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41. REQUEST FOR TASK ORDER (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - In addition, Medicare claims were used to define distant spread of the cancer if a claim with these … We used 2003 data to define hospital and physician characteristics because of data availability. … This may include: • Better definition by professional societies to define guidelines to describe the … Period b: Used to define the benchmarks (except for chemotherapy toxicity and use of hospice within … Retrospective cohort Period a Period b Period a: Used to define the baseline

42. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    September 30, 2010 - the research questions according to the recommendations of the International Continence Society to define … For questions 2 and 3, we will define efficacy and effectiveness trials following criteria from the … We will consult with the EPC librarian to define exact search strategies which will be guided by the … We will define subjective continuous outcomes as the number of incontinent episodes, use of supplies … Definition of Terms The first step is to define the term “incontinence,” which has many different

43. Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: (pdf file)
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    June 06, 2017 - Patients often define improvement as reduced lifestyle restrictions or improved overall perception of … Conversely, researchers define improvement as a decrease in the amount of UI based on objective tests … Stakeholders also noted that it is important to summarize information on how patients define successful … • To summarize information on how women with UI define a successful outcome, and to highlight data … We will add patient-centered outcomes identified from the contextual question on how patients define

44. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Reviews must search more than one database, pre-define their inclusion criteria, and conduct an assessment

45. OUTLINE (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - lack of specificity and agreement on definitions as well as clinicians’ reluctance or inability to define … community oncology practices, hospitals, and hospice, making the population of focus very complex to define … broad end- of-life definition so as to encompass the large range of quality issues, rather than to define … While various quality indicator sets define these target areas and classify them within domains differently

46. OUTLINE (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - lack of specificity and agreement on definitions as well as clinicians’ reluctance or inability to define … community oncology practices, hospitals, and hospice, making the population of focus very complex to define … broad end- of-life definition so as to encompass the large range of quality issues, rather than to define … While various quality indicator sets define these target areas and classify them within domains differently

47. Respectful Maternity Care: Dissemination and Implementation of Perinatal Safety Culture to Improve Equitable Maternal Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes (pdf file)
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    September 16, 2022 - implementing RMC in order to improve outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged populations.40 The goal is to define … Does the literature define the essential/critical components of RMC? … partners, KIs, and will work with the TEP to identify definitions, criteria, principles, and domains to define … Publication Date Range: For key questions that define, measure, and evaluate effectiveness of RMC, we … We will provide a suggested list of relevant outcomes based on preliminary searches to help define

48. Using Deliberative Methods to Engage Patients, Consumers, and the Public (pdf file)
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    December 06, 2011 - Slide 13 Steps to designing deliberative methods  Identify and define issue needing input  Engage … However, states have tended not to define what a legally authorized representative is. … Secretary Sebelius turned to the Institute of Medicine, asking that a committee be established to help define … effectiveness IOM committee: the role of societal values Speaker notes: There are several ways to define

49. Using Deliberative Methods to Engage Patients, Consumers, and the Public (pdf file)
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    December 06, 2011 - Slide 13 Steps to designing deliberative methods  Identify and define issue needing input  Engage … However, states have tended not to define what a legally authorized representative is. … Secretary Sebelius turned to the Institute of Medicine, asking that a committee be established to help define … effectiveness IOM committee: the role of societal values Speaker notes: There are several ways to define

50. Disposition of Comments Report for Technical Brief 14 (pdf file)
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    March 18, 2014 - Peer Reviewer 1 Methods The decision to define a “model” of survivorship care as a “program for cancer … Many researchers/providers/patient advocates (and of course those with a history of cancer) define … The need to define a minimum set of outcomes for survivorship models was listed in item #6 of Next … The need to define a minimum set of outcomes for survivorship models was listed in item #6 of Next … The rationale used to define a “model” seems logical.

51. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Clinician (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2016 - The DSM-5 uses 11 criteria to define AUD (see Appendix 1 on page 3), the presence of 2 of which indicates … Appendix 1: Criteria Used To Define AUD in the DSM-5 (2013)** ** The presence of at least 2 of the

52. Disposition of Comments for CER 181 Mental Health Care (pdf file)
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    December 19, 2016 - Peer Reviewer 5 Introduction Please define all the key concepts up front, especially what you are trying … Peer Reviewer 8 Introduction In the Abstract and on p.23 define controlled clinical trial and ecological … Peer Reviewer 5 Methods You give a list of these types, but do not define them (eg RCTs, p. … Peer Reviewer 8 Methods Better define each of these constructs and acknowledge overlap. … Peer Reviewer 8 Methods Define and reference Hawthorne Effect (p. 26, line 52).

53. Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies for Women with Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - As this review clearly points out, the clinical signs and diagnostic criteria to assess and define … Typically, endometriosis studies would define endometriosis as the presence of glands and stroma without … Thus the prevalence of comorbidities may better define the population studied, to avoid categorizing

54. Suppl-2-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - 177 Abstract This supplement describes how counterfactual theory is used to define causal effects and … available data.3-6 This supplement begins with a brief overview of how counterfactual theory is used to define … We can now define blocked paths.

55. S103 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - Although these characteristics can then be used to define strata for subsequent analyses, analysts should … Next, we consider whether we should define subgroups before constructing inverse proba- bility-weighted … Rather than include year in the model, a better strategy is to define meaningful time periods and estimate

56. Ch 4-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - and fracture risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the period used to define … In defining exposure under this scenario, it would be important to define the cumulative amount of … measurement should measure the cumulative exposure to the medication over the observation timeframe and define … If there are no validation studies to define the exposure of interest, utilize measures and definitions

57. CER 221 Disposition of Comments: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
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    October 11, 2019 - Peer reviewer #1 General Comments It might be useful to define what "sufficient evidence" means (versus … Please define “standard care” early on in the report. Has “standard care” changed over time? … Please define whole body vibration. … Please define the study population – what was their SpO2 or PaO2 in whom supplemental oxygen vs. air

58. Ch 2-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Because the cross- sectional study design usually does not allow the investigator to define whether … reversible effects, the ability to inform about the time window for this effect using various intervals to define … The definitions need to include details about the study time period and dates used to define these … Great care should be taken to use uniform periods to define these criteria for all subjects.

59. Slide 1
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    January 01, 2013 - Data elements define how exposure is measured (often proxy indicators such as dispensing records). … The research question and the available data elements will usually define how the exposure is measured … sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value, when possible If there are no validation studies to define

60. Diabetes-Foot-Ulcer-Amputation-Economics Research (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - corresponding to an anti- infective medication or separately to a diabetic medication were used to define