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2008

Pub. No.	Title	AHRQ author(s)	Reprint cover date
08-R001	Understanding and Enhancing the Value of Hospital Discharge Data	Elixhauser	Oct-07
08-R002	TeamSTEPPS: Optimizing Teamwork in the Perioperative Setting	Clancy	Oct-07
08-R003	Assessing the Validity of Self-Reported Medication Adherence in Hepatitis C Treatment	Smith	Oct-07
08-R004	Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support in Long-Term Care Facilities: Costs and Benefits to Stakeholders	Mutter	Oct-07
08-R005	Do HMOs Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations for Medicare Beneficiaries?	Basu	Oct-07
08-R006	A Progress Report on AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program	Clancy, Slutsky	Oct-07
08-R007	Sleepless in the Hospital: Evidence Mounts That Tired Caregivers May Compromise Quality	Clancy	Oct-07
08-R008	Unintended Consequences of Information Technologies in Health Care- An Interactive Sociotechnical Analysis	Harrison	Oct-07
08-R009	Simulation in Health Care: Setting Realistic Expectations	Henriksen	Oct-07
08-R010	Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Practice: Innovative Strategies and Future Directions	Lanier	Oct-07
08-R011	Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures	Baine	Oct-07
08-R012	Creating and Synthesizing Evidence With Decision Makers in Mind	Atkins	Nov-07
08-R013	Improving Depiction of Benefits and Harms: Analyses of Studies of Well-Known Therapeutics and Review of High-Impact Medical Journals	Sedrakyan	Nov-07
08-R014	Improving the Complex Nature of Care Transitions	Hughes, Clancy	Nov-07
08-R015	Are Lumbar Spine Reoperation Rates Falling With Greater Use of Fusion Surgery and New Surgical Technology?	Gray	Nov-07
08-R016	Mistake-Proofing in Health Care: Lessons for Ongoing Patient Safety Improvements	Clancy	Nov-07
08-R017	The Performance of Performance	Clancy	Nov-07
08-R018	Medicaid Markets and Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals	Owens	Nov-07
08-R019	Patient Safety in Nursing Practice	Farquhar, Collins Sharp, Clancy	Nov-07
08-R020	Reducing Hospitalizations From Long-Term Care Settings	Spector	Nov-07
08-R021	Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Hospital Inefficiency	Mutter	Dec-07
08-R022	Improving the Health Care Work Environment: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach	Harrison, Henriksen, Hughes	Jan-08
08-R023	Evidence-Based Practice: AHRQ's Role in Generating and Disseminating Knowledge	Coopey, Nix, Clancy	Jan-08
08-R024	So What? The Challenge of Doing "Need to Know" Versus "Would Like to Know" Research	Hughes, Clancy	Jan-08
08-R025	The Correlation of Youth Physical Activity with State Policies	Meyerhoefer	Jan-08
08-R026	Improving the Health Care Work Environment: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy	Harrison, Henriksen, Hughes	Jan-08
08-R027	Design of the Physical Environment for Changing Healthcare Needs	Clancy, Isaacson, Henriksen	Jan-08
08-R028	The Role of the Physical Environment in Crossing the Quality Chasm	Henriksen, Isaacson	Jan-08
08-R029	Health Insurance Coverage During a 24-month Period: A Comparison of Estimates from Two National Health Surveys	S. Cohen, Ezzati-Rice	Jan-08
08-R030	Committee Report: Advancing the Current Recommended Panel of Conditions for Newborn Screening	Dougherty	Jan-08
08-R031	The Challenge of Comparative Effectiveness: Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time	Coopey, James, Lawrence, Clancy	Jan-08
08-R032	Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004	Banthin, Bernard	Jan-08
08-R033	Pathways to Coverage: The Changing Roles of Public and Private Sources	Vistnes, Schone	Jan-08
08-R034	Developing a Research Agenda for Assisted Living	Spector	Jan-08
08-R035	Designing for Safety: Evidence-Based Design and Hospitals	Clancy	Feb-08
08-R036	The Dental Care of U.S. Children: Access, Use and Referrals by Nondentist Providers, 2003	Chu, Manski	Feb-08
