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381. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - For studies that meet the conditions of the second-round assessment, the abstractors will extract key … Assessment of Methodologic Quality of Individual Studies Assessing Study Quality . … Decision rules regarding detailed use of the quality-assessment tools will be specified a priori by the … Two senior staff will independently perform quality assessment of the included studies; disagreements … Risk of bias is derived from the quality assessment of the individual studies that addressed the KQ and

382. Methods Research Report: Developing Consistent and Useful Quality Improvement Study Data Extraction (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2020 - Key messages • Findings: Creating explicit instructions to accompany quality improvement study assessment … /Downloads/20 18-Impact-Assessment-Report.pdf. … /QualityMeasures/Downloads/2018-Impact-Assessment-Report.pdf https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments … /QualityMeasures/Downloads/2018-Impact-Assessment-Report.pdf https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments … /QualityMeasures/Downloads/2018-Impact-Assessment-Report.pdf https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments

383. Diagnosis of Celiac Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - If important domains were excluded from either the risk of bias assessment, we will determine the need … Assessment of inter-rater reliability can be used to guard against selection bias in choosing the articles … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Risk of bias of each included study … Assessing Applicability Applicability assessment will be based on the similarity of the populations … Coeliac disease: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease.

384. Home-Based Primary Care Interventions Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Inclusion of mental health services Assessment and management of serious mental illnesses including … medical care and management of chronic conditions and disabilities, as well as preventive care and assessment … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Predefined criteria will be used to … What may affect applicability can vary depending on the question of interest and currently the assessment … , and then we will summarize our findings into an assessment of the applicability of the body of evidence

385. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 11 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Genetic tests also raise a number of technical issues particularly relevant to the assessment of their … Updated assessment of cystic fibrosis mutation frequencies in non- Hispanic Caucasians. … Evaluation Frameworks and Assessment of Analytic Validity. … Technology Assessment. … Genetic risk assessment: recommendation statement.

386. Evidence-Summary-CER-206-Sodium-And-Potassium-Intake-Effects-On-Chronic-Disease-Outcomes-And-Risk (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2018 - Assessment of sodium intake in observational studies as well as in older randomized controlled trials … More accurate but still error prone methods include 24- to 72-hour food diaries or recall assessment … Quality (Risk of Bias) Assessment of Individual Studies Risk of bias (RoB) of eligible studies was … The implications of assessment of sodium and potassium intake are discussed further below. … Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence The National Academies Press. Washington, D.

387. Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain by EMS in the Prehospital Setting Protocol Amendment (pdf file)
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     January 28, 2019 - optimizing opioid exposure creates a need for clinicians to have a thorough understanding of pain assessment … tools in the prehospital setting particularly in the absence of a gold standard assessment tool.8 Of … Contextual Question 2: What is the evidence regarding use of pain assessment tools in the prehospital … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies - The assessment of risk of bias for … Assessment of pain in the transport environment: a review of the literature.

388. Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain by EMS in the Prehospital Setting | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2019 - on optimizing opioid exposure creates a need for clinicians to have a thorough understanding of pain assessment … tools in the prehospital setting particularly in the absence of a gold standard assessment tool. 8 … Contextual Question 2 : What is the evidence regarding use of pain assessment tools in the prehospital … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies— The assessment of risk of bias for included … Assessment of pain in the transport environment: a review of the literature.

389. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Analgesics for Osteoarthritis – An Update to the 2006 Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - However, study duration will be considered in the assessment of the quality and applicability of the … (CCOHTA), Bandolier, and the NHA Health Technology Assessment Programme. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies We will assess the methodological quality … Studies could receive one rating for assessment of efficacy and a different rating for assessment of … Unvalidated assessment techniques or heterogeneous reporting methods for important outcomes may weaken

390. Grading_didactic_faculty_approved (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2013 - This assessment enhances the overall strength-of-evidence grade. … The subsidiary definition involves a subjective assessment of the likelihood that future research may … For RCTs, reviewers can start with a rating of low for risk of bias and change the assessment if the … Although EPC reviewers generally will not include the details of the reliability assessment in their … It requires assessment of four domains: risk of bias, consistency, directness, and precision.

