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Articles of Interest

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

• Articles funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) or authored by AHRQ researchers.
• Articles mentioning or discussing AHRQ staff, activities, and publications/products.
• Articles related to AHRQ-funded Evidence-based Practice Centers.
• Articles related to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force or Put Prevention into Practice program.
• Articles mentioning the National Healthcare Disparities Report and National Healthcare Quality Report.
• Other research using AHRQ data or products.

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2012

Date	Top Item
6/8/12	Patient-focused Intervention To Improve Long-term Adherence to Evidence-based Medications: a Randomized Trial
6/1/12	Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-peer Assessment
5/25/12	Infused Chemotherapy Use in the Elderly after Patent Expiration
5/18/12	Relations between QRS|T Angle, Cardiac Risk Factors, and Mortality in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)
5/11/12	Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
5/4/12	The Role of the Geographic Information Systems Infrastructure in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Perspective from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
4/27/12	The Patient Handoff: a Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
4/20/12	Derivation and Validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk Score for Targeted HIV Screening
4/13/12	Maternal Perceptions of Help from Home Visits by Nurse-community Health Worker Teams
4/6/12	Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
3/30/12	Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling
3/23/12	Potentially Harmful Drug-drug Interactions in the Elderly: a Review
3/16/12	Predictors of Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensives in Community Health Centers
3/9/12	Comparing Different Measures of Retention in Outpatient HIV Care
3/2/12	Survival after Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Study: the Design and Implementation of a Positive Deviance Study
2/24/12	Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start
2/17/12	Provider-patient Adherence Dialogue in HIV Care: Results of a Multisite Study
2/10/12	Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior with Antidepressant Treatment: Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
2/3/12	Diabetes Data Group vs Carpenter-Coustan Criteria to Diagnose Gestational Diabetes
1/27/12	Prediction Is Very Hard, Especially about the Future
1/20/12	A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
1/13/12	Effects of Standardized Outreach for Patients Refusing Preventive Services: a Quasiexperimental Quality Improvement Study
1/6/12	Strategies for Strengthening the Evidence Base for Employee Health Promotion Programs