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341. Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Conclusions Although many trials have been conducted to determine effective nonpharmacologic interventions

342. Local Hepatic Therapies for Metastases to the Liver From Unresectable Colorectal Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Evidence was insufficient to determine the comparative effectiveness or harms of these interventions.

343. A Comparative Effectiveness Study of Intensive Glycemic Control vs. Less Intensive Control in Type 2 Diabetes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - interactions between intensification of anti-diabetic medications and stratifying variables will be tested to determine

344. 1. Which patients benefit the most from MTM services? 1.1. Which factors, or combinations of factors, are most predictive of the clinical benefit of MTM services? 1.1.1. Disease factors (e.g., diabetes vs COPD ; multi-morbidity vs single… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - There is also a need to determine the optimal structures and processes for providing MTM services to … We believe it is important that a research program on MTM services include studies to determine the best

345. Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Programs for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - research need was not directly addressed in our CER and therefore may need a systematic review to determine … We evaluated the order of these rankings to determine the intended highest priority questions and averaged … To more definitively determine if earlier initiation of multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs improve … It will be difficult to determine if differences are due to timing or to rehabilitation center. … It will be difficult to determine if differences are due to degree of followup or to rehabilitation

346. Undescended-Testicle Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - The purpose of hormonal stimulation testing for bilateral nonpalpable cryptorchidism is to determine … Imaging also is used to determine whether there is in fact a testicle and, if there is, to locate it … Utility of Imaging To Determine Course of Treatment Eighteen unique studies met our inclusion criteria … Utility of Hormone Stimulation Testing To Determine Course of Treatment Two studies of a total of

347. Imaging Tests for the Staging of Colorectal Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - Staging is used primarily to determine appropriate treatment strategies; treatment options for colorectal … Clinicians determine the T, N, and M components and use them to assign patients into four broad disease … One of the challenges of this systematic review is to determine how cancer stages can be translated between … Staging after treatment (interim staging, or restaging) is primarily intended to determine if the tumor … diagnosis of a recurrence, staging aims to assess the extent of disease to guide treatment decisions and determine

348. Financing and Economics of Conducting N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 3) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - that lend a high degree of confidence to diagnoses, few if any widely available tools help providers determine … Patients indicated they could easily conduct their own open-label trials quickly and inexpensively to determine

349. Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The team will evaluate any additional non-English studies that appear relevant to determine how or if … Because of the numerous possible harm outcomes and study designs, we were not able to determine a specific … We will test the POPLINE database to determine whether it provides additional intervention or harms data … We will promote abstracts for full-text review when one or both reviewers determine that the abstract … We will work with our statistician to determine whether a quantitative analysis can be performed by considering

350. Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2023 - Two independent investigators will perform full-text screening to determine if inclusion criteria are … clinical and methodological heterogeneity (including study design) and variation in effect size to determine … interpret the I 2 statistic as described below. 28 When we find heterogeneity, we will attempt to determine

351. Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements (pdf file)
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     November 28, 2023 - Two independent investigators will perform full-text screening to determine if inclusion criteria are … clinical and methodological heterogeneity (including study design) and variation in effect size to determine … will interpret the I2 statistic as described below.28 When we find heterogeneity, we will attempt to determine

352. Implementation of Recommended Screening and Counseling Interventions to Prevent Mental Health Disorders in Children and Adolescents | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2025 - To determine study designs of nonrandomized studies, we will use criteria proposed by AHRQ for the classification … For studies without adequate information to determine whether inclusion or exclusion of an abstract is … To determine whether quantitative analyses are appropriate, we will assess the contextual, clinical, … Assessing Applicability To provide users of our review with the necessary information to determine the

353. Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services: Systematic Evidence Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2019 - for Selecting Studies: Pre-established eligibility criteria described in Table 2 will be used to determine

354. EPC Systematic Review Protocol: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Process for Selecting Studies: Pre-established eligibility criteria described in Table 2 will be used to determine

355. What is the comparative effectiveness and harms of treatments for traumatic brain injury? Preliminary Key Questions 1. What is the comparative effectiveness of the treatments for TBI for grades I-IV? 2. For patients, what are the potential… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Answers to these questions would help determine a more effective and efficient approach to the care of

356. Methods-Guidance-Applicability Methods (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - pharmacoepidemiologic studies, and large case series or registries of devices or surgical procedures can be used to determine … factors affecting the risk of bias, or internal validity, there has been much less empiric data to determine … evidence separately, rather than including it with judgments about risk of bias and other factors to determine … Determine the Most Important Factors that May Affect Applicability Identify potential factors. … Determine the Most Important Factors that May Affect Applicability In order to determine the important

357. Arthritis-Knee-Physical-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - What is the validity of the tests and measures used to determine intermediate outcomes of physical therapy … What are minimal clinically important differences of the tests and measures used to determine intermediate … evidence from controlled trials and observational studies.31 Three investigators will independently determine … We will determine the eligibility of studies based on the developed a priori algorithm. … evidence from controlled trials and observational studies.31 Three investigators will independently determine

358. Methods Guide Atkins (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - pharmacoepidemiologic studies, and large case series or registries of devices or surgical procedures can be used to determine … factors affecting the risk of bias, or internal validity, there has been much less empiric data to determine … evidence separately, rather than including it with judgments about risk of bias and other factors to determine … Determine the Most Important Factors that May Affect Applicability Identify potential factors. … Determine the Most Important Factors that May Affect Applicability In order to determine the important

359. FRN 27 - Wireless Motility Capsule Versus Other Diagnostic Technologies for Evaluating Gastroparesis and Constipation: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Data are insufficient to determine the optimal timing of WMC in diagnostic algorithms. … The priority ranking was inspected by the EPC team to determine if there was an obvious cutpoint between … We used an abbreviated Delphi technique to determine the priorities of the stakeholders. … Little data is available to determine the optimal timing of WMC in diagnostic algorithms. … No unified 4 standards existed to determine improvement in diagnostic accuracy.

360. Microsoft Word - FORMATTED_A_process_for_robust_and_transparent_Methods_Paper_CH_10-7-11_Tufts_MB_10-27-11si[1].docx (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/quality-rating_research.pdf
     November 01, 2011 - reports. 3  Specific Aims in Phase 1 In the first phase of this project, we aimed to determine … some of the implicit considerations (other than those related to the checklist items) that helped to determine … We chiefly aimed to determine those methodological or reporting components of the quality item checklist