08-R037	Cardiac Device Implantation in the United States from 1997 through 2004: A Population-Based Analysis	Zhan, Baine, Sedrakyan, Steiner	Feb-08
08-R038	Best Practice Implementation: Lessons Learned from 20 Partnerships	Mullican, Lavanderos, Palmer	Feb-08
08-R039	Evaluating the Impact of Partnerships to Improve Clinical Quality	Hagan	Feb-08
08-R040	Sustainablility of Partnership Projects: A Conceptual Framework and Checklist	Sangl	Feb-08
08-R041	Disseminating QI Interventions	Robinson	Feb-08
08-R042	Guidelines for Guidelines: We've Come a Long Way	Clancy, Slutsky	Feb-08
08-R043	Funding Opportunities in Knowledge Translation: Review of the AHRQ's "Translating Research into Practice" Initiatives, Competing Funding Agencies, and Strategies for Success	Handrigan, Slutsky	Feb-08
08-R044	Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications	Hudson, Miller, Kirby	Feb-08
08-R045	Eliminating Asthma Disparities Through Multistakeholder Partnerships	Clancy	Feb-08
08-R046	Using Patient Safety Indicators to Estimate the Impact of Potential Adverse Events on Outcomes	Elixhauser	Feb-08
08-R047	How Useful are Voluntary Medication Error Reports? The Case of Warfarin-Related Medication Errors	Zhan, Smith, Keyes, Clancy	Mar-08
08-R048	Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data	Moy, Dayton	Mar-08
08-R049	Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States	Steiner	Mar-08
08-R050	Smoking in the Home and Children's Health	Hill, Liang	Mar-08
08-R051	The Accuracy of Reported Insurance Status in the MEPS	Hill	Mar-08
08-R052	Practice Makes Perfect: A Volume-Outcome Study of Hospital Patients with HIV Disease	Hellinger	Apr-08
08-R053	Go Out of Stay in? The Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Alcohol Use and Drinking and Driving Patterns Among College Students	Liang	Apr-08
08-R054	The "3Ts" Road Map to Transform US Health Care: The "How" of High-Quality Care	Dougherty, Conway	May-08
08-R055	Forging a New Path to Medication Safety With Emergency Pharmacists	Clancy	May-08
08-R056	USPSTF Recommendations for STI Screening	Meyers, Wolff	May-08
08-R057	Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders	Jiang, Fraser	May-08
08-R058	Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Using Spirometry: Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force	Lin, Barton	May-08
08-R059	Home Health Care Agency Staffing Patterns Before and After the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, by Rural and Urban Location	Spector	May-08
08-R060	SCIP: Making Complications of Surgery the Exception Rather than the Rule	Clancy	May-08
08-R061	Bariatric Surgery: What Women Need to Know	Clancy	May-08
08-R062	The Shape of Demand: What Does It Tell Us about Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Antidepressants?	Meyerhoefer, Zuvekas	May-08
08-R063	Hospital and Demographic Influences on the Disposition of Transient Ischemic Attack	Owens, Steiner	May-08
08-R064	Community Variation: Disparities in Health Care Quality Between Asian and White Medicare Beneficiaries	Moy, Greenberg	May-08
08-R065	Limiting Nurse Overtime, and Promoting Other Good Working Conditions, Influences Patient Safety	Collins Sharp, Clancy	May-08
08-R066	Substance Abuse Treatment in Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Role of Patient-Provider discussions	Fleishman	Jun-08
08-R067	Alcohol Use Among HIV-infected Persons in Care: Results of a Multi-site Survey	Fleishman	Jun-08
08-R068	A Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage	Selden	Jun-08
08-R069	How Often are Potential Patient Safety Events Present on Admission?	Elixhauser	Jun-08
08-R070	Strategic Orientation and Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality Measures: An Application of the Miles and Snow Typology	Spector	Jun-08
