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81. 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

82. Investing in Deliberation: Defining and Developing Decision Support Interventions for People Facing Difficult Health Decisions (Session III) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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83. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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    March 10, 2009 - Digestive diseases are difficult to evaluate given their internal existence.

84. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0193_08-12-2009.pdf
    January 01, 2009 - Even in carefully controlled clinical trials, it is difficult to ensure that every patient takes all

85. Update Topic CER 31 Clostridium difficile NSD FINAL (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/c-diff-infections-nomination-140925.pdf
    February 19, 2014 - million people are affected by CDI, and in recent years, CDI has become more frequent, severe and difficult

86. Identification of Future Research Needs in the Comparative Management of Uterine Fibroid Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 10, 2011 - about the comparative effectiveness of different treatments and appropriate clinical approaches to difficult … to draw conclusions about the relative benefits, harms, or costs of the available choices, making it difficult

87. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/knowledge-brief-2-methods-public-deliberation-130213.pdf
    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

88. 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

89. S9 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s9.pdf
    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

90. 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

91. Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 13, 2013 - 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

92. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-cancer-imaging_disposition-comments.pdf
    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

93. 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

94. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/recombinant-factor-viia_disposition-comments.pdf
    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.

95. 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

96. 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

97. Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report: Anxiety in Children (pdf file)
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    August 31, 2017 - Recognizing that it is difficult to categorize, many people will likely take issue with what is deemed … In combination with our next point, this was a difficult decision to interpret. … Without additional operationalizations of how SOE was assigned, it is difficult to follow how conclusions … however, we cannot identify throughout the manuscript mention of this characteristic which makes it difficult … The extraordinary efforts to be comprehensive results in a paper that is very difficult to read and

98. Topic 0451 Celiac Disease NSD FINAL (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND-533_05-24-2013.pdf
    January 01, 2013 - )  Diagnosing CD can be difficult because symptoms of the disease are common to many other gastrointestinal

99. Surgical Management of Cervical Degenerative Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/nominated-topics/cervical-degenerative-disease
    June 11, 2021 - (*Note: this is the "timing of surgery" question, which I think will be difficult to study, i.e. how

100. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/nominated-topics/question-what-is-the-etiology-of-cryptorchidism-what-are-the-environmental-factors-maternal-smoking-maternal-diabetes-mellitus-etc-that-may-contribute-to-the-development-of-this-condition-question-what-is-the-ideal-diagnostic
     May 10, 2010 - This makes it difficult to classify, and there are considerable variations in presentation and treatment … Classification of cryptorchidism by anatomical position is often difficult, and although there are a