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221. Closing the Quality Gap Series: The Patient-Centered Medical Home | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - reviews, the purpose of the systematic review will be to identify completed and ongoing efforts to evaluate … For KQ 1, we will focus on data elements to evaluate the association between independent variables of … To evaluate methodological quality, we will apply criteria for each study type derived from core elements … If meta-analyses are not indicated, we will use cross-case analyses to evaluate the association between … We will use these data to evaluate the applicability to clinical practice, paying special attention to

222. Comparative Effectiveness of Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in Women | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - They evaluate cardiac electrical activity, wall motion, or perfusion at rest and under stress, and any … We will design the data abstraction forms for this project to collect the 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 that are derived from … We also plan to evaluate the potential of verification bias and other potential limitations of our synthesized

223. Non-pharmacologic Interventions for Agitation and Aggression in Dementia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Confusion in the definition of agitation and aggression extends to the instruments used to evaluate behaviors … More than 45 instruments are used to evaluate behavioral symptoms in dementia, and there is no gold standard … Specific instruments are based on different theoretical frameworks; designed to evaluate behaviors in … In contrast to general instruments, specific behavioral instruments evaluate a single behavioral domain … Examples of specific behavioral instruments that evaluate agitation and aggression include, the Agitated

224. Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide: 2nd Edition | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - Event Detection, Processing, and Reporting Chapter 13: Analysis and Interpretation of Registry Data To Evaluate

225. Anticoagulation for Venous Thromboembolic Events in Patients with Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of recurrent thrombosis, bleeding events, and survival for advanced

226. Comparative Effectiveness of In-Hospital Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa for Off-Label Indications vs. Usual Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - range of clinical indications for which rFVIIa is being used and the types of studies available to evaluate

227. preoperative-testing-protocol-130514 (pdf file)
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     May 14, 2013 - The review will not evaluate questions that are important and related to the topic at hand but that … We will not evaluate what the predictors of clinical outcomes are, including abnormal test results. … For example, we will not evaluate whether patients with abnormal ECG results are at higher risk of … We will include and evaluate clinical and aHowever, we … We will evaluate the age, sex distribution, comorbidities, surgical risk, specific planned surgeries

228. Development of a Primary Care Guide for Implementing Evidence-Based Screening and Counseling for Unhealthy Alcohol Use With Epic-Based Electronic Health Record Tools: A Pilot Dissemination Project | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2020 - In the current methods pilot project, we aimed to (1) further evaluate the implementation and (2) to … We used multiple sources of information to evaluate our implementation and produce a dissemination package

229. Comparative Effectiveness of Preventive Pharmacological Treatments for Migraine | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The EPC will evaluate comparative effectiveness of preventive pharmacological treatments following the … Assessment of Risk of Bias in Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias in individual studies … Then, using the criteria from the Cochrane tool for bias in interventional studies, we will evaluate … For observational studies, we will evaluate strategies to reduce bias in study design and analysis, including … We will evaluate the strength of the association, defining a priori a large effect when relative risk

230. 13-MDM347013 30..38 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - The best way to evaluate the effects of testing on patient outcome is a randomized controlled trial, … Paper series, Lord and colleagues3 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.

231. Long-Term-Care-Adults Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 20, 2011 - In addition to selection bias, we will evaluate completeness of intervention specification, use of … 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 … 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

232. 13-MDM347013 30..38 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - The best way to evaluate the effects of testing on patient outcome is a randomized controlled trial, … Paper series, Lord and colleagues3 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.

233. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Analgesics for Osteoarthritis – An Update to the 2006 Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - above, we will use PICOTS (Population, Intervention, Comparators, Outcomes, Timing and Setting) to evaluate … We will include studies that evaluate the safety, efficacy or effectiveness of the previously mentioned … For assessing the quality of cohort studies, we will evaluate whether the study authors used nonbiased … statistical analyses of potential confounders. 11 For assessing the quality of case-control studies, we will evaluate … Because only four trials were available for pooling, we did not attempt meta-regression analyses to evaluate

234. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Intervention(s): Intravascular diagnostic procedures that evaluate morphological or physiological parameters

235. Bayesian Approaches to Indirect Comparisons | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2018 - A second primary focus of the work is to develop, implement, and evaluate novel Bayesian approaches to

236. A Review of Quality of Care Evaluation for the Palliation of Dyspnea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - indicators also encourage assessment of dyspnea, e.g. a cancer recommendation that providers should evaluate … Analysis of clinical methods used to evaluate dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary … Outcome Measure Outcome measures evaluate what happens to people, including satisfaction, health-related

237. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2009 - Not all studies adopted established scales to evaluate adverse events. … This Technical Brief did not intend to assess outcomes or evaluate the validity of claims on the safety

238. Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone in Coronary Stenting: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - • There is insufficient evidence to evaluate the comparative effect of techniques other than FFR … Immediately after PCI to evaluate the success of stenting? Key Question 5. … Immediately after PCI to evaluate the success of stenting Therapeutic decisionmaking outcomes outlined … With the exception of IVUS and FFR, there was insufficient evidence to evaluate the comparative effect … Similarly, there is a lack of data on the use of IVUS, as compared with angiography alone, to evaluate

239. Evaluation of Effectiveness and Safety of Antiepileptic Medications in Patients With Epilepsy (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2008 - Published Online: July 01, 2010 In subgroup analyses for the older versus newer evaluation, we will evaluate … We will also evaluate results separately based on the seizure type: partial, generalized, and specific … For example, when a meta-analysis is performed, we will evaluate the confidence interval around the

240. Diagnosis and Treatment of Tethered Spinal Cord | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2023 - We will design the data abstraction forms for this project to collect the data required to evaluate the … Throughout KQ2-4, we will capture the treatment approach in detail so that the reader can evaluate the … Consistent with QUADAS-2, 11 the critical appraisal will evaluate for each study and appraisal domain … We will use these data to evaluate the applicability to clinical practice, paying special attention to … We will use this information to assess the situations in which the evidence is most relevant and to evaluate