08-R071	Trends in Intussusception Hospitalizations Among US Infants, 1993-2004: Implications for Monitoring the Safety of the New Rotavirus Vaccination Program	Steiner	Jun-08
08-R072	Does Participation in the Food Stamp Program Increase the Prevalence of Obesity and Health Care Spending?	Meyerhoefer	Jun-08
08-R073	Hospital Charges Attributable to a Primary Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases in Older Adults in the United States, 1998 to 2004	Steiner	Jun-08
08-R074	Trends in Racial Disparities Among the Elderly for Selected Procedures	Basu	Jun-08
08-R075	Introduction to the JGIM Special Issue on Health Information Technology	Clancy, White	Jun-08
08-R076	Dental Care Use: Does Dental Insurance Truly Make a Difference in the US?	Manski, Cooper	Jul-08
08-R077	The Distribution of Public Spending for Health Care in the United States, 2002	Selden, Sing	Jul-08
08-R078	Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic	Liang	Jul-08
08-R079	The Impact of Medical Errors on Ninety-Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients	Encinosa, Hellinger	Jul-08
08-R080	Evidence Shows Cost and Patient Safety Benefits of Emergency Pharmacists	Clancy	Aug-08
08-R081	Health Care Markets: Concepts, Data, Measures, and Current Research Challenges	Hagan, Encinosa	Aug-08
08-R082	Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures	Owens, Zodet, Berdahl, Dougherty	Aug-08
08-R083	How Do Hospital Organizational Structure and Processes Affect Quality of Care?: A Critical Review of Research Methods	Fraser, Jiang	Aug-08
08-R084	Pressure Ulcer Plan is Working	Spector, Limcangco	Aug-08
08-R085	Improving Quality and Reducing Disparities: The Role of Nurses	Ho, Brady, Clancy	Sep-08
08-R086	Advancing Personalized Health Care through Health Information Technology: An Update from the American Health Information Community's Personalized Health Care Workgroup	Clancy	Sep-08

2009

Pub. No.	Title	AHRQ author(s)	Reprint cover date
09-R001	Stage 2 Pressure Ulcer Healing in Nursing Homes	Spector	Oct-08
09-R002	New Patient Safety Organizations Lower Roadblocks to Medical Error Reporting	Clancy	Oct-08
09-R003	A Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. A U.S. Public Health Service Report	Murray, Williams	Oct-08
09-R004	Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction	Fraser, Encinosa	Oct-08
09-R005	Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials	Mutter	Oct-08
09-R006	Long-term follow-up after diagnosis resulting from newborn screening: Statement of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children	Dougherty	Oct-08
09-R007	Self-Rated Mental Health and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Service Use	Zuvekas, Fleishman	Nov-08
09-R008	Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up	Vistnes	Nov-08
09-R009	Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures	Vistnes	Dec-08
09-R010	The Effect of Tax Subsidies on High Health Care Expenditures in the United States	Selden	Dec-08
09-R011	Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: The Effects of Controlling for Quality and Patient Burden of Illness	Mutter, Wong	Dec-08
09-R012	Diffusion of New Technology and Payment Policies: Coronary Stents	Berliner	Dec-08
09-R013	Changes in Hospital Readmissions for Diabetes-Related Conditions: Differences in Payer	Jiang, Friedman, Andrews	Dec-08
09-R014	Publication of Quality Report Cards and Trends in Reported Quality Measures in Nursing Homes	Spector	Dec-08
09-R015	Costs and State-Specific Rates of Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebroplasty, 2001-2005	Gray	Dec-08
09-R016	Evidence on the Chronic Care Model in the New Millennium	Brach	Dec-08
09-R017	Building the Capacity for a Transformation Initiative: System Redesign of Denver Health	Harrison	Jan-09
09-R018	Women with Diagnosed Diabetes Across the Life Stages: Underuse of recommended preventive care services	Ho, Kaftarian, Brady	Jan-09
09-R019	Measuring Trends in Racial/Ethnic Health Care Disparities	Zuvekas	Feb-09
