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401. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 31 Mobile Applications for Self-Management of Diabetes (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2018 - Peeples attached a summary of eight completed studies and one ongoing study, titled “Evaluate the Value … Specifically, we did not evaluate primary and secondary outcomes as specified by study authors. … Specifically, we did not evaluate primary and secondary outcomes as specified by study authors. … • We did not evaluate whether apps gave real-time or delayed feedback; however, we do describe the

402. The series of articles beginning with this issue of the Journal form the most up-to-date version of the Guide for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2009 - Effectiveness Reviews (CERs) are summaries of available scientific evidence in which investigators collect, evaluate … studies demonstrating that using enteral supplements improves healing (link #2), EPCs may need to evaluate … Challenges in systematic reviews that evaluate drug efficacy or effectiveness [review]. … Inappropriate use of randomised trials to evaluate complex phenomena: case study of vaginal breech

403. Prioritization and Selection of Harms for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - assessment and reporting of harms is often suboptimal, the duration of studies is often too short to evaluate … important long-term harms and have inadequate statistical power to evaluate serious but uncommon harms … As specified previously, reviews do not have to evaluate all important harms. … be appropriate for a comparison between 2 interventions ► Multiple comparisons within a review may evaluate

404. Development of a Primary Care Guie for Implementing Evidence-Based Screening and Counseling for Unhealthy Alcohol Use With Epic-Based Electronic Health Record Tools: A Pilot Dissemination Project (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2018 - 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 … To further evaluate the evidence-based approach to screening and offering interventions for unhealthy … and revised it after review by the third member (Meera Viswanathan) and by AHRQ staff. 4 To evaluate … corresponding to introduction of new processes, to assess for changes after modifying processes, and to evaluate

405. Impact of Community Health Worker Certification on Workforce and Service Delivery for Asthma and Other Selected Chronic Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Studies that do not evaluate an aspect of CHW certification. … Studies that do not evaluate one of the listed outcomes. … To evaluate the state of the evidence concerning the relationships between CHW certification, CHW service

406. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - The evidence base may often be too limited in scope to evaluate the clinical utility of the test. … Evaluate case-control studies carefully for potential selection bias. … on technical issues that need to be addressed; distinguish between functional and DNA-based assays; evaluate … Principle 6: Evaluate Case-Control Studies Carefully for Potential Selection Bias Jonas DE, Wilt TJ, … Principle 6: Evaluate Case-Control Studies Carefully for Potential Selection Bias To determine whether

407. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - The evidence base may often be too limited in scope to evaluate the clinical utility of the test. … Evaluate case-control studies carefully for potential selection bias. … on technical issues that need to be addressed; distinguish between functional and DNA-based assays; evaluate … Principle 6: Evaluate Case-Control Studies Carefully for Potential Selection Bias Jonas DE, Wilt TJ, … Principle 6: Evaluate Case-Control Studies Carefully for Potential Selection Bias To determine whether

408. Evaluating Health Information | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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409. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - criteria, based on consultation with local experts and a scan of the literature, determined the need to evaluate … transitional care interventions are available; however, they do not focus on patients with pain or evaluate … transitional care interventions that have been evaluated for patients with non-pain conditions, but should evaluate … Assessment of each criteria determined the need to evaluate the next one.

410. Principles in Developing and Applying Guidance for Comparing Medical Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Effectiveness Reviews (CERs) are summaries of available scientific evidence in which investigators collect, evaluate … controlled studies demonstrating that using enteral supplements improves healing (link #2), EPCs may need to evaluate … Challenges in systematic reviews that evaluate drug efficacy or effectiveness [review]. … Inappropriate use of randomised trials to evaluate complex phenomena: case study of vaginal breech delivery

411. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2022 - during, or immediately following delivery (before release from birthing setting) Study Objective KQ1: Evaluate … KQ2: Evaluate the impact of exposures immediately prior to, during, and after birthing on outcomes … , prospective cohort designs, secondary analysis of RCTs if exposures of interest are sufficient to evaluate … We will evaluate overall strength of evidence for outcomes for KQs 1-2 within each comparison, based … For outcomes found to have at least moderate or high strength of evidence, we will evaluate reporting

