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261. Assessing Applicability | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

262. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 05, 2025 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies To assess the risk of bias in the included … grade the strength of evidence based on the guidance established by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment … Quality assessment tool for quantitative studies. … https://www.ephpp.ca/quality- assessment-tool-for-quantitative- studies/. … / https://www.ephpp.ca/quality-assessment-tool-for-quantitative-studies/ https://www.ephpp.ca/quality-assessment-tool-for-quantitative-studies

263. Hospice Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 31, 2020 - Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers Technical Brief Archived May 4, 2017 Assessment … Tools for Palliative Care Research Protocol Archived April 14, 2016 Assessment Tools

264. Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - The purpose of the technical brief is to present the evidence without an assessment of quality. … assessment tool” will or should be used to replace the clinical judgment of a medical professional … Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART) e. Life Space Questionnaire (LSQ) f. … Assistive Technology Device Predisposition Assessment b. … Assistive Technology Device Predisposition Assessment b.

265. Medical Therapies for Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Outcomes of interest include survival (overall and progression-free), nutritional assessment, quality … , or to describe studies that are never published as full articles.6-9 In order to account for the assessment … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies: Two reviewers will independently assess … will only assess risk of bias for outcomes which will be included in the strength of evidence (SOE) assessment … The assessment of study limitations for an evidence base is based on the aggregation of risk of bias

266. Assessing the Applicability of Studies When Comparing Medical Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2020 - We distinguish the reporting and assessment of applicability of individual studies (steps 1-3) from reporting … and assessment of the applicability of a body of evidence (step 4). … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 170 (Prepared by the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 144. … Lipid modification: cardiovascular risk assessment and the modification of blood lipids for the primary

267. Treatment of Stage I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer (pdf file)
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     September 26, 2023 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess risk of bias of eligible … Because these organizations use Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation ( … Because these organizations use Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation … Making an overall rating of confidence in effect The strength of evidence assessment will clearly … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies E. Data Synthesis F.

268. Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     November 18, 2024 - For these reasons, timing of nutritional assessment during pregnancy matters and completion of multiple … nutritional assessments including assessment of dietary supplement use is needed to estimate usual … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies In accordance with the AHRQ Methods … We will provide a qualitative summary of our assessment. V. References 1. … Regulating fatty acids in infant formula: critical assessment of U.S. policies and practices.

269. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2023 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - We provide summary statistics for RoB 2 assessment of all 496 studies in this update. … this topic1 with comprehensive data, calculated standardized effect sizes for PTSD outcomes, and RoB assessment … This update also includes RoB assessment for all 436 previously included studies. … Updating RoB assessment to the same scale for all studies and adding standardized effect sizes will

270. Arthritis-Knee-Physical-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - .18,19,25,26 Instead of measuring consistently defined clinical outcomes, studies have used various assessment … We will conduct a systematic review of studies that examined physical therapy interventions and assessment … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies We will evaluate the quality of studies … For diagnostic studies, we will apply the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS … Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies.

271. Use of Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2010 - In deciding whether to include observational studies in a CER, the assessment of potential for bias … Systematic differences in outcomes assessment among the comparison groups (detection bias)26 can be … This assessment will focus particularly on issues of the natural history of the condition under study … Quality assessment of both RCTs and included observational studies is performed, with strengths and … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 148.

272. Use of Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2010 - In deciding whether to include observational studies in a CER, the assessment of potential for bias … Systematic differences in outcomes assessment among the comparison groups (detection bias)26 can be … This assessment will focus particularly on issues of the natural history of the condition under study … Quality assessment of both RCTs and included observational studies is performed, with strengths and … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 148.

273. CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2020 - Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation Strategie a. … Quality Assessment of Individual Studies Study quality was independently assess by two investigators … for Patients with Pain; SOAPP-R = Screening and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (Revised); … instruments other than the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) and Screening and Opioid Assessment for Patients … QUADAS-2: a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies.

274. Assessing the Predictive Validity of Strength of Evidence Grades: A Meta-Epidemiological Study | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) approach to GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development

275. Cluster Randomized Trial of Hospitals to Assess Impact of Targeted Versus Universal Strategies to Reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Intensive Care Units | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - of an evaluation of routinely reported central line associated blood stream infections (CLBSI), an assessment

276. Psoriasis-Chronic Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Life Quality Index; EQ-5D = EuroQol 5-DimensionTM; GFR = glomerular filtration rate; HAQ-DI = Health Assessment … L Patient’s assessment of disease severity 1 RCT30 Adalimumab improves a patient’s assessment of … Physician’s Global Assessment (PGA), Patient Assessment of Disease Severity, pain, and pruritus were … Other intermediate outcomes including PGA, patient assessment of disease severity, and individual symptoms … Since the longest study was 32 weeks in duration, only short-term outcome assessment was possible.

277. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - To provide the most accurate assessment of treatment effects we depend on the performance characteristics … of disease activity (PGA) - Parent/patient global assessment of well- being (PGW) • Measure of functional … status/disability: - Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) • Measures of health-related … Abbreviations: ACR = American College of Rheumatology; CHAQ = Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire … Trials that evaluate the efficacy of treatment should be sufficiently long, with frequent assessment

278. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - • It requires assessment of four domains: risk of bias, consistency, directness, and precision. … Risk of Bias As noted in Table 1, the risk of bias for an evidence base will be derived from assessment … This assessment enhances the overall strength-of-evidence grade. … Thus, the final assessment of directness requires EPCs to consider the strength of evidence for each … The EPC method implies that EPCs can, if they choose, make a global assessment of the overall quality

279. M (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2009 - Operationalizing subjective qualifiers such as “appropriate” at the outset of each assessment, taking … CER Quality Assessment Recommendations When EPCs assess the quality of an existing SR for a CER project … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 47. … Quality assessment methods for drug class reviews for the Drug Effectiveness Review Project. … AMSTAR= Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews; EPC=Evidence-based Practice Center.

280. M (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2009 - Operationalizing subjective qualifiers such as “appropriate” at the outset of each assessment, taking … CER Quality Assessment Recommendations When EPCs assess the quality of an existing SR for a CER project … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 47. … Quality assessment methods for drug class reviews for the Drug Effectiveness Review Project. … AMSTAR= Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews; EPC=Evidence-based Practice Center.