AHRQ Stats: Relationship Between Electronic Nicotine Use and General Health

AHRQ Stats: Relationship Between Electronic Nicotine Use and General Health

Among young adults who reported being in fair or poor general health in 2021, 46.6 percent indicated that they had used an electronic nicotine product. Only 27 percent who reported they were in excellent health indicated use of an electronic nicotine product. (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief #544, Characteristics of Young Adults Aged 18-24 Who Had Ever Used an Electronic Nicotine Product, 2021.)

Today's Headlines:

• Register Now for March 7 Webinar on Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care.
• Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network.
• Updates to AHRQ Data Visualizations.
• Research Funding Opportunities From AHRQ.
• Searchable AHRQ Database Provides Access to Health Services Research Findings.
• New Research and Evidence From AHRQ.
• Explore Careers at AHRQ.
• AHRQ in the Professional Literature.

Register Now for March 7 Webinar on Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care

A webinar on March 7 from 2 to 3:15 p.m. ET will highlight AHRQ-funded research on the integration of behavioral health in primary care. Sponsored by AHRQ’s National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research, the webinar will feature AHRQ grantees who are researching behavioral health tools and interventions in ambulatory care settings. It will also highlight tools and research from The Academy, AHRQ’s national resource for integrating behavioral health and primary care. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in a question-and-answer session. Register for the webinar.

Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

• Exploring clinical lessons learned by experienced hospitalists from diagnostic errors and successes.
• Emergency department volume and delayed diagnosis of serious pediatric conditions.
• Disparities in racial, ethnic, and payer groups for pediatric safety events in US hospitals.

Review additional new publications in PSNet’s current issue or access recent cases and commentaries in AHRQ’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).

Updates to AHRQ Data Visualizations

Recent updates to AHRQ data visualizations provide fresh insights on three topics:

• Opioid Use Among Elderly and Non-Elderly Adults by Socioeconomic Characteristics provides estimates on "frequent use" and "any use" of opioids among adults aged 65 and older and adults aged 18–64 during 2015-16 and 2020-21.
• Healthcare Expenditures Among Persons With High Expenses, which shows dollar amounts spent on healthcare by people with high healthcare costs, allows users to explore the data by medical condition, demographic group and other variables.
• Trends in Health Insurance at Private Employers, 2008–2022 describes trends in employer-sponsored insurance, which is the primary source of health insurance coverage for individuals under age 65.

Access additional AHRQ data visualizations, developed as interactive tools to allow researchers, policymakers, healthcare leaders and others to view visual depictions of healthcare trends. Other topics include COVID-19 hospitalizations, emergency department visits and inpatient hospital stays for mental disorders.

Research Funding Opportunities From AHRQ

Health services researchers committed to improving the quality, safety and equity of healthcare can explore a variety of AHRQ funding opportunities to support this work. AHRQ has recently updated its research priorities guidance to include healthcare quality and safety; delivery and practice improvement; and whole-person healthcare delivery. Notice of Funding Opportunities include Research Grants (R series), Career Development Awards (K series) and Research Training and Fellowships (T & F series). Access more information on when to submit applications. Current notices include:

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement to Create State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to Accelerate Implementation of Actionable Evidence into Practice.
• AHRQ and PCORI Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Centers (P30).
• Evaluation and Coordinating Center for the AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Centers (U18).
• AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18),
• AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01).
• AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program (R03).

Searchable AHRQ Database Provides Access to Health Services Research Findings

Researchers looking for the latest research on topics ranging from diagnostic safety to primary care to hospital readmissions can find it in AHRQ’s Research Studies database. This resource offers summaries of more than 10,000 published articles funded by AHRQ or authored by AHRQ researchers. It includes summaries of journal articles, book chapters and working papers from 2013 to present. Updated monthly, the resource allows searching by keyword and provides links to journal abstracts. Access the database.

New Research and Evidence From AHRQ

• Technical Brief (draft open for comment through March 15): Documentation Burden.
• Technical Brief (draft open for comment through March 22) Evidence Map on Home and Community-Based Services.
• Systematic Review (draft open for comment through April 8): Diagnosis and Treatment of Tethered Spinal Cord.
• Systematic Review (draft open for comment through April 11): Treatment of Stages I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Explore Careers at AHRQ

Join the team that strives to improve healthcare for all Americans by investing in health systems research, creating strategies to support practice improvement and providing data and analytics to identify opportunities for improvement. Current vacancies include:

• Junior Staff Service Fellow. Application deadline: March 8.
• Health Scientist Administrator, Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety. Application deadline: March 18.

AHRQ in the Professional Literature

AI-generated clinical summaries require more than accuracy. Goodman KE, Yi PH, Morgan DJ. JAMA 2024 Feb 27;331(8):637-8. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Medication management strategies by community-dwelling older adults: a multisite qualitative analysis. Jallow F, Stehling E, Sajwani-Merchant Z, et al. J Patient Saf 2024 Feb 16. [Epub ahead of print.] Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Unpacking intersectional inequities in flu vaccination by sexuality, gender, and race-ethnicity in the United States. Hsieh N. J Health Soc Behav 2024 Mar;65(1):38-59. Epub 2023 Sep 30. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Multicenter evaluation of a method to identify delayed diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis and sepsis in administrative data. Michelson KA, Bachur RG, Cruz AT, et al. Diagnosis 2023 Nov;10(4):383-9. Epub 2023 Jun 22. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Human factors engineering for the pediatric hospitalist. Luo BT, Barton HJ, Wooldridge AR, et al. Hosp Pediatr 2023 Nov;13(11):e365-70. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Reduced prevalence of childhood asthma after housing renovations in an underresourced community. Beck AF, Wymer L, Pinzer E, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob 2023 Nov;2(4):1-4. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Association of neighborhood opportunity and pediatric hospitalization rates in the United States. Carroll AR, Hall M, Noelke C, et al. J Hosp Med 2024 Feb;19(2):120-5. Epub 2023 Dec 10. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

Assessment of learning health system science competency in the equity and justice domain. Franklin PD, Drane D. Learn Health Syst 2024 Jan;8(1):e10381. Epub 2023 Jul 31. Access the abstract on PubMed®.