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Resources by Topic: Inpatient care

Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Inpatient Stays for Bicycle-Related Injuries, 2009
Provides data on bicycle injuries resulting in emergency department visits and hospital stays. Includes information by location of patient residence for urban and rural locations.
Author(s): Elizabeth Stranges, Lori Uscher-Pines, Carol Stocks
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Hospital Visits in the U.S. for Firearm-Related Injuries, 2009
Provides data on hospital visits for firearm-related injuries in 2009, with information related to assault, intentional self-injury, and unintentional injury. Table 2 includes data by location of patient residence, for urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Alison Evans Cuellar, Elizabeth Stranges, Carol Stocks
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Hospital Stays for All-Terrain-Vehicle-Related Injuries, 2009
Provides data on emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations for ATV-related injuries. Table 1 lists ED visits by location of patient residence, for urban and rural areas. Figure 2 shows the rate of ATV-related ED visits for rural compared to urban areas.
Author(s): Josh Breslau, Elizabeth Stranges, Matthew Gladden, Herbert Wong
Date: 05/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Pediatric Cancer Hospitalizations, 2009
Provides data on hospital stays for cancer care for children under 18 years of age. Table 2 includes information by location of patient residence for rural and urban areas, for cancer-related stays and all other hospitalizations.
Author(s): Rebecca Anhang Price, Elizabeth Stranges, Anne Elixhauser
Date: 05/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Associated with Animal Injuries, 2009
Provides data on treat-and-release emergency department visits and hospitalizations related to animal bites, stings, and other animal-related injuries. Includes information by location of patient residence for urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Annelise Adams, Janet P. Sutton, Anne Elixhauser
Date: 05/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Hospital Stays with Cardiac Stents, 2009
Provides data on hospitalizations involving cardiac stents. Table 1 lists cardiac stent insertion procedures by location of patient residence, for rural and urban areas.
Author(s): David I. Auerbach, Jared Lane Maeda, Claudia Steiner
Date: 04/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Evidence-Based Falls Prevention in Critical Access Hospitals
Identifies and assesses evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement interventions for state Flex Programs and Critical Access Hospitals to help them implement falls prevention programs.
Author(s): Karen B. Pearson, Andrew F. Coburn
Date: 12/2011
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Septicemia in U.S. Hospitals, 2009
Reports on septicemia hospitalizations in 2009. Table 4 lists rates of septicemia stays by location of patient residence for urban and rural areas.
Author(s): Anne Elixhauser, Bernard Friedman, Elizabeth Stranges
Date: 10/2011
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Inpatient Stays in Rural Hospitals, 2007
Presents data on rural hospital inpatient stays in 2007. Compares rural and urban hospital utilization, hospital characteristics, resources, patient characteristics, common procedures, and principal diagnoses.
Author(s): Elizabeth Stranges, Laurel Holmquist, Roxanne M. Andrews
Date: 01/2010
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Rural Issues Related to Bundled Payments for Acute Care Episodes
Describes challenges to implementing bundled payments in rural settings and discusses potential contracting and reimbursement strategies to address these challenges.
Author(s): Robert Town, Walter Gregg, Ira Moscovice, et al.
Date: 06/2009
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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