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421. CER 217 Disposition of Comments: Management of Infertility (pdf file)
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     May 14, 2019 - key questions or the impact on specific perspectives may be beneficial to individual stakeholder groups … when there was information, rather than reporting when there was no information specific to those groups … provide guideline directives but instead present evidence which might be informative to guideline groups … provide guideline directives but instead present evidence which might be informative to guideline groups … NASS which suggests that African-American women have different outcomes compared to other racial groups

422. Evidence Summary CER 208 Treatment For Bipolar Disorder In Adults (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2018 - BD diagnoses, with relatively similar prevalence in men and women and across cultural and ethnic groups … When reported, all drug comparisons generally showed no differences between groups in serious adverse … Comparators** 5 RCTs44-49 (n=461) 6 to 12 months Depression and Mania symptoms: No difference between groups … Inactive Comparators† 2 RCTs50, 51 (n=599) 7 to 12 months Relapse Rate: No difference between groups … cannot determine if or to what extent this contributed to the few findings of nonsignificance between groups

423. Blood-Clots-Hip-Knee-Surgery Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - in which background prophylaxis (such as compression stockings) was not allowed in the experimental groups … the available trials were small in size leading to limited power to detect differences between the groups … A ratio of 1 indicates no difference in the odds between the two groups. … Peto’s odds ratios are used to compare two groups when the number of events is rare. 21 Publication … A ratio of one indicates no difference in the risk between the two groups.

424. Obesity Prevention and Control (pdf file)
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     February 08, 2017 - This results in exposed and unexposed (or treatment and control) groups that are nearly identical on … all factors except for the factor under study; because the groups being compared are only randomly … are fixed; No other “interruption” at the time of the policy change; Groups would have identical … Persons just above or just below the cutoff are assumed to be very similar, so comparing these groups … As mentioned above, experimental designs are able to achieve balance between treatment and control groups

425. Breast-Biopsy-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - Definitions of diagnostic groups based on index and reference standard test results Reference Standard … In statistical analyses, these groups were treated separately, leading to a total of 171 independent … patient groups with information on 69,804 breast lesions. … However, there was substantial uncertainty around the relative test performance estimates of the two groups … Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society; 2013. www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@research/documents/ document

426. Autism Surveillance (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - However, another RCT of social skills groups using peer tutors reported no significant difference … Both groups showed significant reductions. (Sung, 2011). … Home Situations Questionnaire predicted greater improvement, regardless of tx groups. … The inclusion of siblings in social skills training groups for boys with Asperger syndrome. … Both groups improved; younger child age at entrance and greater number of intervention hours were

427. The Facilitation Primer: Strategies, Tools & Considerations to Get You Started (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - participants are not members of a cohesive group, nor are they accountable to each other as members of other groups … • • • • • • Web forums Surveys Feedback and evaluation forms Written testimonies Focus groups … Facilitating Meetings: A guide for community planning groups.

428. Sleep-Apnea Surveillance (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - there was no statistically significant difference in adherence between the auto bilevel and CPAP groups … differences in quality of life measures or neurocognitive tests were equivocal between treatment groups … baseline patient characteristics (including sleep apnea severity) differed significantly between groups … Both groups had changes in sleepiness scores, but these were significantly less in the control group … differences in quality of life measures or neurocognitive tests were equivocal between treatment groups

429. FRN 29: Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2014 - These research needs were grouped by specific patient groups addressed in the CER. … the duration and initiation of antibiotic therapy based on procalcitonin results in specific patient groups … Antibiotic use and other health outcomes are compared in two or more groups of patients at the beginning … Changes in outcomes from the beginning to the end of the study are compared across groups. … Changes in outcomes from the beginning to the end of the study are compared across groups.

