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421. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 17, 2011 - If an English abstract is available for non–English-language articles, it will be evaluated in terms … citation databases) will be used to identify articles that cite key studies, and these searches will be evaluated … • If systematic reviews are used only to identify other studies, they will not be evaluated.

422. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cad-women-diagnosis_research-protocol.pdf
     June 06, 2011 - coronary angiography as the initial risk stratification test although lower risk patients may be evaluated … question will be assessed by using the approach described in the Methods Guide.9 The evidence will be evaluated … Additionally, when appropriate, the studies will be evaluated for the presence of confounders that would

423. Clopidogrel after Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation: Is current practice sufficient (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/stent-clopidogrel-practice_research.pdf
     March 01, 2009 - on some intermediate (non-outcome) event that occurs during follow-up. 12 Prognosis is then evaluated … Outcomes for these groups were evaluated to 24 months after the initial PCI procedure. … landmark analysis to four groups (by stent type and clopidogrel use) and their 24 month outcomes were evaluated

424. breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-cancer-imaging_research-protocol.pdf
     December 17, 2013 - These “hand-searched” studies will also be evaluated against the inclusion and exclusion criteria outlined

425. Evaluation and Treatment of Cryptorchidism | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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426. Systematic Review Search Strategy Development Tools: A Practical Guide for Expert Searchers (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/search-strategy-white-paper.pdf
     February 01, 2025 - However, three of the seven tools evaluated for initial scoping/seed citation set development (Table … To assist in choosing tools, we have evaluated the relevant, free tools for each step in the process … Of the remaining tools, some could not be evaluated because their website was either non-functional,

427. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - paragraph of the Summary and Implications section and we have highlighted how few studies exist that have evaluated … participants for each modality, broken down by county, study type, comparators used, and outcomes evaluated

428. Technical Brief 13: Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/colon-cancer-gene-profiling_technical-brief.pdf
     December 01, 2012 - Thus, it is imperative to understand the accuracy (clinical validity) of the GEP assays being evaluated … GEP Assays as Prognostic Markers The majority of the published studies evaluated use of the GEP assays … there is also uncertainty about the clinical validity, that is, the initial results have not been evaluated … Also, most of the studies have evaluated the GEP assays as a possible prognostic marker for disease … Thus, the performance of these assays needs to be evaluated in multiple patients from diverse settings

429. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - It is the balance of the benefits and harms that needs to be better evaluated. … As the questions are currently phrased, it is unclear how treatments will be evaluated. … diverse impact glaucoma has on patients’ lives, we encourage AHRQ to define and expand the outcomes evaluated … CIGTS evaluated the relationship between VFQ scores and treatment response and found that there was … McKean- Cowdin and colleagues evaluated the relationship between longitudinal visual field loss and

430. Project Title: Evaluation of Suspicious Skin Lesions Using Non-Invasive Diagnostic Techniques, a Technical Brief (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/skin-lesions-evaluation_research-protocol.pdf
     August 23, 2010 - on the citation (first author name, journal and year of publication), study design, condition being evaluated

431. Automated-Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/patient-generated-health-data-protocol-chronic-conditions.pdf
     March 17, 2020 - Technical Brief provides an evidence map of telehealth showing that many published systematic reviews have evaluated … Studies that performed economic evaluations will be evaluated by standard methodological quality

432. Antiplatelet-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - We evaluated the analytic validity, predictive utility, and comparative effectiveness of genetic and … The following modifiers were also evaluated in one study each: indication for clopidogrel use (acute … No other aspect of analytic validity was evaluated in the studies. … We evaluated data for the longest followup time available. … The most promising monitoring strategies can then be evaluated in randomized comparative studies.

433. Phenylketonuria Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/phenylketonuria_executive.pdf
     February 01, 2012 - positioning of Key Questions in the treatment process. 5 Screening of Studies Two reviewers separately evaluated … Key Question 2: Effectiveness of BH4 in PKU Ten studies evaluated the effects of BH453-62 in patients … All randomized and open-label trials and three case series evaluated the short-term outcome of reduction … No study evaluated quality-of-life outcomes.

434. Juvenile-Arthritis-Dmards Surveillance (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2013 - review (or guidelines) whose results identified another treatment as significantly superior to the one evaluated … Strength of Evidence: Low There were two new studies.6, 22 The first contained an RCT that evaluated … each group could also receive oral corticosteroids, intra- articular corticosteroids, and NSAIDs— evaluated … each group could also receive oral corticosteroids, intra- articular corticosteroids, and NSAIDs— evaluated

435. Juvenile-Arthritis-Dmards Surveillance (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2013 - review (or guidelines) whose results identified another treatment as significantly superior to the one evaluated … Strength of Evidence: Low There were two new studies.6, 22 The first contained an RCT that evaluated … each group could also receive oral corticosteroids, intra- articular corticosteroids, and NSAIDs— evaluated … each group could also receive oral corticosteroids, intra- articular corticosteroids, and NSAIDs— evaluated

436. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-abnormalities-tests-update_disposition-comments.pdf
     February 13, 2012 - address which combinations of imaging have already been performed prior to the “added imaging test” evaluated … a screening setting The study inclusion/exclusion criteria ensured that all of the technologies evaluated … to more accurate than PET, scintimammography, or the other types of ultrasound (Doppler) that were evaluated … All of the included studies enrolled patients who had already been evaluated by diagnostic mammography

437. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/opioids-chronic-pain-surveillance-report-1-final.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - One RCT3 compared tapentadol versus placebo for low back pain, one RCT4 evaluated a psychosocial group … The observational studies evaluated long-term outcomes of opioid therapy,6,7 long-acting versus short-acting … no tapering was limited to one poor-quality cohort study.14 Two new fair-quality cohort studies evaluated … A study of Oregon Medicaid recipients (n=14,596) prescribed long-term opioid therapy evaluated various … Strategies Key Question 4c (Risk Mitigation Strategies) One new, small (n=27), fair-quality RCT evaluated

438. Migraine-Adults-Executive-130408 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Risk of Bias Assessment We evaluated the risk of bias in individual studies for benefits and harms … using the criteria from the Cochrane risk of bias tool.28 We evaluated: (1) random allocation of the … We evaluated disclosure of conflict of interest by the authors of individual studies and funding sources … We evaluated statistical significance at a 95 percent confidence level. … We evaluated the strength of the association, defining a priori a large effect when relative risk was

439. Executive Summary_Blood-Based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cell-free-dna-executive-summary.pdf
     May 01, 2025 - consistent with reductions in cancer deaths for some cancers (such as lung), but not for all cancers evaluated

440. Disposition of Comments: Management of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/suicidal-thoughts-youth-disposition-comments.pdf
     April 10, 2025 - The health affairs paper evaluated ecological evidence to identify trends involving rare events. … periods were limited and rare and distal events such as suicide attempts and deaths were not well evaluated … periods were limited and rare and distal events such as suicide attempts and deaths were not well evaluated … While some depression or bipolar studies have evaluated the reduction in suicidality as a secondary … We agree that based on the limited studies that evaluated moderators and mediators, we were unable