Data points publication series / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US).

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US), author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care, Cost of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

annual

Began with: 2011-

Place of Publication:

Rockville (MD) : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US), 2011.

Summary:

This continuing series of reports, published by the DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Network provides new information and insights into the use of health care services and interventions for the treatment, management, and diagnosis of specific diseases, it also highlights the variations and potential disparities in health care services across patient subpopulations. The reports provide brief descriptive statistics, background information, and analytic tables on a variety of specific, focused topics. Certain reports will present new statistics on topics such as disease incidence, prevalence, and burden of illness and outcomes such as hospital readmission, morbidity, and mortality. The series reports will generally summarize the basic demographic and geographic breakdowns of the data, with additional details provided in statistical tables that can be downloaded from this Web site. Overall, the report series will assist stakeholders in describing important trends in health care and in identifying research questions for new studies on comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes. Researchers from the DEcIDE Network will initially use existing health care databases, particularly those available from the Federal Medicare program, to produce the reports.

Contents:

Echocardiography Trends

Data Points #20. Trends in the use of echocardiography, 2007 to 2011

Beth A Virnig, Nathan D Shippee, Brian O'Donnell, Jessica Zeglin, and Shriram Parashuram.

Published: May 13, 2014.

METHODS

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Acknowledgments

APPENDICES

Medication Use in Medicare

Data Points #19. Medication use among Medicare beneficiaries with medical and psychiatric conditions, 2009-2011

Nathan D Shippee, Kristofer Hall, Jessica Zeglin, Brian O'Donnell, and Beth A Virnig.

Published: April 23, 2014.

Use of Diabetes Care

Data Points # 18. Use of and access to health care by Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes: impact of diabetes type and insulin use, 2007-2011

Published: January 29, 2014.

Trends in Bariatric Surgery

Data Points # 17. Trends in bariatric surgery in Medicare beneficiaries

Elizabeth B Habermann, Sara B Durham, Robert Dorman, Stephanie Jarosek, and Beth A Virnig.

Published: November 2012.

Types of Prostate Radiation

Data Points # 16. Changes across time and geography in the use of prostate radiation technologies for newly diagnosed older cancer patients: 2006-2008

Sean P Elliott, Stephanie L Jarosek, and Beth A Virnig.

CONCLUSIONS

Breast Cancer

Data Points # 15. Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer

Stephanie Jarosek, Todd M Tuttle, Sara Durham, and Beth A Virnig.

Published: August 2012.

Data Points # 14. Use of endocrine therapy following diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ or early invasive breast cancer

Beth A Virnig, Michael T Torchia, Stephanie L Jarosek, Sara Durham, and Todd M Tuttle.

LIMITATIONS

Data Points # 13. Use of preoperative MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer

Todd M Tuttle, Stephanie Jarosek, Sara Durham, and Beth A Virnig.

Newly Medicare-Eligible Elders and Disabled

Data Points # 12. Health care use in the first six months of Medicare eligibility for elders: impact of state support

Beth A Virnig, Robert L Kane, David Skellan, and Brian O'Donnell.

Published: June 15, 2012.

Data Points # 11. Newly Medicare-eligible disabled: comparison of duals and nonduals

Beth A Virnig, David Skellan, Brian O'Donnell, and Robert L Kane.

Proton Beam Radiotherapy

Data Points # 10. Proton beam radiotherapy in the U.S. Medicare population: growth in use between 2006 and 2009

Stephanie Jarosek, Sean Elliott, and Beth A Virnig.

Published: May 7, 2012.

Diabetes Treatment

Data Points #9. Utilization of antidiabetic drugs among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, 2006-2009

David J Margolis, Charles E Leonard, Hanieh Razzaghi, Ole J Hoffstad, Cristin P Freeman, Karla López de Nava, Teresa Molina, Yang Tan, and Barbara A Bartman.

Published: April 5, 2012.

FINDINGS

DATA SOURCE

STUDY PERIOD

DEFINITIONS AND METHODS

ADDITIONAL FINDINGS AVAILABLE ONLINE

References

Cardiovascular Issues

Data Points #8. Utilization of antihypertensive drug classes among Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension, 2007 to 2009

Raymond R Townsend, Charles E Leonard, Karla López de Nava, Teresa Molina, Christina Kang-Yi, and Cristin P Freeman.

Published: November 16, 2011.

Anticancer Biologics

Data Points #7. Utilization of anticancer biologic products among Medicare beneficiaries, by diagnostic cancer subchapter, 2006-2009

Cristin P Freeman, Charles E Leonard, Karla López de Nava, Teresa Molina, and Thomas MaCurdy.

Published: August 26, 2011.

Data Points #6. Utilization and cost of anticancer biologic products among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006-2009

Charles E Leonard, Cristin P Freeman, Thomas MaCurdy, Karla López de Nava, Teresa Molina, Christina D Kang-Yi, and Weijing Sun.

DEFINITIONS AND METHODOLOGY

Utilization and Costs

Data Points #5. Prevalence and Medicare reimbursement by recurrent international classification of diseases categories, 2006-2009

Charles E Leonard, Cristin P Freeman, Thomas MaCurdy, Craig A Umscheid, Karla López de Nava, Teresa Molina, Sean MaCurdy, Christina D Kang-Yi, Hanieh Razzaghi, and David Hsia.

Published: June 23, 2011.

Erythropoietins

Data Points #4. Trends in the utilization of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents among Medicare beneficiaries with kidney disease

Thomas MaCurdy, Jonathan Gibbs, Karla López de Nava, Azucena Monroy, Michael Wernecke, Sonam Sherpa, Guan Wang, Stephanie Young, and Charles E Leonard.

Published: March 31, 2011.

DATA SOURCE AND STUDY PERIOD

Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Data Points #3. Economic burden of diabetic foot ulcers and amputations

David J Margolis, D Scot Malay, Ole J Hoffstad, Charles E Leonard, Thomas MaCurdy, Yang Tan, Teresa Molina, Karla López de Nava, and Karen L Siegel.

Published: March 8, 2011.

Data Points #2. Incidence of diabetic foot ulcer and lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006 to 2008

David J Margolis, D Scot Malay, Ole J Hoffstad, Charles E Leonard, Thomas MaCurdy, Karla López de Nava, Yang Tan, Teresa Molina, and Karen L Siegel.

Published: February 17, 2011.

Data Points #1. Prevalence of diabetes, diabetic foot ulcer, and lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006 to 2008

Acknowledgments.

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