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Access to Health Care for Nonmetro and Metro Latinos of Mexican Origin in the United States
Accountability Conundrum: Staying Focused, Delivering Results, The; A Report on the UHC 2008 Quality and Safety Forum
Accuracy of Reported Insurance Status in the MEPS, The
ACEIs or ARBs for Adults with Hypertension: Clinician's Guide
Adapting Community Call Centers for Crisis Support: A Model for Home-Based Care and Monitoring
Adnexal Mass, Management
Adult Preventive Care Timeline
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches
Advancing Personalized Health Care Through Health Information Technology: An Update from the American Health Information Community's Personalized Health Care Workgroup
Advancing the Current Recommended Panel of Conditions for Newborn Screening: Committee Report
Advancing the Role of Systematic Reviews in Nutrition Research and Applications, Volume 1
Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Results of a National Survey
Adverse Event Reporting Systems and Safer Healthcare
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: At-A-Glance
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Quality and Disparities Reports Emphasize Patient Safety
AHRQ Annual Highlights 2008
AHRQ Publications Order Form
AHRQ WebM&M
AHRQ's Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness Initiative
AHRQ's DEcIDE Network
AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program: Why Comparative Effectiveness Matters
AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: An Ever-Expanding Road Map for Improvement
Alcohol Use Among HIV-Infected Persons in Care: Results of a Multi-Site Survey
All or None Measurement: Why We Know So Little About the Comprehensiveness of Care
Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty Events
Ambulatory Surgery in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures
Antidepressant Medicines: A Guide for Adults with Depression
Antiretroviral Drug Resistance in the Developing World
Aprotinin Use in Thoracic Aortic Surgery: Safety and Outcomes
Are Lumbar Spine Reoperation Rates Falling with Greater Use of Fusion Surgery and New Surgical Technology?
Assessing and Understanding Measurement Equivalence in Health Outcome Measures: Issues for Further Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reported Medication Adherence in Hepatitis C Treatment
Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for State Action
Asthma, Work-Related, Diagnosis and Management

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B Vitamins and Berries and Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disorders
Bar-Coded Medication Administration: Decisionmaker Brief
Bariatric Surgery in Women of Reproductive Age: Special Concerns for Pregnancy
Bariatric Surgery: What Women Need to Know
Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
Be Prepared for Medical Appointments: Build Your Question List
Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders
Best Practice Implementation: Lessons Learned from 20 Partnerships
Bioterrorism Preparedness, Pediatric Anthrax
Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guide to Using Them Safely
Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders
Board Oversight of Quality: Any Differences in Process of Care and Mortality?
Breast Cancer Care in Women, Measuring Quality
Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries
Building Capacity for a Transformation Initiative: System Redesign at Denver Health

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Can State Databases Be Used to Develop a National, Standardized Hospital Nurse Staffing Database?
Cancer Care Quality Measures, Colorectal Cancer
Cancer Care Quality Measures, Symptoms and End-of-Life
Cancer Clinical Trials, Recruitment of Underrepresented Populations
Cancer Control Interventions, Diffusion and Dissemination
Carbohydrate and Lipid Disorders and Relevant Considerations in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
Carbohydrate and Lipid Disorders and Relevant Considerations in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
Cardiac Device Implantation in the United States from 1997 through 2004: A Population-Based Analysis
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Implantable Defibrillators in Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
Care of Adults with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2004
Care Transitions: A Threat and an Opportunity for Patient Safety
Celiac Disease
Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) Brochure
CERTs Annual Report Year 7
CERTs Annual Report Year 6
Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
Challenge of Comparative Effectiveness: Getting the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time, The
Changes in Financial Burdens for Health Care: National Estimates for the Population Younger than 65 Years, 1996 to 2003
Changes in Hospital Readmissions for Diabetes-Related Conditions: Differences by Payer
Changing Pattern of Hospital Care for Persons Living with HIV: 2000 through 2004, The
Children's Eligibility and Coverage: A Look Ahead
Choosing Antidepressants for Adults: Clinician's Guide
Choosing Medications for Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinician's Guide
Choosing Non-Opioid Analgesics for Osteoarthritis: Clinician's Guide
Choosing Pain Medicine for Osteoarthritis: A Guide for Consumers
Chronic Disease Management: Decisionmaker Brief
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Defining and Managing
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, A
Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Clinical Utility of Cancer Family History Collection in Primary Care
Closing the Health Care Disparities Gap: Turning Evidence Into Action
Closing the Quality Gap: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior
Closing the Quality Gap: Asthma Care Strategies
Closing the Quality Gap: Care Coordination
Closing the Quality Gap: Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
CMS’s Hospital Acquired Condition Lists Link Hospital Payment, Patient Safety
Collection and Use of Cancer Family History in Primary Care
Communication Failure: Basic Components, Contributing Factors, and the Call for Structure
Community Variation: Disparities in Health Care Quality Between Asian and White Medicare Beneficiaries
Community-Based Mass Prophylaxis: A Planning Guide for Public Health Preparedness
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Analgesics for Osteoarthritis
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) and Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs) for Treating Essential Hypertension
Comparative Effectiveness of Drug Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis in Adults
Comparative Effectiveness of Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment
Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis
Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis: 2007 Update
Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Coronary Artery Disease
Comparative Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Comparative Effectiveness of Second-Generation Antidepressants in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Adult Depression
Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women with Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis
Comparative Effectiveness, Safety, and Indicators of Insulin Analogues in Premixed Formulations for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Comparing Oral Medications for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Clinician's Guide
Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs. A Guide for Adults
Comparison of Outcomes Resulting from Generalist vs. Specialist Care for a Single Discrete Medical Condition, A
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Back Pain Utilization Report
Completeness of Cause of Injury Coding in Healthcare Administrative Databases in the United States, 2001
Compliance with Well-Child Visit Recommendations: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2000-2002
Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support in Long-Term Care Facilities: Costs and Benefits to Stakeholders
Computerized Provider Order Entry: Decisionmaker Brief
Consumer Financial Incentives: A Decision Guide for Purchasers
Consumer-Oriented Strategies for Improving Health Benefit Design: An Overview
Coping with Toothache Pain: A Qualitative Study of Low-Income Persons and Minorities
Correlation of Youth Physical Activity with State Policies, The
Cost of Being a Woman: A National Study of Health Care Utilization and Expenditures for Female-Specific Conditions, The
Cost of Hospitalization for Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants in the United States
Cost Shifting Under Managed Behavioral Health Care
Cost-Effective Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Comparisons of Patient Safety
Costs and State-Specific Rates of Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebroplasty, 2001-2005
Creating and Synthesizing Evidence with Decision Makers in Mind: Integrating Evidence from Clinical Trials and Other Study Designs
Criteria for Distinguishing Effectiveness from Efficacy Trials in Systematic Reviews
Critical Analysis of Care Coordination Strategies for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Current Status of Surge Research

