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421. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-grading-evidence_methods.pdf
     November 01, 2013 - strength of evidence assessment and obscure the findings for a major outcome. … the overall assessment of the body of evidence. … To that end, EPCs will continue to refine and improve grading systems to be most applicable and useful … Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal … Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence.

422. 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 … the EPC and GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approaches … • A need to develop a consistent and structured approach to the assessment of applicability. … range of patient outcomes on decisions to use a medical test, and the assessment of studies of genetic … Clinical Assessment of the Reliability of the Examination- Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease Group

423. Screening for Hepatitis C | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 20, 2011 - for HCV infection within the context of screening and risk assessment of the general population. 1,2 … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias of … Although many tools exist for quality assessment of nonrandomized trials, there is no consensus on optimal … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

424. Management of Gout | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 03, 2014 - , ADLs, patient global assessment, and prevention of future flares (recurrence) (Figure 1). … Observational studies will be included for the assessment of rare adverse events. … Included studies will go on for dual abstraction of study-level details and outcomes and for assessment … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Risk of bias of individual included … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

425. Disposition of Comments Report for Primary Care Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (pdf file)
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     March 21, 2013 - that report the assessment of risk of bias and other domains across the body of evidence for a particular … A cross national comparison of care systems is glossed over in one sentence. … For KQ1B, risk of bias associated with blinding of patients, personnel and outcome assessment was … most likely to compromise overall assessment of study quality. … classification that have been addressed by the FIGO nomenclature and PALM-COEIN systems.

426. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/tympanostomy-tubes_research-protocol.pdf
     November 16, 2015 - assessment for tube candidacy.1 The American Academy of Pediatrics CPG discourages routine use of prophylactic … Analytic Framework To guide the assessment of studies that examine the association between tympanostomy … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies – We will assess the methodological … Health technology assessment (Winchester, England). 2014 Jan;18(5):1-118. PMID: 24438691. 3. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

427. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 16, 2011 - health care systems (see Data Abstraction below), and resource allocation. … cohorts, and the assessment of outcomes. … We will extract data from graphs using the measurement tool of Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (Adobe Systems Inc … The development of the QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

428. Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 10, 2022 - We will use DistillerSR® to improve efficiency in screening articles and risk of bias assessment. … 10 Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual … When quantitative synthesis is not possible, sample size and assessment of variance within individual … We will provide a qualitative summary of our assessment. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

429. Research White Paper Multinational Registries Addendum Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - An assessment of the number of patients who would potentially meet the enrollment criteria for the … Case Report Forms CRFs are used to systematically collect information from health care providers, either … The assessment schedule must be consistent with the study aims, length of recall for the response options … discussed above, assessment of the regulatory, ethical, and legal environments in which a multinational … An assessment of whether the registry is likely to be viewed as observational is an important step in

430. Research White Paper Multinational Registries Addendum Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/multinational-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
     February 01, 2018 - An assessment of the number of patients who would potentially meet the enrollment criteria for the … Case Report Forms CRFs are used to systematically collect information from health care providers, either … The assessment schedule must be consistent with the study aims, length of recall for the response options … discussed above, assessment of the regulatory, ethical, and legal environments in which a multinational … An assessment of whether the registry is likely to be viewed as observational is an important step in

431. Topic-Brief2-Opioid-Withdrawal (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - Assessment of each criteria, based on consultation with local experts and a scan of the literature, … a topic of clinical importance and appropriate for further assessment. 5 • Long-term opioid … , including failure to include health care providers in the development of the applications and incorporation … Clinicians and healthcare systems need more information about multimodal pain care options in outpatient … Assessment Criteria Assessment Domain Assessment Criteria Assessment 1. Appropriateness 1a.

432. Trauma-Interventions-Maltreatment-Child Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/trauma-interventions-maltreatment-child_executive.pdf
     April 01, 2013 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … well-accepted and widely used within child welfare and affect the work of related care systems. … the research methods used for the risk of bias assessment. … Results of this assessment are encapsulated in a rating of low, medium, or high risk of bias. … attention.95-97 Assessment of Clinical Need: The use of common and validated measures for identifying

433. S58 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - and modeling initiation and persistence of regimens, analysis of treat- ment disparities, and examination … Beneficiaries who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare will have claims histories in both systems … Enrollees move in and out of systems as their eligibility changes. … and drugs at issue, detailed understanding of the programs and data systems, and advanced statistical … The assessment of refill compliance using pharmacy records: methods, validity, and applications.

434. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hepatitis-c-screening_research-protocol.pdf
     October 20, 2011 - for HCV infection within the context of screening and risk assessment of the general population. 1,2 … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias … We will adapt criteria from the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) tool (systematic … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised … research, including patients and caregivers, practicing clinicians, relevant professional and consumer

435. Feasibility Study of a Wiki Collaboration Platform for Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - In: Proceedings of the international conference on mobile ubiquitous computing, systems, services and … Connecting Wikis and natural language processing systems. … for health services and technology assessment, decided to look into using a wiki to share information … Agencies for Health Technology Assessment/Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi)]. … club for a Scottish football team pp. 117-119 Co-op fans to build the "ultimate" fan site Free consumer

436. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dietary-supplements_research-protocol.pdf
     December 15, 2010 - In turn, we hope that this synthesis will result in health care providers and consumers making more … This will be considered in the assessment of heterogeneity and applicability. … , blinding of outcome assessors, assessment of the purity/dose/stability of a dietary supplement and … the effects and routes of excretion of the metabolites of the drug.37 Risk-of-bias assessment categories … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

437. Stroke-Atrial-Fibrillation Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … A comparative and thorough assessment of current tools could assist providers in understanding the … were described, blinding of subjects and providers, blinded assessment of the outcome(s), intention … health systems, used varying event definitions, and recruited populations at varying risk for stroke … Specifically, how can we increase dissemination of point-of-care tools to improve risk assessment and

438. VU EPC DBD Protocol_AHRQ comments_revised_clean (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/disruptive-behavior-disorder_research-protocol.pdf
     January 30, 2014 - for specific patient subgroups, it is difficult for healthcare providers to make informed treatment … positive results for children with DBDs, but it is unclear how healthcare providers should select between … and summarizes the four grades that we will use for the overall assessment of the body of evidence. … Assessment of Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Tools and Recommendations. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

439. Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2019 - o CD in patient at <6 cm dilation for fetal distress • Cervical assessment at time of admission … o CD in patient at <6 cm dilation for fetal distress • Cervical assessment at time of admission … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Methods from the Methods Guide for … Bishop score and transvaginal ultrasound for preinduction cervical assessment: a randomized clinical … , practicing clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care

440. Behavioral Programs for Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 05, 2014 - , families, communities and healthcare systems, and, by supporting good health, prevent or delay the … A factor was added to Key Questions 3 and 5, namely the “degree of tailoring based on needs assessment … of outcome assessment, incomplete outcome data, selective outcome reporting, and “other” sources of … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others … of sessions, that is, there may be some tailoring of topics and delivery based on the needs assessment