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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives/research-protocol
February 15, 2012 - Current Page Topic Timeline Feb. 13, 2012 Topic Initiated Feb. 15, 2012 Research Protocol Jun. 7, 2013 Systematic Review Sep. 12, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Oral Contraceptive Use for the Primary Prevention of Ovarian Cancer
Research Protocol Archived February 15, 2012 Download Main Document PDF 488.6 KB …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/health-topics/alcoholism-and-alcohol-abuse
January 17, 2012 - Strategies To Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors in People With Serious Mental Illness: A Comparative Effectiveness Review
Research Protocol
Archived
January 17, 2012
Strategies for Improving the Lives of Women Aged 40 and Above Living with HIV/AIDS
Research Protocol
Archived
Marc…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/head-neck-cancer-update_clinician.pdf
August 01, 2015 - Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer
Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer
Background
Clinical Bottom Line
and stereotactic body RT (SBRT). Charged particle-based
conformal external-beam RT modalities, such as proton-beam
RT (PBT), are also available to treat head and neck cancer,
althou…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hemorrhage-postpartum_clinician.pdf
July 01, 2016 - Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Current State of the Evidence
Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage:
Current State of the Evidence
Focus of This Summary
This is a summary of a systematic review evaluating the evidence regarding the potential benefits and harms of medical and/or
surgical strategies used to man…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/han.pdf
December 26, 2012 - Han
Slide 1: Conceptual, methodological, and ethical problems
in communicating
uncertainty
in clinical
evidence
Paul Han, MD, MA, MPH
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Maine Medical
Center
Slide 2: Communicating
uncertainty in clinical …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-abnormalities-tests_executive.pdf
February 01, 2006 - Layout 1
Background
Breast cancer is the second most common
malignancy in women. The American
Cancer Society estimated that in the United
States in 2005, 212,930 women would be
newly diagnosed as having breast cancer
and there would be 40,870 deaths due to
this disease. Because early breast cancer is
asymptomatic, th…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cancer-anemia-update_disposition-comments.pdf
April 25, 2013 - 74, line 12: inserted text
Page 75, line 25: What about other implications, such as over-/under-estimating … BEST study was excluded as part of a
standard influence analysis (excluding 1 study at a time then re-estimating
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/venous-ulcers-treatment-future_research.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Standards for Estimating Proper Sample Sizes
Well-developed statistical methods for estimating the size … Statistical Analysis
Standards for Analyzing Data
Standards for analyzing study data should include estimating … Lack of standards for designing studies of the treatment of CVUs, i.e.:
4 …for estimating proper sample … …for estimating proper sample sizes. … Reporting…for describing all patients’ flow through studies. 2 2
13 Design…for estimating
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_chou_assessing_harms_when_comparing.pdf
November 01, 2008 - Validity of indirect comparison for
estimating efficacy of competing
interventions: empirical evidence … Estimating causal effects of
treatments in randomized and
nonrandomized studies.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
November 01, 2008 - Validity of indirect comparison for
estimating efficacy of competing
interventions: empirical evidence … Estimating causal effects of
treatments in randomized and
nonrandomized studies.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/quantitative-synthesis-expanded-methods_methods.pdf
March 01, 2013 - Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics
Methods Guide
for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews
Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative
Synthesis Topics
ii
This report is based on research conducted by the Tufts…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s5.pdf
October 01, 2007 - ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Emerging Methods in Comparative Effectiveness
and Safety
Symposium Overview and Summary
Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD
Background: Interest in new methods for comparative effective-
ness, drug and patient safety, and related studies is burgeoning. The
advent of Medicare Part D for outpatient prescription dr…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/infantile-hemangioma/clinician
June 21, 2016 - Management of Infantile Hemangioma
Clinician Summary Archived June 21, 2016 Download Main Document PDF 877.9 KB
Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes, but should not be considered current.
Focus of This Summary
This is a summary of a …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/kidney-disease-medicine_research-protocol.pdf
November 01, 2010 - Evidence Report on the
Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
Published Online: July 28, 2010
Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol
Project Title: Screening for and Management of Chronic Kidney
Disease Stages 1-3
I. Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review
T…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/coronary-stents-outcomes/research
February 10, 2010 - Estimating medial costs with censored data. Biometrika 2000;82:387-394.
Cole SR, Hernan MA.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/pressure-ulcer-treatment/research-protocol
November 08, 2011 - Current Page Topic Timeline Sep. 22, 2010 Topic Suggestion Nov. 8, 2011 Research Protocol May. 8, 2013 Systematic Review Sep. 12, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review
Research Protocol Archived November 8, 2011 Download Main Document PDF 251.7 …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/alcohol-misuse-drug-therapy_policymaker.pdf
August 01, 2016 - Pharmacotherapy for Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder in Outpatient Settings
B A C K G R O U N D
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) includes harmful use of alcohol,
alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence. In the fifth edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5),
alcohol abuse and alcohol de…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/coronary-stents-outcomes_research.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Estimating medial
costs with censored data. Biometrika
2000;82:387-394.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/depression-postpartum-screening/research-protocol
March 09, 2012 - Current Page Topic Timeline Nov. 8, 2010 Topic Suggestion Mar. 9, 2012 Research Protocol Apr. 9, 2013 Systematic Review Feb. 1, 2017 Disposition of Comments Report Efficacy and Safety of Screening for Postpartum Depression
Research Protocol March 9, 2012 Download Main Document PDF 640.9 KB
Background …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cancer-pancreas_executive.pdf
September 01, 2014 - 1
Comparative Effectiveness Review
Number 141
Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and Staging of
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Executive Summary
Background
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most
common cause of cancer death among
men and women in the United States.1,2 In
2013 in the United St…