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461. Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings (pdf file)
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     July 22, 2015 - The most commonly used and cited data set has been the CMS MDS because the MDS is intended to assess … Scope and Format As noted above, methods used to assess patient safety have ranged from database analyses … reviewers who have had a training session to promote consistency/shared understanding of the tool will assess … The ROBIS tool is designed to assess relevance, potential for bias in the study eligibility criteria … ROBIS: Tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews - Guidance on how to use ROBIS. 2015.

462. autism-update-protocol-130920 (pdf file)
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     September 20, 2013 - Little evidence was available to assess allied health therapies or CAM. … After reviewing a sample of relevant articles, the team will assess the data-collection forms from the … validated outcome measures or techniques that incorporate measures of agreement (e.g., measures to assess … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the overall quality … We will assess the SOE only for those studies rated as good or fair in quality (low or moderate risk

463. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/migraine-emergency_research-protocol.pdf
     July 18, 2011 - and headache relapse. 11 The first objective of this comparative effectiveness review (CER) is to assess … Side effects The second objective of this CER is to assess important immediate and longer term side … that assess sample selection, comparability of cohorts, and assessment of outcomes. … Two reviewers will independently assess the methodological quality of included studies. … Sensitivity analyses will be conducted to assess the robustness of the findings across study quality

464. Amended Protocol: Maternal and Childhood Outcomes Associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2020 - Studies have used non-experimental designs and “natural experiment approaches” to assess effects, e.g … needed Type of study Qualitative or mixed-methods studies (e.g., interviews, focus group) that assess … We will not assess bias per se in individual qualitative studies. … However, two reviewers will assess the quality of studies using qualitative or mixed methods approaches … Following this standard EPC approach, for each key outcome, we will assess the number of studies, their

465. Glasgow.Presentation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 -  Approach  to  Patient-­‐Centered  Care   5’s  activity/  Multimedia  Example   • Assess … Model:    A  Guide  for  Making  Decisions   about  Self-­‐management  Plans   • ASSESS

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

467. Male Infertility | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 28, 2017 - maleinfertility.html Products Research Report June 28, 2017 Supplemental Project To Assess

468. Penis Disorders | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 28, 2017 - penisdisorders.html Products Research Report June 28, 2017 Supplemental Project To Assess

469. Development of a Primary Care Guie for Implementing Evidence-Based Screening and Counseling for Unhealthy Alcohol Use With Epic-Based Electronic Health Record Tools: A Pilot Dissemination Project (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2018 - Additionally, to assess lessons learned, challenges, and barriers, we conducted semi-structured interviews … and screening-related assessment (and based on documentation in the electronic health record) To assess … workflow, to help us identify inflection points corresponding to introduction of new processes, to assess … We have continued to collect data since the end of the project period in order to assess maintenance … that don’t require EHR build team involvement) Use Validated Screening Instruments • None Assess

470. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     May 24, 2010 - and scientific directors, contact reviewers to determine progress and collect completed reviews, and assess … For observational study quality, we will use the AHRQ tools to assess quality of observational studies … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … Meta-analysis to assess risk factors for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. … Meta-analysis to assess risk factors for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

471. Methods-Guide-Chapter-Prioritization-And-Selection-Of-Harms-For-Inclusion-In-Systematic-Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - However, although the 2010 harms chapter recommended that EPC systematic reviews “always assess harms … Other issues include whether to assess composite harms (e.g., “serious harms” or “withdrawal due to … the prior EPC methods work.8 The harms chapter of the EPC Methods Guide recommended that reviewers assess … Challenges in systematic reviews that assess treatment harms. … • Do not assume studies adequately assess harms because methods used to assess and report benefits

472. Emergency Medical Service/911 Workforce Infection Control and Prevention Issues (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Two members from the team will independently assess each citation to determine whether it meets inclusion … To assess effectiveness, we will abstract data on the main outcomes of each study, whether or not there … Paired reviewers will independently assess the quality of each study by focusing primarily on classifying

473. Hypertension-Pulmonary-Arterial Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - evaluated the quality of individual studies using the approach described in the Methods Guide.20 To assess … the severity of PAH, to predict events such as lung transplantation or death, or to assess a patient … Our findings do not support any recommendations for replacing existing measurement tools to assess … We reviewed 37 studies involving 4,192 patients that assess the effectiveness of drug treatment for … There was also concern that the population was not always adequately described to assess applicability

474. Research Protocol: Improving Cultural Competence To Reduce Health Disparities for Priority Populations (pdf file)
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     July 09, 2014 - Only systematic reviews that assess included study risk of bias will be assessed for review quality. … Additional items will be developed to assess potential risk-of-bias not addressed by the Cochrane tool … Two investigators will independently assess risk of bias for all included studies. … We will assess strength of evidence for outcomes drawn from more than one study for a given patient … Are the statistical methods used to assess the primary outcomes appropriate to the data?

475. Glasgow Coma Scale for Field Triage of Trauma: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - trauma systems, as it helps to identify potentially seriously injured patients Purpose of Review To assess … developed for evaluation of studies on prognosis27 and diagnosis.28 Investigators did not review, assess … – Evidence was insufficient to assess effects of patient or assessor characteristics on comparative … For predictive utility, prospective studies that independently assess patients using the tGCS and the … Finally, studies that assess measures of predictive utility other than discrimination (e.g., calibration

476. Grading_didactic_faculty_approved (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Objectives Is distinct from rating the quality of individual studies Is generally used only to assess … The grading step requires reviewers to assess the aggregate quality of studies within each major study … In the absence of statistical testing or measurement of heterogeneity, EPC reviewers can assess consistency … In addition, EPC reviewers should assess the resulting interrater reliability for each domain. … present information that will help decisionmakers judge the risk of bias in the estimates of effect, assess

477. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Additional results will be scanned, and medical librarians will assess their relevancy. … We will assess the risk of bias by following the guidelines in the chapter, “Assessing the Risk of Bias … For KQ 3, we plan to use the same rating system as described in the 2008 report to assess risk of bias … We will use I-squared29 and tau30 tests to assess heterogeneity in study results. … We will assess strength of evidence by following the guidelines from the chapter, “Grading the Strength

478. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/chronic-cough_research-protocol.pdf
     October 22, 2012 - underlying cause of the cough should not make the instrument perform differently in its ability to assess … endotracheal intubation) Interventions • KQ 1: Qualitative and quantitative instruments used to assess … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies We will assess the methodological quality … The study may have been missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential … Assessing Applicability We will assess applicability across our key questions using the method described

479. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/phenylketonuria_research-protocol.pdf
     March 29, 2011 - incorporate relevant data from searches of the grey literature into the review as appropriate, and assess … will contact the reviewers to determine their progress and to collect completed reviews, and will assess … For observational studies, we will assess three broad characteristics: 1) the selection of the study … Our team will assess the applicability of the results gathered from the literature according to EPC … For observational studies, we will assess three broad characteristics: 1) the selection of the study

480. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hepatitis-c-screening_research-protocol.pdf
     October 20, 2011 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias … We will use standard  2 tests to assess the presence of statistical heterogeneity among studies and … We will assess the applicability of studies in terms of the degree to which the study population, interventions … Health Technol Assess 2003;7(27):iii-x, 1-173. PMID: 14499048. 10.