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381. Disposition of Comment Report for Wireless Motility Capsule Versus Other Diagnostic Technologies for Evaluating Gastroparesis and Constipation (pdf file)
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     May 20, 2013 - superb, meticulous review of the literature available on the use of wireless motility capsule (WMC) to evaluate … TEP 4 General The review does not acknowledge that motility disorders are complex to evaluate, and each … motility testing like balloon expulsion or anorectal manometry and clinical judgment is needed to evaluate … motility testing like balloon expulsion or anorectal manometry and clinical judgment is needed to evaluate … Barium imaging is used to evaluate a mechanical obstruction, but does not evaluate gastric emptying

382. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 40: Interventions To Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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     September 20, 2021 - Not only is it important for studies to evaluate these outcomes collectively, but to also standardize … research and evidence for successful LOS reduction initiatives however the summary points to attempts to evaluate

383. Topic-Brief3-Sud (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - treatment of patients with acute or chronic pain and substance use disorders did not specifically evaluate … criterion, based on consultation with local experts and a scan of the literature, determined the need to evaluate … for acute pain), but the quality of the evidence was very low and the studies did not specifically evaluate … Assessment of each criteria determined the need to evaluate the next one.

384. Topic-Brief3-Sud (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - treatment of patients with acute or chronic pain and substance use disorders did not specifically evaluate … criterion, based on consultation with local experts and a scan of the literature, determined the need to evaluate … for acute pain), but the quality of the evidence was very low and the studies did not specifically evaluate … Assessment of each criteria determined the need to evaluate the next one.

385. Disposition of Comments: Technical Brief No. 38_Automated Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - We have added more information regarding the methodology the device engineers used to evaluate the … We have also mentioned in Next Steps that RCTs are needed to evaluate the Apple Watch's Kardia apps … Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate regulated automated-entry consumer devices that collect … The FDA uses a fairly complex set of standards to evaluate devices, and mimicking those standards … urge the authors to acknowledge the role and need for real-world data that consumer PGHD offer to evaluate

386. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 259: Partial Breast Irradiation for Breast Cancer (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Further investigation is needed to evaluate outcomes of PBI in moderate risk subgroups with less favorable

387. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - We did not evaluate these additional types of studies for adverse effects of dietary treatments under … Therefore, it was not possible to evaluate the effect of these interventions on risk of stone recurrence … Thus we could not evaluate the effect of these interventions in patients with other stone types. … • Additional RCTs should evaluate effectiveness and harms of single and/or multicomponent biochemistry … A multicentre trial to evaluate three treatments for recurrent idiopathic calcium stone disease - a

388. March 3rd Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - F2.2) Evaluate all data sets to assess inclusiveness of identified demographic groups and collect data … are proprietary, making it Other Unknown difficult for independent researchers to 19% Cerner 25% evaluate

389. Acs-Pci-Adjunctive-Devices Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2010 - For example, when a meta-analysis is performed, we will evaluate the confidence interval around the … determining applicability; those factors will be extracted into evidence tables for every study we evaluate

390. Appendicitis Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Grading the Strength of Evidence and Assessing Applicability We followed the Methods Guide50 to evaluate … reporting bias, we made qualitative dispositions rather than performing formal statistical tests to evaluate … • Such diagnostic cohort studies (and comparative studies in particular) are also needed to evaluate … Studies that evaluate two or more index tests should provide a detailed description of the role of testing … • Large-scale observational prospective studies could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative

391. Methods Report Appendix A: Foray Into Computable Reports (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - Methods Report Appendix A: Foray Into Computable Reports Foray into Computable Reports Brown EPC Duke EPC Minnesota EPC 1 Disclosures • None 2 The report 3 The Urinary Incontinence (UI) report • Brown’s “Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence (UI) in Adult Women” updates a 2012 report by t…

392. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - . ► Conducting a global test should not be the only method used to evaluate inconsistency.

393. Proof-of-Principle Evaluation of a Distributed Research Network | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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394. Evaluation of the AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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395. Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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396. Evaluation and Treatment of Tinnitus: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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397. A Review of Quality of Care Evaluation for the Palliation of Dyspnea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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398. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response_Active Surveillance Culturing of Clostridioides difficile and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, and Candida auris (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - testing outside of outbreak surveillance testing • Multicomponent intervention studies that did not evaluate … Conversely, we included studies that used pre-post or cohort designs to evaluate the addition of a new … Program including the Value-Based Purchasing and Hospital Acquired Conditions payment programs to evaluate … whole genome sequencing, is used to confirm or identify unsuspected clonal transmission events and to evaluate … ve cohort Examine the prevalence of MRSA colonization in patients prior to cardiac surgery; evaluate

399. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 23 Genetic Testing (pdf file)
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     June 30, 2015 - The authors of this technical brief present a comprehensive review of the available evidence to evaluate … The wordings for ideal evidence have been changed to “cohort studies that evaluate the test’s diagnostic … It is not intended to review or evaluate the results of the studies identified. … It would be interesting to evaluate the outcome in terms of medical benefit for patients who had actually … Ideal evidence for addressing clinical validity is now described as “cohort studies that evaluate the

400. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 7 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - This is distinct from the EPC approach, which encourages users to evaluate applicability as a separate … Reviewers should evaluate the surrogate in the context of the clinical outcome. … When is measuring sensitivity and specificity sufficient to evaluate a diagnostic test, and when do