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301. Assessing Applicability: Interactive Case Study Quiz (ppt file)
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     September 02, 2013 - The process used to assess applicability and to distinguish efficacy trials from effectiveness trials … Using a three-step process to assess applicability can make the process easier.

302. Assessing Applicability: Interactive Case Study Quiz (ppt file)
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     September 02, 2013 - The process used to assess applicability and to distinguish efficacy trials from effectiveness trials … Using a three-step process to assess applicability can make the process easier.

303. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2010 - Framework for analyzing outcomes for rFVIIa use Premier Database Analysis to Assess In-Hospital Use … • There was inadequate information available to assess the effect of rFVIIa dosage. … • There was inadequate information available to assess the effect of rFVIIa dosage. … • There was inadequate information available to assess the effect of rFVIIa dosage. … • There was inadequate information available to assess the effect of rFVIIa dosage.

304. The Effectiveness of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDS) in Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - In order to assess the benefits or harms of any therapy, it is critical to have a comparison treatment … the measure, it is important to be able to measure clinically meaningful responses to therapy and to assess … Case control studies are acceptable to assess for adverse events of DMARD treatment (KQ3, KQ4). … Data elements include descriptors to assess applicability, quality elements, intervention/exposure details … To assess individual observational studies, we will adapt a basic set of quality criteria used in previous

305. Potential Harms Resulting from Patient-Clinician Real-Time Clinical Encounters using Video-based Telehealth: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     September 09, 2022 - Purpose of the Review The purpose of this rapid review is to assess the evidence on the potential harms … Assessment For studies that address Question 5 about the effectiveness of PSPs, the primary reviewer will assess … Questions Context and Domain Being Studied Purpose of the Review The purpose of this rapid review is to assess

306. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 7 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - synthesis to promote improved patient outcomes.1,2 In particular, such grades allow decisionmakers to assess … Systematic reviewers need to carefully consider which of these accuracy outcomes to assess based on … Principle 3: The principle domains of GRADE can be adapted to assess a body of evidence on diagnostic … Assess domains explicitly. … Reviewers should explicitly assess each domain to arrive at a grade for each outcome.

307. Executive Summary_Systematic Review_Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - Checklist (PCL) and the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) were measures most frequently used to assess … The PCL and the CAPS were measures most frequently used to assess continuous PTSD outcomes, used in

308. The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) proposes to update the following 4 guideline topics from the 2006 publication on the Diagnosis and Management of Cough: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines.1 1. Assessing Cough… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - A new tool to assess and monitor the burden of chronic cough on quality of life: chronic cough impact … the ACCP Cough guidelines, there will be much less uncertainty on the part of clinicians on how 1) to assess … Physicians, including many pulmonologists, need education in how to assess the severity of the patient's

309. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 30, 2011 - This review will assess the comparative effectiveness of pegylated interferon alfa-2a and pegylated … trials, there is no consensus on optimal rating methods; 20 therefore, no formal scoring system to assess … We will use standard  2 tests to assess the presence of statistical heterogeneity among studies, … We will also assess differences in treatment effect or harm in relevant subgroups stratified by race … Health Technol Assess. 2003;7(27):iii-x, 1-173. PMID: 14499048. 20.

310. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 25, 2024 - Purpose of the Review This systematic review will assess the effectiveness and potential harms of MBIs … We will assess the risk of bias for each included study using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 (ROB2) tool … Although we will assess selective outcome reporting, we will not incorporate it in the overall risk … To assess effectiveness, we will tackle two interrelated tasks: evaluate the overall effectiveness of … Assessing Applicability: We will assess applicability according to the approach described in the AHRQ

311. Total Worker Health® (TWH) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - include studies that meet all the inclusion criteria and contain enough methodological information to assess … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies To assess the risk of bias (i.e., internal … These include questions to assess selection bias, confounding, performance bias, detection bias, and … Two independent reviewers will assess risk of bias for each study. … Two reviewers will assess each domain for each key outcome, and differences will be resolved by consensus

312. Comparative Effectiveness of Coronary Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Multivessel Disease: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data from Ten Randomized Trials (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - We undertook a collaborative analysis of data from randomized trials to assess whether the effects of … Pooling individual patient data from randomized trials to assess treatment has advantages over the more … This possibility has been difficult to assess because no randomized trial has been large enough to … we used Cox proportional hazards models stratified by trial24 that included a gamma frailty term to assess … We attempted to assess whether the results of the earlier trials differed from those of the subsequent

313. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2020 - Services to contract with the Institute of Medicine (IOM, now the National Academy of Medicine) to assess … b The Evidence-based Practice Center will assess available literature to ensure that adequate evidence … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … The Key Questions are designed to assess the comparative effectiveness and harms by patient demographics … We will use this information to assess the situations in which the evidence is most relevant and to evaluate

314. Psychosocial and Pharmacologic Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - The current systematic review aimed to assess psychosocial and pharmacologic treatment approaches for … For additional details on the methodology used to assess strength of evidence, please refer to: Owens … effectiveness of psychosocial interventions with pharmacologic interventions. �� The review did not assess

315. Strategies for Improving the Lives of Women Aged 40 and Above Living with HIV/AIDS | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Assess the performance of diagnostics for co-occurring disease; and assess the effects of treating co-occurring … Assess co-occurring diseases and risk factors as predictor of all-cause mortality and HIV progression … The third interest area includes studies that assess the performance of tests for diagnosing co-occurring … Alternatively, assess modifiers of initial or continued engagement with a resource (as defined by the … For the second interest area eligible are studies that assess the association between different levels

316. AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program: Synthesizing evidence to improve health care practice and delivery (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2022 - They grade and assess the strength of the evidence base.

317. Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence when Comparing Medical Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Table 1 defines these and indicates how to assess and apply them. … In the absence of statistical testing or measurement of heterogeneity, EPCs can assess consistency on … Second, EPCs should assess each of the major domains for rating the overall strength of evidence. … In addition, EPCs should assess the resulting inter-rater reliability for each domain. … In the future, CERs may increasingly assess diagnostic tests or strategies.

318. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2017 - For additional details on the methodology used to assess strength of evidence, please refer to: Owens … Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ). 2004 Mar;(93):1-6. PMID: 15133887. 2. … Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ). 2004 Mar;(94):1-8. PMID: 15133888.

319. Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes for Infants and Children (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2023 - Once the title and abstract screening stage is complete, two reviewers will independently assess the … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Systematic Reviews and Individual Studies We will assess … Two independent reviewers will assess the risk of bias for each primary study. … The primary domains we will assess as part of our SOE assessment are study limitations, directness, … Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep). 2007(153):1-186. 23. U. S.

320. Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - test performance when the reference standard is imperfect: (a) to forgo the classical paradigm and assess … Assess the index test’s ability to predict patient-relevant outcomes instead of test accuracy. … Assess the concordance of difference tests instead of test accuracy. … Assess the condordance in the results of the index and reference tests (i.e., treat them as two alternative … Health Technol Assess 2007; 11(50):iii, ix-51.