs), Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs), and Direct Renin Inhibitors for Treating Essential Hypertension: An Update
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers Added to Standard Medical Therapy for Treating Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Antidepressant Medicines: A Guide for Adults with Depression
Assessing Applicability When Comparing Medical Interventions: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health Care Program
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment
CER: Tools—Not Rules, and Its Effects Can Be Transformational
Charting a Path from Comparative Effectiveness Funding to Improved Patient-Centered Health Care
Choosing Antidepressants for Adults: Clinician Guide
Choosing Medications for Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinician Guide
Choosing Medicines for High Blood Pressure: A Review of the Research on ACEIs, ARBs, and DRIs
Choosing Non-Opioid Analgesics for Osteoarthritis: Clinician Guide
Choosing Pain Medicine for Osteoarthritis: A Guide for Consumers
Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 1-3: Screening, Monitoring, and Treatment
Clostridium difficile Infections: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention: Clinician Research Summary
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer: Clinician Guide
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer: Policymaker Summary
Comparative Effectiveness of Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Clinician Research Summary
Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Rotator Cuff Tears in Adults: Clinician Guide
Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinician Guide
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Genomic Medicine: An Evolving Partnership for 21st Century Medicine
Comparative Effectiveness Research—Implications of the Federal Coordinating Council's Report
Comparative Effectiveness Research Priorities at Federal Agencies: The View From the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institute on Aging, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Promising Area of Study for Pharmacists
Comparing Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Clinician Guide
Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs. A Guide for Adults
Conducting Quantitative Synthesis When Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
Core-Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions
Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities: Clinician Guide
Depression After Brain Injury: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinician Guide
Depression Following a Traumatic Brain Injury: Policy Brief
Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults
Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
DMARDs for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Drug Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis in Adults
Effectiveness and Safety of Antiepileptic Medications in Patients with Epilepsy
Effectiveness of Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection
Effectiveness of Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring in Adults with Hypertension: Clinician Research Summary
Elective Induction of Labor: Safety and Harms: Clinician Guide
Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment
Fecal DNA Testing in Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Average-Risk Adults
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children and Young Adults
Focusing the Research Enterprise on the Patient
Fracture Prevention Treatments for Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: Clinician's Guide
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Gestational Diabetes: A Guide for Pregnant Women
Gestational Diabetes: Caring for Women During and After Pregnancy, Clinician Guide
Guiding Comparative Effectiveness Research—A U.S. Perspective
Having a Breast Biopsy: A Guide for Women and Their Families
Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the Pediatric Population
Human Growth Hormone for Children with Cystic Fibrosis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Infrastructure to Monitor Utilization and Outcomes of Gene-Based Applications: An Assessment
In-Hospital Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa for Off-Label Indications vs. Usual Care
Insulin Analogues in Premixed Formulations for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Lipid-Modifying Agents
Management of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis: Clinician Guide
Management Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Management Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: An Update
Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis
Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis: 2007 Update
Managing Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Clinician Research Summary
Managing Osteoarthritis Pain with Medicines: A Review of the Research for Adults
Managing Pain from a Broken Hip: A Guide for Adults and Their Caregivers
Measuring Your Blood Pressure at Home: A Review of the Research for Adults
Medications to Reduce Risk of Primary Breast Cancer in Women
Medications to Reduce the Risk of Primary Breast Cancer in Women: Clinician Guide
Medicines for Type 2 Diabetes: A Review of the Research for Adults
Neurothrombectomy Devices for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke
Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women: Comparative Effectiveness
Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities: Update of a 2006 Review
Noninvasive Tests for Breast Abnormalities
Nonoperative and Operative Treatments for Rotator Cuff Repairs
Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression in Adults
Observational Studies in Systemic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics
Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics: An Update
Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs: A Summary for Clinicians and Policymakers
Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: An Update
Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Guide for Adults
Osteoporosis Treatments that Help Prevent Broken Bones: A Guide for Women After Menopause
Pain Management Interventions for Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture: Clinician Guide
Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture
Particle Beam Radiation Therapies for Cancer
Particle Beam Radiation Therapies for Cancer: A Summary for Policymakers
Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research: Essential for High-Quality Care
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research and Nurse Practitioners' Role in Shared Decision Making
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Coronary Artery Disease
Premixed Insulin Analogues: Clinician Guide
Premixed Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: A Guide for Adults
Promise and Future of Comparative Effectiveness Research, The
Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Guide for Adults
Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Clinician Guide
Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer
Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (rhGH) in the Treatment of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer with Medicine: A Guide for Women
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide, Second Edition
Renal Artery Stenosis Treatments: A Guide for Consumers
Rheumatoid Arthritis Medicines: A Guide for Adults
Roundtable on Expanding Capacity for Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States
Screening and Treatment of Subclinical Hypothyroidism or Hyperthyroidism
Second-Generation Antidepressants in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Adult Depression
Second-Generation Antidepressants in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Adult Depression: An Update of the 2007 Comparative Effectiveness Review
Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness
Starting the Conversation
Surgical and Nonsurgical Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears: Policymaker Summary
Terbutaline Pump for the Prevention of Preterm Birth
Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
Thinking About Having Your Labor Induced? A Guide for Pregnant Women
Three Treatments for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: Evidence Shows Lack of Benefit: Clinician Guide
Traumatic Brain Injury and Depression
Treating and Preventing C-diff Infections: A Review of the Research for Adults and Their Caregivers
Treating Cholesterol with Combination Therapy: Clinician Guide
Treating High Cholesterol: A Guide for Adults
Treating Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Men with Localized Prostate Cancer
Treating Sleep Apnea: A Review of the Research for Adults
Treatment Options for GERD or Acid Reflux Disease: A Review of the Research for Adults
Treatment Options for Rotator Cuff Tears: A Guide for Adults
Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Clinician Guide
Treatments to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women with Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis
Understanding Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer: A Guide for Adults and Their Caregivers
Use of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone for Pediatric Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: Clinician Guide
Utilization and Clinical Data on In-Hospital Off-Label Uses of Recombinant Factor VIIa: Clinician Guide
Welcome to the Effective Health Care Program