09-R020	Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Individual Workplace Injury Risk Trajectories: 1988-1998	Berdahl	Feb-09
09-R021	Adverse-event-reporting Practices by US Hospitals: Results of a National Survey	Battles, Munier	Feb-09
09-R022	Finding Order in Heterogeneity: Types of Quality-Improvement Intervention Publications	Dougherty	Feb-09
09-R023	The Impact of Increased Tax Subsidies on the Insurance Coverage of Self-Employed Families	Selden	Mar-09
09-R024	A Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage	Pylypchuk,Selden	Mar-09
09-R025	Immigrants and the Use of Preventive Care in the United States	Pylypchuk,Hudson	Mar-09
09-R026	Transformation of Health Care at the Front Line	Conway, Clancy	Feb-09
09-R027	State Snapshots a Picture of Unacceptable Variation: Are We Destined to Live With "Geography Is Destiny?"	Brady, Ho, Clancy	Mar-09
09-R028	AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program: Why Comparative Effectiveness Matters	Slutsky, Clancy	Mar-09
09-R029	The Utility of Prediction Models to Oversample the Long-Term Uninsured	Cohen, Yu	Mar-09
09-R030	Finding Your Way: What to Do Before You Leave Hospital	Clancy	Mar-09
09-R031	GRADE: Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Diagnostic Recommendations	Chang	Mar-09
09-R032	Impact of Patient Race on Patient Experiences of Access and Communication in HIV Care	Fleishman	Mar-09
09-R033	Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents	Schone	Mar-09
09-R034	Payer Perspectives on Pharmacogenomics Testing and Drug Development	Randhawa	Mar-09
09-R035	The Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial: VA/NCI/AHRQ Cooperative Studies Program #407 (PIVOT): Design and Baseline Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Radical Prostatectomy to Watchful Waiting for Men with Clinically Localized Prostrate Cancer	Fox	Mar-09
09-R036	Redesigning Care Processes Using an Electronic Health Record: A System's Experience	Harrison	Mar-09
09-R037	Primary Care: Too Important to Fail	Meyers, Clancy	Mar-09
09-R038	The Public Role in Promoting Child Health Information Technology	Conway, White, Clancy	Mar-09
09-R039	Updated U.S. Population Standard for the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12)	Fleishman	Mar-09
09-R040	Can State Databases Be Used to Develop a National, Standardized Hospital Nurse Staffing Database?	Jiang, Stocks	Mar-09
09-R041	Board Oversight of Quality: Any Differences in Process of Care and Mortality?	Jiang, Fraser	Mar-09
09-R042	The Effects of Hospital Competition on Inpatient Quality of Care	Mutter, Wong	Mar-09
09-R043	Adverse Event Reporting Systems and Safer Healthcare	Battles	Mar-09
09-R044	Information Gap: Can Health Insurer Personal Health Records Meet Patients' and Physicians' Needs?	Zayas-Caban	Mar-09
09-R045	Investing in Health Information Infrastructure: Can It Help Achieve Health Reform?	Clancy, White	Mar-09
09-R046	Identification of Hospital-Acquired Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections from Medicare Claims	Zhan, Elixhauser, Baine	Mar-09
09-R047	Poor People, Poor Places and Access to Health Care in the United States	Kirby	Apr-09
09-R048	Tax-Exempt Hospitals and Community Benefits: A Review of State Reporting Requirements	Hellinger	Apr-09
09-R049	New Patient Safety Organizations Can Help Health Providers Learn from and Reduce Patient Safety Events	Clancy	Apr-09
09-R050	Recent Improvements in Bariatric Surgery Outcomes	Encinosa, Bernard, Du	May-09
09-R051	Do Patient Safety Events Increase Readmissions?	Friedman, Encinosa, Jiang, Mutter	May-09
09-R052	Modifying ICD-9-CM Coding of Secondary Diagnoses to Improve Risk-Adjustment of Inpatient Mortality Rates	Elixhauser	May-09
09-R053	Roundtable on Expanding Capacity for Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States	Clancy	May-09
09-R054	CMS's Hospital-Acquired Condition Lists Link Hospital Payment, Patient Safety	Clancy	May-09
