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2401. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for Restless Legs Syndrome | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      December 16, 2011 - Clinicians face substantial uncertainty related to defining RLS, assessing disease severity, and evaluating … Evaluating the quality of life of patients with restless legs syndrome.

2402. Disposition of Comments for Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Orthopedic Surgery (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - The length of VTE prophylaxis used in trials was taken into consideration when evaluating the applicability … Currently, the draft research review omits a number of key studies evaluating the comparative effectiveness … Additionally, information such as drug regimen was considered when evaluating the applicability of the … CERs are precluded from evaluating cost as a determinant of comparative effectiveness. … We wanted to specify that we were not evaluating the early phase mild thrombocytopenia due to heparin

2403. Abnormal-Uterine-Bleeding Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      November 21, 2011 - consideration for this review, make it difficult to reliably establish a minimum sample size for evaluating … A systematic review evaluating health-related quality of life, work impairment, and health-care costs

2404. Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      November 08, 2011 - Current Page Topic Timeline Sep. 22, 2010 Topic Suggestion Nov. 8, 2011 Research Protocol May. 8, 2013 Systematic Review Sep. 12, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review Research Protocol Archived November 8, 2011 Download Main Document PDF 251.7 …

2405. renal-update-2015-150115 (pdf file)
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      January 15, 2015 - Analytic framework for evaluating the effectiveness and  safety of treatments for renal artery stenosis

2406. Appendicitis Executive (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2015 - All studies evaluating the test performance of the same single index test in a similar patient population … Events Six studies (3 studies of US, 3 of MRI, and 2 of multiple clinical and lab tests, some studies evaluating … Seven studies (5 studies of US, 2 of MRI, 1 of CT, and 1 of clinical symptoms and signs, some studies evaluating … to be appropriate candidates for medical management or wait-and-see strategies) are necessary for evaluating … evaluate two or more index tests should provide a detailed description of the role of testing they are evaluating

2407. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2012 - We also included studies that reported the diagnostic accuracy of noninvasive tests for evaluating … was insufficient evidence to determine clinical outcomes associated with different strategies for evaluating … Most of the studies64-68 evaluating the sensitivity and yield of different screening strategies (Key … Few studies evaluating harms of liver biopsy were conducted specifically in populations of patients

2408. Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      April 12, 2013 - Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? Research Report April 12, 2013 Web Version [NLM Site] Download Main Document PDF 511 KB People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in these files. For additional assistance, p…

2409. A total of 1,364 patients were treated with a neurothrombectomy device as part of X reports (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2014 - Evaluating ACP decision aids ....................................................................... … Evaluating the effectiveness of ACP decision aids is a relatively recent phenomenon, closely linked … ACP Decision Aids The IPDAS Collaboration has developed criteria for evaluating the quality of a decision … Evaluating ACP decision aids Index Decision Decision Aid Content Decision Aid Development Effectiveness … Public information and private search: evaluating the Patient Self- Determination Act.

2410. Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease (pdf file)
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      January 15, 2015 - described in the AHRQ methods guides.15, 18 A final strength of evidence grade will be assigned by evaluating

2411. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2011 - Evaluating outcomes in extraesophageal reflux manifestations is much more complex than evaluation of … Because of the paucity of patients and randomized controlled trials evaluating asthma outcomes with

2412. Renal-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2016 - malignant pathology in studies that evaluated tumor size as a categorical variable and in studies evaluating … Eight studies, evaluating active surveillance, were uncontrolled studies. … not be considered current. 23 Discussion This systematic review addresses three key questions evaluating … The literature evaluating renal mass sampling did not routinely report details such as localization

2413. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - Layout 1 This report is an update to a Comparative Effectiveness Review on management strategies for renal artery stenosis (RAS) from October 2006. The systematic review included all studies of patients with atherosclerotic RAS (ARAS) that compared two or more interventions. It also reviewed recent prospective cohort…

2414. Breast Abnormalities Update Surveillance Assessment_CER 47_Low (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2012 - Breast Abnormalities Update Surveillance Assessment_CER 47_Low CER #47: Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities: Update of a 2006 Review Original release date: February, 2012 Surveillance Report: January, 2013 Key Findings: All of the key questions remain up-to-date. Summary Deci…

2415. Obesity Prevention and Control (pdf file)
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      February 08, 2017 - This project will help inform the Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments … identify methods that would provide lower bias and higher validity in using multiple data systems in evaluating … infrastructure to maintain and operate the system.2 Natural experiment: Natural experiment refers to ways of evaluating

2416. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      November 08, 2011 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: November 8, 2011 Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review I. Background and Objectives for t…

2417. Meditation Executive (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - We found 32 trials for KQ1: 4 evaluating TM, 2 evaluating other mantra meditation, and 26 evaluating … Among the 13 trials evaluating the effects of meditation programs on health-related behaviors affected … by stress, while very few controlled studies have found a similar benefit.14-16 Among the 14 RCTs evaluating … A pilot study evaluating mindfulness-based stress reduction and massage for the management of chronic

2418. Pressure-Ulcer-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2013 - Insufficient Evidence on the effectiveness of hydrotherapy was insufficient based on 2 randomized trials evaluating … evaluated 103 randomized trials published during or prior to August 2008.10 The review included studies evaluating … As mentioned, further study is warranted comparing AF beds with more modern support surfaces and evaluating

2419. Cardiac Troponins Used as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests in Patients With Kidney Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      August 11, 2014 - Current Page Topic Timeline Jun. 17, 2008 Topic Suggestion Jun. 13, 2013 Research Protocol Aug. 11, 2014 Systematic Review Nov. 24, 2014 Disposition of Comments Report Cardiac Troponins Used as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests in Patients With Kidney Disease Systematic Review Archived August 11, 2014 Web Version [N…

2420. Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - Evaluating the adult with cerebral palsy for specialized adaptive seating.