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Effectiveness Research. Go to Outcomes and Effectiveness Research

Elderly/Long-Term Care

Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
Changes in Clinical and Hotel Expenditures Following Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report Card
Community and Individual Race/Ethnicity and Home Health Care Use Among Elderly Persons in the United States
Costs of Turnover in Nursing Homes, The
Do Medicare Advantage Enrollees Tend to Be Admitted to Hospitals with Better or Worse Outcomes Compared with Fee-for-Service Enrollees?
Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes?
Dual Eligibles with Mental Disorders and Medicare Part B: How Are They Faring?
Formal Home Care Utilization Patterns by Rural-Urban Community Residence
Impact of Local Resources on Hospitalization Patterns of Medicare Beneficiaries and Propensity to Travel Outside Local Markets
Investing in Preventive Dental Care for the Medicare Population: A Preliminary Analysis
Is There Evidence of Cream Skimming Among Nursing Homes Following the Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report Card?
Leveraging Certified Nursing Assistant Documentation and Knowledge to Improve Clinical Decision Making: The On-Time Quality Improvement Program to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
National Release of the Nursing Home Quality Report Cards: Implications of Statistical Methodology for Risk Adjustment
Nursing Home Compare Measure of Urinary/Fecal Incontinence: Cross-Sectional Variation, Stability Over Time, and the Impact of Case Mix, The
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care
Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents
Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Long-Term-Care Facilities: A Pilot Study Implementing Standardized Nurse Aid Documentation and Feedback Reports
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline
Publication of Quality Report Cards and Trends in Reported Quality Measures in Nursing Homes
Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults
Relationship Between Living Arrangement and Preventive Care Use Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons, The
Stage 2 Pressure Ulcer Healing in Nursing Homes
State Regulatory Enforcement and Nursing Home Termination from the Medicare and Medicaid Programs

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Evidence-Based Medicine

Advancing the Role of Systematic Reviews in Nutrition Research and Applications
Alcohol Consumption and Cancer Risk: Understanding Possible Causal Mechanisms for Breast and Colorectal Cancers
Assessment of Thiopurine Methyltransferase Activity in Patients Prescribed Azathioprine or Other Thiopurine-Based Drugs
Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
Clinical Utility of Cancer Family History Collection in Primary Care
CMS's Landmark Decision on CT Colonography: Examining the Relevant Data
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Back Pain Utilization Report
Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Back Pain II
Current Guidelines Have Limited Applicability to Patients with Comorbid Conditions: A Systematic Analysis of Evidence-Based Guidelines
Diagnosis and Management of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
Diagnosis and Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes?
Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology
Enhancing the Use and Quality of Colorectal Cancer Screening
Evidence Review of Active Surveillance in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer, An
Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction and Asthma
Family History and Improving Health
Family History of Breast, Ovarian, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancers
GRADE: Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Diagnostic Recommendations
Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence when Comparing Medical Interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health Care Program: AHRQ Series Paper 5
Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review
HER2 Testing to Manage Patients with Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors
Identifying and Using Good Practice Guidelines
Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications
Importance of Recommendations for Gestational Weight Gain
Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Preterm Infants
Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
Issues and Challenges in Conducting Systematic Reviews to Support Development of Nutrient Reference Values, Workshop Summary
Lactose Intolerance and Health
Management of Acute Otitis Media: Update
Management of Chronic Hepatitis B
Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Elective Induction of Labor
Outcomes of Genetic Testing in Adults with a History of Venous Thromboembolism
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline
Reporting of Systematic Reviews of Micronutrients and Health: A Critical Appraisal
Safety of Probiotics to Reduce Risk and Prevent or Treat Disease
Transition of Care for Acute Stroke and Myocardial Infarction Patients: From Hospitalization to Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Secondary Prevention
Treatment of Common Hip Fractures
Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women
Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights
Vitamin D and Calcium: A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes
Will It Work Here? A Decisionmakers Guide to Adopting Innovations

