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3561. The Refinement of Topics for Systematic Reviews: Lessons and Recommendations From the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-topic-refinement_methods.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Design and setting. … Other aspects of the evidence base may also affect research feasibility, such as the design and quality … elsewhere.12 The facilitator’s job can be more challenging if the group is heterogeneous, either by design … How will could this report be used (e.g., issues in guidelines, coverage decisions, or benefit design

3562. Renal Artery Stenosis Management Strategies: An Updated Comparative Effectiveness Review (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/renal-update_executive.pdf
      August 01, 2016 - Review Methods We included comparative studies of any design of PTRAS, medical therapy, and/or surgical … Clinical heterogeneity in terms of study design, particularly heterogeneity related to patient eligibility

3563. Home and Community-Based Services Quality Indicators: (pdf file)
      qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2012/Appendix_1A_Details_of_literature_review.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Effective strategies included: education on fire safety and first aid; improved home content design

3564. Archived: Evidence Summary: Depression: Screening 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/depression-screening-2002
      May 07, 2002 - This finding suggests that the mixed results may be explained in part by differences in adequacy of sample … sizes among trials. … effects on health outcomes because of limited number or power of studies, important flaws in their design

3565. Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/corebackgrnd.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs Federal Register Notice 2474-NC-CMS: Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children’s Healthca…

3566. Hepatitis-C Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c_executive.pdf
      November 01, 2012 - They have a serious or fatal flaw in design, analysis, or reporting; large amounts of missing information … The results of these studies are judged to be at least as likely to reflect flaws in the study design … Such trials would be difficult to design and carry out due to the long time required for complications … outcomes in randomized trials or cohort studies is a challenge due to the long lead time and large sample … sizes necessary to adequately assess these outcomes.

3567. Practice-Based Research Network Business Opportunities with ACOs and Other Health Care Systems: Training and Technical Assistance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/primer-for-pbrn-business-opportunities.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - Examples include database design, electronic health record (EHR) data extraction, statistical analytic … design, and relationships with clinical staff implementing QI initiatives. … Rigorous study design, minimizing bias in data collection, and expert statistical analysis are services … developing similar contracts to negotiate for sufficient FTE to actively participate in curriculum design … Advice about rigorous study design and statistical analysis regarding intervention or program evaluation

3568. Recommendation: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/osteoporosis-screening
      January 14, 2025 - on incidence of myocardial infarction had very imprecise RR estimates with wide CIs because of small sample … sizes and rare events. 1 , 46 Although 1 study of zoledronic acid in men reported a statistically

3569. Medical Office SOPS: 2016 User Comparative Database Report, Part I (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/medical-office/2016-report-part-1.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Statistical significance is greatly influenced by sample size; as the number of observations in comparison

3570. Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons for Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/lessons-transcript.pdf
      May 29, 2025 - dialog and listening, how much the partners involved in different aspects of the research, not just the design … and the research design or the questions but in the data collection, in the data analysis which of … There are many ways that you can design a community but CBPR has traditionally done that outside a treatment … researchers that don’t feel like people that are not researchers can participate for example in protocol design … we create and link that in positive ways to the university evidence that comes from other research design

3571. Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/hhrqMCEgbsBMJ_Ppbcp4yJ
      January 14, 2025 - on incidence of myocardial infarction had very imprecise RR estimates with wide CIs because of small sample … sizes and rare events.1,46 Although 1 study of zoledronic acid in men reported a statisti- cally significant

3572. Rapid Evidence Product_Nonemergent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Optimal Medical Treatment for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: A Rapid Response Literature Review (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/rapid-evidence-heart-disease.pdf
      October 01, 2022 - Study Parameter Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria Setting Any (US or outside US) None Study Design … was extracted into Word tables and included information about author, year, country, setting, study design … , study dates, sample size, follow-up duration, patient characteristics (age, gender, race, co-morbidities … It is unclear to what extent these disparate results may be influenced by the RCT sample size or flaws … OMT Reference: Perera et al. 2022 (REVIVED)29 Study Design: Multicenter, randomized, open-label

3573. User Guide (v2025.1) for Elixhauser Comorbidity Software Refined for ICD-10-CM (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/comorbidityicd10/CMR-User-Guide-v2025-1.pdf
      November 01, 2024 - the necessary degrees of freedom required for estimation—especially helpful when working with small sample … sizes.

3574. Presenting Facts and Addressing Misinformation to Increase Nursing Home Staff Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/covid19-vaccine-confidence-curriculum-learning-guide-staff.pdf
      March 01, 2021 - This is too small of a sample size to fully know the impact of the vaccines, but so far there is no evidence

3575. CER 45 Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Comparative Effectiveness Surveillance Final 4.7.16 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/measuring-blood-pressure-surveillance-160412.pdf
      May 29, 2025 - We"included"systematic"reviews"and"meta'analyses,"whether"or"not"they" were"included"(as"a"study"design … B'2" o" No"minimum"sample"size."" Excluded" o" Retrospective"longitudinal"studies. … Adherence$(Key$Question$5)$ Included:" o" Prospective"or"retrospective"longitudinal"studies" o" Sample"size … `$DESIGN,$SETTING,$AND$PATIENTS:$A$cluster$randomized$clinical$ trial$of$450$adults$with$uncontrolled … `$DESIGN:$Multicentre$randomised$controlled$trial.

3576. RoboticAmbulatorySurgery (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/RoboticAmbulatorySurgery.pdf
      October 20, 2021 - Study Design In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed ambulatory surgery visits involving 12 procedures

3577. Medication-Adherence-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/medication-adherence-interventions_executive.pdf
      September 01, 2012 - Among the observational studies, 2 used a before-after design, 1 used an interrupted time series design … with a concurrent control group, and 1 used a retrospective quasi-experimental design. … The paucity of this second type of study design may reflect the state of the field. … The low number of studies and limited sample size of included studies curtailed our confidence in the … The Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: study design and methodology.

3578. Fl4Ahrqprojectfinalreportmar2010 V2 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/FL4AHRQProjectFinalReportMar2010_v2.pdf
      March 01, 2010 - into LOINC, joining clinical and administrative datasets and conducting the appropriate analytical design

3579. Microsoft Word - 2008-07.doc (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2008_07.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - Microsoft Word - 2008-07.doc HCUP Methods Series kbr33831 Contact Information: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov For Technical Assistance with HCUP Products: Email: hcup@ahrq…

3580. S58 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s58.pdf
      October 01, 2007 - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Studying Prescription Drug Use and Outcomes With Medicaid Claims Data Strengths, Limitations, and Strategies Stephen Crystal, PhD,*† Ayse Akincigil, PhD,*† Scott Bilder, MS,* and James T. Walkup, PhD*‡ Abstract: Medicaid claims and eligibility data, particularly when linked to other sources of pati…