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Accuracy of a Computerized Clinical Decision-Support System for Asthma Assessment and Management
"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
Acute Care Utilization and Rehospitalizations for Sickle Cell Disease
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
Adjunctive Devices in PCI to Remove Thrombi or Protect Against Distal Embolization in Patients with ACS: Clinician Research Summary
Adjuvant Treatment for Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Admissions for CABG Procedure in the Elderly: Was There a Change in Access to Teaching Hospitals After 1997?
Adults with Diagnosed and Untreated Diabetes: Who Are They? How Can We Reach Them?
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
Advancing Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Advancing Research Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Adverse Events After Stopping Clopidogrel in Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients: Insights from a Large Integrated Healthcare Delivery System
Adverse Selection and the Effect of Health Insurance on Utilization of Prescribed Medicine Among Patients with Chronic Conditions
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 Patient Safety Network
AHRQ Publications Order Form
AHRQ WebM&M
AHRQ's DEcIDE Network
Alcohol Consumption and Cancer Risk: Understanding Possible Causal Mechanisms for Breast and Colorectal Cancers
Alleviating “Second Victim” Syndrome: How We Should Handle Patient Harm
Analgesics for Osteoarthritis
Analgesics for Osteoarthritis: An Update of the 2006 Comparative Effectiveness Review
Analgesics for Osteoarthritis: Focus of Research for Clinicians
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
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
Antinuclear Antibody, Rheumatoid Factor, and Cyclic-Citrullinated Peptide Tests for Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complaints in Children
Antinuclear Antibody, Rheumatoid Factor, and Cyclic-Citrullinated Peptide Tests for Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complaints in Children: Clinician Research Summary
Anti-Obesity Drugs and Bariatric Surgery
Antipsychotic Medicines for Children: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Applying Trigger Tools to Detect Adverse Events Associated with Outpatient Surgery
As Obesity Epidemic Escalates, Need for More Screening and Counseling Grows
Assessing Applicability When Comparing Medical Interventions: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health Care Program
Assessment of the Impact of Two Distinct Survey Design Modifications on Health Care Utilization Estimates in the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey
Assessment of Thiopurine Methyltransferase Activity in Patients Prescribed Azathioprine or Other Thiopurine-Based Drugs
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Clinician Research Summary
Attributes of a Health Literate Organization

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Bar-Coded Medication Administration: Decisionmaker Brief
Be More Involved in your Health Care
Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders
Best Practices in Systems Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Fractures
Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely
Building a Bridge to Somewhere Better: Linking Health Care Research and Health Policy

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C

Can Incentives to Improve Quality Reduce Disparities?
Cancer Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoepidemiology: Setting a Research Agenda to Accelerate Translation
CER: Tools—Not Rules, and Its Effects Can Be Transformational
Challenge of Multiple Comorbidity for the U.S. Health Care System, The
Changes in Clinical and Hotel Expenditures Following Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report Card
Changes in Patient Flow Among Five Hospitals Participating in a Learning Collaborative
Changes in Pharmaceutical Treatment of Diabetes and Family Financial Burdens
Characteristics of Employers Offering Dental Coverage in the United States
Charting a Path from Comparative Effectiveness Funding to Improved Patient-Centered Health Care
Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Measures Initiatives: Moving Forward to Improve Measurement, Care, and Child and Adolescent Outcomes, The
Choosing a Patient Safety Organization: Tips for Hospitals and Health Care Providers
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
Chronic Disease Management: Decisionmaker Brief
Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 1-3: Screening, Monitoring, and Treatment
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Closing the Quality Gap. Paper No. 2: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Revisiting the State of the Science
Closing the Quality Gap. Paper No. 3: Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities
Closing the Quality Gap. Paper No. 5: Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy
Clostridium difficile Infections: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention: Clinician Research Summary
Commercial Off-the-Shelf Consumer Health Informatics Interventions: Recommendations for Their Design, Evaluation, and Redesign
Committee Report: Method for Evaluating Conditions Nominated for Population-Based Screening of Newborns and Children
Common Formats Allow Uniform Collection and Reporting of Patient Safety Data by Patient Safety Organizations
Community and Individual Race/Ethnicity and Home Health Care Use Among Elderly Persons in the United States
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 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 Different Measures of Retention` in Outpatient HIV Care
Comparing Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Clinician Guide
Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Back Pain II
Computerized Provider Order Entry: Decisionmaker Brief
Concentration of Hospital Care for Acute Sickle Cell Disease-Related Visits
Conducting Quantitative Synthesis When Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
Connecting Those at Risk to Care: A Guide to Building a Community "HUB" to Promote a System of Collaboration, Accountability, and Improved Outcomes
Connecting Those at Risk to Care: The Quick Start Guide to Developing Community Care Coordination Pathways
Conoce las Preguntas (Know the Questions)
Consensus-Based Recommendations for Research Priorities Related to Interventions to Safeguard Patient Safety in the Crowded Emergency Department
Considerations for the Design of Safe and Effective Consumer Health IT Applications in the Home
Containing Costs and Improving Care for Children in Medicaid and CHIP
Contemporary Costs of HIV Healthcare in the HAART Era
Coordinating Care in the Medical Neighborhood: Critical Components and Available Mechanisms
Core-Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions
Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities: Clinician Guide
Cost and Incidence of Prescribing Errors Among Privately Insured HIV Patients, The
Creating a Framework for Getting Quality into the Public Health System
Current Guidelines Have Limited Applicability to Patients with Comorbid Conditions: A Systematic Analysis of Evidence-Based Guidelines

