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1721. Plasma-Cell-Dyscrasias-Sflc-Assay Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/plasma-cell-dyscrasias-sflc-assay_executive.pdf
      August 01, 2012 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … FLCs.8 Thus, in addition to detecting a wider spectrum of PCDs than traditional tests, the assay may help … half- life of SFLCs (2 to 6 hours, vs. 21 days for complete immunoglobulins13), the assay may also help … AL amyloidosis, clinical chemistry, and general medicine), who served in an advisory capacity to help … What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients?

1722. DEcIDE 34 - Developing a Registry of Patient Registries: Options for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/registry-of-patient-registries-development_research_0.pdf
      February 01, 2012 - The search engine would also use the MeSH hierarchy of terms to help guide users to appropriate studies … and discussions with both stakeholders and registry owners are highly recommended as a next step to help … A representative fromNHLBI suggested that a registry of patient registries might also help existing … stated that the information available from such a registry of patient registries could be used to help … under study Additional Links Links to health information (e.g., MEDLINEplus, PubMed) that may help

1723. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions for Adult Offenders With Serious Mental Illness (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mental-illness-adults-prisons_disposition-comments.pdf
      August 21, 2013 - These overly broad questions did not provide information to help providers with this question or build … Hopefully, it will help frame future questions and guide funding. Thank you. … These programs did help some people and for those who fully embraced the 12 Step Method and were able … the truth that taking psychiatric medication had nothing to do with sobriety and, in fact, would help

1724. FRN 35 - Preventive Pharmacological Treatments for Migraine in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2013 - • What biomarkers help predict treatment response? … • What biomarkers help predict treatment response? … 4 2 What biomarkers help predict treatment response? … • What biomarkers help predict treatment response? … • What biomarkers help predict treatment response?

1725. Disposition of comments for CER 169 Low Back Pain (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/back-pain-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
      February 29, 2016 - Section Commentator & Affiliation Comment Response General TEP Reviewer #2 Summary figures would help … The final discussion at the end is a great help however. … Peer Reviewer #3 When referring to the fewer studies examining radicular pain, I think it may help … more comprehensive information on patient presentation and the impairments underlying LBP could help … We revised the Research Gaps section to note: “More research is needed to help understand whether

1726. Disposition of Comments for CER 201 Effectiveness of Indoor Allergen Reduction in the Management of Asthma (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-201-indoor-allergen-asthma-disposition-comments.pdf
      February 15, 2018 - CRI coordinates with other stakeholders to help meet the needs of consumers and to promote an understanding … This evidence must be accurately interpreted to guide health professionals to help reduce the burden … As the premier patient organization, AAFA offers education, advocacy and research services to help … This is alluded to already (e.g. p.57, lines 27-33), but it might help the general reader to make this

1727. Topic 0586 LUTS Secondary to BPH NSD FINAL (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND-0713-140625.pdf
      January 07, 2014 - recent and relevant publications on treatment options for LUTS/BPH and evaluation of nocturia that can help

1728. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/skin-lesions-evaluation_disposition-comments.pdf
      September 01, 2011 - Peer Reviewer 4 Results Dermoscopy could be used to help improve the diagnosis of skin tumours including

1729. Bernhardt_final[9] (pdf file)
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      January 27, 2011 - New media, social networks, and Web 2.0 can help!

1730. Disposition of Comments Report for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (pdf file)
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      June 28, 2013 - the work that went into this effort, the results provide little in the way of new insights that will help … of the CER, it is not universally understood, and therefore we provide this additional language to help … sentence needs some re-working or perhaps deletion (ES-30): “This information is important and should help

1731. EPC Methods: An Exploration of Methods and Context for the Production of Rapid Reviews (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/rapid-review-production_white-paper.pdf
      February 01, 2015 - The information in this report is intended to help health care decisionmakers—patients and clinicians … improve the scientific rigor of these evidence reports, AHRQ supports empiric research by the EPCs to help … providers, and purchasers and the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help … Our results showing variation in rapid products by both timeframe and extent of synthesis will help … Are there any technologies or other tools that help you gain efficiency in the process?

1732. Use of Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguidenorris_060420101.pdf
      June 01, 2010 - impractical, infeasible, or incomplete, observational studies may provide valid and useful data to help … High-quality observational studies can help address these gaps. … and if so, there is explicit consideration of the potential usefulness of observational studies to help … consideration of the potential for these biases in the body of relevant observational studies will help … sources and designs of studies used in pharmacoepidemiology and in device and procedure registries can help

1733. Use of Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-observational-studies_methods.pdf
      June 01, 2010 - impractical, infeasible, or incomplete, observational studies may provide valid and useful data to help … High-quality observational studies can help address these gaps. … and if so, there is explicit consideration of the potential usefulness of observational studies to help … consideration of the potential for these biases in the body of relevant observational studies will help … sources and designs of studies used in pharmacoepidemiology and in device and procedure registries can help

1734. Smoking-Pregnancy-Infants Executive (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2014 - and purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help … They include advice and counseling, self-help materials, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), antidepressants … While both goals are important, identifying the specific underlying rationale for a study can help in

1735. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health (pdf file)
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      March 05, 2015 - The write up on page 27 and table on semipublic doesn’t help the reader’s knowledge.

1736. Letter of Appreciation 2013 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/letter-of-appreciation-2013.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Letter of Appreciation 2013 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 540 Gaither Road Rockv…

1737. FRN 29: Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2014 - The information in this report is intended to help health care researchers and funders of research make … and purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help … May inform and help focus future clinical trials and data collection. … May inform and help focus future clinical trials and data collection. … PCT may help identify etiology. Gilbert DN.

1738. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/tinnitus_research-protocol.pdf
      February 22, 2012 - population (50 million people) experience tinnitus to some extent, with up to 16 million seeking medical help … sensory impaired (deaf and blind) may be confused by tinnitus because visual information does not help … patients with subjective idiopathic (nonpulsatile) tinnitus who form the majority of those seeking help … sleep disorders may modulate the experience of tinnitus and direct treatment of those conditions may help …  Interventions Any treatment/therapy used to reduce/help cope with tinnitus including but not

1739. Cancer-Pancreas Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      August 09, 2013 - can locate sites metabolically active, such as malignant tumors or sites with inflammation, and may help … In addition, elucidating patients’ experience with and tolerance of various imaging modalities may help … of metastatic disease vs. localized disease) and a clear delineation of the relevant evidence would help … concern; by estimating the actual rates of the various harms of different imaging tests, a CER can help … This information will be presented in the background and discussion sections to help place the evidence

1740. Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques for the Detection of Skin Cancers (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/skin-lesions-evaluation_technical-brief.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - The information in this report is intended to help health care decisionmakers—patients and clinicians … In addition, a number of imaging modalities are emerging to help improve the diagnostic accuracy of … In a primary care setting, dermoscopy could be used primarily to help a clinician decide whether to … and non- melanocytic nevi and help monitor patients with multiple nevi. … To help increase diagnostic accuracy, EGIRTM allows for re-testing of lesions.