412. Treatments for Adults with Schizophrenia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2019 - treatment Note: Comparisons for Key Question 2 are limited to usual care or drug interventions in order to evaluate … be included For harms of any included intervention, systematic reviews of observational studies to evaluate … reviews are relevant and low risk of bias, we will focus on the findings from the most recent reviews and evaluate … Included systematic reviews may use other methods to evaluate internal validity, such as the Cochrane … based on the overall study limitations (derived from the quality of individual studies), we will not evaluate

413. Decision Support Tools for Screening and Treatment Decisions in Early Cancer | 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 … We will also evaluate the consistency of direct and indirect effects, whenever possible (i.e. for comparisons … Grading the Strength of Evidence (SOE) for Individual Outcomes We will follow the Methods Guide to evaluate … Assessing Applicability We will follow the Methods Guide to evaluate the applicability of included

414. Disposition of Comments: CER 227 Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     April 16, 2020 - Given the chronic nature of the condition we felt that it was important to evaluate whether the effects … An important first step to evaluating the efficacy of a therapy is to evaluate it as an isolated therapy … Draft report statement: “To evaluate comparative effectiveness, exercise was chosen as a common active … There were insufficient data to formally evaluate the impact of any of the factors. … There were insufficient data to formally evaluate the impact of any of the factors.

415. Blood-based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     June 05, 2024 - analytes used as part of 2 MCSTs will continue to evolve and it will not be practical to evaluate … KQ 5: Tests or procedures (imaging, tissue biopsy, blood, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid) to evaluate … The RoB 2 instrument14 will be used to evaluate RCTs, ROBINS-I15 will be used to evaluate NRSIs, and … QUADAS-216 will be used to evaluate test accuracy studies. … Preventive Services Task Force.30-33 We will use this threshold only to evaluate the precision of the

416. Blood-based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 01, 2024 - technology and analytes used as part of MCSTs will continue to evolve and it will not be practical to evaluate … KQ 5: Tests or procedures (imaging, tissue biopsy, blood, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid) to evaluate … The RoB 2 instrument 14 will be used to evaluate RCTs, ROBINS-I 15 will be used to evaluate NRSIs, … and QUADAS-2 16 will be used to evaluate test accuracy studies. … Preventive Services Task Force. 30-33 We will use this threshold only to evaluate the precision of the

417. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2018 - effectiveness, and harms of pharmacologic treatment for CATD targeted for symptoms of BPSD KQ 7: Evaluate … and harms of cognitive tests for the reference standard of the clinical diagnosis of CATD KQ 8: Evaluate … For diagnostic studies, we will evaluate clinical heterogeneity by whether the populations, index test … Eliminated cognitive diagnostic tests that evaluate attention but that do not evaluate other cognitive … Eliminated this language, leaving prior language on plan to evaluate standardized mean differences

418. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - be secondary solely to TBI, FTD, PD, LBD, stroke or other non-AD etiology Study Objectives KQ 1-3: Evaluate … For diagnostic studies, we will evaluate clinical heterogeneity by whether the populations, index test … When data allow, we will perform stratified analyses to evaluate a priori selected possible effect modifiers … Eliminated cognitive diagnostic tests that evaluate attention but that do not evaluate other cognitive … Eliminated this language, leaving prior language on plan to evaluate standardized mean differences.

419. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - they did not impact mortality, MACE, or TIMI-3 blood flow versus control, with insufficient data to evaluate … modifier of 30-day mortality with catheter aspiration device use.60 These are the only data available to evaluate … There was a paucity of trials available to evaluate adverse events with any of the embolic protection … protection device, no significant differences were found and the trials were vastly underpowered to evaluate … Prospective randomised study to evaluate effectiveness of distal embolic protection compared to abciximab

420. Systematic Review Search Strategy Development Tools: A Practical Guide for Expert Searchers (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2025 - Further, we chose not to evaluate all of the tools in the SR Toolbox that are categorized as search-related … We also chose not to evaluate tools that: (1) had not been updated within the last two years (instead