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81. Transparency of Reporting Requirements | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 01, 2019 - Searching clinicaltrials.gov for relevant trials can be difficult and time-consuming.

82. Roadmap for Narratively Describing Effects of Interventions in Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2020 - Oversimplification of findings may risk misunderstanding for some audiences, but too much detail can be difficult

83. Wireless-Motility-Capsule Executive (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2013 - Motility disorders are difficult to diagnose. … ROM† Treatment decisions Low 2 Very small numbers made comparison difficult for treatment decisions … We felt that precision was low but this is difficult to gauge for this question. … These are difficult outcomes to assess without using dedicated symptom scores or mining large sources … As such, it is difficult, based on the data, to separate patients with gastroparesis from those with

84. Health Occupations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 19, 2010 - Investing in Deliberation: Defining and Developing Decision Support Interventions for People Facing Difficult

85. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2017 - Reviewer #3: General Some sections of the report are a bit difficult to navigate, especially when … It is difficult to picture what is actually being done, or could be done, in some of these studies … could include substance abuse and violence as public health problems that are complex, but it is difficult … We would prefer to keep the graphs as is because some find stacked bar graphs difficult to read. … Reviewer #2: Results, KQ1 Figure 3 was a bit difficult to follow in the “sharable” column.

86. S166 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - The low amount of studies in these outcomes makes it very difficult to estimate between-study variance … importance of differences in pooled estimates derived by indirect, direct, and combined analyses is difficult … The differences in SQ estimates are more difficult to assess clinically because they are represented … Based on our 1 case study, it is difficult to make statements on how generalizable our results may be … Using indirect evidence be- comes particularly important when direct evidence is scarce or difficult

87. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2009 - Even in carefully controlled clinical trials, it is difficult to ensure that every patient takes all

88. Update Topic CER 31 Clostridium difficile NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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    February 19, 2014 - million people are affected by CDI, and in recent years, CDI has become more frequent, severe and difficult

89. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2013 - public consultation in which members of the public come together to engage in informed dialogue about difficult … However, it may be difficult to assess whether a specific deliberative event had a direct effect on

90. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2013 - public consultation in which members of the public come together to engage in informed dialogue about difficult … However, it may be difficult to assess whether a specific deliberative event had a direct effect on

91. S9 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - services researchers, their utility is limited by the sensitive natures of many of these data, making it difficult … Unfortunately, the PDE files are also the most highly sensitive and may be the most difficult to gain … Part D data—particularly details of plan formularies and beneficiary-level data—may be difficult to access

92. Multidisciplinary Postacute Rehabilitation for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults Disposition of Comments (pdf file)
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    October 07, 2012 - In addition, of the three ICF levels - participation is by far the most difficult to define and measure … This is important because it makes the target population difficult to define (literally there IS NO … Requiring studies to concurrently meet so many difficult-to-achieve qualifications (e.g., controlling … Maintenance of outcomes is more difficult to address, but we have added text to the Discussion to … This is a difficult question to address in a CER, but we do address these issues in the Introduction

93. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2014 - characteristics of imaging devices (variance, bias, etc.) comparative effectiveness results will be difficult … There is a great deal of information in tables 2 - 4 that make extraction of useful information difficult … Most of the technical information is contained in the tables, and they are difficult to concentrate … metastasis is unclear, and the exclusion of the bone dominant patients from clinical trials makes it difficult … While each imaging tool could be qualified, it will be difficult to compare head to head without specification

94. Assessing the Impact of Indexing Performance Measure Codes on the Perceived Value of EPC Reports to Health Systems (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2018 - EPC reports are lengthy and difficult for health systems to navigate which could impede their use by … likely to use EPC reports than other sources of information because the reports were lengthy and it was difficult … of the key informants validated that the length of the reports make it time consuming to read and difficult … Very difficult to use Somewhat difficult Neither easy nor difficult Somewhat easy Very easy to

95. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2010 - Results Presentation of some tables and figures difficult to follow. … It’s difficult. Most forest plots allow this to be reasonably easily achieved. … Results Figure 3, page 37 is difficult to read. … Excluding selective reporting of outcomes is also extremely difficult to achieve. … Some figures difficult to interpret.

96. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - Finally, giving specific methods guidance for addressing difficult or ill-defined problems can be premature

97. Fagerlin-notes-151007 copy-Teresa (pdf file)
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    November 11, 2015 - One of the reasons is because they don’t want to be labeled   as a difficult patient.   … do active surveillance,” because you  don’t want to be labeled  in  that first encounter as a difficult … So it must be that the risks are really bad because,” Trying to reconcile that can be really difficult

98. Disposition of Comments Report for The Clinical Utility of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) in Asthma Management (pdf file)
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    December 20, 2017 - Introduction This is generally well stated though the main point, that asthma diagnosis is difficult … The authors attempt to format the Key questions to ease interpretation but they are still difficult … Asthma can sometimes be a difficult diagnosis to make and FeNO can be helpful – more so in ruling … However the KQ1b is a rather difficult question to study as asthma control can be measured in numerous … Hekking 2015, Kupcyzk 2011 discuss difficult to treat asthma, irrelevant to KQs McNicholl 2012 study

99. Environmental, Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Resources to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 01, 2025 - Assessing bias in these studies is difficult, and standard risk of bias instruments may not be optimal

100. Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - issues key to the development of Systematic Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … Statistical heterogeneity is difficult to infer when the total amount of information (sum of the precisions … Statistical heterogeneity is more difficult to address, but can be handled better with Bayesian random … Although ORs have mathematical advantages over RRs, they are more difficult to interpret because they … expressed in units of standard deviations, rather than in units of any measurement scales and can be difficult