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Declines in Employer-Sponsored Insurance Between 2000 and 2008: Examining the Components of Coverage by Firm Size
Defining and Measuring Successful Emergency Care Networks: A Research Agenda

Delivery of a Small for Gestational Age Infant and Greater Maternal Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease
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
Deriving SF-12v2 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores: A Comparison of Different Scoring Algorithms
Despite 2007 Law Requiring FDA Hotline to Be Included in Print Drug Ads, Reporting of Adverse Events by Consumer Still Low
Determinants of Utilization and Expenditures for the Episodes of Ambulatory Physical Therapy Among Adults
Developing Quality of Care Measures for People with Disabilities: Summary of Expert Meeting
Diabetes Primary Prevention Initiative Interventions Focus Area: A Case Study and Recommendations, The
Diagnosis and Management of Febrile Infants (0-3 months)
Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults
Diagnostic Performance of Serum Cobalamin Tests: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Dietary Supplements in Adults Taking Cardiovascular Drugs
Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
Disparities in Antiretroviral Treatment: A Comparison of Behaviorally HIV-Infected Youth and Adults in the HIV Research Network
Disparities in Infectious Disease Hospitalization for American Indian/Alaska Native People
Disparities in Receipt of Antiretroviral Therapy Among HIV-Infected Adults (2002-2008)
DMARDs for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers
Do Medicare Advantage Enrollees Tend to Be Admitted to Hospitals with Better or Worse Outcomes Compared with Fee-for-Service Enrollees?
Do You Know the Right Questions to Ask?
Does Prescription Drug Adherence Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs? The Case of Diabetes
Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes?
Drug Therapy for Psoriatic Arthritis in Adults: Update of a 2007 Report
Drug Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis in Adults
Drug Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults: An Update

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Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
Economic Burden of Late Entry into Medical Care for Patients with HIV Infection

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
Effectiveness of Treatments for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain in Adult Women: Clinician Research Summary
Effects of Recall Length and Reporting Aids on Household Reporting of Health Care Events in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, The
Effects of U.S. Hospital Consolidations on Hospital Quality, The
Elective Induction of Labor: Safety and Harms: Clinician's Guide
Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
Emergency Department Care in the United States: A Profile of National Data Sources
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need To Know
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook
Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology
Enabling Patient-Centered Care Through Health Information Technology
Enhancing Board Oversight on Quality of Hospital Care: An Agency Theory Perspective
Enhancing Quality Oversight
Enhancing the Use and Quality of Colorectal Cancer Screening
Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment
Establishing a Global Learning Community for Incident-Reporting Systems
Establishment, Retention, and Loss to Follow-Up in Outpatient HIV Care
Evaluating the Use of a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System for Asthma by Pediatric Pulmonologists
Evidence Review of Active Surveillance in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer, An
Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction and Asthma
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Antidepressant Use Among Adolescents
Explore Your Treatment Options

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Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Patient Flow Improvement Strategies
Fecal DNA Testing in Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Average-Risk Adults
Financing of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Insurance, Managed Care, and Reimbursement, The
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children and Young Adults
First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children: Comparative Effectiveness; Clinician Research Summary
First-Generation Versus Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Adults
Focusing the Research Enterprise on the Patient
Formal Home Care Utilization Patterns by Rural-Urban Community Residence
From Research to Health Policy Impact
From Research to Practice: Factors Affecting Implementation of Prospective Targeted Injury-Detection Systems

