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321. Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Lack of studies on effects of using noninvasive methods for assessing liver fibrosis to guide treatment … In addition to assessing the comparative effectiveness of different drug regimens, the review evaluated … Lack of studies assessing important long-term clinical outcomes associated with current antiviral … RCTs designed with long-term followup and assessing clinical, rather than virologic outcomes, would … noninvasive methods for assessing for fibrosis prior to initiating antiviral therapy.

322. Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 10, 2022 - Information relevant for assessing applicability will be abstracted, including the characteristics of … These criteria and methods will be used in concordance with the approach recommended in the chapter, Assessing … Assessing Applicability Applicability will be assessed in accordance with the AHRQ's Methods Guide … Chapter 9: Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions … Assessing the Applicability of Studies When Comparing Medical Interventions.

323. Management of High-Need, High-Cost Patients: A Realist and Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 04, 2019 - Realist Review: Quality Appraisal Quality appraisal in realistic reviews is not focused on assessing … the risk of bias of individual studies but rather on assessing the rigor used to develop one or more … In realist reviews, assessing study rigor occurs throughout the process of synthesis and includes all … ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. … Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions: an EPC update.

324. Management of Primary Headache During Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 12, 2019 - We will grade the strength of the body of evidence as per the AHRQ Methods Guide on assessing SoE. 28,29 … The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. … ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. … AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence When Assessing Health … Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions: an EPC update.

325. Management of Primary Headache During Pregnancy: Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 23, 2019 - We will grade the strength of the body of evidence as per the AHRQ Methods Guide on assessing SoE.28 … The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. … ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non- randomised studies of interventions. … AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence When Assessing Health … Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions: an EPC update.

326. The Performance of Fusion Procedures for Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Since the publication of the CNS guideline, randomized controlled trials and observational studies assessing … One systematic review assessing surgical fusion and decompression compared with decompression alone

327. Cer-242-Radiation-Therapy-Brain-Metastases-Evidence-Summary (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Although key outcomes, data were insufficient for assessing effects of included interventions on quality … Effects of Post-Surgery Interventions We identified 10 RCTs assessing postsurgical interventions.

328. 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 - Assessing the Evidence for Context- Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: … RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. BMJ. 2019;366:14898. 4.

329. Finding Grey Literature Evidence and Assessing for Outcome and Analysis Reporting Biases When Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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330. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     October 13, 2021 - We appreciate your comments and for providing us with a list of studies that focus primarily on assessing … Peer Reviewer 4 Discussion Pg. 59, lines 5/6: Studies assessing these interventions initiated treatment … Although we do not explicitly describe dietary manipulation, the report includes studies assessing … This reviewer has no concerns about tools for assessing Risk Of Bias and Strength of Evidence. ? … Such tools and assessment are generally adapted for assessing pharmacological intervention studies.

331. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     October 13, 2021 - We appreciate your comments and for providing us with a list of studies that focus primarily on assessing … Peer Reviewer 4 Discussion Pg. 59, lines 5/6: Studies assessing these interventions initiated treatment … Although we do not explicitly describe dietary manipulation, the report includes studies assessing … This reviewer has no concerns about tools for assessing Risk Of Bias and Strength of Evidence. ? … Such tools and assessment are generally adapted for assessing pharmacological intervention studies.

332. Methods Research Report: Challenges in Conducting EPC Reviews of Behavior Change Interventions (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2015 - Nonetheless, a determination of the applicability of approaches for assessing other study designs such … The approach to assessing applicability in the EPC methods guide24 includes using elements of the PICOTS … Assessing the Risk of Bias of http://handbook.cochrane.org/ Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews … Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions for the effective … What are the implications for assessing strength of evidence?

333. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2019 - Assessing Applicability: Assessing applicability of studies will be done by analyzing whether eligible … Chapter 8: Assessing risk of bias in included studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds. … Assessing applicability when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program

334. Prostate-Cancer-Risk-Assessment-Genes Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Also, the deCODE ProstateCancer test includes different subsets of variants for assessing risk in men … prostate cancer risk assessment includes risk stratification, screening for undiagnosed disease, and assessing … Assessing contamination and compliance in the prostate component of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, … The Newcastle- Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quailty of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses

335. Disposition of Comments for CER 182 Glasgow Coma Scale (pdf file)
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     January 12, 2017 - Assessing the utility, reliability and ease of use of the tGCS and mGCS is necessary in order to come … The methods for assessing study quality are also described in the Methods section. … (We used criteria adapted from the QUIPS tool for assessing prognostic studies.) … We revised the “Assessing Research Applicability” section to note that we considered a difference in … This is noted here because otherwise we would need to describe methods for assessing risk of bias for

336. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2011 - We established methods for assessing the strength of evidence based on the Evidence-based Practice Centers … Evidence for CAM interventions is insufficient for assessing outcomes.185-191 KQ2. … Single-subject design studies can be helpful in assessing response to treatment in very short timeframes … Our goal was to identify and review the best evidence for assessing the effectiveness of therapies for … At the same time, the means for assessing outcomes should include increased focus on use of observers

337. Data Points #18: Use of and access to health care by Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes: impact of diabetes type and insulin use, 2007-2011 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 29, 2014 - addition, it may be helpful for evaluations to take into account the number of providers seen when assessing

338. Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain: Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 17, 2020 - Information relevant for assessing applicability will be abstracted, including the characteristics of … Comparative Effectiveness Review will be used in concordance with the approach recommended in the chapter, Assessing … intervention-outcome pair, we follow the additional guidance on weighting RCTs over observational studies, assessing … consistency across the two bodies of evidence, and determining a final rating. 40   Assessing Applicability … Chapter 9: Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions

339. Lower Limb Prosthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 03, 2017 - and Outcomes We will grade the strength of the body of evidence as per the AHRQ methods guide on assessing … Assessing Applicability We will assess the applicability within and across studies with reference to … The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. … The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses: … AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care: Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence When Assessing Health

340. Er r or Rate Reduction Regarding Lower Limb Prosthesis (pdf file)
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     March 16, 2017 - and Outcomes: We will grade the strength of the body of evidence as per the AHRQ methods guide on assessing … Assessing … The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. … The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses … AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care: Grading the Strength of a Body of Evidence When Assessing Health