430. Developing and Piloting a Tool To Create Dot Plots To Summarize Pooled Data for Multiple Outcomes in Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2021 - , the dot plots show for each outcome the baseline pooled weighted mean in the treated and control groups … the plots were: outcome, number of trials, numerator and denominator for the treatment and control groups

431. Cesarean-Birth-2010 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - The scale assesses three broad perspectives: (1) selection of study groups, (2) comparability of the … groups, and (3) ascertainment of the outcome of interest. … three doula-support studies showed a reduction in cesarean births for women in the doula-support groups … labor and risk of infection, there was no systematic evidence of increased risk in the intervention groups … It is likely that, overall, we have captured studies with predominantly low-risk groups that can inform

432. celiac-disease-protocol-140612 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/celiac-disease_research-protocol.pdf
     June 12, 2014 - For example, some guidelines propose a different sequence of tests for diagnosing population groups … It will address test combinations and sequences, and accuracy in specific population groups beyond those … Trials (54) Methods Studies (0) Technology Assessments (3) Economic Evaluations (3) Cochrane Groups … leukocyte antigen* OR "video capsule endoscopy" OR endoscop* OR misdiagnos* OR undiagnos* AND "Ethnic Groups … "[Mesh] OR "Minority Groups"[Mesh] OR "Socioeconomic Factors"[Mesh] OR "Continental Population Groups

433. Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Centralized patient advocate groups (e.g., Patient Advocates In Research, Consumers United for Evidence-based … organizations, getting advice from support group leads, and publicizing opportunities through online groups … Groups of new ProjectLEAD® advocates are assigned a mentor who is responsible for checking in with

434. Rheumatoid-Arthritis-Medicine Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Statistically significant difference between groups for quality of life (SF- 36 PCS) that did not reach … However no differences between groups for functional ability and quality of life by 2 years and no … Low No differences in serious adverse events between groups.

435. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Treatment Options for NSCLC NSCLC patients can be divided into three general groups that reflect the … (e.g., other concomitant care) • Maintenance of comparable groups (including attrition, crossovers … problems occur, without the fatal flaws noted in the “poor” category below: In general, comparable groups … Studies are graded “poor” if any of the following fatal flaws exists: Groups assembled initially are … Further, the mean time from diagnosis to study treatment was different in the two groups (4.7 months

436. Untitled (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2015 - No difference between groups in pain outcomes was noted when other psychological therapies were compared … No difference between groups in pain outcomes was noted when other psychological therapies were compared … The studies included a total of 750 women-406 women in the intervention groups and 344 in the control … groups. … No difference between groups in pain outcomes was noted when other psychological therapies were compared

437. Ear-Infection Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Providing more up-to-date and comprehensive comparative information will help many stakeholder groups … In both groups all individuals received an adenoidectomy. … ); 2 RCTs (by ears) (N=338); 1 NRCT (by ears) (N=193) No difference in measured hearing between groups … control 1 RCT (N=396 ears) Adults (16–75) with OME: differences between groups in composite measure … These groups include infants and toddlers who are developmentally vulnerable for language acquisition

438. Antiplatelet-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - The experimental groups in five studies (three using the VASP assay, one using the VerifyNow assay, … Control groups were given clopidogrel-based therapy at standard doses. … Clinical Outcomes Clinical-outcome comparisons between the randomized treatment groups were reported … The frequency of minor and major bleeding was not different between the study groups. … The test for interaction (a test for heterogeneity of treatment effects across genotype groups) was

439. Developing and Piloting a Tool To Create Dot Plots To Summarize Pooled Data for Multiple Outcomes in Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/dot-plots-methods.pdf
     October 01, 2021 - , the dot plots show for each outcome the baseline pooled weighted mean in the treated and control groups … the plots were: outcome, number of trials, numerator and denominator for the treatment and control groups

440. S131 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - the study drug will lead to more balance of patient predictors of the study outcome among exposure groups … Each step is intended to improve the balance of patient characteristics among exposure groups and thus … Groups will be more comparable regarding access to health care, including health seeking behavior and … Adequate comparison groups for new statin initiators could, for example, be initiators of topical glaucoma … The investigators found a mortality effect RR � 0.87 (95% CI, 0.81–0.94) in all age groups combined (