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381. Table 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-end-of-life-indicators-symposium_research.pdf
     April 01, 2010 - Quality indicators for pain should not just focus on the level of pain, but also on the extent to which … Specific indicators could focus on providing patients with information, such as an explicit statement … Distinguish the use of pain indicators in quality improvement versus performance measurement • Focus … least one measure of bother, interference, or distress Implement dyspnea quality indicators that focus

382. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - When computed tomography was widely adopted in the United States in the early 1970s, it became the focus … In the early phases the focus is on diagnostic performance, whereas later phases would focus on impact … reporting.30-33 Design, conduct, and reporting can and should be improved.34 Most accuracy studies focus

383. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 10 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Abstract Limited by what is reported in the literature, most systematic reviews of medical tests focus … the Methods Guide to Medical Test Reviews (also referred to as the Medical Test Methods Guide) we focus … reviews of medical tests.1 Limited by what is reported in the literature, most systematic reviews focus … Overall Suggestions Many systematic reviews of medical tests focus on test performance rather than the

384. EPC-Pilot-Project-A-Dual-Approach-To-Facilitate-Health-Systems-Uptake-Of-Evidence-Synthesis-Reports-Anxiety-In-Children (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2018 - interest in having such contextual information accompanying evidence synthesis reports that usually focus … • Health systems find most evidence synthesis reports that focus on efficacy to have limited utility … considered as study descriptors and briefly presented as opposed to outcome data; which are usually the focus … of the reports): 8 o Information not usually available in reports that focus on efficacy: 

385. chronic-fatigue-protocol (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - If multiple systematic reviews are relevant and low risk of bias, we will focus on the findings from … review and highlight studies by using a hierarchy-of-evidence approach, where the best evidence is the focus

386. Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment (pdf file)
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     January 12, 2022 - further exploration of non-operative alternatives (Provisional KQ1), perhaps as a separate KQ, with a focus … We will focus on primary studies and review systematic review references for relevant studies as it … reported outcomes, variation in their definitions and criteria for what constitutes response, we will focus … Neurosurg Focus. 2016 Jun;40(6):E5. doi: 10.3171/2016.3.Focus1667. PMID: 27246488. 10. … Neurosurg Focus. 2001 Apr 15;10(4):E8. doi: 10.3171/foc.2001.10.4.9. PMID: 16732635. 19.

387. Executive summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 270: Behavioral Interventions for Migraine Prevention (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - Our focus included the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of migraine-specific behavioral interventions

388. Disposition of Comments for CER 171 Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2016 - The focus of the report is on stable patients. … However, the focus of the report rests on noninvasive testing. … The primary focus of this report is to determine whether noninvasive tests improve clinical health … The primary focus of this report is to determine whether noninvasive tests improve clinical health … The primary focus of this report is to determine whether noninvasive tests improve clinical health

389. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - We felt that obesity is uniquely complex and elected to focus on the articles that discuss obesity … Reviewer #3: Methods Page 20, 2nd paragraph: it will be helpful to briefly describe the focus of the … I did not see a clear distinction between full food frequency questionnaires and “screeners” that focus … reviews to show the value added by your review as being much more comprehensive than reviews that focus

390. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 20, 2011 - Trauma-focused group therapy can vary in theory and practice (including the degree of structure) and in its focus … Psychological treatments with waiting list assignment, usual care, no intervention, or sham ○ We will focus

391. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - perform a broad initial search that encompasses both trials and observational studies (OSs), or they may focus … Trials often focus on benefits, with little effort to balance assessment of benefits with assessment … Trials often focus on benefits, with little effort to balance assessment of benefits with assessment … Because RCTs commonly focus on benefits, most lack prespecified hypotheses for harms.

392. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - perform a broad initial search that encompasses both trials and observational studies (OSs), or they may focus … Trials often focus on benefits, with little effort to balance assessment of benefits with assessment … Trials often focus on benefits, with little effort to balance assessment of benefits with assessment … Because RCTs commonly focus on benefits, most lack prespecified hypotheses for harms.

393. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - currently several guidelines addressing total PSA testing and prostate cancer screening, none to date focus

394. Assessing-The-Risk-Of-Bias-In-Systematic-Reviews-Of-Health-Care-Interventions (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2005 - ..................................... 15 vi Key Recommendations • Recommendations regarding focus … e.g., important baseline imbalances) this may be a source of bias; the population selected for the focus … We recommend that assessment of risk of bias focus primarily on the design and conduct of studies and … Reviewers of topics that focus on short-term clinical outcomes may expect a low rate of attrition. … Such an effort will help focus reviewers on consequential sources of bias.

395. White Paper: Living Systematic Reviews: Practical Considerations for Adapting Scope and Communicating the Evolving Evidence (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2025 - into areas for which the evidence is changing more rapidly but which may not have been the primary focus … The interactive features allow users to focus on specific outcomes or comparisons and sub-analyses of

396. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 15, 2012 - Peer Reviewer #4 General The focus on health care outcomes for general medical care with respect … and strongly recommends that any future research addressing the needs of people with disabilities focus … As this report notes in a discussion about the individual‟s perspective, focus groups revealed that … The tendency of medical professionals to be distracted by and focus on disability rather than on the … It might have been better just to focus on either the basic medical services or care coordination in

397. Disposition of Comments Report for Strategies To Reduce Cesarean Birth in Low-Risk Women (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Agree that this is a topic that could be the focus of a specific review on management of second stage … The need to limit the review to those studies that sought to reduce cesarean allowed the team to focus … The particular focus of this review was not a comparison of spontaneous pushing versus traditional, … Peer Reviewer #5 Results My main focus was the system level interventions. … We have revised the title to clarify our focus on low- risk women.

398. Ptsd-Adult-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 92 Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Executive Summary Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that may develop following exposure to a traumatic event. According to the 4t…

399. Ptsd-Adults-Trauma-Interventions Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 08, 2012 - percent.5-7 Development of PTSD and Rationale for Early Intervention to Prevent PTSD Many theories focus … The team decided that the subgroup focus of KQ 3 could be made clearer in the Analytic Framework … that we clarify that the subgroups listed in the “Population at risk…” box of Figure 1 are the focus

400. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Question 3, we included studies reporting the outcomes of systematic data collection efforts (e.g., focus … small number of studies that met the inclusion criteria (n = 27) and the marked variability in design, focus … There is little evidence that efforts are coordinated to minimize overlap or focus on the most urgent