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121. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     March 01, 2010 - Key Questions Derived From Assessing PICOTS Population — Who is being evaluated? … Intervention — What intervention is being evaluated? … Outcome — What are the benefits and harms being evaluated? … In essence, who is being evaluated? The I stands for intervention. … What intervention is being evaluated? C stands for comparator.

122. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 08, 2011 - agents, and nutritional supplementation. 1,4 In addition, various adjunctive therapies have been evaluated … of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and public comments were collected and evaluated … These comments led us to expand the potential range of treatments evaluated in the review. …  Combined treatment modalities (cointerventions) will also be evaluated (such as comparing two … Each study evaluated will be reviewed dually by 2 individuals, a principal investigator and a research

123. Executive Summary: Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2011 - Systemic Analgesia Three RCTs (n = 214) evaluated different types of systemic analgesia. … Anesthesia Twenty­one RCTs and one nRCT (n = 1,062) evaluated anesthesia including neuraxial (i.e. … Four RCTs (n = 228) evaluated 30­day mortality; there was no significant difference between groups ( … Rehabilitation One RCT (n = 37) evaluated physical therapy (stretching and strengthening of spinal … Traction Nine RCTs, four nRCTs, and one cohort study evaluated skin or skeletal traction versus no

124. Breast-Abnormalities-Tests-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - First we evaluated the accuracy of the imaging tests in distinguishing between “benign” and “malignant … Some of the women evaluated may have had an ultrasound examination before being examined using the … technology under study, including the women being evaluated by diagnostic ultrasound. … Populations that were not evaluated in this review include: women thought to be at very high risk of … Interventions The noninvasive diagnostic tests evaluated were ultrasound (conventional B mode grayscale

125. Telehealth: Mapping the Evidence for Patient Outcomes From Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - Various types of telehealth interventions have been evaluated in thousands of research studies and hundreds … The vast size of the literature and the variations in how the literature has been collected, evaluated

126. Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Women: Future Research Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Effectiveness Review (CER), "Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Women," evaluated … Compared with men evaluated in the same studies, in women ECG and coronary CTA modalities were both less

127. Resource Allocation and Pandemic Response: An Evidence Synthesis To Inform Decision Making | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 01, 2021 - Few studies have evaluated crisis standards of care strategies. … Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research is emerging; four higher quality studies evaluated combinations

128. Calcineurin Inhibitors for Kidney Transplant | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - We meta-analyzed data when appropriate, assessed studies for risk of bias, and evaluated the strength … Finally, nine studies evaluated regimens that avoided CNIs and used sirolimus or belatacept immediately

129. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health Disparities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - We evaluated the risk of bias of individual studies and the overall strength of the body of evidence … Studies evaluated the effect of these strategies on disparities in the prevention or treatment of breast

130. Allocation of Scarce Resources During Mass Casualty Events | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2020 - Review Methods Our review included studies that evaluated tested strategies in real-world MCEs as well … We reviewed separately studies that lacked a comparison group but nonetheless evaluated promising strategies

131. Characteristics of Existing Asthma Self-Management Education Packages | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - Major characteristics were evaluated, including population, audience, setting, delivery mechanism, and … Half evaluated school-based packages, while the others examined home or community settings.

132. Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Two reviewers evaluated studies for eligibility, serially abstracted data using standardized forms, and … independently evaluated study quality.

133. Serum Free Light Chain Analysis for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Plasma Cell Dyscrasias | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Three retrospective, fair-quality studies evaluated the SFLC assay as an adjunct to traditional testing … eight studies (three of fair quality and five of poor quality) of MM, six of which were retrospective, evaluated

134. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Limitations Very few trials evaluated objective clinical outcomes. … No studies evaluated children.

135. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2020 - – Few cognitive tests were evaluated in multiple studies which reported the same type of test score … Results for the most commonly evaluated brief cognitive tests are presented in Tables A and B. 5 … Results for the most commonly evaluated biomarker tests are presented in Table C. 9 Ta bl e C … Fifty-four unique, low or medium ROB trials evaluated the efficacy and harms of prescription drugs … Eleven unique, low or medium ROB trials evaluated the efficacy and harms of drug treatment compared

136. Er r or Rate Reduction Regarding Lower Limb Prosthesis (pdf file)
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     March 16, 2017 - content, construct, criterion) of existing OMTs, assessment techniques, and prediction tools have been evaluated … techniques used to measure functional ability of adults with major lower limb amputation have been evaluated … What functional outcome measurement tools used to assess adults who use a LLP have been evaluated in … What assessment techniques that have been evaluated for measurement properties were used in these studies … What prediction tools that have been evaluated for measurement properties were used in these studies

137. Coronary-Artery-Stenting Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - For all Key Questions, we included any intravascular diagnostic technique that evaluated morphological … Individual studies evaluated in formulating the composite rating differed in their design, reporting … All studies addressing this Key Question evaluated IVUS only. … Few studies evaluated the comparative effectiveness of these intravascular diagnostic techniques in … First, the contemporary role of IVUS guidance in drug-eluting stent placement needs to be evaluated

138. Mental-Illness-Heart Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - No studies evaluated standard medications for hyperlipidemia (e.g., HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) or … • No studies evaluated the weight loss medication orlistat in this population. … No studies evaluated orlistat, an FDA-approved medication for the treatment of obesity that is also … Of the seven studies identified, only one evaluated an intervention specifically designed to target … Two studies evaluated multicomponent lifestyle interventions alone, and one evaluated switching from

139. Hypertension-Pulmonary-Arterial Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - One good-quality study evaluated the diagnostic value of serum NT-proBNP in a noninvasive diagnostic … Thirty-nine studies evaluated several echocardiographic parameters. … Twenty-three studies evaluated hazard ratios (HR) for death, two studies evaluated HR for a composite … outcome of death or lung transplant, and one study evaluated HR for lung transplant alone. … Twenty- three studies evaluated changes in mean values in response to therapy, and four studies evaluated

140. Comparative Effectiveness Review Methods: Clinical Heterogeneity | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - variation in study population characteristics, coexisting conditions, cointerventions, and outcomes evaluated … because of the latter's data-dredging nature and the possibility of type 1 error when many subgroups are evaluated