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Decontamination of Children: Preparedness and Response for Hospital Emergency Departments
Dementia, Pharmacological Treatment
Dental Care of U.S. Children: Access, Use, and Referrals by Nondentist Providers, 2003, The
Dental Care Use: Does Dental Insurance Truly Make a Difference in the U.S.?
Dental Use, Expenses, Dental Coverage, and Changes, 1996 and 2004
Depression, CYP450 Testing for Adults Treated with SSRIs
Describing Primary Care Encounters: The Primary Care Network Survey and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Design of the Physical Environment for Changing Healthcare Needs
Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs: A User's Guide
Designing for Safety: Evidence-Based Design and Hospitals
Developing a Methodology for Establishing a Statement of Work for a Policy-Relevant Technical Analysis
Developing a Research Agenda for Assisted Living
Development of a CAHPS Instrument for Nursing Home Residents (NHCAHPS), The
Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Workbook for States
Diabetes Education for Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Families
Diabetes Mellitus, Islet Transplantation in Patients
Diagnosis and Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
Diarrhea- and Rotavirus-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children Less Than 5 Years of Age: United States, 1997 and 2000
Diffusion of New Technology and Payment Policies: Coronary Stents
Discrete Choice Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Health Insurance Coverage, A
Disseminating QI Interventions
Distribution of Public Spending for Health Care in the United States, 2002, The
Do HMOs Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations for Medicare Beneficiaries?
Do Patient Safety Events Increase Readmissions?
Do SCHIP Enrollees Stay Insured?
Do You Know the Right Questions to Ask?
DoD Medical Team Training Programs: An Independent Case Study Analysis
Does Participation in the Food Stamp Program Increase the Prevalence of Obesity and Health Care Spending?
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ

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Eating Disorders, Management
Effect of Dysthymia on Receipt of HAART by Minority HIV-Infected Women
Effect of Immediate Reading of Screening Mammograms on Medical Care Utilization and Costs After False-Positive Mammograms, The
Effect of Tax Subsidies on High Health Care Expenditure Burdens in the United States, The
Effective Health Care Program Booklet
Effective Health Care Program Kit
Effectiveness of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Effectiveness of Continuing Medical Education
Effectiveness of Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities
Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs in Children and Adolescents
Efficacy and Comparative Effectiveness of Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics
Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
Eliminating Asthma Disparities Through Multistakeholder Partnerships
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Implications for Accessibility, Quality, and Safety
Emergency Departments in Crisis: Opportunities for Research
Emergency Preparedness Atlas: U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need To Know
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook
Empirical Evaluation of the Association Between Methodological Shortcomings and Estimates of Adverse Events
End-of-Life Care and Outcomes
Enhancement of Claims Data to Improve Risk Adjustment of Hospital Mortality
Enhancing Quality Improvement
Episiotomy Use in Obstetrical Care
Evaluating the Impact of Partnerships to Improve Clinical Quality
Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills: A Module-Based Approach
Evidence on the Chronic Care Model in the New Millennium
Evidence Shows Cost and Patient Safety Benefits of Emergency Pharmacists
Evidence-Based Practice: AHRQ's Role in Generating and Disseminating Knowledge
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications
Exploring and Crossing the Disparity Divide in Cancer Mortality

