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381. Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: An Update of a 2008 Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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382. Assessing Applicability (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Comparator and Applicability: Examples A fixed-dose study that compared high-dose duloxetine to low-dose … In the last example, bypass surgery and angioplasty are being compared. … Unfortunately, these clinical trials, by and large, compared bypass surgery versus angioplasty with or … If efficacy and effectiveness trials are available, they should be compared and contrasted. … We then give the conclusion: “When compared with watchful waiting, the use of myocardial debulking reduced

383. Chronic-Cough Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - The differential diagnosis for chronic cough has a different list of etiologies compared with acute … For KQ 1, the search focused on English-language evaluative studies that compared qualitative and/or … Most of the studies compared the treatment with placebo, but one compared opiates with dextromethorphan … The effects of dextromethorphan, moguisteine, and opiates compared with placebo on cough severity support … The effects of dextromethorphan and codeine compared with placebo on cough frequency support a benefit

384. Traumatic Brain Injury and Depression (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2011 - Too few studies isolated a sufficient number of those with mild TBI compared to those with moderate and … sevenfold as common (95 percent CI: 1.36 to 43.48) among those with abnormal CT scans after injury compared … only lesion type to emerge as a significant predictor was the protective effect of temporal lesions compared … Five publications compared SCID to candidate tools for assessment of depression, the BDI,90,115 Patient … Similarly, 17 of 30 (56.7 percent) depressed patients exhibited aggression, compared to 10 of 44 (22.7

385. Executive Summary_Systematic Review: Association of Digestible Carbohydrate Intake With Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Body Composition (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2025 - disease (CVD) significantly increased when carbohydrate intake exceeded 65 percent total energy intake, compared … CVD significantly increased when carbohydrate intake exceeded 300 grams per day of carbohydrates, compared … When compared with a carbohydrate intake reference level of 50 percent total energy intake, a digestible … Compared with the carbohydrate intake reference level (300 grams per day), digestible carbohydrate intake … carbohydrate intake levels at the lowest CVD risk (225 grams per day: RR=0.91, 95% CI: 0.87 to 0.96), compared

386. Disposition of Comments Report for Local Therapies for Unresectable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     May 24, 2013 - RFA compared to TACE would be outside of the scope of this review generally because the patient populations … One study did present data on RFA compared to TACE for patients with lesions that were all amenable … The RFA compared with TACE has been removed from this report with the exception of one study. … Those procedures cannot be compared with ablative therapies because they do not deal with the same … Chok and colleagues compared RFA to TACE in a patient population with tumor diameters less than 5cm

387. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Experts thought that the intervention would reduce per-patient treatment costs, compared with costs … Another research expert noted that another clinical trial compared this intervention to behavior and … Experts thought reduced per-patient costs to be associated with this intervention, compared with laser … photocoagulation but thought costs would be significantly greater with this intervention when compared … DURATION-5: exenatide once weekly resulted in greater improvements in glycemic control compared with

388. Stakeholder Involvement in Improving Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - † Number of events reduced compared to placebo per 1,000 women years assuming 5 years of use (95% confidence … ‡ Number of events increased compared to placebo per 1,000 women years assuming 5 years of use (95% … treatment alternatives o No existing alternative treatment o Ease of use o Improved access o Cost compared

389. Disposition of Comments for Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - The incremental interventions that were ineffective in general are ineffective or weakly effective compared … conclusion accordingly: “SMBP with or without additional support results in a small reduction in BP compared … as high in favor of an improvement in BP control using SMBP with some form of additional support compared … as high in favor of an improvement in BP control using SMBP with some form of additional support compared … as high in favor of an improvement in BP control using SMBP with some form of additional support compared

390. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     September 26, 2014 - Experts agreed that ultra-long- acting insulins have the potential to improve insulin therapy compared … Final mean daily insulin dose was 11% lower for Ryzodeg® compared with biphasic insulin aspart 30 … Experts agreed that ultra-long-acting insulins have the potential to improve insulin therapy compared … One expert representing a research perspective listed increased costs compared with available therapy … Benefit occurred for both doses compared with sham at 3 weeks and all subsequent time points.

391. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: An Update of a 2008 Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     December 16, 2014 - Pg. 11 We included any study that compared RP to another treatment of interest, addressed the KQ and … The treatments being compared must have been administered during the same time period, so that any … We considered studies which compared variants of the same treatment as out of scope for this report. … The Aizer et al. 2013 study compared patients treated with curative versus non-curative treatments … Lee et al. 201237 (study compared men with prostate cancer vs. men who did not carry a diagnosis of

392. Methods Research Report: Performance and Usability of Machine Learning for Screening in Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - irrelevant records was highly variable; a median (range) 70% (0-100%) of relevant records were missed compared … For the Automated Simulation, the proportion missed increased to 41 percent for Antipsychotics (compared … with 28 percent) and 9 percent for Bronchiolitis (compared with 5 percent). … RobotAnalyst provided a lesser advantage compared to Abstrackr, and Distiller provided no advantage … That said, it requires much more skill to actually set up a project in Distiller compared to the other

393. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     March 01, 2010 - Comparator — What is the intervention being compared with? … What is the intervention being compared with? O is for outcomes. … growth (height, weight, lean body mass, protein turnover), exercise tolerance, and bone mineralization, compared … hospitalization, quality of life, bone fracture or development of osteoporosis/osteopenia, or mortality, compared … growth (height, weight, lean body mass, protein turnover), exercise tolerance, and bone mineralization, compared

394. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 30, 2010 - What is the comparative effectiveness of pharmacologic treatments when compared with each other or with … What are the harms from pharmacologic treatments when compared with no active treatment? 4. … What is the comparative effectiveness of nonpharmacologic treatments when compared with each other? … What are the harms from nonpharmacologic treatments when compared with no active treatment? 5. … What are the harms from nonpharmacologic treatments when compared with each other? 6.

395. CER 174 Executive Summary: Imaging for the Pretreatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2016 - imaging technique with widespread availability, high contrast resolution, and relatively low cost compared … For comparative accuracy (KQ1), the study must have compared both tests to a common reference standard … the percentage of patients who received a specific treatment choice for one test or test strategy compared … One study compared FDG PET/CT to bone scintigraphy;14 another study compared CT to FDG PET/ CT to bone … First, compared with CT and bone scintigraphy (imaging modalities commonly used for staging), FDG PET

396. Nursing-Staff-Shortages-Rapid-Research-Appendix-C (xls file)
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     January 01, 2024 - resulted in less labor costs and fewer undesirable shifts from the frontline nurse’s point of view compared … the quality of care they gave their patients and their ability to perform required/regulatory tasks compared … N=29754, standardized mortality ratio 1.20±0.04 to Post-mandate N=30058, 1.15±0.04, p=0.11) or when compared … For hospitals in Quartile 2, the only difference (as compared with Quartile 4) was in greater improvement … 2015), and 0.46 (2016) registered nurses hours per adjusted patient days located in expansion states, compared

397. Machine-Learning-Tools-Appendix-D (xls file)
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     January 01, 2024 - 0.328 0.732 Using ExaCT to assist with data extraction resulted in modest gains in efficiency compared … 0.5 0.75 Using ExaCT to assist with data extraction resulted in modest gains in efficiency compared … 0.636 0.842 Using ExaCT to assist with data extraction resulted in modest gains in efficiency compared … 0.213 0.707 Using ExaCT to assist with data extraction resulted in modest gains in efficiency compared … 0.16 0.507 Using ExaCT to assist with data extraction resulted in modest gains in efficiency compared

398. Bladder-Cancer-Non-Muscle-Invasive Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 21, 2014 - Bladder cancer occurs primarily in men older than 60 and roughly twice as frequently in white compared … Key Question 1: What is the diagnostic accuracy of various urinary biomarkers compared with other urinary … or improving other outcomes (e.g., recurrence, progression, need for cystectomy, quality of life) compared … or with systemic chemotherapy/immunotherapy) for decreasing mortality or improving other outcomes compared … is the effectiveness of various urinary biomarkers to decrease mortality or improve other outcomes compared

399. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - validity There are few standards for elements to be included in observational study protocols, when compared

400. Topic 0414 Imaging techniques and metastatic breast cancer tx NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - scintigraphy, CT, MRI, x-ray, ultrasound, PET/CT and FDG-PET Comparator(s): Those listed above (i.e., compared