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141. Disposition of Comments for Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening and Treatment of Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression (pdf file)
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     November 14, 2017 - PHQ-9 has a follow-up question: If you checked off any problems on this questionnaire so far, how difficult … Possible answers are not difficult at all (0), somewhat difficult (1), very difficult (2), and extremely … difficult (3). … TEP #5 Results It is difficult to understand the point changes since the studies described used a variety

142. Santa_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - • Text is difficult to  understand  for the  average  patient,  whether  in English   … Slide 33: Evaluation • Evaluation is difficult. • All topics include some appropriate use. • Multiple

143. Long-Term-Care-Adults Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Distinguishing between longstanding and new LTC users is difficult. … This made it difficult to compare results. … Existing literature is difficult to review due to heterogeneity of services, settings, populations, … question of how LTC delivered through HCBS and in NHs affects outcome trajectories of older adults is difficult … mental health and clinical status; the distributions overlapped for HCBS and NH groups • Domains were difficult

144. Ankyloglossia Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - Without this information it is difficult to inform parents fully about the long-term implications of … reported excessive crying or an inability to feed soon after the intervention, but pain is arguably difficult … The frenotomy procedure itself is not technically difficult and is likely performed similarly across … the severity of the ankyloglossia was inconsistently reported, making interstudy generalizations difficult … Social concerns are difficult to measure objectively, so there will likely always be a subjective component

145. S29 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Williams & Wilkins S31 tions for patients already on therapy would be unacceptable or extremely difficult … Formulary changes Formulary changes viewed as undesirable, difficult, impossible to implement quickly … More difficult to implement; informed consent critical; potential harm to patients; greater financial … assessing outcomes and determining whether there were in fact differences in effectiveness would be more difficult … challenging (eg, patients and providers may receive/give care at multiple practices); study would be more difficult

146. Relationship Between Use of Quality Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Outcomes against which to evaluate the effectiveness of QMs are difficult to measure.

147. An Evidence Review of Active Surveillance in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - waiting" and their intended and often mixed (both curative and palliative) treatment objectives, it was difficult

148. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Comparing the effectiveness of FI surgical and nonsurgical treatments is difficult because nonsurgical

149. Data Points #3: Economic burden of diabetic foot ulcers and amputations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - especially for type 2 diabetes (the most common type of diabetes in the Medicare population), it can be difficult

150. Resource Allocation and Pandemic Response: An Evidence Synthesis To Inform Decision Making | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 01, 2021 - Main Points When decision makers need to make difficult choices regarding the allocation of scarce

151. Adjuvant Treatment for Phenylketonuria: Future Research Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Nonetheless, management of PKU can be difficult and onerous for the patient and the family, leading to

152. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - But studies of diagnostic-thinking efficacy or therapeutic efficacy are difficult to mount. … systematically in their assessment of whether a given test result contributed to management, that it may be difficult … Randomized trials of tests are more difficult to design than randomized studies of treatment. … the test will ultimately be used in practice, and physician compliance with such protocols may be difficult

153. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - patient satisfaction in the hysterectomy group, although data for women with noncyclic CPP alone are difficult … addressing heterogeneous surgical interventions and with so few being of good or fair quality, it is difficult … muddled by a lack of standardized definitions for CPP and unclear diagnostic evaluation, which make it difficult … Similarly, understanding comorbidity prevalence with CPP is difficult, as a condition may be considered

154. Nephropathy-Contrast-Induced Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - CIN should stratify patients according to their baseline risk of CIN, especially since it may be difficult … intravenous saline and did not differ in head-to-head comparisons with N-acetylcysteine, it may be difficult … Finally, it is very difficult to apply the existing evidence to patients receiving intravenous contrast … risk of CIN may be low enough with the intravenous administration of LOCM and IOCM to make it very difficult

155. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - But studies of diagnostic-thinking efficacy or therapeutic efficacy are difficult to mount. … systematically in their assessment of whether a given test result contributed to management, that it may be difficult … Randomized trials of tests are more difficult to design than randomized studies of treatment. … the test will ultimately be used in practice, and physician compliance with such protocols may be difficult

156. Registry of Patient Registries (RoPR) Policies and Procedures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - and a final stakeholder meeting was held to discuss the key questions and to develop consensus around difficult … Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to discuss the key questions and to develop consensus around difficult … However, contact information is difficult to maintain accurately and is often non-specific to the particular

157. CER 220: Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesics To Reduce Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting (pdf file)
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     September 03, 2019 - Peer reviewer #3 Results It was very difficult to track given the volume of data . … Personally, the pdf version had mixed fonts that made it difficult to track the information flow between … It is difficult to suggest a specific location/page/line number for these because each occurs in various … TEP reviewer #5 General This is a difficult and comprehensive comparison to describe. … Also, it would be difficult to administer the drug on the floor where a majority of orthopedic patients

158. Dispostion of Comments Report for Child and Adolescent Exposure to Trauma (pdf file)
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     February 11, 2013 - none of the included studies focused on this way of conceptualizing their trials, making this a difficult … It would be difficult to scope the review in this manner because identification of specific issues … Getting larger sample sizes in this area would be difficult because larger samples are quite costly … Thus, we would have to subjectively assign these for each study, making it difficult for us to quantify … A TEP #2 Clarity/ Usability The volume of information and repetitiveness make the key findings difficult

159. Epstein (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - are made and negotiated by individuals o Patients want individual autonomy o Patients anticipate difficult

160. Disposition of Comments for CER 163 Appropriate Antibiotics (pdf file)
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     January 27, 2016 - Without knowing aetiology, it is difficult to determine appropriateness of LRTI. … Perhaps add: "although detecting changes in resistance from interventions may be difficult" 13 … Without bacteriology (rarely performed) this will be difficult if not impossible to assess. … It would be difficult to evaluate this as an intervention when it is recognized as the standard of … I found the Executive Summary very difficult to read, because of awkward phrasing and wording.