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141. Summary Variables in Observational Research: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - The disease risk score approach, in contrast, involves collapsing correlates of outcome into a single … A prudent approach is to trim the data (excluding the non-overlap in the tails of the distribution) in … Stratification Another approach to the use of propensity scores is stratification. … An approach to handle this is to construct a disease risk score. … Some insights into Miettinen’s multivariate confounder score approach to case-control study analysis.

142. Back (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - stories of patients and  families wrestling with complex medical   decisions, finding a way to  approach

143. Integrating Bodies of Evidence: Existing Systematic Reviews and Primary Studies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2015 - that this guidance may be useful to all systematic reviewers facing these issues. 1 Methods Approach … Appraising the approach used to assess RoB includes determining if the prior review used a generally … accepted tool and explicit methods, as well as whether that approach is similar enough to that being … If the prior review used an approach that is the same or similar to the approach used in the current … The key is to find the right balance in terms of an efficient and unbiased approach to conducting and

144. Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2024 - and documentation about how these contribute to differences in estimates and how creating a standard approach … identify where there is and is not consensus across methods, and how initial steps toward a standardized approach

145. Nonoperative and Operative Treatments for Rotator Cuff Tears: Future Research Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - treatments and outcomes, small sample sizes, incomplete followup, and a heavy focus on surgical technique or approach … interventions, only sparse data were available, which precluded firm conclusions about the value of any single approach

146. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 16, 2011 - weeks’ gestation, the most common method of screening for GDM in North America involves a two-step approach … based on risk factors using a blood glucose test, in contrast to the two-step universal screening approach … Interventions Studies that used any GDM screening or diagnostic approach, including one-step, two-step … , or other approach will be eligible. … A hierarchical regression approach to meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy evaluations.

147. Future Research Needs for Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the Pediatric Population (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - Pooling was not attempted, as the data were not amenable to this approach. … Impact on outcomes of a “family-centered” approach to transplantation. … Pooling was not attempted, as the data were not amenable to this approach. … This approach is consistent with the guidance under development by AHRQ. … Impact on outcomes of a “family-centered” approach to transplantation.

148. Telehealth During COVID-19 (pdf file)
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     April 28, 2022 - evidence – having a variety of both quantitative and qualitative studies – also dictates that such approach … Synthesis Our approach to data synthesis will differ by Key Question. … We will follow the JBI approach for the qualitative evidence synthesis.16 We plan to take a “best-fit … ” framework approach by developing a list of concepts and adopting, adapting or constructing a conceptual … We plan to use a convergent segregated approach to synthesis and integration of the quantitative and

149. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Effective Health Care Topic Number: 0309 Document Completion Date: 03-22-11 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Efficacy and safety of screening and treatment of postpartum depression will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including popula…

150. Measures for Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - The feedback from the Key Informants will inform the approach our project team uses to organize the … well as aggregation and analysis methods, including sensitivity, if reported, that are part of the approach … Our approach to organizing and presenting the evidence map results will be informed by prior evidence

151. Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Endovascular Therapy, and Surgery for Peripheral Arterial Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - However, for many patients, the optimal approach, medical therapy or revascularization, surgery versus

152. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - In particular, we limit our grading strength of evidence approach to individual outcomes. … to suit all users, documentation and a consistent approach in reporting of the most important summary … to complement activities of guideline developers who are also using a GRADE approach to look across … The approach to synthesis in such circumstances is necessarily qualitative (i.e., narrative, based on … Table 5 illustrates the suggested approach to providing actionable information to decisionmakers.

153. Synthesizing the Outputs of Deliberative Forum (pdf file)
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     January 11, 2017 - from participants o ratification of outputs with participants can improve the legitimacy of this approach

154. Minimal Modeling Approaches to Value of Information Analysis for Health Research | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2021 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

155. For adults and children with asthma what is the effectiveness of the Buteyko Breathing method on reducing bronchodilator and inhaled steroid use and improving health status? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - developing a clinical guideline, working with a policy with large uncertainty about the appropriate approach … method to control asthma symptoms and reduce or eliminated the need for drug therapy, this treatment approach … This method is controversial because it is a simple, non-pharmaceutical but demonstrably effective approach

156. A Randomized Trial of Epidural Glucocorticoid Injections for Spinal Stenosis: A Brief Summary of Findings for Clinicians (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2016 - between groups). »» The small benefit observed at 3 weeks was due solely to the inter- laminar epidural approach … and not to the transforaminal epidural approach to injection. … used to directly compare interlaminar and transforaminal injec- tions, as the choice of injection approach

157. Living Systematic Reviews: Practical Considerations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center Program (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - v Abstract Living systematic reviews are a relatively new approach to keeping the evidence in systematic … Background Living systematic reviews (LSRs) are a relatively new approach of keeping the evidence in … A “best evidence” approach was initially proposed, where observational studies would help fill gaps … We received only limited input, primarily agreeing with our approach. … While the resulting reports in this model would likely be useful, this approach poses a challenge to

158. Rabies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     Rabies vaccines are available for dogs, cats and farm animals Don't let pets roam Don't approach

159. Financing and Economics of Conducting N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 3) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - uncertainty in specific patients when the underlying condition and drugs are amenable to the n-of-1 approach … and risks of the drug matter to that patient. 7 Second, clinicians may adopt a "trial of therapy" approach … The biases and potential problems of this approach have been well described. 7-9 At times, clinicians … The research approach clearly affected the costs incurred and may have also determined whether some costs … treatment periods (medication 1 then medication 2, or vice versa) over three treatment cycles. 13,14 This approach

160. Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - weeks’ gestation, the most common method of screening for GDM in North America involves a two-step approach … Settings: All settings KQ5: What are the harms of treating GDM and do they vary by diagnostic approach … Interventions Studies that used any GDM screening or diagnostic approach, including one-step, two-step … , or other approach will be eligible. … A hierarchical regression approach to meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy evaluations.