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1921. Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Programs for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - and funders of research make well-informed decisions in designing and funding research and thereby improve … and technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve … purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help improve … Potential to improve decisionmaking for patient or provider, by decreasing uncertainty. … To improve staff competencies on new or novel assessments of the TBI patient population NCT01132898

1922. Surgical Options for Inguinal Hernia: Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      August 17, 2012 - Conclusions Patients, families, and providers can use this evidence review to improve decisionmaking

1923. Defining the Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement in Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 18, 2014 - become a routine part of the systematic review process, allowing the program to begin to explore how to improve

1924. Communication and Dissemination Strategies To Facilitate the Use of Health-Related Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      November 20, 2013 - evidence, impedes timely clinician, patient, and policymaker awareness, uptake, and use of evidence to improve

1925. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - Accurate initial staging of pancreatic cancer can improve decision-making about appropriate therapy,

1926. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Revisiting the State of the Science – A Summary | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      January 09, 2013 - Current Page Topic Timeline Jan. 9, 2013 Topic Initiated Jan. 9, 2013 Systematic Review Closing the Quality Gap Series: Revisiting the State of the Science – A Summary Systematic Review Archived January 9, 2013 Download Main Document PDF 217.3 KB This report is available in PDF only [ Full Report (2…

1927. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Surveillance (pdf file)
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      October 29, 2012 - contrast to the original CER, the finding from one RCT demonstrated that magnetic stimulation did not improve … Darifenacin needed to be given to nine women in order to improve UI in one woman (Table 7).

1928. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - Reports from observational studies suggested that helminths might prevent or improve UC by inducing … No effective treatments are available to improve long-term nutritional absorption other than intestinal … If the patient does not improve after 3–5 days, colectomy (i.e., surgical removal of the colon) can … Early results of TSO are encouraging; however, larger trials will be needed to improve patient and … A reduction in PN might significantly improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

1929. Hepatitis-C-Treatment-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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      September 22, 2011 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 91 Interventions To Improve Patient Adherence to Hepatitis … Therefore, efforts are needed to improve treatment adherence in HCV. … The BIC program was designed to improve patient adherence. … Almost all included studies measuring adherence showed that interventions tended to improve adherence … Interventions To Improve Patient Adherence to Hepatitis C Treatment: Comparative Effectiveness.

1930. Mental-Illness-Heart Executive (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2013 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 105 Interventions To Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors … The review was designed to evaluate strategies to improve CVD risk factors in adults with SMI. … To prioritize interventions for review, we examined published systematic reviews of strategies to improve … Project Title:Strategies to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors in People With Serious Mental Illness … Interventions To Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors in People With Serious Mental Illness.

1931. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - Effective Health Care Topic Number: 0343 Document Completion Date: 3-23-11 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Peripheral artery disease (PAD) will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including populations, interventions, comparators, and out…

1932. Disposition of Comments for CER 202 Effectiveness and Safety of Bronchial Thermoplasty in the Management of Asthma (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2017 - well-written systematic review of two key question areas, the effects of allergen remediation in the home to improve … asthma and the effects of bronchial Thermoplasty, BT, to improve asthma. … We note that it did not improve in either AIR or AIR 2. … We agree that it is best to use “may improve” in describing BT’s effects in some patients with asthma

1933. Depression-Chronic-Conditions-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2012 - interest is emerging about whether treatment of common mental health conditions in primary care can improve … An emerging literature addresses whether better treatment of depression in primary care can also improve … eager to identify interventions and processes that can streamline care for multiple conditions and improve … mean any intervention that (1) targets the care process within a system of care and (2) works to improve … antidepressant medications, but they must be delivered as part of a broader systematic strategy to improve

1934. AHRQ EPC Program Launches Learning Health Systems Panel to Help Make Evidence Reports More Useful to Health Systems in Improving Patient Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      Home » News » AHRQ EPC Program Launches Learning Health Systems Panel to Help Make Evidence Reports More Useful to Health Systems in Improving Patient Care AHRQ EPC Program Launches Learning Health Systems Panel to Help Make Evidence Reports More Useful to Health Systems in Improving Patient …

1935. Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An Update of the Literacy and Health Outcomes Systematic Review of the Literature | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      January 22, 2010 - literature review examining the effects of health literacy on health outcomes and interventions to improve … Improve health outcomes? Affect the costs of health care? … Improve health outcomes and/or health care service use among different racial, ethnic, cultural, or age … "Provider and patient intervention to improve weight loss: a pilot study in a public hospital clinic. … "Pharmacist intervention to improve medication adherence in heart failure: a randomized trial."

1936. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2014 - cervical disc replacement in the absence of neurologic compromise, stating that patient symptoms can improve … However, data are limited regarding the ability of autologous MSCs to improve OA symptoms and regenerate … encouraging, the experts said, and they were cautiously optimistic about the potential of MSCs to improve … Experts were cautiously optimistic about PRP therapy’s potential to improve patient health outcomes … Mesenchymal stem cell injections improve symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.

1937. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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      August 12, 2009 - Furthermore, physicians’ ability “to recognize non-adherence is poor and intervention to improve adherence

1938. Evaluation of the AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      May 26, 2016 - the performance of the three primary functions of the Horizon Scanning System and to discern ways to improve

1939. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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      December 05, 2013 - Additionally, patients treated with Mobi-C were reported to improve more than patients treated with … Experts thought that available evidence suggests that Mobi-C may improve clinical success rates and … If Mobi-C is shown to improve outcomes enough to benefit patients and reduce the need to reoperate … Experts were cautiously optimistic about PRP therapy’s potential to improve patient health outcomes … Mesenchymal stem cell injections improve symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.

1940. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Clinician (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2016 - Conclusions There was moderate-strength evidence that acamprosate and oral naltrexone improve alcohol … medications.† Expanding awareness and access to medication-assisted treatment for AUD has the potential to improve