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61. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 238 Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting (pdf file)
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    March 22, 2021 - interventions such as oxytocin or epidural anesthesia were noted to have been inadequately reported to evaluate … - Vieira, AWHONN Results Conclusions are based on a total small sample that was unable to fully evaluate … Vieira, AWHONN Discussion Conclusions are based on a total small sample that was unable to fully evaluate … The conclusion should be more multicenter RCTs should be done to evaluate safety. … strong, and we do recommend future RCTs, in diverse populations, with large enough sample sizes to evaluate

62. Framework for Determining Research Gaps During Systematic Review: Evaluation | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - Objective To further develop and evaluate a framework for the identification and characterization of … Future research is needed to evaluate the relative costs and benefits of using the framework, for review

63. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2012 - o Evaluate validity and reliability of outcome measures as a component of detection bias and fidelity … o Conduct sensitivity analyses, when appropriate, for the body of evidence to evaluate whether poor … Systematic reviewers have the responsibility to evaluate potential sources of bias and error if these … Study design Assessment should evaluate the relevant sources of risk of bias by study design rather … Risk of Bias and Applicability Many commonly used quality assessment tools evaluate external validity

64. Restless-Legs Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    December 16, 2011 - We will evaluate methods used to define RLS, assess its severity, and measure treatment benefits and …  Studies that evaluate only acute effects (< 4 weeks) of treatment. … To evaluate harms of interest, we will include evidence from case reports or case series. … We will exclude observational studies that do not evaluate harms from treatments for RLS. B. … We will also evaluate the bibliographies of included primary studies and any identified systematic

65. Anxiety in Children (pdf file)
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    September 12, 2016 - The objectives of this systematic review are: 1) to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of psychotherapy … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias of … We will evaluate heterogeneity between studies using I2 indicator. … We will evaluate the feasibility of conducting network meta-analysis to combine direct and indirect … We will evaluate potential publication bias by evaluating funnel plots symmetry and using statistical

66. Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening and Treatment of Post–Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 01, 2018 - Page Contents Purpose of Review Evaluate the comparative accuracy … To evaluate (1) the diagnostic accuracy of selected depression screening instruments and strategies versus

67. The Effect of Dietary Digestible Carbohydrate Intake on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2023 - Purpose of the Review This systematic review and meta-analysis will evaluate the Key Question (KQ) … Assessment of the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias of the included … We will evaluate heterogeneity between studies using I 2 indicator. … We will evaluate potential publication bias by evaluating funnel plots symmetry and using statistical … patients vs surrogates),consistency of results (based on qualitative and statistical approaches to evaluate

68. Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Bone Disease: Effectiveness and Harms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2023 - To evaluate the comparative effectiveness and harms of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for palliative … Such studies need to be sufficiently powered explicitly to directly evaluate the impact of dose/fraction … There is a need for high-quality studies that evaluate the impact of EBRT and another palliative therapies … When sufficient RCT evidence was available, comparative NRSIs that were designed to evaluate harms, and … Studies were underpowered to effectively evaluate this.

69. ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INCLUDED STUDIES (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2011 - guidance on the stages involved in assessing risk of bias and design-specific minimum criteria to evaluate … o Explicitly evaluate risk of bias from selection, performance, attrition, detection, and selective … o Conduct sensitivity analyses, when appropriate, for the body of evidence to evaluate whether source … An additional consideration is how to evaluate selective outcome reporting in the context of studies … However, medical test studies can also evaluate the value of using tests to monitor disease status,

70. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 10 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2012 - simulations) are feasible even in a short time span and with limited resources.4–6 Finally, how to evaluate … Essentially, one would evaluate three categories of attributes: the cost and safety of testing; the … Evaluate prior modeling studies. … Decision- analytic modeling to evaluate benefits and harms of medical tests: uses and limitations. … When is measuring sensitivity and specificity sufficient to evaluate a diagnostic test, and when do

71. 8 (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2008 - Introduction Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (CERs) are systematic reviews that evaluate evidence … However, relying solely on published RCTs to evaluate harms in CERs is problematic. … Although CER authors can evaluate benefits or harms of two competing interventions based on trials … To evaluate whether conclusions based on unpublished data are qualitatively different from those based … Comparison of three algorithms used to evaluate adverse drug reactions.

72. 8 (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2008 - Introduction Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (CERs) are systematic reviews that evaluate evidence … However, relying solely on published RCTs to evaluate harms in CERs is problematic. … Although CER authors can evaluate benefits or harms of two competing interventions based on trials … To evaluate whether conclusions based on unpublished data are qualitatively different from those based … Comparison of three algorithms used to evaluate adverse drug reactions.

73. Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Clinical Utility in Asthma Management (pdf file)
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    September 06, 2016 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias of … 1.b, KQ 1.c, and KQ 1.d), we will use the Knapp and Hartung adjustment of the variance.21 We will evaluate … We will evaluate potential publication bias by evaluating funnel plots symmetry and using statistical … We will evaluate heterogeneity between studies using I2 indicator. … We will conduct sensitivity analyses to evaluate robustness of our findings by excluding studies with

74. AHRQ EPC Program Launches Learning Health Systems Panel to Help Make Evidence Reports More Useful to Health Systems in Improving Patient Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2019 - learning health systems panel will generate ideas, provide feedback, make improvements, and implement and evaluate

75. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2006 - An ideal diagnostic test to evaluate breast abnormalities found by mammography or breast examination … Conclusions A total of 81 studies met inclusion criteria to evaluate the accuracy of MRI, PET, scintimammography … Because these noninvasive tests are most likely to be used to evaluate such women, this is a major shortcoming

76. Identifying and Managing Nonfinancial Conflicts of Interest for Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - We propose questions for funders and SR principal investigators to evaluate whether the SR topic is subject … balance between supplying needed expertise and minimizing NFCOI by proposing approaches to identify and evaluate

77. Reporting the Findings of Updated Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness: How Do Users Want To View New Information? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - users of CERs, convened an informal virtual focus group comprising various users, and asked them to evaluate … The rationales for the selection of formats were two-fold: to imitate, and thus evaluate, the formats

78. Laboratory Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 27, 2018 - They also help doctors diagnose medical conditions, plan or evaluate treatments, and monitor diseases

79. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    November 08, 2011 - We will evaluate the evidence based on comparisons within the general categories (e.g., comparisons … We also will evaluate direct evidence on comparisons across the general categories. … Reviewers will evaluate the SIPs we receive for data relevant to our review. … Studies that evaluate one intervention for treating a pressure ulcer against another provide direct … We will evaluate the comparative effectiveness of multimodal treatment approaches to the extent that

80. Meditation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    October 17, 2012 - In order to evaluate programs that are more than a brief mental exercise, yet remain broadly inclusive … The review will evaluate the effect of meditation programs on a range of important outcomes related … Hence, this systematic review will evaluate the effect of meditative programs on affect, attention, … To limit the scope of the review we will only evaluate meditative programs that are purely meditative … We have refined KQ2 to evaluate the effects on attention as this is a key outcome for understanding