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181. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Comparative Effectiveness of Medication Adherence Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - KQ 1a and KQ 2a evaluate the effect of interventions on medication adherence. … For detection bias, we will evaluate the method of recording adherence. … For studies that go beyond medication adherence to mediator analysis of outcomes, we will evaluate the … We will evaluate the poolability of collected morbidity data. … Specifically, we will review and evaluate the following characteristics that may limit applicability:

182. The Incident User Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - One related challenge is to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of drugs that should be used as second-line … For example, if investigators wanted to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of a fixed-dose asthma … Ray and colleagues compared incident users of statin medications to two control cohorts to evaluate their … Evaluate first-line, second-line, and third-line therapy defined as incident users and compare their … findings with continuing or prevalent users Evaluate potential tradeoffs between including (following

183. Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - will not use language of publication as a criterion at the abstract screening stage (instead, we will evaluate … between-study heterogeneity for each comparison of interest; if the data are sufficient, we will also evaluate … Grading the Strength of Evidence for Individual Outcomes We will follow the Methods Guide 35 to evaluate … Assessing Applicability We will follow the Methods Guide 35 to evaluate the applicability of included … We will evaluate studies (or subgroups of studies) of elderly adults (operationally defined as patients

184. Comparative Effectiveness of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis in Orthopedic Surgery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The first search will be used to identify studies which evaluate pharmacologic, mechanical, or inferior … The second search will be used to identify studies which evaluate pharmacologic or mechanical methods … KQs 1-9 evaluate patient’s undergoing major orthopedic surgery; we will evaluate the results separately … KQs 10 and 11 evaluate patients undergoing other orthopedic surgeries; we will evaluate the results separately … For each KQ, we will also evaluate the results based on the year of publication (earlier than 2001 vs

185. Additional Patient Outcomes and Alternative Pathways in Evaluations of Testing | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - The best way to evaluate the effects of testing on patient outcome is a randomized controlled trial, … Paper series, Lord and colleagues 3 show that a full randomized trial may not always be needed to evaluate … Looking at the published literature is not always helpful to evaluate these effects of testing. … 52 The existence of additional effects and pathways has consequences for the types of studies to evaluate … Various randomized designs can be used to evaluate medical tests.

186. Routine Preoperative Testing: Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The review will not evaluate questions that are important and related to the topic at hand but that would … We will not evaluate what the predictors of clinical outcomes are, including abnormal test results. … In brief, we will include studies that evaluate outcomes of interest after routine preoperative testing … We will include and evaluate clinical and patient-centered outcomes, as listed in Table 1, and changes … We will evaluate the age, sex distribution, comorbidities, surgical risk, specific planned surgeries,

187. Living Systematic Review on Plant-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2023 - We will evaluate the persistence of benefits or harms by evaluating the three periods identified in … To evaluate subgroup effects, we will summarize within-study analyses of subgroup differences and perform … When data are available we will also evaluate the proportion of patients meeting thresholds for clinically … We will evaluate how the new evidence may alter the findings of the systematic review and will make … Similarly, trials that use active run-in periods evaluate highly selected populations who tolerated

188. Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2023 - We will evaluate the persistence of benefits or harms by evaluating the three periods identified in prior … To evaluate subgroup effects, we will summarize within-study analyses of subgroup differences and perform … When data are available we will also evaluate the proportion of patients meeting thresholds for clinically … We will evaluate how the new evidence may alter the findings of the systematic review and will make a … Similarly, trials that use active run-in periods evaluate highly selected populations who tolerated and

189. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2020 - The purpose of this report is to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of nonopioid … The Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) will evaluate the availability and quality of studies with three … We will evaluate the persistence of benefits or harms by evaluating the three periods identified in the … We will re-evaluate the quality assessments of any studies rated poor quality in the prior reviews to … Similarly, trials that use placebo or active run-in periods evaluate highly selected populations who

190. Schedule of Visits and Televisits for Routine Antenatal Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - Studies did not evaluate heterogeneity of treatment effects (whether some specific groups of patients … New studies are needed to evaluate prioritized outcomes and potential differential effects among different

191. Long-Term Care for Older Adults: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Institutional versus Home and Community-based Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - In addition to selection bias, we will evaluate completeness of intervention specification, use of equivalent … We will qualitatively synthesize results from individual studies to evaluate the extent to which HCBS … We will qualitatively synthesize the results to evaluate the differences in trajectories of older adults … We will consider the impact of such differences for each individual study and evaluate the applicability … We will evaluate individual domains listed above qualitatively and assess a summary rating of “high,”

192. Automated-Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes (pdf file)
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     March 17, 2020 - development of the technologies has, in many instances, outpaced the publication of trials designed to evaluate … Many studies evaluate multicomponent interventions, with PGHD technologies representing only one component … , and they do not separately evaluate the effect of the PGHD component. … changing technologies, strength of evidence assessments are not typically conducted, and we will not evaluate … applications.3 We will also record whether published studies used some type of framework or tool to evaluate

193. Automated-Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2021 - development of the technologies has, in many instances, outpaced the publication of trials designed to evaluate … Many studies evaluate multicomponent interventions, with PGHD technologies representing only one component … , and they do not separately evaluate the effect of the PGHD component. … changing technologies, strength of evidence assessments are not typically conducted, and we will not evaluate … applications. 3 We will also record whether published studies used some type of framework or tool to evaluate

194. Association of Digestible Carbohydrate Intake With Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Body Composition | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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195. Comparative Effectiveness of Core-Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - We have performed a systematic review intended to evaluate the accuracy of different methods of performing

196. Analysis of Device Shock Patterns Among Patients With Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Supplemental analyses using automated data will attempt to evaluate overall survival.

197. Treatment for Adults With Schizophrenia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2018 - Purpose of Review To evaluate treatments for schizophrenia.

198. Executive Summary_Systematic Review: Mental Health and Occupational Stress in the Emergency Medical Services and 911 Workforces (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2025 - We used standard methods to assess the risk of bias, conduct pairwise meta-analyses, and evaluate the … regarding prevention, recognition, and treatment of mental health issues • Future research should evaluate … • Future studies should also consistently evaluate and report prioritized outcomes.

199. Assessing-The-Risk-Of-Bias-In-Systematic-Reviews-Of-Health-Care-Interventions (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2005 - o When summarizing the evidence, consider conducting sensitivity analyses to evaluate whether including … Systematic reviews now routinely evaluate precision (through consideration of the optimal information … Nonetheless, biased presentation of results may serve as a flag to evaluate the potential for risk of … The primary study may have established a separate committee to evaluate association between the harm … Updating criteria to evaluate the credibility of subgroup analyses.

200. Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs), Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs), and Direct Renin Inhibitors for Treating Essential Hypertension – An Update of the 2007 Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - In this update also, we will evaluate the use of direct renin-inhibitors for the treatment of hypertension … Specifically for this project, the data abstraction forms will include data required to evaluate the … We will evaluate the quality of individual studies using the approach described in the Methods Guide … To evaluate methodological quality, we will apply criteria for each study type derived from core elements