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Gerontology. Go to Elderly/Long-Term Care
Gynecology. Go to Women's Health

Health Care Costs and Utilization

Accuracy of Medicare Expenditures in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Acute Care Utilization and Rehospitalizations for Sickle Cell Disease
Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates
Assessment of the Impact of Two Distinct Survey Design Modifications on Health Care Utilization Estimates in the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey
Changes in Hospital Readmissions for Diabetes-Related Conditions: Differences by Payer
Consumer Financial Incentives: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Containing Costs and Improving Care for Children in Medicaid and CHIP
Contemporary Costs of HIV Healthcare in the HAART Era
Cost Sharing in Medicaid and CHIP: How Does It Affect Out-of-Pocket Spending?
Costly Hospital Readmissions and Complex Chronic Illness
Costs and State-Specific Rates of Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebroplasty, 2001-2005
Determinants of Utilization and Expenditures for the Episodes of Ambulatory Physical Therapy Among Adults
Diffusion of New Technology and Payment Policies: Coronary Stents
Disparities in Antiretroviral Treatment: A Comparison of Behaviorally HIV-Infected Youth and Adults in the HIV Research Network
Does Prescription Drug Adherence Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs? The Case of Diabetes
Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes?
Economic Burden of Late Entry into Medical Care for Patients with HIV Infection
Effect of Certificate-of-Need Laws on Hospital Beds and Healthcare Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis, The
Effect of Tax Subsidies on High Health Care Expenditure Burdens in the United States, The
Geographic Variation: A View from the Hospital Sector
HCUPnet
HIV-Related Medical Service Use by Rural/Urban Residents: A Multistate Perspective
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction
Inefficiency Differences Between Critical Access Hospitals and Prospectively Paid Rural Hospitals
Infectious Disease Hospitalizations in the United States
Inpatient Health Services Utilization Among HIV-Infected Adult Patients in Care 2002-2007
Investing in Preventive Dental Care for the Medicare Population: A Preliminary Analysis
Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey—A National Information Resource to Support Healthcare Cost Research and Inform Policy and Practice, The
Mental Health and Family Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Burdens
MEPS: A Survey of Health Care Use and Spending
MEPS Statistical Briefs
MEPSnet
National Estimates of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure Burdens Among Nonelderly Adults with Cancer: 2001 to 2008
Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Brochure
New Estimates of the Demand for Physical and Mental Health Treatment
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Associated Lung Disease in Hospitalized Persons, United States, 1998-2005
Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures
Patient Self-Management Support Programs: An Evaluation
Patient-Centered Care Categorization of U.S. Health Care Expenditures
Paying Physicians by Capitation: Is the Past Now Prologue?
Payment Reform
Profile of Inpatient Operating Room Procedures in U.S. Hospitals in 2007
Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge Process Lowers Readmissions, Reduces Costs
State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) Brochure
State- and Payer-Specific Estimates of Annual Medical Expenditures Attributable to Obesity
State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) Brochure
State Inpatient Databases (SID) Brochure
State Variations in the Out-of-Pocket Spending Burden for Outpatient Mental Health Treatment
Survey of Health Care Use and Spending, A
Tax-Exempt Hospitals and Community Benefits: A Review of State Reporting Requirements
Trends and Burden of Bronchiectasis-Associated Hospitalizations in the United States, 1993-2006
Using Information on Clinical Conditions to Predict High-Cost Patients
VA Pharmacy Users: How They Differ from Other Veterans
Within-Year Concentration of Medical Care: Implications for Family Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Burdens, The
Youth Motorcycle-Related Hospitalizations and Traumatic Brain Injuries in the United States in 2006

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Health Information Technology

Accuracy of a Computerized Clinical Decision-Support System for Asthma Assessment and Management
Bar-Coded Medication Administration: Decisionmaker Brief
Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
Chronic Disease Management: Decisionmaker Brief
Commercial Off-the-Shelf Consumer Health Informatics Interventions: Recommendations for Their Design, Evaluation, and Redesign
Computerized Provider Order Entry: Decisionmaker Brief
Considerations for the Design of Safe and Effective Consumer Health IT Applications in the Home
Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology
Health Information Technology, Costs and Benefits
Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research, Final Report
Information Gap: Can Health Insurer Personal Health Records Meet Patients' and Physicians' Needs?
Investing in Health Information Infrastructure: Can It Help Achieve Health Reform?
Public Role in Promoting Child Health Information Technology, The
Redesigning Care Processes Using an Electronic Health Record: A System's Experience
Reducing Disparities in Health Care Quality: The Role of Health IT in Underresourced Settings
Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home; Decisionmaker Brief
Telehealth: Decisionmaker Brief

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