391. Systematic Review of Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and of Long-acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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     December 27, 2016 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies - The assessment of risk of bias for … Needs Assessment Report for Potential Update of the Expert Panel Report-3 (2007): Guidelines for the … Uncontrolled asthma: A lack of asthma control, as determined by assessment of the impairment and/or … Methods For non-randomized studies, we will use the ROBINS-I tool for risk of bias assessment. … For non-randomized studies, we will use the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for risk of bias assessment.

392. Title (pdf file)
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     March 31, 2010 - must be at least 1-year from the baseline assessment for key questions 2 through 7 (if it does not … Outcome assessment must be at least 6 months from the baseline assessment for key question 1, school-based … □ Outcome assessment must be at least 1-year after the baseline assessment for key questions 2 through … □ Outcome assessment must be at least 6 months after the baseline assessment for key question 1 … We will assess the quality and consistency of the best available evidence, including assessment of

393. Evidence-based Practice Center Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2011 - Risk assessment; predictive models ii. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies For those KQs with applicable studies … For the assessment of systematic reviews, we will use the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews … (AMSTAR) instrument to evaluate the quality of the review. 3 For the assessment of randomized and … This assessment will be based on the representativeness of United States-based studies (e.g., a national

394. Primary Care Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies – Assessing study quality : Two senior staff … will independently perform quality assessment of the included studies; disagreements will be resolved … In conjunction with this standardized quality assessment tool, we will apply quality criteria specific … Risk of bias is derived from the quality assessment of the individual studies that addressed the Key … PMID 22008217 Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale: Cohort studies.

395. Ankyloglossia Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - Quality (Risk-of-Bias) Assessment of Individual Studies We used four tools to assess the quality of … instrument for cohort studies derived from the McMaster Quality Assessment Scale of Harms (McHarm) … Quality assessment of each study was conducted by two team members independently. … BSES –SF = Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form; IBFAT = Infant Breastfeeding Assessment Tool … Ankyloglossia: assessment, incidence, and effect of frenuloplasty on the breastfeeding dyad.

396. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Strategies to Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2016 - published data on these trials have been woefully inadequate and do always not permit an independent assessment … These inadequacies hinder not only higher order analyses, such as risk of bias assessment, but also … find necessary information, for example, on your experience of study conduct and processes or your assessment … your Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published online: September 1, 2016 5 assessment … strategy, where can they find information on your experience of study conduct and processes or your assessment

397. Mental-Illness-Adults-Prisons Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Diagnosis must have been made based on clinical assessment or a validated instrument administered by … Two reviewers independently performed the risk-of-bias assessment. … See the next section for further details about our strength-of-evidence assessment. … assessment tools for measuring the same outcome. … More standardization, including the use of validated assessment instruments, is needed.

398. The series of articles beginning with this issue of the Journal form the most up-to-date version of the Guide for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2009 - • Inconsistency in the selection of data sources and evaluation of their quality for assessment of … • A need to develop a consistent and structured approach to the assessment of applicability. … We have also identified future research that is needed, including methodologies for the assessment of … Several groups are currently working on developing guidance for medical test assessment that will suggest … Clinical Assessment of the Reliability of the Examination- Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease Group

399. Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - When it is possible and desirable to recast the evaluation question as an assessment of a tests ability … to predict health outcomes, there are specific methods to consider when performing the assessment. … The latter assessment is by means of facility-based polysomnography, a comprehensive neurophysiologic … Evidence Report/Technology Assessment. 127 pages. … Effects of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic test performance.

400. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 20, 2011 - When direct evidence is not available, we will use indirect evidence to inform the assessment of … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies. … Treatment of PTSD: assessment of the evidence. Washington, DC: National Academies Press2008. 3. … Treatment of PTSD: Assessment of the evidence. … Post traumatic Stress Disorder: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies.