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461. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 24 Resident Safety Practices (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/nursing-home-safety_disposition-comments.pdf
     May 27, 2016 - Can you define a succinct set of major messages that would help your target audience? … The authors should take reasonable leaps of faith and help guide AHRQ and other readers of this report … Clinical staff is challenged to use evidence-based practices that help them strike a balance between … a home (safety to prevent falls and infections) assistance to minimize functional loss and proving help … Pressure ulcers-- Again the NPUAP guidelines would help summarize what is known and where the gaps are

462. Depression-Postpartum-Screening Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/depression-postpartum-screening_executive.pdf
     May 01, 2013 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … Test Guide).8 Input From Stakeholders During the topic refinement stage, we solicited input to help … Harms outcomes were framed to help identify adverse events (e.g., stigmatization, decreased quality … terms of risk of bias and concerns regarding applicability, with associated signaling questions to help … uncertainty based on the available literature and used a modified value-of-information approach to help

463. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mass-casualty-events-scarce-resources_executive.pdf
     June 01, 2012 - and purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help … To help Federal, State, and local policymakers, providers, and interested members of the public address … Numerous studies included in the review provide evidence on a range of strategies intended to help providers … Key Findings There is limited evidence to help policymakers select the most effective strategies to

464. Research White Paper: A Framework To Facilitate the Use of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses in the Design of Primary Research Studies (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/primary-research-design_research.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - The information in this report is intended to help health care researchers and funders of research make … improve the scientific rigor of these evidence reports, AHRQ supports empiric research by the EPCs to help … and purchasers; as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help … The overall aim is to help reduce proposals that are redundant on the basis of existing research; help … Aim of Study We therefore aimed to develop a pragmatic framework to help researchers use findings from

465. #05 DEPRESSION (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/05_depression_potential_high_impact_2012-12-10.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … This, in turn, might help reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health care. … emotional support and resources because they understand the experience of war, which, in turn, may help … Servicemembers and veterans use programs to help each other overcome stigma. [internet]. … Available: http://www.usmedicine.com/articles/servicememb ers-and-veterans-use-programs-to-help-each

466. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Analgesics for Osteoarthritis—An Update of the 2006 Report. (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/osteoarthritis-pain-disposition-120516.pdf
     October 01, 2011 - their quality, it would have been helpful to have additional comments on quality of each study to help … all the findings that points out the difficulty in indentifying the quality of trials that would help … This can help clinicians do the CV/GI tradeoff a bit better which can be improved. … you with a study we performed with chondroitin sulphate which interesting results I believe would help … I hope you find this study of your interest and could help you in the review you are performing, please

467. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/arthritis-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
     June 01, 2015 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Physical therapy is included in any treatment plan to help patients maintain upright posture and spinal … Acceptance and adoption: Clinicians are likely to accept lesinurad as a new option to help patients … could reduce lesinurad adoption.34,35 Patients would likely accept a new treatment option that could help … needed.42-44 Acceptance and adoption: Clinicians are likely to accept secukinumab as a new option to help

468. 2017 Letter of Appreciation to Peer Reviewers (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2017-letter-of-appreciation_corrected.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - 2017 Letter of Appreciation to Peer Reviewers Letter of Appreciation We sincerely thank the 142 Peer Reviewers who completed reviews for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) Program in 2017. Peer reviewers donate substantial time and effort to complete insightful and …

469. Letter of Appreciation 2016 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/letter-of-appreciation-2016.pdf
     January 01, 2016 - Letter of Appreciation 2016 Letter of Appreciation We sincerely thank the 145 Peer Reviewers who completed reviews for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) Program in 2016. Peer reviewers donate substantial time and effort to complete insightful and rigorous critiq…

470. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/topic-refinement.ppt
     March 01, 2010 - Roles of Key Informants Key informants (stakeholders) serve a variety of important functions: They help … They provide context to help discern content areas and applicability. … First, they help formulate key questions that address real-world dilemmas, not simply questions of interest … Second, they provide context to help discern content areas and applicability. … Key informants can also help identify important outcomes or information that may affect decisionmaking

471. Disposition of Comments Report for Serum Free Light Chain Analysis for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Plasma-Cell Dyscrasias (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/plasma-cell-dyscrasias-sflc-assay_disposition-comments.pdf
     August 23, 2012 - SFLC assay to traditional testing would increase the diagnostic accuracy of PCD or whether it would help

472. Disposition of Comments for CER 176 Management of Gout (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gout-management-disposition-160721.pdf
     March 15, 2016 - I was surprised by the finding that HLA-B5801 did not help stratify patients at increased risk for allopurinol … The sentence is not that it did not help, but rather whether studies have stratified results based … lossy” in that there is probably readily available information in the existing studies which would help … A clear definition of what will be considered chronic gout in this review would help. … A couple of sentences of explanation might help a little bit.

473. Disposition of Comments for Evidence Report 220 Health Information Exchange (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/health-information-exchange-disposition-160504.pdf
     December 15, 2015 - National policy can help individual users, but funding, regulations, etc would have more impact on the … Nice use of tables to help summarize. Thank you. … So again, clear definitions among the kinds of HIEs you examine would help Thank you. … The study itself is somewhat focused and could use a few more examples to more readily help the end … But would help a lot to include some examples to compare and contrast with the classic HIE.

474. Future Research Needs for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/child-obesity-future_research.pdf
     March 31, 2010 - 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 … This will help us learn how different groups may respond differently to the same intervention, and help … We expect that this report will help researchers to develop studies evaluating the Key Questions identified … This will help learn how different groups may respond differently to the same intervention, and help

475. Finding Evidence for Comparing Medical Interventions (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-finding-evidence_methods.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - These approval documents—which can be found at Drugs@FDA.gov—may help identify publication bias even … The results of the pilot search can be used to help resolve questions about the boundaries of the key … Although the use of limits such as date ranges or age ranges may help improve the efficiency of the … structures for communication and dissemination of techniques intended to identify best practices that will help

476. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tonsillectomy-disposition-170415.pdf
     January 17, 2017 - Key points help to provide a nice summary prior to details. Thank you for your comments. … ES-12, line 38: In discussing steroids it would again help to state whether on not they had any impact

477. 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?

478. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-grading-strength_methods.pdf
     July 01, 2009 - Reviews (CERs), like systematic reviews in general, are essential tools for summarizing information to help … Consequently, discrepant, contradictory, or variable ratings may arise, and results may not be of practical help … GRADE uses an algorithm to help reviewers to be clear about how they consider domains to produce the … For these reasons, EPCs should also present information that will help decisionmakers judge the risk

479. Case-Management Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/case-management_executive.pdf
     January 01, 2013 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … Case managers can help surmount these problems, but the role of the case manager is complex.

480. Topic 0589 Cleaning and Monitoring of HAIs NSD SJ Clean (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND-0718-140819.pdf
     March 11, 2013 - . § A technical brief by AHRQ may help to shift the focus of research to more patient-centered outcomes