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401. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Second, visual impairment as defined in this analytic framework requires a visual acuity of 20/70 or … How are visual acuity or impairment defined and measured? … This occurs even before subjectively defined “visual impairment” is experienced. 3. … The target population is appropriate and defined. The key questions are explicitly stated. … Peer Reviewer #1 General Comments iIOP should be IOP or defined as a new acronym.

402. March 3rd Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - systems to engage in independent algorithmic audits field scan of the algorithmic against clearly defined … Include: 1) groups defined by a single factor and 2) groups defined by a combination of factors. … Include: 1} groups defined by a single factor, and 2) groups defined by a combination of factors.

403. Stakeholder-Engagement-Benefits White-Paper (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - literature on the process of engaging stakeholders in medical research, there are a lack of clearly defined … Information not found Consumers, defined as patients, caregivers, organizations representing patients … principles of successful consumer involvement in NHS research and associated indicators, w which are defined

404. Reduction in Medication Use after Bariatric Surgery (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2010 - enrollee: Have 6 months of continuous coverage, including pharmacy coverage, prior to the index date, defined … (Appendix B) For select outcomes, we stratified results by diagnosis of diabetes defined as at least … Our dependent outcome was class II or III obesity, defined by a BMI ≥35 (from self- reported height … 0.718 Parsimonious EDC model (w/o obesity diagnosis) 0.702 Full RxMG Only (NDC codes only; 50+ Rx defined

405. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 271, Treatments for Maternal Mental Health Conditions (pdf file)
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     July 31, 2024 - Key questions are defined, although whether they are the right key questions is a matter of debate … The key questions are clearly stated, and the target population is well defined. … The overall delivery of this report is adequate with well defined target population, however win my … limitation that i would suggest to expand to the second year postpartum as well (see below), with clearly defined … we excluded studies which were addressing issues other than mental health and studies with poorly defined

406. Disposition of Comments Report for Vitamin D and Calcium: A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes (Update) (pdf file)
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     September 15, 2014 - Page 21 L22-25 – Give more detail how ‘reference standard’ was defined as detailed above for the Introduction … Overall it is a significant piece of work; The questions were appropriate and the sections were well defined … The target population is well defined. The key questions to be answered are very clear. … At any rate, the terms should be defined in terms of 25(OH)D levels. … 108 Public comment: John Aloia Line 87 Line 87: “less severe levels of vitamin D deficiency” defined

407. chronic-fatigue-protocol (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - quality of individual controlled trials, systematic reviews, and observational studies by using clearly defined

408. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program and the Community Forum The Effective Health Care Program was initiated in 2005 to provide valid evidence about the comparative effectiveness of different medical interventions. The object is to help consumer…

409. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/knowledge-brief-2-methods-public-deliberation-130213.pdf
     February 01, 2013 - Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program and the Community Forum The Effective Health Care Program was initiated in 2005 to provide valid evidence about the comparative effectiveness of different medical interventions. The object is to help consumer…

410. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review: Implementing Recommended Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Counseling Interventions in Primary Care Settings for in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     April 09, 2025 - Interrupted time series (ITS) require a well- defined methodological design, including sufficient pre … How was adherence defined? … The target populations are clearly defined and very significant in this field. … Peer Reviewer 3 Executive Summary The target population and audience are clearly defined and the … • Suggested revision: Implementation outcomes were defined as the effects of implementing primary

411. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2017 - It is true of "most" studies as defined by the number of unique trials. … TEP Reviewer#4 Executive Summary Good or bad as defined by?? … Study characteristics are poorly defined-large number of studies and inter-study variability may be … Target population defined but not adequately captured. 3. Audience defined 4. … The Key Questions are clearly defined and specific. Thank you for your comment.

412. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - NSCLC patient and the subsequent treatment plan are a function of disease stage.3 NSCLC stage is defined … The disease setting and patient populations are defined in the Key Questions section. … A data abstraction guide was created that detailed the process and defined key data elements to ensure … was assessed by Carey and Boden criteria.32 These include eight criteria, as follows: • Clearly defined … Second, patient characteristics were poorly defined.

