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221. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews - Editorial (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - EPCs conduct reviews for use by a variety of groups, including national guideline groups such as the … Reviews; hereinafter called the General Methods Guide).8 This guidance, along with those of other groups

222. Psychosocial and Pharmacologic Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - disruptive behaviors 11 (8 RCTs; 3 cohorts) 1329 ��Consistently improved in the intervention groups … Parent-rated child disruptive behaviors 13 (12 RCTs; 1 cohort) 1486 �� Improved in the intervention groups … , quetiapine) Disruptive behaviors 3 (3 RCTs) 374 ��Significantly improved in the intervention groups

223. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews_Inclusion of Nonrandomized Studies of Interventions in Systematic Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness: An Update (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - The randomization of study participants to treatment and comparator groups, when allocation is concealed … When properly executed, the randomization process helps ensure that the study groups are comparable … Cross-sectional studies are non-experimental and may allow the comparison of groups of participants … Confounding NRSIs may be subject to a high risk of confounding if the treatment and comparator groups … The second difference (between-group) controls for time-varying factors that are common across groups

224. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews_Inclusion of Nonrandomized Studies of Interventions in Systematic Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness: An Update (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pdf/methods-guide-inclusion-nonrandomized-studies.pdf
     September 01, 2022 - The randomization of study participants to treatment and comparator groups, when allocation is concealed … When properly executed, the randomization process helps ensure that the study groups are comparable … Cross-sectional studies are non-experimental and may allow the comparison of groups of participants … Confounding NRSIs may be subject to a high risk of confounding if the treatment and comparator groups … The second difference (between-group) controls for time-varying factors that are common across groups

225. Data Points 15: Breast Cancer Diagnostic Workup: Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer (pdf file)
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     August 22, 2012 - rates of this testing increased between 2004 and 2007 in both DCIS and early invasive breast cancer groups … Rates of testing varied significantly across race groups for all tests. … Among women with DCIS, black women were less likely to have ER/PR testing than other racial groups … The percentage of women with ER+ tumors was similar for the DCIS and invasive cancer groups. … Second, the esti- mated rates of testing for both groups will be biased downward, because our cohort

226. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - We engaged consumer and provider groups, including AARP and the National Center for Assisted Living … , because the decisional dilemmas faced by these groups are critical to identifying and prioritizing … A total of 13 stakeholders across these groups responded to our invitation and expressed an interest … We engaged consumer and provider groups, including AARP and the National Center for Assisted Living … Participating stakeholders included representatives from all groups that we engaged in the process.

227. Research Protocol: Characteristics of Existing Asthma Self-Management Education Packages (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - o Interviews, focus groups, other qualitative or quantitative evaluation techniques • What new types … Should other groups of professionals play a greater or different role in delivering AS-ME? … descriptions and evaluations of AS-ME packages implemented by individual hospitals, health systems, provider groups … We will not require that studies have control groups. … Daines L, Pearce G, Epiphaniou E, Bower P, Sheikh A, Griffiths CJ, Taylor SJ, PRISMS and RECURSIVE groups

228. CER 218 Evidence Summary: Long-Term Drug Therapy and Drug Holidays for Osteoporosis Fracture Prevention: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2019 - have led to the suggestion that bisphosphonate treatment be discontinued periodically.9 Several groups … †Results reported for raloxifene 60 mg/d and 120 mg/day groups pooled together. … varied widely between studies, likely due to heterogeneity in case definitions, treatment control groups … discontinuation, the absolute number of events was low and possible differences between treatment groups … continuation and discontinuation arms in one trial reporting because harms results for these two groups

229. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 05, 2025 - burden of these disorders.8 Federal Government” mention of gender identities or sexual orientation groups … as specific high risk groups has been removed 2/5/2025 Key questions gender identity, and sexual … Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” mention of gender identities or sexual orientation groups … as specific high risk groups has been removed 2/5/2025 Table 1, PICOTS gender/sex identity, sexual … as specific high risk groups has been removed VIII.

230. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - For example, the process of assigning individuals to different groups may be inappropriate when patient … Selection bias is bias resulting from the formation of comparison groups. … Detection bias refers to systematic differences in outcome assessments among the comparison groups. … Attrition bias refers to systematic differences among comparison groups in the loss of participants from … Confounding by Indication Confounding by indication is a type of selection bias that occurs when groups

231. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - Methods (Data Synthesis and Analysis) Given discordance in pathogeneses between these two groups … was kept constant…” (3) Seems like patients had phone contact with nurse “Patients in all three groups … While the data speaks for itself, all of them had different methods and different cohort groups which … We rated it as such because an important flaw was that the groups were not comparable (with respect … In cohort groups the patients necessarily do not receive this level of maternal care.

232. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND HYDRALAZINE (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2010 - However, the effectiveness of H-ISDN in a community sample of African-Americans and other racial/ethnic groups … Comorbidities were identified in the year prior to HF diagnosis according to groups of ICD-9 codes described … with statistically significant and clinically important reductions in mortality in all racial/ethnic groups … our sample who lacked racial or ethnic identifiers, as well as individuals from other racial/ethnic groups … Drug exposure risk windows and unexposed comparator groups for cohort studies in pharmacoepidemiology

233. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - For example, the process of assigning individuals to different groups may be inappropriate when patient … Selection bias is bias resulting from the formation of comparison groups. … Detection bias refers to systematic differences in outcome assessments among the comparison groups. … Attrition bias refers to systematic differences among comparison groups in the loss of participants from … Confounding by Indication Confounding by indication is a type of selection bias that occurs when groups

234. Haller - INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE -- URBANINTERACTIVESTUDIOS (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - We're living in an age where a lot of groups or ethnic groups and minority groups are actually using … And also there's forms of online communities that are used for focus groups where you don't bring people

235. antibiotics-respiratory-infection-protocol-140922 (pdf file)
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     September 22, 2014 - pediatric patients with acute RTI, healthy adults and/or children without a current acute RTI, or groups … as applying to patients versus a broader population (e.g. the general public, or targeted healthy groups … group together studies that use similar definitions of appropriateness and categorize the different groups … groups,!such! as!employers!or! school!officials! Intermediate!Outcomes! ! Improved!patient! … methods used for randomization, allocation concealment, and blinding; the similarity of compared groups

236. Version 2_Risk of Reinfection From SARS-CoV-2 -- An Update of an Antibody Response Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Implications for Immunity: A Living Rapid Review (pdf file)
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     December 31, 2022 - Selection bias could spuriously drive effect size up or down if some groups in the target population … (16.92 per 100,000 person- days versus 27.42 to 38.13 in the younger groups.) … Additionally, three studies will include groups of vaccinated individuals in their cohorts. … Were the two groups similar and recruited from the same population? 2. … Were the exposures measured similarly to assign people to both exposed and unexposed groups? 3.

237. Glaucoma-Treatment Surveillance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Other Experts Conclusion from SCEPC significant differences in IOP reduction between the two groups … trabeculectomy with MMC vs. 5FU showed 1 case each of blebitis and endophthalmitis in in both groups … OR randomized [tiab] OR placebo [tiab] OR drug therapy [sh] OR randomly [tiab] OR trial [tiab] OR groups … Frequency of postop complications was similar between groups Dahan 201222 Prospective randomized … ; survival analysis indicated time to 50% failure was similar in both groups.

238. Hepatitis-C-Treatment-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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     September 22, 2011 - The study did not report statistical tests of changes over time or of differences between groups. … Among genotype 1 patients, SVR rate did not differ between groups. … Patients in the intervention groups had approximately 50-percent higher odds of adhering to therapy … or continuing with treatment at 24-48 weeks compared with control groups. … The reasons patients did not finish recommended treatment did not differ between the two groups and

239. Disposition of Comments Report for Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (pdf file)
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     July 08, 2014 - However, one wonders about the selection of those groups as the gold standard. … While we think of a comparison of these two groups as adequately controlling for the effects of depression … Comparing those two groups may not be substantially different than comparing women with a history of … TEP Member #9 Methods well laid out. especially issues related to comparability of specific groups … Neither showed statistically significant differences between groups, although the study size makes

240. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 17, 2011 - lead to change in health care delivery structures or processes (at levels of individual providers, groups … • We will evaluate trials in terms of how the intervention and comparison groups were constructed … (e.g., randomization), the comparability of the groups at baseline and throughout the study (including … observational studies will focus on potential bias in the construction of comparisons (either across groups … If this is not possible, we will use qualitative groups of public reporting interventions to identify