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81. African American Health | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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82. Disposition of Comments for CER 172 Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis Prevention Treatment (pdf file)
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    March 29, 2016 - TEP Reviewer #1 Introduction Overall it is fine, but the prevention section focuses only on environmental … Studies that looked at microbiologic end points such as environmental cultures, etc., seem to be excluded … While such surrogate markers may be unreliable since data are meager relating environmental culture … We have added environmental swabbing and culture to the exclusion criteria for KQ2. … Results The categories for prevention seem odd- usually breakdown into infection prevention & control, environmental

83. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 16, 2016 - Prior to preparing this protocol, we conducted an updating surveillance assessment that comprised an environmental … The environmental scan supported the TEP's suggestion that the topics of intra-articular HA and arthroscopic … recently completed a SR on the effectiveness and safety of hyaluronic acid to treat OA of the knee, our environmental … Based on these comments and those of the TEP and our environmental scan, we will include most of those … Revised Key Questions Based on the findings of the environmental scan, TEP assessments, and public

84. Weight-Gain-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - • Individual-level (KQs 1–5) – Adherence • Environment-level (KQ6) – Use of environmental … The one study that assessed awareness of an environmental intervention found inconsistent awareness … A work-based intervention that combined diet, physical activity, and environmental interventions resulted … long studies that measured weight as an outcome, but on short- term changes in food choices or use of environmental … Workplace interventions with environmental-level change may be a way to help those attempting to prevent

85. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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    May 10, 2010 - What are the environmental factors (maternal smoking, maternal diabetes mellitus etc.) that may contribute

86. Technical Brief – Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 01, 2010 - What criteria (i.e., medical conditions, physical characteristics, functional and/or vocational needs, environmental … criteria Study design/size Elements of service delivery (i.e., patient physical characteristics, environmental

87. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2012 - Key Question 6 What contextual factors (population characteristics, decision type, and environmental … Key Question 6: What contextual factors (population characteristics, decision type, and environmental … Insufficient Key Question 6 What contextual factors (population characteristics, decision type, and environmental

88. Innovations in Stakeholder Engagement Conference Summary (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2011 - Featured Grassroots Efforts Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Solid Waste and Emergency … Agency, including the Superfund and Emergency Management Programs, which deal with the most serious environmental … Seek out the economically disadvantaged or environmental justice communities, as they may not be aware

89. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    February 10, 2010 - effective asthma management: assessing and monitoring the disease, self-management education, controlling environmental … strategies • Usual care as standard for the setting (e.g., asthma self- management education, control of environmental … Published Online: April 25, 2011 Page 7 of 18 (e.g., asthma self-management education, control of environmental

90. Obesity Prevention and Control | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 09, 2017 - weight, dietary and physical activity behaviors, 15,22-30 we will exclude studies that only report environmental … Motivating systems-oriented research on environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention. … Motivating systems-oriented research on environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention. … . 2 Natural experiment : Natural experiment refers to ways of evaluating policy, programmatic and environmental … behavior, urban renewal) Independent variables Genomic data Demographic data Social data Environmental

91. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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    January 01, 2006 - inhibitorCEI-induced cough Psychogenic and habit cough Chronic interstitial pulmonary disease Environmental

92. Healthcare Industry Waste and Lifecycle Assessment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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93. Glasgow.Presentation (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2009 -  personal  Barriers,   o Strategies,  Problem-­‐solving  techniques  and  Social/   o Environmental

94. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    June 01, 2012 - The third type of test predicts response to treatments or environmental factors including diet (also … What are the genetic, environmental or other modifiers?* Clinical utility (Continued) 26. … A variety of unmeasured environmental factors, other genetic polymorphisms, and various disease states … Evaluating causality may be difficult because of factors that influence associations (e.g., environmental … These include environmental exposures, behaviors, and other genes.

95. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    June 01, 2012 - The third type of test predicts response to treatments or environmental factors including diet (also … What are the genetic, environmental or other modifiers?* Clinical utility (Continued) 26. … A variety of unmeasured environmental factors, other genetic polymorphisms, and various disease states … Evaluating causality may be difficult because of factors that influence associations (e.g., environmental … These include environmental exposures, behaviors, and other genes.

96. Wheelchair-Service Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2010 - criteria (i.e., medical conditions, physical characteristics, functional and/or vocational needs, environmental … Elements of service delivery (i.e., patient physical characteristics, environmental factors, needs [

97. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update (pdf file)
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    June 15, 2016 - Prior to preparing this protocol, we conducted an updating surveillance assessment that comprised an environmental … The environmental scan supported the TEP’s suggestion that the topics of intra-articular HA and arthroscopic … recently completed a SR on the effectiveness and safety of hyaluronic acid to treat OA of the knee, our environmental … Based on these comments and those of the TEP and our environmental scan, we will include most of those … Revised Key Questions Based on the findings of the environmental scan, TEP assessments, and public

98. Obesity Prevention and Control (pdf file)
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    February 08, 2017 - weight, dietary and physical activity behaviors,15, 22-30 we will exclude studies that only report environmental … Motivating systems- oriented research on environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention. … Motivating systems-oriented research on environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention. … system.2 Natural experiment: Natural experiment refers to ways of evaluating policy, programmatic and environmental … behavior, urban renewal) § Independent variables • Genomic data • Demographic data • Social data • Environmental

99. Clostridium difficile Infection Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 23, 2014 - In addition to eliminating, where possible, the offending antibiotic, and environmental and infection … bundled preventive programs, prebiotics or probiotics used as preventive measures Hospital inpatient environmental … cleaning, monitoring, or surveillance Environmental cleaning for long-term care facilities   … introduced probiotics, isolation harms Intermediate Outcomes Appropriate antibiotic use Positive environmental

100. Disposition of Comments Report for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: A Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
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     June 10, 2013 - It seems those comprehensive interventions that included components promoting environmental changes … The headings: physical/environmental, and educational (which has been changed to psychosocial) are … Physical/environmental=actual change to the environment or policy. … Also, regarding the need for research on environmental and policy changes, the authors of this review … In the Implications for Policy Makers Section we state “In addition, the environmental factors that