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141. Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds (pdf file)
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     October 03, 2019 - Successful healing of chronic wounds depends on critical factors, such as proper blood flow and nutrition … cellular therapies provide skin cells (fibroblasts, keratinocytes or both) to create a source of growth factors … vascular status, infection status, and prior treatment requirements (e.g., no treatment with growth factors … What confounding factors (e.g., ancillary treatments, patient comorbidities, patient compliance, patient … Other skin substitute product Standard of care Standard of care plus synthetic dressings, growth factors

142. Liver-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - However, clinical uncertainty remains regarding optimal imaging strategies due to the factors described … How is the comparative effectiveness modified by patient, tumor, technical, or other factors? … How is the comparative effectiveness modified by patient, tumor, technical, or other factors? b. … Evidence on the effects of other patient, tumor, and technical factors on test performance was more … Conclusions were generally robust on sensitivity and stratified analyses based on study factors such

143. Treatments for Acute Pain: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 02, 2020 - overprescribing of opioids. 8 Evidence also suggests that adequate acute pain treatment may mitigate factors … acute pain care have been documented. 11 , 12 In addition to the underlying cause of pain, patient factors … , race/ethnicity, pain severity, comorbidities (including mental health and substance use), genetic factors … The following factors: (1) existing opioid management plans; (2) patient education; (3) clinician and … Not utilizing the factors specified in interventions (h) above Nonopioid pharmacological therapy:

144. Evidence-based Practice Center Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2011 - Behavioral indicators Question 3 What factors affect the offer of, acceptance, and adherence … Physician Factors i. Primary care ii. Diagnosing physician iii. … Clinical factors b. Patient Factors i. Family involvement ii. … Delivery System Factors i. Economic incentives and disincentives (a). … The impact of insurance and geographic factors on therapeutic decisionmaking will be examined with

145. Behavioral Programs for Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 05, 2014 - Background and Objectives The high burden of diabetes necessitates careful attention to factors contributing … Other reported risk factors for diabetes-related complications included smoking (20 percent), self-reported … Question 6 Do the factors that contribute to program effectiveness for patients with T2DM vary across … A term was added in Key Question 5 to consider the effects of program factors on program accessibility … The other questions explore factors that may be associated with the effectiveness of behavioral programs

146. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     January 30, 2009 - b) What is the evidence that that demographic and clinical factors modify accuracy?

147. Siminoff_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Department of Social and Behavioral Health Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Slide 2: Factors …  Affecting  Patient Requests  for Medical Services • Patient’s  Personal Factors o Age o … Sex o Education o Family o Information Sources o Socioeconomic Context • Contextual Factors o … o Factors  that affect an individual’s relationships  with  others  and  with   the environment …  of access to care  Communication with health care provider  Sociodemographic and psychological factors

148. Data Points #15: Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer | Effective Health Care Program
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     September 13, 2012 - Data Points #15: Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer Timeline September 13, 2012 Topic Initiated September 13, 2012 Research Report Data Points #15: Prognostic factor testing among older …

149. S116 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - If there are unmeasured variables that are indepen- dent risk factors for the study outcome and also … physician’s APM preference as reflected in the last APM prescription written is unrelated to the risk factors … In Table 5, we present the adjusted associations be- tween the treatment and the patient risk factors … The associations between the IV and patient risk factors are also reported in Table 5 (columns 4 and … The major medical comorbidities (eg, cancer, stroke, myocardial infarction) that are strong risk factors

150. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 25, 2014 - Process evaluation and improvement should also consider important human factors and logistical concerns … This technical brief will explore these factors and their impact on reducing HAIs. … What operational factors (e.g. ease of use, availability, workflow, logistics, cost) are important to … Which factors are the biggest barriers? … What confounding factors pose a challenge to interpreting research on cleaning and monitoring, and how

