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421. 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

422. Ankyloglossia Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - was significantly improved in the treated group compared with the untreated group in both RCTs that evaluated … improved breastfeeding effectiveness among frenotomized infants immediately postprocedure.13 A third RCT evaluated … Good-quality comparative studies evaluated breastfeeding effectiveness immediately11,13 or within 5

423. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mass-casualty-events-scarce-resources_executive.pdf
     June 01, 2012 - Several studies evaluated outcomes of strategies involving implementation of crisis standards of care … A systematic review of field triage systems, comprising 11 papers that evaluated 8 different triage … strategies for allocating and managing scarce resources during MCEs, but none has been sufficiently evaluated

424. Bladder-Cancer-Non-Muscle-Invasive Research-Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/bladder-cancer-non-muscle-invasive_research-protocol.pdf
     July 21, 2014 - metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9); carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA); and mucin glycoproteins have been evaluated … Studies will be evaluated using appropriate criteria developed by the U.S. … Each study evaluated will be independently reviewed for risk of bias by two team members.

425. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Research-Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/public-reporting-quality-improvement_research-protocol.pdf
     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.

426. 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

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. 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,

429. 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

430. 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

431. Automated-Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes (pdf file)
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     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. 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

433. 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.

434. 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

435. Phenylketonuria Executive (pdf file)
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     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.

436. 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

437. Juvenile-Arthritis-Dmards Surveillance (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/juvenile-arthritis-dmards_surveillance.pdf
     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

438. 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

439. 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

440. Rapid Evidence Product: No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/rapid-review-no-touch-modalities.pdf
     May 01, 2022 - All other studies evaluated no-touch modalities for reduction in CDI or contamination. … One additional interrupted time series (Brite et al.)13 evaluated pulsed xenon UVL + bleach versus bleach … Another pre/post study16 evaluated CD contamination at a hospital with high CDI rates after sequential … hospital rooms consisted of interrupted time series or single-center pre/post studies and primarily evaluated