U.S. emergency departments visits resulting from poor medication adherence: 2005-07.

Objectives: To describe characteristics and trends for emergency department visits related to medication nonadherence and to identify associations between patient characteristics and emergency department visits related to medication nonadherence.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Setting: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) from 2005 to 2007.

The effect of electronic medical record system sophistication on preventive healthcare for women.

Objective: To observe the effect of electronic medical record (EMR) system sophistication on preventive women's healthcare.

Materials And Methods: Providers in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), 2007-8, were included if they had at least one visit by a woman at least 21 years old. Based on 16 questions from NAMCS, the level of a provider's EMR system sophistication was classified as non-existent, minimal, basic, or fully functional.

National burden of pediatric hospitalizations for inflammatory bowel disease: results from the 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database.

Objectives: : The objective of the present study was to quantify the national pediatric inpatient inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) burden in terms of the number of IBD-related hospitalizations, the number of days spent in the hospital, and hospitalization costs.

Methods: : Hospitalizations for children and adolescents 20 years and younger with a primary diagnosis of either Crohn disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) were selected from the 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Length of the hospital stay in days (LOS) and charges for the hospitalization were found directly in the Kids' Inpatient Database, and cost was calculated using the hospital's cost-to-charge ratio.

The national burden of E-code-identified adverse drug events among hospitalized children using a national discharge database.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a national-level assessment of pediatric adverse drug events (ADEs), including types, frequencies, and burdens.

Methods: Discharge data were obtained from the 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database. ADEs were identified by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification and supplemental E codes as adverse effects (AEs), accidental poisonings (APs), or those involving neuropathy, dermatitis, and contact dermatitis.