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461. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions for Feeding and Nutrition in Cerebral Palsy (pdf file)
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     March 20, 2013 - TEP Member #1 Discussion/Conclusions Yes - difficult because of the paucity of studies but well done … However, it should be acknowledged that children with CP represent a particularly difficult group to

462. Table 1 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Moreover, instruments to measure depression are difficult to apply across settings of care and usually … The issue of ideal sources of information was also difficult to resolve, as participants identified

463. Musculoskeletal-Complaints-Tests-Children Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - prompts consultation with a physician.2 However, MSK pain is often nonspecific, which can make it difficult … Furthermore, these searches were supplemented by hand searching for grey literature (i.e., unpublished or difficult

464. Revised Protocol - Opioids 12 13 13[1] (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/chronic-pain-opioid-treatment_research-protocol.pdf
     December 19, 2013 - one-third of U.S. adults report chronic pain.1 Chronic pain is by definition persistent, and frequently difficult … The study may be missing information, making it difficult to assess limitations and potential problems

465. Disposition of Comments for Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health Disparities (pdf file)
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     August 27, 2012 - TEP #5 Results I found the description of the results in the executive summary difficult to follow. … It is difficult to be more specific about what the next steps should be given the overall need for … For quality improvement, however, that could be difficult. Agreed. … It is difficult to assess this issue in the literature, but the concern is noted. … for analysis, the variability allowed in the medical condition as well as the intervention, it is difficult

466. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 245: Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2021 - draft of the report makes breast reconstruction seem inevitable, which patients tell us makes it difficult

467. Menopause Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2015 - It is difficult to infer proportions of women achieving minimal clinically important improvements.32,33 … It is also difficult to evaluate potential selective outcome reporting from the included trials. … Finally, in studies that included all women rather than focusing on menopausal women, it was difficult

468. Tinnitus Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Some interventions showed positive benefits, but it was difficult to judge the degree of clinical significance … estimated for each study because different outcomes were used; the use of diverse outcomes makes it more difficult … A clear trend for harms was difficult to specify across the differing interventions.

469. Feasibility Study of a Wiki Collaboration Platform for Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - This would facilitate replies to individual reviewers, but merging could be difficult at the end. … Wikis can be easily edited, but it is difficult to link a comment to a specific statement within the … Not surprisingly, graphical interaction was difficult while using a screen reader, and the blind user … The authors also found it difficult to apply formatting and style properties and select characters and … It’s very difficult to involve all of our stakeholders in the process.

470. FRN 41 - Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Women: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - within the context of a trial, particularly if blinding must be maintained, is both expensive and difficult … The main challenge here is accessibility to the appropriate data, which may be difficult, especially … whose clinical care is not affected by participation in a study, assuring maximal recruitment can be difficult … Paper records are difficult to abstract because of issues relating to legibility, consistency in diagnostic … number of respects, such as income and employment history, that may be relevant, but which may be difficult

471. EBC-webinar-slides (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 -   Challenges  working  as  a  team    Lack  of  graphic  design  artist    Difficult

472. Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet): Summary Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 28, 2009 - clinical trials require substantial resources and a durable operational infrastructure that can be difficult … management of many more Gateway databases through this central “supernode” it may become logistically difficult … In the latter cases, it was sometimes difficult to get access or appropriate permissions needed on the … Additionally, we found that the concept of a set of data related to a “visit” is more difficult to ascertain … While the ability to capture events such as mild hypoglycemia in an EHR is difficult, point-of-care data

473. Disposition of Comments Report for Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - maternal or fetal outcomes, thus for outcomes that apparently need time to develop and are therefore difficult … Comparative Effects of rt-CGM and SMBG among Patients with Type 1 Diabetes” (pages 53-118) confusing, and difficult … significantly altered the goals of therapy in those over the age of 60 to render studies in this population difficult … This section is particularly well organized for all of the difficult adn varied information that had … Peer Reviewer 4 Appendix D The division of the Tables at the end of the document are difficult to follow

474. PCA3 Testing for the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 14, 2011 - Project staff will meet regularly to discuss the results at each phase, review studies that are difficult … fPSA) is limited, the relatively small cumulative numbers may make the exploration of heterogeneity difficult … Given this practice heterogeneity, it may be difficult to interpret test results from publications (especially

475. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/fatty-acids-cardiovascular-disease_disposition-comments.pdf
     August 12, 2016 - I was also particularly interested in the following issues but found the information difficult to access … Within the report, it is difficult to tease out the source since the generic use of marine oils is generally … 18) does a nice job summarizing study outcomes; although the meaning of font colors and shading are difficult

476. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Avoiding Bias in Selecting Studies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - key to the development of Systematic Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult … Composite endpoints are often difficult to interpret and may exaggerate the magnitude of treatment effect … This information is sometimes readily available, but often matching is difficult. 4.

477. Disposition of Comments Report for Decision Aids for Cancer Screening and Treatment (pdf file)
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     December 23, 2014 - Only recommended changes are to improve understandability of portions of the text which were difficult … These models can be difficult to fit with few studies. … As the reviewer notes, this is difficult for all the outcomes we are summarizing.

478. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
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     September 23, 2014 - published studies from different specialities using EUS-FNA, CT, MRI, PET/PET-CT scan and DWI are difficult … Because of this, it will be difficult to make definitive recommendations, or truly inform the reader … (Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance) General Comments One consideration is that it is difficult

479. Plasma-Cell-Dyscrasias-Sflc-Assay Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - and heterogeneity in the comparator used, as well as a lack of data for further synthesis, made it difficult … Several limitations and potential biases in these studies make it difficult to present clear conclusions … The effects of such convenience sampling are difficult to assess.

480. Disposition of Comments for CER 161 Major Depressive Disorder (pdf file)
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     December 08, 2015 - 21 line 37 This is an example where the lack of inclusion of placebo controlled trials makes it difficult … Also, we agree that this available evidence is difficult to interpret. … Although some of the heterogeneity may be due to different preparations, it is difficult to conclude … Standardization is no more difficult to assess (eg. 0.3% hypericin) than the dose of ibuprofen contained … Rather those with low depression severity respond well to a placebo arm, and it is difficult to detect