09-R055	The Accountability Conundrum: Staying Focused, Delivering Results, A Report on the UHC 2008 Quality and Safety Fall Forum	Clancy	May-09
09-R056	New Estimates of the Demand for Physical and Mental Health Treatment	Meyerhoefer, Zuvekas	May-09
09-R057	Pharmacists Emerge as Key Stakeholders in Quality, Patient Safety Efforts	Kelly, Clancy	May-09
09-R058	Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured	Hill	May-09
09-R059	Wealth, Income, and the Affordability of Health Insurance	Bernard, Banthin, Encinosa	Jun-09
09-R060	The Relationship Between Living Arrangement and Preventive Care Use Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons	Kirby	Jun-09
09-R061	State Variations in the Out-of-Pocket Spending Burden for Outpatient Mental Health Treatment	Zuvekas	Jun-09
09-R062	Dual Eligibles with Mental Disorders and Medicare Part D: How are They Faring?	Zuvekas	Jun-09
09-R063	AHRQ Uses Tools To Educate Consumers	Lazar	Jun-09
09-R064	Costly Hospital Readmissions and Complex Chronic Illness	Friedman, Jiang, Elixhauser	Jun-09
09-R065	More Work is Needed to Protect Medical Residents from Fatigue and Potential Errors, IOM Report Finds	Clancy	Jun-09
09-R066	The Stress of the Care Environment	Clancy, Hughes	Jun-09
09-R067	Health Expenditure Estimation and Functional Form: Applications of the Generalized Gamma and Extended Estimating Equations Models	Hill, Miller	Jun-09
09-R068	Accuracy of Medicare Expenditures in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey	Zuvekas	Jun-09
09-R069	Re-engineered Hospital Discharge Process Lowers Re-admissions, Reduces Costs	Clancy	Jun-09
09-R070	The Within-Year Concentration of Medical Care: Implications for Family Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Burdens	Selden	Jun-09
09-R071	A Health Services Research Agenda for Cellular, Molecular and Genomic Technologies in Cancer Care	Randhawa	Jun-09
09-R072	Cost Sharing in Medicaid and CHIP: How Does it Affect Out-of-Pocket Spending?	Selden	Jun-09
09-R073	Sensitivity of Household Reported Medical Conditions in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey	Machlin, Cohen, Elixhauser, Beauregard, Steiner	Jun-09
09-R074	Families With Mixed Eligibility for Public Coverage: Navigating Medicaid, CHIP, and Uninsurance	Hudson	Jul-09
09-R075	CMS's Landmark Decision on CT Colonography--Examining the Relevant Data	Phurrough	Jul-09
09-R076	Colorectal Cancer Screening by Primary Physicians: Recommendations and Practices, 2006-2007	Lanier	Aug-09
09-R077	CABG Versus PCI for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease	Sedrakyan	Aug-09
09-R078	Finding Your Way: Talking About End-of-Life Decisions	Clancy	Aug-09
09-R079	Identifying and Using Good Practice Guidelines	Lin	Aug-09
09-R080	Simple Charts Compare Health Risks for Adults	Lin	Aug-09
09-R081	Complexity, Bullying, and Stress: Analyzing and Mitigating a Challenging Work Environment for Nurses	Hughes, Clancy	Aug-09
09-R082	Reengineering Hospital Discharge: A Protocol to Improve Patient Safety, Reduce Costs, and Boost Patient Satisfaction	Clancy	Aug-09
09-R083	Validating Household Reports of Health Care Use in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey	Zuvekas	Aug-09
09-R084	Demographic Variability, Vaccination, and the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rotavirus Epidemics	Steiner	Aug-09
09-R085	Importance of Recommendations for Gestational Weight Gain	Kelly, Clancy	Sep-09
09-R086	Comparative-Effectiveness Research-Implications of the Federal Coordinating Council's Report	Clancy	Sep-09
09-R087	Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates	Cohen	Sep-09
09-R088	Do Adolescents with Emotional or Behavioral Problems Respond to Cigarette Prices?	Liang	Sep-09

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation:

Reprints of Articles by Staff. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/reprints.htm