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441. Treatment of Non-metastatic Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - with any new primary studies identified in our searches, update meta-analyses if appropriate, and re-assess … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Predefined criteria will be used to assess … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … AMSTAR is a reliable and valid measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews … concept word, rare disease supplementary concept word, unique identifier] (135002) 7 and 10 (290) ((assess

442. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Medical tests may also be used to assess immediate or future response to treatment, including the probability … physical examination, as well as scored questionnaires intended, for example, for screening or to assess … Medical Test Methods Guide complements AHRQ’s General Methods Guide,1 which focuses on methods to assess … describe how to determine the key questions, as well as in chapters 5 and 6, which describe how to assess … Here we suggest that systematic reviewers search the literature to assess which factors are likely to

443. Routine Preoperative Testing: Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Therefore, when assessing the clinical effects of testing, we need to assess the clinical utility of … The goal of this review is to assess whether actually ordering routine preoperative tests alters care … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the methodological quality … Methods Guide . 10 As discussed above, given the range of outcomes under consideration, we plan to assess … Assessing Applicability We will assess the applicability within and across studies with reference to

444. Chronic Urinary Retention (CUR) Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - will be used to identify studies, outcomes, and analyses not reported in the published literature to assess … systematic reviews will be evaluated for quality using a modified version of the AMSTAR criteria. 9 We will assess … Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, Version 5.1.0. 10 We will develop an instrument to assess … We will develop items for both risk-of-bias instruments to assess selective outcome and selective analysis … We will assess the clinical heterogeneity among methodological and PICOTS elements to determine appropriateness

445. Comparative Effectiveness of Medications To Reduce Risk of Primary Breast Cancer in Women | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - effectiveness of tamoxifen citrate, raloxifene, and tibolone to reduce risk for primary breast cancer, assess

446. Mental Disorders | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2005 - Abstract Archived January 1, 2005 A Multicenter, Observational Cohort Study to Assess

447. Decision-Analytic Modeling to Evaluate Benefits and Harms of Medical Tests – Uses and Limitations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - utility of medical tests. 8,9 Herein, we discuss the rationale for and impact of using modeling to assess … Decision analysis is a natural framework to assess such tradeoffs. … Health Technol Assess 2007;11:iii-xi, 1. Gillies CL, Lambert PC, Abrams KR, et al. … Health Technol Assess 2004;8:iii-xi, 1. Philips Z, Bojke L, Sculpher M, et al. … Health Technol Assess 2007;11:iii-xi, 1.

448. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2019 - Information from grey literature will also be used to assess publication and reporting bias and inform … non-RCTs will be assessed using the ROBINS-I tool.15 8 One investigator will independently assess … We will assess the clinical and methodological heterogeneity and variation in effect size to determine … will use the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)19 approach to assess … differ from those of the population of treatment naïve men with CLPC affect applicability.21 We will assess

449. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Information from grey literature will also be used to assess publication and reporting bias and inform … bias for non-RCTs will be assessed using the ROBINS-I tool. 15 One investigator will independently assess … We will assess the clinical and methodological heterogeneity and variation in effect size to determine … will use the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) 19 approach to assess … differ from those of the population of treatment naïve men with CLPC affect applicability. 21 We will assess

450. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2018 - Bias of Individual Studies and Quality of Systematic Reviews Based upon AHRQ guidance, we will assess … For treatment effects, we will assess consistency in direction (effect estimates on same side of no … Based on these elements, we will assess the overall SOE29 for each comparison and outcome as: 28 … Eliminated the plan to try to formally assess systematic reviews for author conflict of interest. … Strength of evidence Stated that we’d assess strength of evidence at nonspecific domain level.

451. Future Research Needs for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Assess the impact of noncyclic chronic pelvic pain on the use of health services. 10. … Determine optimal followup to assess outcomes following surgical interventions. 15. … Systematically assess the role in CPP treatment for: i. Physiotherapy ii. … · Long term followup of surgery treatment is needed to assess outcomes. … Assess the impact of noncyclic chronic pelvic pain on the use of health services. CER 54.

452. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - We will assess individual study clinical and methodological heterogeneity to determine appropriateness … For treatment effects, we will assess consistency in direction (effect estimates on same side of no effect … Based on these elements, we will assess the overall SOE 29 for each comparison and outcome as:  High … Eliminated the plan to try to formally assess systematic reviews for author conflict of interest. … Strength of evidence Stated that we'd assess strength of evidence at nonspecific domain level.

453. Gout-managment-protocol-141103 (pdf file)
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     November 03, 2014 - - Included studies will be limited to those that fit the PICOTs described above, namely those that assess … Studies will also be included if they assess the effects of comorbidities, other potential modifying … Finally, we will ask the Technical Expert panel (TEP) to assess our included studies and to provide … history of similar symptoms, results of HLA typing), analytic methods, and characteristics necessary to assess … Grading the Strength of Evidence (SOE) for Major Comparisons and Outcomes We will assess the overall

454. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Measuring Outcomes of Care for Persons With Disabilities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Question 2 What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities … Question 3 What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities … strategies noted in the background section, will guide our efforts. 6 Research Timing: We will assess … examine the psychometric properties of measurement tools and ways that they are used in the literature to assess … Methodological Quality of Individual Measurement Tools and Grading the Evidence for Each Key Question We will assess

455. Acute Treatments for Episodic Migraine | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - the risk of bias of the included RCTs using the Cochrane Collaboration’s Risk of Bias 2 tool 22 to assess … will follow the procedures outlined in the EPC Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews to assess … systematic reviews evaluating triptans or NSAIDs, we will use the AMSTAR tool (A measurement tool to assess … systematic reviews) to assess the credibility of these systematic reviews. … appropriate synthesis methods, publication bias evaluation, and conflict of interest We added methods to assess

456. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 03, 2011 - Question 2 What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities … Question 3 What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities … www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: August 3, 2011 Research Timing: We will assess … the psychometric properties of measurement tools and ways that they are used in the literature to assess … Quality of Individual Measurement Tools and Grading the Evidence for Each Key Question We will assess

457. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Assess response to treatment. Assess probability of desirable/undesirable consequences. … They can be used to screen for the likelihood of a disorder, to diagnose the presence of a disease, to assess … immediate or future response to treatment, or to assess the probability of desirable or undesirable … patient history and physical examination, as well as scored questionnaires intended for screening or to assess … Assess Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality 6. Assess Applicability 7. Grade the Body of Evidence 8.

458. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/medical-test-reviews-intro.ppt
     June 01, 2012 - Assess response to treatment. Assess probability of desirable/undesirable consequences. … They can be used to screen for the likelihood of a disorder, to diagnose the presence of a disease, to assess … immediate or future response to treatment, or to assess the probability of desirable or undesirable … patient history and physical examination, as well as scored questionnaires intended for screening or to assess … Assess Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality 6. Assess Applicability 7. Grade the Body of Evidence 8.

459. Revised Protocol - Opioids 12 13 13[1] (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/chronic-pain-opioid-treatment_research-protocol.pdf
     December 19, 2013 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Predefined criteria will be used to assess … 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 … Review of Key Questions tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews. … (risk and (predict* or assess*)).mp 16. 14 or 15 17. 3 and (6 or 10) 18. 16 and 17 Other: Risk

460. EHC Research Protocol (Amended): Treatments for Acute Episodic Migraine (pdf file)
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     January 09, 2020 - the risk of bias of the included RCTs using the Cochrane Collaboration’s Risk of Bias 2 tool22 to assess … will follow the procedures outlined in the EPC Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews to assess … systematic reviews evaluating triptans or NSAIDs, we will use the AMSTAR tool (A measurement tool to assess … systematic reviews) to assess the credibility of these systematic reviews. … tool evaluates 11 items: a priori protocol, duplication of reviewers, grey We added methods to assess