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141. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer Background A National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel that convened in 2011 recommended that AS—a strategy with curative intent that involves regular monitoring of PSA levels and repeat biopsies—should be offer…

142. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Estimating the proportion of patients in the general population with HCV infection who progress to cirrhosis … and serious complications (primarily bleeding and severe pain) in about 1 percent.70-75 However, estimating … Estimating progression to cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

143. Nppv-Respiratory-Failure Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 68 Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation (NPPV) for Acute Respiratory Failure Executive Summary Background Acute respiratory failure is a life- threatening condition characterized by an inability to maintain normal levels of oxygen and/or carbon dioxide gas exc…

144. Development of Statistical Estimators to Address Questions of Comparative Effectiveness in Elderly Heart Failure Patients | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 02, 2009 - Development of Statistical Estimators to Address Questions of Comparative Effectiveness in Elderly Heart Failure Patients Research Report December 2, 2009 Findings from this study were published in the following journal article. Kramer JM, Curtis LH, Dupree CS, Pelter D, Hernandez A, Massing M, and An…

145. The Effect of Dietary Digestible Carbohydrate Intake on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - The Effect of Dietary Digestible Carbohydrate Intake on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Project Title: The Effect of Dietary Digestible Carbohydrate Intake on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease I. Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review Des…

146. README v0.5 20070515.doc (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2007 - +++ README v0.5 20070515.doc 15 May 2007 v0.90 SAS® Macro for Doubly Robust Estimation, v0.90 © 2006 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All rights reserved in accordance with license agreement accompanying the work. Macro updates will be posted at http://www.harryguess.unc.edu. This macro…

147. Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2016 - Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities Clinical Issue About one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. Approximately 290,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, and more than…

148. Behavioral Programs for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - Behavioral Programs for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Current State of the Evidence Behavioral Programs for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Current State of the Evidence Focus of This Summary This is a summary of a systematic review evaluating the evidence about the effectiveness of behavioral programs for type 1 diabete…

149. Heart-Failure-Transition-Care Clinician (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure Focus of This Summary This is a summary of a systematic review evaluating the evidence regarding the efficacy, comparative effectiveness, and harms of transitional care interventions (defined in Table 1) that aim to reduce readmiss…

150. Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure B A C K G R O U N D Heart failure (HF) is a major clinical and public health problem and a leading cause of hospitalization and health care costs in the United States. Despite a decline in HF-related hospitalizations during the …

151. Progestogens-Preterm-Birth Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 74 Progestogens for Prevention of Preterm Birth Executive Summary Introduction Burden of Preterm Birth Birth before completion of 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered preterm. These early births are associated with more than 85 percent of all perinatal morbidity an…

152. S131 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Estimating causal effects from large data sets using propen- sity scores.

153. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2017 - Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility Methods Research Report Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility Methods Research Repo…

154. Bladder-Cancer-Muscle-Invasive Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 152 Treatment of Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Executive Summary Background Nature and Burden of Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Bladder cancer is the 4th most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer i…

155. Tinnitus Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 122 Evaluation and Treatment of Tinnitus: Comparative Effectiveness Executive Summary Background Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of an external auditory stimulus; as such, tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. An estimated 16 percent of the America…

156. Comparative Effectiveness of Adjunctive Devices to Remove Thrombi or Protect Against Distal Embolization in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Native Vessels | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 01, 2010 - Current Page Topic Timeline Jun. 19, 2008 Topic Suggestion Jul. 1, 2010 Research Protocol Dec. 29, 2011 Systematic Review May. 2, 2012 Disposition of Comments Report Jun. 25, 2013 Surveillance Report Comparative Effectiveness of Adjunctive Devices to Remove Thrombi or Protect Against Distal Embolization in Patients w…

157. Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 18, 2017 - Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence Clinician Summary Archived July 18, 2017 Download Main Document PDF 897.3 KB Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. Findings may be used for research purposes, but should not be considered current. …

158. Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2017 - Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence Focus of This Summary This is a summary of a systematic review that evaluated the recent evidence regarding the benefits and adve…

159. Simulation-Based Comparison of Methods and Meta-Analysis of Proportions and Rates (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - The first used for estimating mean and variance; the second used to estimate the mean, but to estimate … proportions, we run two sets of analyses for methods using untransformed rates: the first used for estimating

160. Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 27, 2012 - Current Page Topic Timeline Feb. 14, 2011 Topic Initiated Nov. 30, 2011 Research Protocol Nov. 27, 2012 Systematic Review Apr. 15, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Oct. 20, 2015 Surveillance Report Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults Systematic Review Archived November 27, 2012 Web Version [NLM …