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21. Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Outcomes (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2021 - KQ3: Evaluate the effect of nutritional interventions on symptoms associated w ith cancer treatment, … KQ4: Evaluate the effect of interventions intended for w eight loss prior to or during treatment in … For our contextual question, we will evaluate all studies included in KQ1-4 that include discussions … When data allow, we also will perform stratified analyses to evaluate a priori subgroups (from Table … For outcomes found to have at least moderate or high strength of evidence, we will evaluate reporting

22. S1 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - Furthermore, premarketing studies are generally not designed to evaluate multiple endpoints, detect rare … adverse effects, evaluate health outcomes over long periods, or compare all treatment options available … The program is comprised of 3 components that work collaboratively to evaluate, synthesize, develop,

23. 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

24. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 255: Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - pediatric to adult services for CSHCN, nor is a single measure or set of measures consistently used to evaluate … care, adverse health outcomes, and frustration for patients and families.3-5 This review sought to evaluate … Studies also used a diverse set of outcome measures to evaluate intervention effects.

25. Intergrated and Comprehensive Pain Management Programs: Effectiveness and Harms: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - Department of Health and Human Services has been directed to evaluate ways to improve Medicare coverage … diagnoses or characteristics and patient factors were not generally reported in studies; we could not evaluate … There was little evidence to evaluate the impact of specific program structures, components, or their

26. Interventions to Improve Care of Bereaved Persons (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2023 - • Tool: The domain will evaluate whether the conduct or interpretation of the applied tool could … • Design: The domain will evaluate whether the conduct of the study may have introduced bias. … Consistent with QUADAS-2,37 the critical appraisal will evaluate for each study and appraisal domain … • Performance bias: Performance bias will evaluate whether patient- or caregiver knowledge of the … For this, we will evaluate any direct evidence from head-to-head comparisons of tools and treatments

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Brooks_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Evaluate the peer-­‐review comments and revise the draft guidelines 9. … Continue to evaluate the guidelines and revise them  further if needed Slide 3: Prostate Cancer Advisory

31. 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,

32. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 269: Respectful Maternity Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Most limitations of the evidence base were related to the lack of relevant studies to evaluate interventions … serve as a guide to (1) define RMC, (2) determine an appropriate metric, and (3) promote research to evaluate … Research is needed to evaluate interventions for promoting RMC not addressed by existing studies, including

33. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 10 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2012 - testing as well as management strategies for each test result. 3 Assess if modeling is useful. 4 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

34. 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 … Two issues remain unclear: whether to use a specific rating instrument to evaluate harms assessment … Comparison of three algorithms used to evaluate adverse drug reactions.

35. 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 … Two issues remain unclear: whether to use a specific rating instrument to evaluate harms assessment … Comparison of three algorithms used to evaluate adverse drug reactions.

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Decision-Analytic Modeling to Evaluate Benefits and Harms of Medical Tests – Uses and Limitations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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