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241. Can Physical Activity Improve the Health of Wheelchair Users? Amended Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 21, 2019 - and wheelchair mobility programs points out a clear need for more programs, particularly those that assess … National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research for a Pathways to Prevention (P2P) workshop to assess … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … The I-squared statistic will be used to assess statistical heterogeneity. … We will use this information to assess the situations in which the evidence is most relevant and to

242. Research Protocol: Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research (pdf file)
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     October 06, 2022 - efforts have sought to expand our understanding of the quality of care, measurement frameworks to assess … In addition, many measures used to assess organizational characteristics were investigator- developed … Some of these characteristics are straightforward to assess. … al. review, which found that investigators frequently had to rely on study-specific survey items to assess … Paired reviewers will independently assess the quality of information about the organizational characteristic

243. Living Systematic Review on Plant-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2023 - Purpose of the Review This is a “living systematic review” (LSR), which will assess the effectiveness … Eligible observational studies must assess a mean duration of treatment of one month, and have concurrent … language articles to identify studies that would otherwise meet inclusion criteria in order to help assess … Grading the Strength of Evidence for Major Comparisons and Outcomes We will assess the strength of … We will use this information to assess the situations in which the evidence is most relevant and to

244. 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

245. 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

246. 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.

247. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 48_Use of Life Cycle Assessment in the Healthcare Industry: Environmental Impacts and Emissions Associated With Products, Processes and Waste (pdf file)
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     November 20, 2024 - While the authors agree that midpoint and endpoint indicators are essential assess impacts beyond

248. 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

249. 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

250. Medical Care for Adults with Down Syndrome (pdf file)
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     July 09, 2024 - for Alzheimer-type dementia at age 40.22 Purpose of the Review This systematic review will assess … Where possible, gray literature will also be used to assess and inform future research needs. … If meta-analysis is possible, we will assess the clinical and methodological heterogeneity and variation … Strength of Evidence (SOE) for Major Comparisons and Outcomes Two investigators will independently assess … Abbreviations: AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AMSTAR A Measurement Tool to Assess

251. Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain Research Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 19, 2018 - instrument on factors such as the methods used to conduct searches, select studies, abstract data, 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 … We will use this information to assess the situations in which the evidence is most relevant and to … (risk and (predict$ or assess$)).ti,ab,kf. 27. or/17-26 28. 16 and 27 29. limit 28 to yr="2014

252. 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.

253. 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.

254. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/disabilities-quality-improvement-outcomes_research-protocol.pdf
     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

255. Revised Protocol - Opioids 12 13 13[1] (pdf file)
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     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

256. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting Requirements for Studies Evaluating the Effectiveness of Treatment Options for Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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257. 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

258. 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.

259. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     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

260. Primary Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: Research Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 17, 2024 - will compare moderate hypofractionation and ultra-hypofractionation to conventional fractionation and assess … We will assess the risk of bias for each included study using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 (ROB2) tool … to assess risk of bias in randomized trials.20 The five domains of the tool are the randomization process … Below, we discuss the primary domains and how we will assess them: Risk of bias (see the above section … Assessing Applicability: We will assess applicability according to the approach described in the AHRQ