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101. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 22, 2008 - as an adjuvant to usual care improve health outcomes, including: frequency of required intravenous antibiotic … status, growth measures, bone measures, lung function, pulmonary exacerbations, exercise tolerance, antibiotic … www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: January 22, 2010 6 (corticosteroids, antibiotics … growth indices (height, weight, lean body mass, protein turnover), exercise tolerance, intravenous antibiotic

102. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2010 - given that many patients’ disease can be managed with traditional treatments such as aminosalicylates, antibiotics … Numerous high-quality meta- analyses have compared aminosalicylates, antibiotics, corticosteroids, immunomodulators … We plan to include studies that allow participants to be on concomitant medications (e.g., antibiotics … interest, we have added a statement that we will not exclude studies that allow participants to take antibiotics … will exclude studies that compared a medication of interest to a medication not of interest (such as antibiotics

103. QUESTIONS What are the appropriate indications for tonsillectomy Recurrent infections how many Sleep disordered breathingShould clinicians administer or prescribe perioperative antibiotics to children undergoing tonsillectomyRELEVANT… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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104. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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105. Facilitating a Deliberative Session: Transcript (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - In conducting a focus group the background information might be something like this: Antibiotics are … But it’s very difficult saying no to patients who are convinced that they need an antibiotic. … and the educational approach, or information, that will gain patients’ cooperation in not overusing antibiotics … Should there be more specific limits on how doctors use antibiotics? … And so it can start out fun, and then she got into antibiotic use, so making the questions a bit more

106. Cystic-Fibrosis-Hgh Surveillance (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - Antibiotic Use: 3 RCTs found an improvement with rhGH vs. … November 2011 1 new study found no difference in IV antibiotic use with November 2011 No new data … In addition, he was able to d/c insulin, GC, and antibiotics.4 July 2012 No new studies were identified … In addition, he was able to d/c insulin, GC, and antibiotics Key Question 2: In patients with CF … Preliminary data suggest that rhGH may have benefit regarding intravenous antibiotic use.

107. White Paper: Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - requiring a new hospitalization or invasive treatment • Infection (wound or injection site) requiring oral antibiotics … • Infection (wound or injection site) requiring IV antibiotics or a new hospitalization or new operation

108. White Paper: Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - requiring a new hospitalization or invasive treatment • Infection (wound or injection site) requiring oral antibiotics … • Infection (wound or injection site) requiring IV antibiotics or a new hospitalization or new operation

109. CER 221 Disposition of Comments: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2019 - study intervention (e.g. chest physiotherapy) but still received some additional treatments (e.g. antibiotics … The text in the previous page suggests that the standard of care is "standard therapy with antibiotics … Page 69, KQ4, suggest clarifying in the subsequent text if the trials of antibiotics were based on empiric … therapy in all patients or based on clinical suspicion of pneumonia or other infection or if the antibiotics … The trials of antibiotics were based on empirical initial therapy for ECOPD (in the absence of pneumonia

110. Effectiveness of Screening and Treatment of C. difficile Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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111. Chronic-Cough Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - also used to treat certain common underlying etiologies and include antihistamines, corticosteroids, antibiotics … anesthetic, and nonopioid/nonanesthetic antitussives; expectorant and mucolytic protussives; antihistamines; antibiotics … Nonantitussive/ nonprotussive pharmacotherapies included antihistamines, antibiotics, anticholinergics … Overview of intervention class comparisons Antibiotic Corticosteroid Antihistamine Bronchodilator … and nonopioid/nonanesthetic antitussives; expectorant and mucolytic protussives; antihistamines; antibiotics

112. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2012 - intervention • Patient-centered and health outcomes: o Mortality o Hospitalizations o Days of antibiotics … nutritional intervention • Patient-centered and health outcomes: o Hospitalizations o Days of antibiotics … intervention • Patient-centered and health outcomes: o Mortality o Hospitalizations o Days of antibiotics … and Health Outcomes • Mortality • Hospitalization s (number and length of stay) • Days of antibiotics … for behavioral or nutritional intervention, nutritional status, mortality, hospitalizations, days of antibiotics

113. Clostridium Difficile Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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114. Use of a Clinical Pathway To Facilitate the Translation and Utilization of AHRQ EPC Report Findings (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2018 - • The AHRQ EPC report provided value by presenting an overview of the most updated evidence for antibiotic … of Key Question (KQ)3 and KQ4: KQ3: What are the comparative effectiveness and harms of different antibiotic … Comparisons Any, including antibiotic treatments or placebo, usual care, active care, or none. … [5] Fulminant CDI: The IDSA recommends that "Antibiotic therapy should be started empirically if a substantial … For other patients, antibiotic therapy should be started after diagnosis to limit overuse of antibiotics

115. Clostridium difficile Infection Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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116. S38 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - choice of unit of random- ization in a trial that evaluated a strategy to improve prescrib- ing of antibiotics … academic medical center.6 The outcome of interest, measured in individual patients, was an order for an antibiotic … Academic detailing to improve use of broad-spectrum antibiotics at an academic medical center.

117. Rapid Response_Linking Dental Services to Treatment Outcomes for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Rapid Response Review (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2024 - Question 3, Detailed Description of the Evidence 21 *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 ABX: antibiotics … programs that did have a protocol followed the AHA protocol or a modified protocol for prophylactic antibiotics … There is thus a lack of consistent, established protocols for prophylactic antibiotics during the treatment … Survey Updated and evidence-based guidelines should be developed for the use of antibiotic prophylaxis … Antibiotics (Basel) 2019, 8 (4), 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8040209.

118. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 276: Diagnosis and Managment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children (pdf file)
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     December 06, 2024 - Evidence relating to the diagnostic criteria for PANS/PANDAS, and treatment of these patients with antibiotics

119. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Prevention of Transmission of Infection With Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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120. Disposition of Comments for Screening of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - “Some of the evidence for the effectiveness of active surveillance in controlling the spread of antibiotic … Only 43% of the patients who were known to be MRSA carriers before surgery received appropriate antibiotics … One has to wonder if not giving preoperative antibiotics effective against MRSA to patients known to … to improve patient safety) and to confounders (such as efforts to improve the appropriate use of antibiotics … intervention (i.e., turnaround time; (1) In the Harbarth study only 43% of carriers received appropriate antibiotics