151. ECRI_Penn EPC FINAL Environ Cleaning Protocol 08_21_14 CC[1] (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Process evaluation and improvement should also consider important human factors and logistical concerns … This technical brief will explore these factors and their impact on reducing HAIs. II. … What operational factors (e.g. ease of use, availability, workflow, logistics, cost) are important … Which factors are the biggest barriers? 8. … What factors might make a patient room appear to be more clean, or less clean, from the perspective

152. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - This method ignores the randomized nature of the data and is subject to a variety of confounding factors … The investigators could choose adding no correction factors or exploring alternative correction factors … Investigators should note the difference between two types of study-level factors: (1) factors that … A meta-regression on summarized patient-level factors may be subject to ecological fallacy, 51 a … Whenever possible, study level factors, including subgroup factors, considered in meta-regressions

153. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - This method ignores the randomized nature of the data and is subject to a variety of confounding factors … The investigators could choose adding no correction factors or exploring alternative correction factors … Investigators should note the difference between two types of study-level factors: (1) factors that … A meta-regression on summarized patient-level factors may be subject to ecological fallacy, 51 a … Whenever possible, study level factors, including subgroup factors, considered in meta-regressions

154. Masks for Prevention of COVID-19 in Community and Healthcare Settings (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2021 - Risk factors for SARS infection among hospital healthcare workers in Beijing: a case control study. … Risk factors for SARS infection within hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam. … Risk factors for SARS among persons without known contact with SARS patients, Beijing, China. … Risk factors for SARS infection within hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam. … Risk factors for SARS among persons without known contact with SARS patients, Beijing, China.

155. Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Patients With Stage II Colon Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 13, 2012 - A number of negative prognostic factors (factors associated with increased risk of recurrence) have been … The current system used to assess recurrence risk using the prognostic factors noted above (e.g., a T4 … MSI testing is widely available and used along with clinical risk factors to help make decisions about … as analytic factors [such as reagents used].) … Have factors such as race/ethnicity been evaluated for their impact on clinical validity, since this

156. Closing the Quality Gap Series: The Effects of Bundled Payment Strategies on Health Care Spending and Quality of Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 23, 2011 - Subsets of the bundled payment systems in KQ 1, characterized by the following key contextual factors … factors. … Predisposing factors include the general financial environment, other incentives outside of the bundled … The impact of these contextual factors is addressed by KQ 3. … In addition to the population and setting factors discussed above, we will examine other elements of

157. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 18, 2012 - For each AE associated with a particular vaccine, what are the risk factors for the AE (including age … For each AE associated with a particular vaccine, what are the risk factors for the AE (including age … Both patient factors (i.e., age and race) and vaccine factors (i.e., formulation, dosage, and timing … ) may be risk factors for potential AEs associated with vaccination. … (no unvaccinated group necessary, but must control for multiple factors in a regression analysis)

158. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Therefore, it was decided that a technical brief to identify the contextual factors and the current

159. Treatments for Acute Pain: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 08, 2019 - overprescribing of opioids.8 Evidence also suggests that adequate acute pain treatment may mitigate factors … in acute pain care have been documented.11,12 In addition to the underlying cause of pain, patient factors … race/ethnicity, pain severity, comorbidities (including mental health and substance use), genetic factors … The following factors: (1) existing opioid management plans; (2) patient education; (3) clinician and … Risk Factors/ 21. Proportional Hazards Models/ 22. "Reproducibility of Results"/ 23.

160. Musculoskeletal-Complaints-Tests-Children Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - A multicenter case-control study on predictive factors distinguishing childhood leukemia from juvenile … Serum concentration of hyaluronan, IgM and IgA rheumatoid factors in a population based study of juvenile … Prevalence of IgM-, IgA- and IgG-rheumatoid factors in seronegative polyarticular disease compared … Serum IgG and IgM rheumatoid factors by solid phase radioimmunoassay. … Prevalence of IgM, IgA and IgG rheumatoid factors in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.