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Game-Theoretical Interpretation of Guaranteed Renewability in Health Insurance, A
Geographic Variation: A View from the Hospital Sector
Gestational Diabetes: A Guide for Pregnant Women
Gestational Diabetes: Caring for Women During and After Pregnancy, Clinician Guide
Getting to Zero: New Resources Aim to Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
GRADE Guidelines: 9. Rating Up the Quality of Evidence
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
Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2012, The
Guiding Comparative Effectiveness Research—A U.S. Perspective

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Having a Breast Biopsy: A Guide for Women and Their Families
HCUPnet
Health Expenditure Estimation and Functional Form: Applications of the Generalized Gamma and Extended Estimating Equations Models
Health Information Management in the Home: A Human Factors Assessment
Health Information Technology: Turning the Patient-Centered Medical Home from Concept to Reality
Health Insurance Status of Low-Wage Workers: The Role of Workplace Composition and Marital Status, The
Health Literacy Impact on Patient-Provider Interactions Involving the Treatment of Dental Problems
Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review
Healthy Men
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users, Consumer Guide
Helping Smokers Quit, A Guide for Clinicians
Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the Pediatric Population
Highlights: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
High Versus Lower Quality Hospitals: A Comparison of Environmental Characteristics and Technical Efficiency
High-Performance Work Systems in Health Care Management, Part 1: Development of an Evidence-Informed Model
High-Performance Work Systems in Health Care Management, Part 2: Qualitative Evidence from Five Case Studies
HIV-Related Medical Service Use by Rural/Urban Residents: A Multistate Perspective
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report
Hospitalizations for Kawasaki Syndrome Among Children in the United States, 1997-2007
How Can We Bend the Cost Curve? Health Information Technology and Its Effects on Hospital Costs, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
How Event Reporting by U.S. Hospitals Has Changed from 2005 to 2009
How Often Do Catastrophic Injury Victims Become Medicaid Recipients
How to Get the Best Value for Your Health Insurance Plans: Do Homework During Open Enrollment to Save Money
Human Growth Hormone for Children with Cystic Fibrosis: A Review of the Research for Parents and Caregivers

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Identifying Children’s Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP: An Evidence-Informed, Publicly Transparent Expert Process
Impact of Local Resources on Hospitalization Patterns of Medicare Beneficiaries and Propensity to Travel Outside Local Markets
Impact of National Health Care Reform on Adults with Severe Mental Disorders, The
Impact of Rotavirus Vaccine on Diarrhea-Associated Disease Burden Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children
Impact of Survey Design Modifications on Health Insurance Coverage Estimates in a National Longitudinal Health Care Survey, The
Impact of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Pneumococcal Pneumonia Hospitalizations in the United States
Implications of the Accuracy of MEPS Prescription Drug Data for Health Services Research
Importance of Relational Coordination and Reciprocal Learning for Chronic Illness Care Within Primary Care Teams, The
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules
Incidence and Types of Non-Ideal Care Events in an Emergency Department
Incidence of and Risk Factors for Bacteraemia in HIV-Infected Adults in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
Incorrect Surgical Procedures Within and Outside of the Operating Room: A Follow-Up Report
Incremental Cost of Postacute Care in Nursing Homes
Individual Insurance and Access to Care
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research, Final Report
Inefficiency Differences Between Critical Access Hospitals and Prospectively Paid Rural Hospitals
Influence of Changes in Dental Care Coverage on Dental Care Utilization Among Retirees and Near-Retirees in the United States, 2004-2006, The
Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Preterm Infants
In-Hospital Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa for Off-Label Indications vs. Usual Care
Inpatient Health Services Utilization Among HIV-Infected Adult Patients in Care 2002-2007
Inpatient Quality Indicators
Insulin Analogues in Premixed Formulations for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring Methods for Diabetes Mellitus: Comparative Effectiveness; Clinician Research Summary
Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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?

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Kidney-Related Diseases and Quality Improvement: AHRQ’s Role
Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)

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Lactose Intolerance and Health
Let the Data Be Our Guide: Trends and Tools for Research on Health Care Utilization
Leveraging Certified Nursing Assistant Documentation and Knowledge to Improve Clinical Decision Making: The On-Time Quality Improvement Program to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
Lipid-Modifying Agents
Logic Model Framework for Evaluation and Planning in a Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network, A

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