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301. Home | AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/20090427identtifyingtopics.pdf
     August 10, 2017 - Home | AHRQ Effective Health Care Program Skip Navigation U.S. Department of Health & Human Services About Us Careers Contact Us Español FAQ Email Updates Search ahrq.gov …

302. Home | AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     August 10, 2017 - Home | AHRQ Effective Health Care Program Skip Navigation U.S. Department of Health & Human Services About Us Careers Contact Us Español FAQ Email Updates Search ahrq.gov …

303. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Supply Chain Disruption Monitoring Programs (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2025 - of medications, medical devices, and supplies to patients and providers, which may lead to lower quality … of care and increased harms to patients.4 There are many causes of disruptions in supply chains including … of care and patient safety, while simultaneously reducing health system costs. … system leaders, and policymakers, among others—make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality … of healthcare services.

304. Methods White Paper: Improving the Utility of Evidence Synthesis for Decision Makers in the Face of Insufficient Evidence (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - system leaders, and policymakers, among others—make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality … of healthcare services. … of healthcare in the United States. … quality. … Director Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

305. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/pelvic-pain-surveillance-151130.pdf
     July 10, 2015 - what is the effect of nonsurgical interventions on pain status, functional status, satisfaction with care … , quality of life, and harms? … what is the effect of nonsurgical interventions on pain status, functional status, satisfaction with care … , quality of life, and harms? … Head-to-head comparisons showed that women taking goserelin had greater improvement in pelvic pain

306. Amended Protocol: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2021 - care across time and/or distance.28 It is a tool with the potential to increase access, improve the quality … of care, increase patient satisfaction, positively impact patient outcomes, and reduce the cost of … and spread has been slow.39-41 Nevertheless, telehealth adoption appeared to be accelerating with improvement … facilitated interaction among, or support for, healthcare professionals designed to improve access, quality … of care, or health outcomes for rural patients and populations • Comparators: o KQ1: other telehealth

307. Restless-Legs Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 16, 2011 - MCIDs are the smallest increments of improvement considered worthwhile by the patient. … and quality of life) Clinical Global Impressions (CGI)[1]  Assessment of severity, improvement … Improvement) is assessed  Assessed by clinician  Disease severity (item 1; 1 = not at all … ill and 7 = extremely severe ill)  Improvement from baseline (item 2; 1 = very much improved … We anticipate that studies may report dichotomous outcomes (e.g., global assessment of improvement)

308. Discerning the Perception and Impact of Patients Involved in Evidence-based Practice Center Key Informant Interviews (pdf file)
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     December 19, 2017 - technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality … of health care in the United States. … purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help improve health … care quality. … projects, they will be contacted by the quality improvement team for this project.

309. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2024 - levels of nurse staffing are associated with decreased mortality, decreased nurse burnout, and higher quality … of care.2 A multi-site study noted decreased length of stay, admissions, and mortality.7 A review … Nurse staffing, missed care, quality of care and adverse events: A cross-sectional study.

310. Medical Care Journal Supplement (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - Design of Cluster-Randomized Trials of Quality Improvement Interventions Aimed at Medical Care Providers

311. AHRQ Slide Template
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     March 01, 2022 - Summary 30 Comparable THC to CBD ratio plant-extracted oromucosal spray probably associated with small improvement … in pain severity and may be associated with small improvement in overall functioning versus placebo … Synthetic oral THC (high THC to CBD ratio) products may be associated with small improvement in pain

312. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Additionally, patients treated with Mobi-C were reported to have more improvement than patients treated … with ACDF in Neck Disability Index scores at every time point and more improvement in visual analog … However, the TDR [total disc replacement] patients experienced significantly more improvement than … Both groups showed clinical improvement at followup with no statistical difference between groups. … Authors reported the mean VAS scores to measure pain severity (lower scores show improvement)75 were

313. 2020 Letter of Appreciation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Program Director, Center for Evidence and Practice Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Improvement

314. Integrating Health System Data With Systematic Reviews_Methods Research Report (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2020 - technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality … of healthcare in the United States. … purchasers as well as the healthcare system as a whole by providing important information to help improve healthcare … quality. … Director Evidence-based Practice Center Program Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency

315. Methods Research Report: Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2018 - system leaders, and policymakers, among others—make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality … of health care services. … of health care in the United States. … purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help improve health … care quality.

316. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0519_02-27-2012.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - Effective Health Care Topic Number: 0437 Document Completion Date: 05-10-12 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Heart failure hospital readmission prevention will go forward for refinement as an update to or expansion of an existing comparative effectiveness or effectiveness revie…

317. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0265_02-29-2008.pdf
     January 01, 2008 - Effective Health Care Topic Number(s): 0074 Document Completion Date: 12-01-09 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Multimodal pain management for post-hip surgery will go forward for refinement as a comparative effectiveness or effectiveness review. The scope of this topic, in…

318. Antipsychotics-Children-Surveillance-150120 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - and placebo for aggression is possibly out of date, that the strength of evidence (SOE) for SGAs and improvement … Eleven studies on bipolar disorders reported symptom improvement. … Four studies examined improvement for behavioral issues. … The improvement at the ADHD-RS-IV score was 22.5%, 12 patients (42.8%) presented an improvement of 30% … , but only 2 (7.1%) an improvement greater than 50%.

319. Peripheral-Artery-Disease-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - revascularization were associated with moderate to large effects and a statistically significant improvement … SF-36 measure of physical functioning assessed between 3 months and 6 months showed a significant improvement … One other RCT reported a statistically nonsignificant improvement in MWD favoring exercise training … with exercise and greater quality-of-life improvement with endovascular therapy.28 Our findings … The endovascular studies in this review found mixed results with respect to functional improvement

320. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs-IV-sepsis.pdf
     July 01, 2023 - report also found moderate strength of evidence linking manual screening tool use to process measure improvement … All the multicomponent sepsis intervention PSPs reported improvement in at least one process measure