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421. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2012 - Public Reviewer #5 Methods It is unclear how the choice for which non-invasive tests to evaluate … We identified a number of published studies that were using PET or PET/CT to further evaluate mammographic … It is important to evaluate the evidence to see if women do or do not benefit from the addition of … We identified a number of published studies that were using PET or PET/CT to further evaluate mammographic … It is important to evaluate the evidence to see if women do or do not benefit from the addition of

422. Physiologic Predictors of Severe Injury: Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

423. Recurrent Nephrolithiasis in Adults: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Preventive Medical Strategies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - In addition, these reviews did not evaluate evidence that compared different pharmacological treatments … If evidence from these trials is still considered insufficient to evaluate adverse effects, we may consider

424. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - appropriate.” 2 Key Informant #1 General Comments Then there are the psychometric statistics to evaluate … These may be used to collect information rather than "evaluate" --examples of tool types or descriptions … and Usability P 36 of 144 lines 14-23 As stated in the report, it is interesting that so few tools evaluate … 61 Peer Reviewer #6 General Comments This is a thorough review of assessment tools available to evaluate

425. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - appropriate.” 2 Key Informant #1 General Comments Then there are the psychometric statistics to evaluate … These may be used to collect information rather than "evaluate" --examples of tool types or descriptions … and Usability P 36 of 144 lines 14-23 As stated in the report, it is interesting that so few tools evaluate … 61 Peer Reviewer #6 General Comments This is a thorough review of assessment tools available to evaluate

426. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 03, 2011 - The EPC will evaluate comparative effectiveness of preventive pharmacological treatments following … Assessment of Risk of Bias in Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias in individual studies … 2011 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, … We will evaluate the strength of the association, defining a priori a large effect when relative risk

427. A Prospective Comparison of Evidence Synthesis Search Strategies Developed With and Without Text-Mining Tools (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - To evaluate whether the seed set of citations used in the TMTs was sufficient and unbiased, we asked … therefore did a subgroup analysis without R5, recalculating the sensitivity, NNR, and time spent to evaluate … Evaluating Seed Set for Bias As described in the methods section, we developed two questions to evaluate … Future research should evaluate these tools across a larger sample and 23 variety of reviews … One issue that has not been addressed in the literature to date is how to evaluate known relevant citations

428. Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2024 - type of payor/health plan, type of institution/system/hospital, type of clinician Studies that do not evaluate

429. Quality-Gap-Palliative-Hospice Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Science Executive Summary 2 Objectives and Key Questions The objective of this report was to evaluate … this report underscores the continuing strong need for research funding for well-designed studies to evaluate

430. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - It was not designed to evaluate comparative effectiveness, which is what is needed for scaling up and … We agree that the intention of the report was not to evaluate effectiveness, and worked to remove any

431. Characteristics of Existing Asthma Self-Management Education Packages | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2019 - Notes will be reviewed and discussed by the investigators to evaluate how KI input provides insight on

432. S96 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - We describe and evaluate a new system for surveillance of outpa- tient ADEs treated in hospital emergency … To respond to gaps in national outpatient ADE surveillance, a pilot NEISS project began in 2002 to evaluate … health surveillance systems.16 These guidelines identify 9 system attributes as criteria by which to evaluate … collected from a convenience sample of 6 NEISS-CADES hospitals from January 1, 2004 to June 15, 2004 to evaluate

433. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (pdf file)
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     February 02, 2022 - Study Objective KQ1: Evaluate the impact of exposures prior to, during, and after pregnancy on outcomes … KQ2: Evaluate the impact of exposures immediately prior to, during, and after birthing on outcomes for … 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

434. Guidance for the Conduct and Reporting of Modeling and Simulation Studies in the Context of Health Technology Assessment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2021 - Sensitivity analyses (to assess the influence of model inputs) and stability analyses (to evaluate the … Such analyses can be used to evaluate the impact of different inputs on model outputs or to examine the … Model Assessment and Consistency Evaluate the model with respect to the specified modeling goals. … Model Assessment and Consistency Evaluate the model with respect to the specified modeling goals. … Decision-analytic modeling to evaluate benefits and harms of medical tests: uses and limitations.

435. Evidence Summary: Management of Colonic Diverticulitis (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2020 - There is insufficient evidence to evaluate diverticulitis staging criteria.

436. White Paper_Living Systematic Reviews: Examining Excluded Full-Text Articles To Better Understand the Evidence Base on Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Therefore, in 2020, AHRQ commissioned a “living” review6 spanning multiple years, in order to evaluate … products used,58,62 and one observational study evaluated cannabis access laws.60 Four studies did not evaluate

437. Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     April 11, 2018 - Assessment of the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies - We will evaluate the risk of bias of each included … We will evaluate heterogeneity between studies using I2 indicator. … We will conduct sensitivity analyses to evaluate robustness of our findings by excluding studies with … We will evaluate potential publication bias by evaluating funnel plots symmetry and using statistical … We will look for these characteristics, systematically abstract such factors and evaluate their impact

438. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - In formal meta-analyses, EPCs may choose to evaluate the influence of studies with differing risk of … If meta-analysis is appropriate, EPCs can evaluate consistency using statistical tests and measures … requires an evidence base with independent replication of findings; therefore, EPCs cannot properly evaluate … If the results are reported separately for each center, EPCs may be able to evaluate consistency within … this Methods Guide,3 use of an analytic framework is an important heuristic for determining how to evaluate

439. Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques for the Detection of Skin Cancers (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2014 - When compared with the use of biopsy, future research is needed to evaluate the test accuracies, clinical … mapping, multispectral imaging and fully automated computer-based analysis, and thermography.15 To evaluate … The single RCT, reported from Sweden, was designed to evaluate the tolerance threshold of four different … This study, not yet open for participant recruitment, is designed to evaluate the effect of the topical … It would be informative to further evaluate the performance of automated computer diagnostic instruments

440. Depression-Treatment-Ssri Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Subjects not receiving an SSRI at the time of entry into the study, and not recruited to evaluate adequacy … research studies should be sufficient to establish important margins of difference between groups and to evaluate … other (monotherapy compared with monotherapy) following an inadequate response to an SSRI are few and evaluate … There is insufficient evidence to evaluate the benefits of ongoing monotherapy with an SSRI compared … There is insufficient evidence to evaluate the benefits or harms of specific combinations of treatments