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Family History of Breast, Ovarian, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancers
Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004
Finding Order in Heterogeneity: Types of Quality Improvement Intervention Publications
Finding Your Way: What to Do Before You Leave the Hospital
Forging a New Path to Medication Safety with Emergency Pharmacists
Fracture Prevention Treatments for Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: Clinician's Guide
Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data
Funding Opportunities in Knowledge Translation: Review of the AHRQ's "Translating Research into Practice" Initiatives, Competing Funding Agencies, and Strategies for Success

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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Getting to "Smart" Health Care
Global Self-Rated Mental Health: Associations with Other Mental Health Measures and with Role Functioning
Go Out or Stay In: The Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Alcohol Use and Drinking and Driving Patterns Among College Students
GRADE: Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Diagnostic Recommendations
Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2009, The
Guide to Health Care Quality
Guidelines for Guidelines: We've Come a Long Way

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H

Having Surgery? What You Need to Know
HCUPnet
Health Care Markets: Concepts, Data, Measures, and Current Research Challenge
Health Emergency Assistance Line and Triage Hub (HEALTH) Model
Health Information Technology, Costs and Benefits
Health Insurance Coverage During a 24-Month Period: A Comparison of Estimates from Two National Health Surveys
Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take-Up
Health Limitations and Quality of Life Associated with Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases by Phase of Care
Health, Preventive Health Care, and Health Care Access Among Women with Disabilities in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability
Health, Spending and the Effort to Improve Quality in OECD Countries: A Review of the Data
Health-Related Quality of Life After Mitral Valve Repairs and Replacements
Heart Failure, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Heart Failure Diagnosis and Prognosis, Testing for BNP and NT-proBNP
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users, Consumer Guide
Helping Smokers Quit, A Guide for Clinicians
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer: Diagnostic Strategies and Their Implications
HER2 Testing to Manage Patients with Breast Cancer or Other Solid Tumors
Home Health Care Agency Staffing Patterns Before and After the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, by Rural and Urban Location
Home Health Care During an Influenza Pandemic: Issues and Resources
Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Care for Women's Cancers
Hospital and Demographic Influences on the Disposition of Transient Ischemic Attack
Hospital Charges Attributable to a Primary Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases in Older Adults in the United States, 1998-2004
Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2007 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2008 Comparative Database Report
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2009 Comparative Database Report
How Do Hospital Organizational Structure and Processes Affect Quality of Care? A Critical Review of Research Methods
How Often Are Potential Patient Safety Events Present on Admission?
How Useful Are Voluntary Medication Error Reports? The Case of Warfarin-Related Medication Errors
How Well Do Family Physicians Manage Skin Lesions?
Hydroxyurea Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

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Identification of Hospital-Acquired Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections from Medicare Claims
Identifying, Categorizing, and Evaluating Health Care Efficiency Measures
Immigrants and the Use of Preventive Care in the United States
Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications
Impact of Gene Expression Profiling Tests on Breast Cancer Outcomes
Impact of Increased Tax Subsidies on the Insurance Coverage of Self-Employed Families: Evidence from the 1996-2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, The
Impact of Medical Errors on Ninety-Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients, The
Impact of Patient Race on Patient Experiences of Access and Communication in HIV Care
Impact of Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) Implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP
Impact of Survey Attrition on Health Insurance Coverage Estimates in a National Longitudinal Health Care Survey, The
Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Fasting Glucose, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy
Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Practice: Innovative Strategies and Future Directions
Improving Depiction of Benefits and Harms: Analyses of Studies of Well-Known Therapeutics and Review of High-Impact Medical Journals
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction
Improving Patient Safety by Instructional Systems Design
Improving Quality and Reducing Disparities: The Role of Nurses
Improving the Complex Nature of Care Transitions
Improving the Health Care Work Environment: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach
Improving the Health Care Work Environment: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy
Improving the Quality of Nursing Care Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
Incidence and Short-Term Outcomes of Primary and Revision Hip Replacement in the United States
Increasing the Relevance of Research to Health Care Managers: Hospital CEO Imperatives for Improving Quality and Lowering Costs
Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States
Information Gap: Can Health Insurer Personal Health Records Meet Patients’ and Physicians’ Needs?
Informed Participation in TennCare by People with Disabilities
Infrastructure to Monitor Utilization and Outcomes of Gene-Based Applications: An Assessment
Initiating Transformational Change to Enhance Patient Safety
Inpatient Quality Indicators
Insomnia, Manifestations and Management
Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
Intensive Care Unit, Patient Safety, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The
Interdisciplinary Research: The Role of Nursing Education
Introduction to the JGIM Special Issue on Health Information Technology
Investing in Health Information Infrastructure: Can It Help Achieve Health Reform?
Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool: User's Guide
Issues and Challenges in Conducting Systematic Reviews to Support Development of Nutrient Reference Values, Workshop Summary, Volume 2
Issues in the Design of Training for Quality and Safety

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Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)

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Limiting Nurse Overtime and Promoting Other Good Working Conditions Influences Patient Safety
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

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