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241. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/nominated-topics/management-vestibular-schwannomas
     June 11, 2021 - Question 11: Is surgical resection of VSs more difficult (associated with higher facial neuropathies

242. Disposition of Comments for CER 222: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-222-health-equity-preventive-services-comments.pdf
     December 03, 2019 - Seraphine Lambert Appendixes The appendixes appear very difficult to find in the review or missing.

243. Executive Summary_Systematic Review: Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Era (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/use-telehealth-during-COVID-19-executive-summary.pdf
     January 01, 2023 - However, telehealth may not be suitable for all patient populations, such as those who are more difficult

244. Disposition of Comments for CER 222: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-222-health-equity-preventive-services-comments.pdf
     December 03, 2019 - Seraphine Lambert Appendixes The appendixes appear very difficult to find in the review or missing.

245. ABSTRACT (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/machine-learning_research.pdf
     September 01, 2012 - design of the search differed between the update and original searches, which made modeling more difficult … Still, it would be difficult to establish GLMnet’s superiority (to GBM, SVM, or other algorithms) in … under development. 12,13 Finally, getting updates published in peer-reviewed journals may be more difficult … Still, it would be difficult to establish GLMnet’s superiority in this context (comparative effectiveness … It is difficult to determine whether similar studies were present in the original data without actually

246. Disposition of Comments for CER 208 Treatment for Bipolar Disorder in Adults A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-208-bipolar-adults-disposition-comments.pdf
     August 07, 2018 - However, it is difficult to see how the evidence can be categorized as insufficient when many hundreds … It is also quite difficult to retain patients with severe mania in studies due to typical restrictions … The nature of psychiatric illness is such that it is even more difficult to avoid attrition than in … the same challenges with high attrition as many of the other studies, making drawing conclusions difficult … For these reasons, the data are inherently difficult to digest and synthesize.

247. S50 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s50.pdf
     October 01, 2007 - require extensive quality control to de- crease errors in treatment delivery, but treatment purity is difficult … How- ever, if these data are not obtained using participant random- ization, it can be difficult to determine … Also, participation in higher-order or more difficult therapeutic activities seemed to improve lower-level

248. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cystic-fibrosis-hgh_research-protocol.pdf
     August 22, 2008 - The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … While each has merit in clinical interpretation, data handling is difficult. … Absolute changes in height and weight over a broad age range may be difficult to interpret, as younger

249. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ace-inhibitor-arb-update_executive.pdf
     June 01, 2011 - ARB); events reported, it was difficult to discern any differential Insufficient effect of ACEIs versus … studies, and relatively small sample ARB) sizes for ARBs, the precise magnitude of this effect is difficult

250. Disposition of Comments for Management of Suspected Opioid Overdose With Naloxone by Emergency Medical Services Personnel (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-193-disposition-comments-naloxone.pdf
     November 27, 2017 - Reviewer #2 General Comments This report exhaustively and comprehensively sought answers to difficult … I would have to say that it is difficult to capture the stress and drama from the individual cases … Ryan Introduction Consider timing of administration in patient population with difficult IV access … The effect of naloxone vs, or with the airway adjuncts makes this difficult to interpret. … Longitudinal studies will be difficult, so best practices must be openly shared.

251. OUTLINE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-quality-indicator-framework_research.pdf
     April 01, 2010 - indicators approved by the NQF defined the denominator retrospectively from the time of death, making it difficult … oncology, hospice) have not been well-coordinated, making combining or comparing results across settings difficult … diseases and many patients have multiple comorbidities at the end-of-life, isolating cancer issues is difficult

252. OUTLINE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-end-of-life-measures-framework_research.pdf
     April 01, 2010 - indicators approved by the NQF defined the denominator retrospectively from the time of death, making it difficult … oncology, hospice) have not been well-coordinated, making combining or comparing results across settings difficult … diseases and many patients have multiple comorbidities at the end-of-life, isolating cancer issues is difficult

253. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/diabetic-neuropathy-disposition-170707.pdf
     March 24, 2017 - revised it TEP #2 Results - KQ1 I’m curious as to why ORs were used instead of RRs as they are more difficult … Lack of head to head trials makes comparisons between groups, such as SNRI to anticonvulsants, difficult … Unfortunately, it is difficult to gain authorization for Lidoderm (especially from Medicare plans).

254. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetic-neuropathy-disposition-170707.pdf
     March 24, 2017 - revised it TEP #2 Results - KQ1 I’m curious as to why ORs were used instead of RRs as they are more difficult … Lack of head to head trials makes comparisons between groups, such as SNRI to anticonvulsants, difficult … Unfortunately, it is difficult to gain authorization for Lidoderm (especially from Medicare plans).

255. CER 215 Adverse Effects of Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-215-depression-older-adults-comments.pdf
     March 28, 2019 - The format of Table B makes the findings difficult to interpret. … Table B contains nearly the full array of information resulting from the analyses, I find it rather difficult … However, this makes it difficult to use the information in determining whether a given medication is … SNRI) were originally intended to identify medication class effects, but that this was difficult due … 2nd sentence: “Further characterization of the comparative safety of first‐line antidepressants is difficult

256. Methods Research Report: Developing Consistent and Useful Quality Improvement Study Data Extraction (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/developing-consistent-useful-quality-improvement.pdf
     September 01, 2020 - Quality improvement studies can provide important insight to learning health systems (LHS) but are difficult … full spectrum of quality improvement projects completed in an area from the medical literature is difficult … The participants were first asked to rate how difficult it is to find and use quality improvement studies … On a scale of 0 to 10, the first key informant rated it a 6 (moderately difficult) while the second … reviewer rated it a 4 (moderately difficult), justified by the paucity of published quality improvement

257. CER 215 Adverse Effects of Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-215-depression-older-adults-comments.pdf
     March 28, 2019 - The format of Table B makes the findings difficult to interpret. … Table B contains nearly the full array of information resulting from the analyses, I find it rather difficult … However, this makes it difficult to use the information in determining whether a given medication is … SNRI) were originally intended to identify medication class effects, but that this was difficult due … 2nd sentence: “Further characterization of the comparative safety of first‐line antidepressants is difficult

258. Medical Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder—An Update (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/asd-medical-executive-170505.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - reported in studies comparing these interventions were diverse, and their clinical significance is difficult … While duration was typically short, retaining participants in studies, especially in placebo arms, is difficult … This lack of reporting makes comparing harms across studies difficult. … This lack of reporting makes comparing harms across studies difficult.

259. Disposition of Comments: CER 227 Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-227-noninvasive-nonpharm-chronic-pain-comments.pdf
     April 16, 2020 - The presentation of treatments by each diagnosis is difficult for the reader to understand. … the likelihood that few studies would study the same combination/adjunctive therapies, it would be difficult … Response Ashley Walton, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) General Recognizing that it is difficult … conduct trials of nonpharmacologic therapies because the trial sizes tend to be small, blinding is difficult … We recognize that in this type of review it is difficult to address the many different subpopulations

260. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dietary-supplements_research-protocol.pdf
     December 15, 2010 - Drug-Dietary Supplement Interactions: In the clinical setting, drug-supplement interactions are more difficult … The variability in dietary supplement constituents, quality, and dosage makes it difficult to compare … evidence of interactions between dietary supplements and cardiovascular drugs are small in size and difficult … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems … impact of studies published in languages other than English in a meta-analysis may be minimal, it is difficult