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101. Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 08, 2011 - site 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 treatments … Each study evaluated will be reviewed dually by 2 individuals, a principal investigator and a research … Randomized trials and cohort studies will be evaluated by using appropriate criteria and methods developed

102. 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

103. Executive Summary: Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer30_hip-fracture-pain-executive-summary_20110517.pdf
     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

104. Breast-Abnormalities-Tests-Update Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-abnormalities-tests-update_executive.pdf
     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

105. Evaluation of the AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 26, 2016 - Finally, we evaluated the variability in the high-impact potential (HIP) assessments using the metric … We also evaluated the usability of the HIP assessment through the stakeholder survey.

106. 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

107. Lower Limb Prosthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 03, 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 … KQ 3 What functional outcome measurement tools used to assess adults who use a LLP have been evaluated … 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. 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

112. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 25, 2013 - Results Sixty studies involving 7,096 patients evaluated biomarker tests, echocardiography, or both … Ninety-nine studies involving 8,655 patients evaluated biomarker tests, echocardiography, or both to

113. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 27, 2014 - c DMARDs evaluated are: abatacept, adalimumab, anakinra, canakinumab, etanercept, infliximab, intravenous … d Conventional treatments evaluated are: betamethasone, triamcinolone acetonide, triamcinolone hexacetonide

114. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/type-2-diabetes-insulin_executive.pdf
     September 01, 2008 - rapid-acting insulin analogues with intermediate-acting human insulin We found only one study that evaluated … Premixed insulin analogues versus intermediate- acting insulin Only two studies evaluated this comparison … Premixed insulin analogues versus noninsulin antidiabetic agents Ten studies evaluated this comparison … Six studies evaluated quality of life. … Retinopathy and neuropathy No evidence No studies evaluated other clinical outcomes, such as retinopathy

115. Microsoft Word - finbody.doc (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/renal-artery-stenosis_research-2007.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - The original report evaluated 60 unique studies. … The quality of the evaluated studies was limited because of inadequate reporting and/or collection of … Table 1 summarizes the evaluated studies. … A total of 22 studies evaluated restenosis rates during follow-up, including four new studies.78-81 … Of these only three studies evaluated the whole cohort of patients who underwent stent placement for

116. Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/chronic-fatigue_executive.pdf
     July 01, 2016 - Diagnostic methods were evaluated in eight descriptive studies comparing case definitions, although … However, these measures have not yet been evaluated for this purpose. … No studies evaluated whether diagnostic methods could adequately identify clinical subgroups of patients … No studies evaluated differences in the performance of case definitions among patients with specific … Most treatments were evaluated in only a single trial and were conducted in referral settings.

117. Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2016 - Several studies that were not included in this review evaluated medications in developing countries … systems-level interventions for managing PPH were identified. �� The interventions and outcomes evaluated … A number of studies (not addressed in the current review) have evaluated such medications to prevent

118. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-abnormalities-tests_executive.pdf
     February 01, 2006 - Typically, suspicious lesions are evaluated with tissue biopsy, either by excision or by needle sampling … Although all of the technologies evaluated could reduce the need for biopsy in women with an abnormal … suspicious mammograms would directly address the question of whether women benefit overall from being evaluated

119. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/diabetic-neuropathy/research-2017
     March 24, 2017 - Two reviewers evaluated studies for eligibility, serially abstracted data using standardized forms, independently … evaluated the risk of bias of the reviews and studies, and graded the strength of evidence (SOE) for

120. Executive summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 268: Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2023 - CQ 4, we conducted an in-depth evaluation of a sample of six healthcare algorithms, not previously evaluated … For CQ 4, we evaluated, in-depth, the development approach, performance, and implementation of six algorithms … not previously widely evaluated in the published literature for potential racial or ethnic bias. … For KQ 2, 21 of the 44 included studies focused on kidney function and evaluated efforts to mitigate