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61. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2021 - Serious adverse events were not found to be different between most evaluated interventions. … We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated pharmacologic intervention or nonpharmacologic … exacerbation, hospital readmissions, repeat exacerbations, and need for intubation, were infrequently evaluated

62. Intergrated and Comprehensive Pain Management Programs: Effectiveness and Harms: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - mostly fair-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (78 publications); 8 RCTs (11 publications) evaluated … IPMPs and 49 RCTs (67 publications) evaluated CPMPs. … These factors were rarely evaluated or were poorly described in included studies. … This is in part due to the wide variety of programs available clinically, many of which may not be evaluated

63. Evidence Summary: Management of Colonic Diverticulitis (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2020 - colonoscopy may, ultimately, have similar rates of CRC diagnoses as those who did not; however, no studies evaluated … Studies that compared antibiotic regimens each evaluated different regimens. … undergo colonoscopy, found no evidence of differences, ultimately, in rates of CRC; however, no studies evaluated … No studies evaluated medical nutrition therapy.

64. Executive Summary: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - medication plus psychosocial therapies produce better results than medication alone, but existing research evaluated … Treatment studies evaluated FDA-approved pharmacologic treatment and other pharmaceutical agents, psychological … ., ADHD symptoms SMD -0.36; CI -0.73, 0.01; 7 studies, n=841; low SoE), although existing research evaluated … Few monitoring strategies have been evaluated. References 1.

65. Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) that evaluated … A total of 281 studies were included, 274 of which evaluated test performance. … Few studies evaluated diagnostic accuracy in surveillance settings, and the only two studies that directly

66. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2022 - Most studies evaluated WBRT as initial treatment, with or without SRS; 10 randomized controlled trials … (RCTs) evaluated post-surgery interventions. … Most studies evaluated WBRT, alone or in combination with SRS, as initial treatment; 10 RCTs reported

67. Management of Suspected Opioid Overdose with Naloxone by Emergency Medical Services Personnel | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 01, 2019 - Although one RCT and two observational studies evaluated intravenous (IV) versus IN naloxone, evidence … Few studies met inclusion criteria, all studies had methodological limitations, and no study evaluated … with a low rate of serious harms, but patients were probably at low risk for such events, and no study evaluated

68. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Of the 23 studies targeting continuity, coordination, and transitions, 33 percent of studies that evaluated … quality of life as an outcome, 67 percent that evaluated patient satisfaction, and 31 percent that evaluated

69. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - We evaluated the indicators’ feasibility, interrater reliability, and validity. … Results: We successfully evaluated 78 indicators across the domains; results were similar in the two … measure underutilization of evidence-based supportive cancer care have been available, rigorously evaluated … Of the successfully evaluated indicators, 22 had inadequate reliability (kappa <0.8 for eligibility … clinician experts through a rigorous process of systematic review and expert panel consensus, and evaluated

70. Depression SSRI Surveillance Assessment_CER 62_Low-1 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Subsyndromal and dysthymia in adults One study evaluated subjects with subsyndromal depression and … The remaining studies evaluated head-to-head comparison following switching from: (1) citalopram to … Treatment in Adolescents Two trials evaluated therapies in children and adolescents; one trial of … SOE was evaluated for the findings from the TORDIA trial alone. … SOE was evaluated for the findings from the TORDIA trial alone.

71. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2011 - One RCT46 and one controlled observational study60 evaluated the impact of catheter aspiration devices … No other final health outcomes were evaluated in this trial and study. … Proximal balloon embolic protection devices were not evaluated in the mixed ACS population. … No other endpoints were evaluated. Table A. … Only two direct comparative randomized trials evaluated for adverse events.51,52 Both of these direct

72. Topic-Brief2-Opioid-Withdrawal (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2021 - However, the quality of evidence is low or very low, and few studies specifically evaluated populations … • No study evaluated the effectiveness of technological solutions to support opioid tapering in patients … • No systematic review evaluated benefits and harms of interventions to mitigate risks of harms ( … • No systematic review evaluated how benefits and harms of tapering support interventions varied … We evaluated the potential for the evidence to (1) inform a policy or coverage action; (2) suitability

73. Dental Care for People With Sickle Cell Disease: A Rapid Response Literature Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 01, 2024 - as professional society websites identified no primary research studies or systematic reviews that evaluated … Further, a complete blood count should be evaluated before invasive dental procedures, because SCD patients

74. White Paper_Living Systematic Reviews: Examining Excluded Full-Text Articles To Better Understand the Evidence Base on Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Thirty-seven studies evaluated an ineligible population, 12 studies evaluated an ineligible intervention … , and 33 studies evaluated did not have a comparison group or evaluated an ineligible comparison. … healthy volunteers,50 one evaluated a population with induced/experimental pain on top of chronic pain … stage because they evaluated ineligible interventions.53-64 Of these, three articles evaluated possession … integrative medicine therapies,55 two evaluated opioids,56,57 one evaluated olorinab,64 and one evaluated

75. Multigene Panels in Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - All focused on clinical validity (KQ2), and evaluated 15 individual panels with two to 35 SNPs. … None of the panels had been evaluated in routine clinical settings.

76. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2011 - It is an update of a 2007 report that evaluated the scientific literature on ACEIs and ARBs for adults … Only 3 of these 21 studies (including 1 death) evaluated direct renin inhibitors versus ACEIs or ARBs … ARB); Insufficient There were no studies that evaluated these outcomes in direct (DRI vs. … Persistence was not evaluated in any of the studies including direct renin inhibitors. … a “Adult patients” are defined as adults, age 18 years or older. b ACEIs evaluated are: Benazepril (

77. Diagnosis and Management of Gout: Current State of the Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 01, 2021 - One review evaluated the evidence regarding the accuracy and safety of tests used to initially diagnose … Research Evidence Two clinical algorithms , the Diagnostic Rule and Clinical Gout Diagnosis, were evaluated … Diagnostic imaging studies that were evaluated in this review included DECT and ultrasound. … urate levels should minimize clinical gout sequelae, the exact target level has yet to be formally evaluated

78. Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - controlled trials (RCTs), prospective cohort studies, and other observational studies with comparators that evaluated … Several short-term effects were evaluated; however, long-term effects of provider training on provider … cultural competence behavior in the clinical setting and subsequent patient health outcomes have not been evaluated

79. Treatment Strategies for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Eleven studies—10 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 1 observational study—evaluated the comparative … Thirty-five studies (27 RCTs, 8 observational) evaluated the comparative effectiveness of cilostazol, … , 22 observational) in CLI patients and 12 studies (2 RCTs, 10 observational) in IC or CLI patients evaluated

80. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2020 - We also evaluated how patient 2 and tumor characteristics, including risk indices … The treatment comparisons evaluated in RCTs are illustrated in Figure 1. Figure A. … The width of lines reflects the number of RCTs that evaluated that comparison. … No RCTs evaluated WW or AS using scheduled prostate biopsies or MRI in CLPC detected by PSA screening