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881. Methods Guide Atkins (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methods_guide_atkins.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - To make applicability information useful, a review should address how specific aspects of the design

882. Methods-Guidance-Applicability Methods (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-applicability_methods.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - To make applicability information useful, a review should address how specific aspects of the design

883. Topic Brief: Updating Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Alcohol Use Disorders in Outpatient Settings (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/nt_docs/topic-brief-updating-pharmacotherapy.pdf
     September 30, 2022 - N-Acetylcysteine for the treatment of comorbid alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: Design … health-evidence-network-hen A-2 titles and abstracts for inclusion and classified relevant studies by KQ and study design

884. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings, 2023-2024 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs-IV-1-year-final-report-updated-title_0.pdf
     May 01, 2024 - briefly and perceived both benefits (personal performance knowledge) and limitations (data accuracy, sample … size, external factors) … topics of this report, PSP interventions face several barriers to implementation that affect study design … Overall, evaluation of the effectiveness of PSP interventions often was limited by weaknesses of study design … TEP members rated improved study quality (i.e., most commonly stronger design, but also better outcome

885. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Engaging Family Caregivers With Structured Communication for Safe Care Transitions (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/engaging-caregivers-rapid-review.pdf
     April 01, 2024 - Focused on Hospital Discharge Care Transitions Four pre-post studies20,35,36,38 (N=more than 675; sample … size not reported in one study) and one single-arm study34 (n=57) compared relevant PSPs using structured … Exclusion reason: Ineligible study design 17. Cheng L, Zhang Y, Gu Y, et al. … Exclusion reason: Ineligible study design 31. El-Tayar WAA, Mohammed EA, Hassan SES, et al. … Exclusion reason: Ineligible study design 46.

886. Treatment Resistant Depression Surveillance FINAL (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/treatment-resistant-depression_surveillance.pdf
     April 01, 2016 - We included systematic reviews and meta-analyses, whether or not they were included (as a study design … studies suggested the efficacy of TMS, VNS, and some types of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), sample … sizes were small and studies were not controlled. 2 Literature Search The literature search identified … A single study with a small sample size indicated no difference in withdrawals due to adverse events … A single study with a small sample size indicated no difference in withdrawals due to adverse

887. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of New Therapies (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/diabetes-glucose-control_research.pdf
     July 01, 2010 - differences across groups as even small differences are statistically significant with this large sample … size. … This population was, by design, almost exclusively patients with DM, although we included 1,104 individuals

888. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/angina-heart-attack-treatments_research-protocol.pdf
     December 11, 2012 - listed in KQs 1–3 • Relevant systematic review or meta-analysis (used for background only) • All sample … sizes Not a clinical study (e.g., editorial, non–systematic review, letter to the editor, case series … We will design the data abstraction forms for this project to collect data required to evaluate the … Study design will be considered when grading quality. RCTs will be graded as good, fair, or poor. … Therefore study questions, design and/or methodological approaches do not necessarily represent the

889. Pressure-Ulcer-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/pressure-ulcer-prevention_executive.pdf
     May 01, 2013 - population characteristics (including sex, age, race, ethnicity, prevalent ulcers, and risk for ulcers), sample … size, duration of followup, attrition, intervention characteristics, method for assessing ulcers, … diagnostic accuracy, we attempted to create two-by-two tables from information provided (usually sample … size, prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity) and compared calculated measures of diagnostic accuracy … Wrong Population: 77 Wrong Intervention: 38 Wrong Comparator: 10 Wrong Income: 117 Wrong Study Design

890. Comparative Effectiveness of Medications in Patients with Epilepsy (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/epilepsy-medicine_disposition-comments.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - each treatment group was treated as a separate trial of meta-analysis, dividing the control group sample … size by the same number of treatment arms.” … used in the analyses, so that they appear to simply be a post hoc approach based on convenience of sample … size. … The studies use an add-on design.

891. Disposition of Comments Report for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/stroke-atrial-fibrillation_disposition-comments.pdf
     August 23, 2013 - three large trials comparing novel anticoagulants with VKAs have been completed, with a combined sample … size of ~50,000 subjects.

892. Clopidogrel after Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation: Is current practice sufficient (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/stent-clopidogrel-practice_research.pdf
     March 01, 2009 - Design. … A sample size of approximately 10,000 patients would be required to detect a 25% reduction in death … Study concept and design: Eisenstein, Anstrom, Kong, Shaw, Califf.

893. Head-Neck-Cancer-Update Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/head-neck-cancer-update_executive.pdf
     December 01, 2014 - vary by Key Question, but the tables contain common elements such as author, year of publication, sample … size, study type, intervention(s), and comparator(s). … steps of study • Treatment-allocation methods (including concealment) • Use of blinding • Study design … We provide an overview of the design, patients, and quality (risk of bias) of all included studies. … Study Design and Patient Characteristics In total, 3DCRT and IMRT were compared in 13 studies (14 reports

894. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/vte-prophyalaxis_research-protocol.pdf
     March 01, 2011 - For all articles, reviewers will extract information on general study characteristics (e.g., study design … They had serious errors in design, analysis, or reporting; large amounts of missing information; or … We will conduct meta-analyses when there are sufficient data (at least three studies of the same design … Therefore study questions, design and/or methodological approaches do not necessarily represent the

895. Disposition of Comments CER 185 Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/tympanostomy-tubes-disposition.pdf
     May 05, 2017 - Methods: Study Design of ES and Full Report edited to add "(including arms of RCTs or NRCSs with 50

896. Disposition of Comments CER 185 Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tympanostomy-tubes-disposition.pdf
     May 05, 2017 - Methods: Study Design of ES and Full Report edited to add "(including arms of RCTs or NRCSs with 50

897. Disposition of Comments for CER 181 Mental Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mental-health-children_disposition-comments.pdf
     December 19, 2016 - We note the type of each study design when describing each included study. … table that lists the studies and has: title, citation, dates and location, population studied, study design … need for additional studies (e.g., QI or funding strategies) to indicate again the need for these design

898. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-249-malnutrition-disposition-comments_0_0.pdf
     October 13, 2021 - One, as the reviewer points out, is due to study design. … However, even if we ignore study design, the studies provided in the reviewer's list would not have … However, our review team felt that RCTs were the most appropriate design to control for unobserved … However, we found no studies with this design. … Consider Study Design Schematics or some other word here.

899. Migraine-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/migraine-prevention_executive.pdf
     June 01, 2013 - Risk-of-Bias Assessment We evaluated the risk of bias in individual studies according to study design … reasonably narrow 95% CIs or pooled samples had ≥300 events.24 We did not include justification of the sample … size into grading of the evidence, nor did we conduct post hoc statistical power analysis. … relied on reported information and did not contact study authors for additional details (such as trial design … StaR child health: developing evidence-based guidance for the design, conduct, and reporting of pediatric

900. Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/wheelchair-service_disposition-comments.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - We recognize that there is a significant body of knowledge about wheelchair design and specific … clinical practice; followed by, "Research in this area is challenging due to issues related to study design