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441. Rapid Response: Efficacy of Dental Services for Reducing Adverse Events in Those Receiving Chemotherapy for Cancer (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - We sought to assemble and evaluate the published evidence supporting the efficacy of specific types … A prospective pilot study to evaluate a new dental assessment and treatment paradigm for patients

442. Venous-Ulcers-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Finally, we attempted to evaluate the durability of healing of an ulcer over time. … effects of advanced wound dressings on pain and quality of life outcomes because the studies did not evaluate … Surgical Interventions There have been no evidence-based reviews of studies with control groups to evaluate … develop a strong evidence base so clinicians can make informed therapy recommendations and better evaluate … A prospective, multi-centre, randomised, open label, parallel, comparative study to evaluate effects

443. Depression SSRI Surveillance Assessment_CER 62_Low-1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Depression SSRI Surveillance Assessment_CER 62_Low-1 CER # 62: Treatment of Depression after Unsatisfactory Response to SSRIs Original release date: April 2012 Surveillance Report: January 2013 Key Findings: • All conclusions are up to date. Summary Decision This CER’s priority for updati…

444. Breast Abnormalities Update Surveillance Assessment_CER 47_Low (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Breast Abnormalities Update Surveillance Assessment_CER 47_Low CER #47: Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities: Update of a 2006 Review Original release date: February, 2012 Surveillance Report: January, 2013 Key Findings: All of the key questions remain up-to-date. Summary Deci…

445. Heart-Failure-Natriuretic-Peptide Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - We omitted KQs 3 to 5 because criteria to evaluate and score prognostic studies have not been fully … • For populations with acute HF, more studies are needed to evaluate the potential differences in … • There is a need to evaluate outcomes of morbidity and composite outcomes in decompensated HF subjects … • There is a need to evaluate BNP in stable chronic populations with respect to incremental predictive

446. Llewellyn-Thomas (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - individualized approach to  V/P elicitation o Implement that  individualized V/P elicitation plan o Evaluate

447. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - Layout 1 This report is an update to a Comparative Effectiveness Review on management strategies for renal artery stenosis (RAS) from October 2006. The systematic review included all studies of patients with atherosclerotic RAS (ARAS) that compared two or more interventions. It also reviewed recent prospective cohort…

448. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Finally, we did not evaluate evidence on potential barriers to screening and how they might affect … lieu of direct evidence on effects of screening on clinical outcomes, studies that prospectively evaluate … Studies that evaluate the outcomes of patients who receive treatment without liver biopsies would be

449. Renal-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2016 - studies (reported in 110 articles) Reasons for exclusion at title-abstract review level* • Does not evaluate … Key Questions = 8,132 • Other = 5,001 Reasons for exclusion at article review level* • Does not evaluate … Questions = 384 • Other = 701 Reasons for exclusion at Key Question applicability level* • Does not evaluate

450. Disposition of Comments for CER 175 Total Worker Health (pdf file)
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     May 31, 2016 - We note in the Discussion (and Executive Summary) that future studies of TWH interventions should evaluate … We note in KQ 6 that future studies need to evaluate the effectiveness of integration itself (separate … We also note that future studies should evaluate outcomes over a sufficient period of time. … It is extremely difficult to evaluate the effect of “integrating” health and safety programs and compare … Another challenge in using the literature to evaluate the evidence supporting TWH is that many articles

451. Breast-Biopsy-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - meta-analysis of rates of DCIS and high risk lesion underestimation.24 We used meta-regression methods to evaluate … Grading the Strength of Evidence We followed the Methods Guide8 to evaluate the strength of the body … We made qualitative dispositions rather than perform formal statistical tests to evaluate differences … Further, because we relied on published information, we were unable to evaluate the impact of patient … prospectively-collected observational data on breast biopsy procedures and outcomes could be used to evaluate

452. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 18, 2012 - We will design the data abstraction forms for this project to collect the data required to evaluate … We will evaluate the quality of individual studies by using the approach described in the Methods Guide … To evaluate methodological quality, we will apply criteria for each study type derived from the core … individual studies or a body of evidence as recommended in the Methods Guide.31 We will use these data to evaluate … We will use these data to evaluate the applicability to clinical practice, paying special attention

453. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - For example, criteria developed to evaluate laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … 18 bias-assessment tools, all of which were intended to be used in conjunction with other tools that evaluate … Wilson et al. (2009) undertook a systematic review to evaluate the accuracy of patient self-reports of … disease/death registry Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) criteria were used to evaluate … criteria from the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) instrument were used to evaluate

454. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - For example, criteria developed to evaluate laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … 18 bias-assessment tools, all of which were intended to be used in conjunction with other tools that evaluate … Wilson et al. (2009) undertook a systematic review to evaluate the accuracy of patient self-reports of … disease/death registry Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) criteria were used to evaluate … criteria from the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) instrument were used to evaluate

455. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 30, 2010 - We plan to evaluate comparative effectiveness of pharmacological and nonsurgical treatments for urinary … First, we will evaluate previously published systematic reviews.88 Then we will conduct a comprehensive … We propose to evaluate quality of observational studies using criteria of internal and external validity … We propose to evaluate quality of interventional studies using criteria from the Methods Guide for Comparative … outcomes and measures of quality of life following the FDA guidelines for UI.82 In addition, we will evaluate

456. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/tinnitus_research-protocol.pdf
     February 22, 2012 - heard only by the patient and cannot be directly observed by a physician, thus making it difficult to evaluate … Measures Various measures can be used to evaluate the presence and severity of the tinnitus.9 There … evaluation instruments, as identified above, can be used to characterize a subjective diagnosis and evaluate … Measuring disease-specific health-related quality of life to evaluate treatment outcomes in tinnitus

457. Evidence Summary Comparative Effectiveness Review 216 Telehealth for Acute and Chronic Care Consultations (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2019 - Other limitations are that the outcomes used to evaluate telehealth are inconsistent and the best or

458. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/sleep-apnea_research-protocol.pdf
     March 15, 2010 - Key question 3 will evaluate different screening tests and protocols. … For KQ3, KQ4, and KQ6—which evaluate the effect of an intervention on intermediate and clinical outcomes—we … rigid counts of studies (e.g., 4 of 5 agree, therefore there is consistency), but instead we will evaluate

459. Disposition of Comments Report for CER 226: Labor Dystocia (pdf file)
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     May 14, 2020 - specified in the KQ; rather it was mean length of labor stages and cesarean birth - please carefully evaluate … #3 I would consider adding to the recommendations/areas for future research that studies begin to evaluate … Frequently even when multiple RCTs are included in the analysis they are greatly underpowered to evaluate

460. Comparative Effectiveness of Medications in Patients with Epilepsy (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - Statistical heterogeneity was assessed using the I2 statistic evaluate the degree of inconsistency … applicability of the individual studies and the applicability of the studies that were pooled to evaluate … We were asked to, in an unbiased manner, assess, evaluate, and summarize the available data. … Our main charge was not to evaluate how kinetics drove dynamics. … We agree with your assessments of the studies you identified but also need to evaluate the study by