413. Trauma-Interventions-Maltreatment-Child Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - The inclusion and exclusion criteria for studies reviewed in this CER were defined using the PICOTS … The primary caregiver was defined as the biological parent; foster, kinship (relative), or adoptive … We used the strength of evidence grades defined by Owens and colleagues:23 • High—High confidence … Interpretation of the effect size as small, medium, or large is defined as Cohen’s d = 0.20, 0.50, and … Thus, usual care as the control represented a problematic comparator insofar as it is an ill-defined

414. Chronic-Kidney-Disease-Anemia-2011 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - studies for the analyses of sensitivity and specificity, including functional iron deficiency as defined … specificity across a range of values for the ability to predict a dichotomous outcome (in this case, defined … .21,35 Only one study performed multivariate analyses to predict a response to IV iron treatment (defined … at a high risk of bias,37 and one at a medium risk of bias.21 The response to IV iron treatment was defined … demonstrate an ideal predictive ability when they were used singly to determine iron deficiency as defined

415. Technical Brief Disposition of Comments Report for Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2012 - chemotherapy to possibly benefit 3 or 4, and the inability to identify those 3 or 4 up front) clearly defined … tests to alter or improve health outcomes and the risks/benefits of using the tests are not clearly defined … report (Table 2) Public Seidenfeld Methods P 6 Response to adjuvant chemotherapy How was response defined … Not even separate survival curves for high, intermediate and low risk groups as defined by the GEP … How is "response" defined and measured?

416. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/colorectal-cancer-liver-metastases-therapies_research-protocol.pdf
     September 27, 2012 - poor performance status and cardiac insufficiency.3 Hepatic metastasis from colorectal cancer is defined … IMRT offers a further defined radiation dose over traditional CD- CRT. … Data abstraction will be performed directly into tables created in Distiller SR with elements defined … The data elements to be abstracted were defined in consultation with the TEP and will include the following … assessed based on a set of study characteristics proposed by Carey and Boden,30 as follows: o Clearly defined

417. Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients (pdf file)
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     July 14, 2016 - Various organizations have defined quality care as the lowest possible use of seclusion and restraint … The search strategies are well defined and the overarching model helps to define the strategies for … The definitions and diagnostic criteria for the outcomes are well defined but do point out the lack … #1 Yes, the report is clinically meaningful, the target population and audience are explicitly defined … • Does improving measurement tools to include wellness outcomes as defined by people experiencing acute

418. Covariate Selection for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research
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     January 01, 2013 - Treatments should be “well defined” and represent manipulable units, for example, drug treatments, guidelines … Variable selection based on background knowledge Causal Graph Theory Assuming there is a well-defined … Automatic high-dimensional “proxy” adjustment An algorithm that creates a very large set of empirically defined … confounders, Schneeweiss et al. (2009) proposed an algorithm that creates a very large set of empirically defined … After they are defined, the variables can be entered into a propensity score model.

419. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - different tiers of TRD- related studies to use in our analytic strategy: • Tier 1 evidence (TRD as defined … For adults with TRD (defined as two or more failed adequate trials of a biologic [i.e., pharmacologic … differ for the following subpopulations: – Elderly or very elderly patients; other demographic groups (defined … Also, no comparative evidence was available about psychotherapy in subgroups defined by symptom clusters … of nonpharmacologic treatments differs (or not) as a function of symptom subtypes or for subgroups defined

420. Systematic Review of Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and of Long-acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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     December 27, 2016 - Therapies are further defined according to PICOTS above. … dose is the same or higher than in the intervention arm KQ2b: ICS+ another controller therapy as defined … specified in PICOTS; Combinations of comparators other than those listed in the PICOTS Outcomes As defined … dosing may be a patient decision (based on need), an index of worsening asthma, or some other pre- defined … Persistent asthma: A classification of asthma severity defined either by the assessment of the impairment