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441. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence: Current State of the Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - It is difficult to compare the effectiveness of surgical to nonsurgical fecal incontinence treatments

442. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2020 - the rectum drops down through the anus (called rectal prolapse) Diarrhea Loose stools are more difficult

443. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 15, 2012 - Therefore it is a little difficult to say whether the key questions have been answered or the conclusions … As stated in the report, it is very difficult to write search algorithms that are specific to the topic … Reviewer #7 Executive Summary The Executive Summary is far too detailed, too long, and very difficult … However, from our experience in the systematic review field, when literature is as difficult to locate

444. Disposition of Comments for CER 172 Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis Prevention Treatment (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2016 - A consensus reference standard would be problematically heterogeneous and make analysis difficult … This is a difficult area to discuss and perhaps the authors chose not to discuss this in detail given … It is difficult to create a table that fully incorporates all pertinent and important points that … Peer Reviewer #6 Figures The forrest plots and figures are small and difficult to see.

445. Disposition of Comments Report for Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults (pdf file)
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     November 27, 2012 - In general, when there is only a single trial, it is difficult to draw a conclusion regarding the strength … and free of bias but the review limits itself to treatment-naive individuals and does not consider "difficult-to-treat … This was a difficult task and is done very well. … fact that these recommendations apply only to treatment-naive individuals and does not apply to "difficult-to-treat

446. Antidepressant Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2014 - Indirect comparisons can be difficult to interpret for several reasons; in the case of comparison with … Known Putting these findings into the context of prior comparative effectiveness evidence reviews was difficult … The clinical relevance of the nonpharmacological treatment modalities was difficult to assess because … Likewise, the clinical relevance of the pharmacological treatment regimens was difficult to assess

447. Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons for Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (pdf file)
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     January 06, 2017 - they often need stakeholder input in projects with short timelines or immediate start dates and it’s difficult … PCOR is operating on a three year agenda and it will be very difficult for them to adhere to CBPR in … having a neutral facilitatory so many times if it’s the researcher that’s running the meeting it’s very difficult … We need to answer difficult questions like who’s responsible for this.

448. Weight-Gain-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Differences in opinion were resolved through consensus adjudication and, for difficult cases, during … the robust evidence that obesity is associated with poor health outcomes,5-12 is costly,3 and is difficult … Behavior change is difficult for individuals whose goal is to prevent weight gain, just as behavior … change is difficult for those attempting to lose weight.

449. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews_Inclusion of Nonrandomized Studies of Interventions in Systematic Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness: An Update (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - key to the development of systematic reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … inference • Restricted to one outcome only • Cannot measure incidence/risk • Sometimes difficult … Longitudinal Prospective or retrospective, or mixed • Ease of participant enrollment • Difficult … Early in the evolution of evidence on a topic, when limited evidence from RCTs may be available, it is difficult … Two challenges with the IV approach worth noting are (1) it is often difficult to find an appropriate

450. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews_Inclusion of Nonrandomized Studies of Interventions in Systematic Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness: An Update (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - key to the development of systematic reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … inference • Restricted to one outcome only • Cannot measure incidence/risk • Sometimes difficult … Longitudinal Prospective or retrospective, or mixed • Ease of participant enrollment • Difficult … Early in the evolution of evidence on a topic, when limited evidence from RCTs may be available, it is difficult … Two challenges with the IV approach worth noting are (1) it is often difficult to find an appropriate

451. Management of Infantile Hemangioma (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2016 - Studies used multiple and variable outcome measures to assess resolution of lesions, which makes it difficult

452. Hibbard-notes-151007 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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     November 11, 2015 - So when  we focus on  complex and  difficult behaviors, first and  only, maybe we’re discouraging

453. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2011 - Balancing these factors is a difficult yet critical process in an effort to make the best possible … Surgical complications of combined operations make it difficult to isolate aspects of the hernia repair … patients in the studies (whereas tau is a more direct measure of heterogeneity), 37 but tau is more difficult

454. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - that the FDA specifically identified hepatosplenic lymphoma and that interpretation of results is difficult … Overall magnitude of effect is difficult to describe. … As far as clinically meaningful, this is more difficult.

455. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - glucosidase inhibitors to be inferior to the other drug classes in terms of efficacy, clinicians may find it difficult … Only two randomized controlled trials reported information on peripheral vascular disease, making it difficult … studies may also be helpful in elucidating long-term outcomes, although confounding by indication may be difficult

456. Colorectal-Cancer-Staging Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - The statistical heterogeneity of the PET/CT data makes it difficult to draw any conclusions about the … affecting CT’s accuracy for colorectal staging, but they reported on different factors, making it difficult … Applicability Judging the applicability of the results is difficult.

457. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - development of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … variance if observed and expected events can be extracted, 31, 32 although this is often quite difficult … effects across studies follow a normal distribution, though the validity of this assumption may be difficult

458. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - development of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … variance if observed and expected events can be extracted, 31, 32 although this is often quite difficult … effects across studies follow a normal distribution, though the validity of this assumption may be difficult

459. EHC Technical Brief 32: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (pdf file)
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     May 14, 2019 - Usual care may include active interventions making it difficult to compare findings with "control" … This should not be that difficult or time-consuming. … It is difficult to predict what other information a reader may want as this may come out of the patterns

460. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis When Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - development of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … its variance if observed and expected events can be extracted, 31, 32 although this is often quite difficult … effects across studies follow a normal distribution, though the validity of this assumption may be difficult