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21. Future Research Needs for the Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions With Bypass Graft Surgery in Nonacute Coronary Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Archived : The systematic review on which this report is based was assessed in May 2013 and some conclusions … Stanford–University of California at San Francisco Evidence-based Practice Center (Stanford–UCSF EPC) that assessed

22. Undescended-Testicle Executive (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2012 - Two reviewers independently assessed the quality of each study, and then results were adjudicated. … Strength of the Body of Evidence We assessed the strength of the evidence for the main comparisons … Two studies assessed laparoscopy for determining the Table A. … We assessed the strength of evidence for our primary outcome of testicular descent (Table E). … Each surgical approach was assessed independently for ability to achieve testicular descent because

23. Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Study quality and the risk of bias of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were assessed using the United … The quality and risk of bias of single-arm studies were assessed using the Carey and Boden criteria. … The strength of the body of evidence was assessed according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and

24. Evidence Summary - Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - tools we sought to identify prospectively controlled studies in which some patients were screened or assessed … for malnutrition while other patients were either (1) not screened or assessed or (2) assessed with … Eleven RCTs assessed hospital-initiated malnutrition interventions.

25. Evidence-based Practice Center Evidence Report Surveillance Process | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 01, 2019 - In the face of limited resources, organizations must prioritize which reports are assessed for the currency … a process for its Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program for selecting evidence reports to be assessed

26. Assessing the Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2017 - Some EPC reviews may exclude studies assessed as high risk of bias while others include them. … This requires the review’s protocol to include clear definitions of the types of biases that will be assessed … • Studies should be assessed on their design-specific criteria and conduct rather than quality of reporting … to be conducted in sequence • Developing a protocol a priori that delineates how studies will be assessed … that need to be conducted in order Developing a protocol a priori that delineates how studies will be assessed

27. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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    March 27, 2014 - These instruments were assessed for test-retest reliability, inter- and intra-rater reliability, internal … h The outcomes measures assessed were those most commonly used in clinical trials and practice, as well … The outcome measures assessed were: Measures of disease activity: Active joint count (AJC) Physician

28. Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - We assessed the risk of bias for each outcome and the strength of the evidence following the processes … alternative active OMBP strategies (including 1 RCT comparing inpatient vs. outpatient preparation) assessed … The effectiveness of alternative active OMBP strategies could not be assessed because the studies compared

29. Decision Aids for Cancer Screening and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - The assessed outcomes pertained to measurements of decisional quality and cognition (e.g., knowledge … We assessed for effect modification by population group, by the delivery format or content of the decision … studies of any intervention to promote patient decision aid use, regardless of study design and outcomes assessed

30. Global Health Evidence Evaluation Framework | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - evidence depending on which framework is used, some of which were extreme (with the same evidence base assessed … Many fail to consider implementation issues, and none explicitly assessed costs or sustainability at … information using criteria that have broad support across diverse stakeholders and that can be reliably assessed

31. Smoking-Pregnancy-Infants Executive (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2014 - Risk-of-Bias Assessment We assessed quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using the Cochrane … Two reviewers independently assessed risk of bias as low, high, or unclear for each domain. … Key Question 2 was organized by the infant outcomes being assessed, Key Question 3 was organized by … We assessed the strength of evidence for effectiveness, infant outcomes, and harms of interventions. … For effectiveness, we assessed strength of evidence based on the good and fair included RCTs because

32. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2010 - Each full- text article was assessed independently by two reviewers using detailed a priori inclusion … Observational analytic studies were assessed using modified cohort and case-control Newcastle-Ottawa … The methodological quality of uncontrolled studies was assessed using a quality checklist developed by … The strength of evidence was assessed for four key outcomes considered by the clinical investigators … Each of the comparative studies assessed different interventions, including: sodium hyaluraonate versus

33. Cer-235-Pharma-Nonpharm-Ptsd-Update-Appendix-G-1 (xls file)
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    November 12, 2020 - details NOTE: Amount of attrition categorized as follows: Low: • ≥80% randomized participants measured/assessed … Moderate: • <80% to ≥70% randomized participants measured/assessed High: • <70% to ≥50% randomized participants … measured/assessed Extreme: • <50% randomized participants measured/assessed Unclear: • Not reported

34. A Process for Robust and Transparent Rating of Study Quality: Phase 1 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - Limitations The results presented here are based on a small sample of RCTs, selected from a single CER and assessed … items in our checklist were not evaluated for adequacy and clarity, other than for their face validity assessed … While it may be desirable to have a single rating assessed by multiple reviewers using a process of reconciliation

35. Executive Summary: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - Studies have rarely assessed test-retest reliability, no findings have been replicated prospectively … • Very few studies have assessed performance of diagnostic tools for ADHD in children under the … Studies have rarely assessed test-retest reliability, no findings have been replicated prospectively … Very few studies have assessed performance of each of the diagnostic tools for ADHD in children under

36. Terbutaline Pump for the Prevention of Preterm Birth | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Page Contents Archived : Report was assessed … One reviewer extracted data into a standardized electronic form and assessed study risk of bias and applicability

37. Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2025 - Explanations for downgrading: Downgraded one level for study limitations (one or more trials assessed … Studies included a large number of outcomes assessed using a diverse array of measurement tools. … the literature: some studies included women with any one of several GSM symptoms as their MBS, and assessed … Studies varied extensively in populations enrolled, interventions and comparators assessed, and outcomes … Studies differed in GSM definitions and diagnosis, enrollment criteria, and outcomes assessed for a broad

38. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2022 - Studies assessed whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), alone and … The addition of systemic therapy to WBRT was assessed in 19 RCTS. … Embase®, Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL®, clinicaltrials.gov, and published guidelines in July 2020; assessed

39. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 01, 2021 - next update) Capsaicin (to be assessed for review in next update) NSAIDs (to be assessed for … Moxibustion (to be assessed for review in next update) Combination interventions (to be assessed … Risk of bias will be assessed by each reviewer, with disagreements reconciled. … Therefore, the information will be abstracted and ROB assessed by publication. … Directness will be assessed as it would for pooled outcomes.

40. Antipsychotics-Adults Executive (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - We assessed RCTs and nRCTs using the Cochrane Collaboration’s Risk of Bias tool.5 We assessed cohort … The most common reasons for trials to be assessed as having high risk of bias were lack of blinding … No differences were observed for the other five scales of general symptoms assessed. … Where health-related quality of life was assessed, no differences were found. … Outcomes potentially important to patients were rarely assessed.