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281. Managed Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 18, 2018 - Technical Brief Archived January 15, 2015 Relationship Between Use of Quality Measures and Improved

282. Proposals for a Phased Evaluation of Medical Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 1969 - from the test: In what ways, to what extent, with what frequency, in which patients is health outcome improved … power calculations, and suboptimal reporting. 30-33 Design, conduct, and reporting can and should be improved … decisions about testing is how much net gain from testing there will be for the patient in terms of improved … outcome measures, as Guyatt proposed. 3 Running randomized trials of tests and collecting evidence of improved … This process may be repeated as the technology is improved or modified for new uses.

283. Practice-Based Interventions Addressing Concomitant Depression and Chronic Medical Conditions in the Primary Care Setting | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Conclusions Collaborative care interventions improved outcomes for depression and quality of life in

284. Efficacy and Safety of Screening for Postpartum Depression | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - was low to moderate strength of evidence that screening resulted in decreased depressive symptoms and improved

285. Primary Care Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - women with irregular menses, metformin, metformin with exenatide, and a tricyclic oral contraceptive improved

286. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program Research Gaps Summary: Pain Management | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2023 - Improved recruitment is needed for older adults, individuals with pain-related diseases and chronic pain

287. Screening, Behavioral Counseling, and Referral in Primary Care to Reduce Alcohol Misuse | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Interventions improved some utilization outcomes (e.g., hospital days and costs: low SOE).

288. Drug Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults: An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Combination therapy of biologic DMARDs plus methotrexate improved clinical response rates and functional

289. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Comparative Effectiveness of Medication Adherence Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - prescribed by their health care providers.” 3 (p. 487) In the same sense that health outcomes may be improved … by enhancing provider implementation of best practice guidelines, they may also be improved by helping … of 61 trials of individual-level programs to improve medication adherence, 11 the effect size for improved … Is improved medication adherence associated with improvement in patient outcomes? … Is improved medication adherence associated with improvement in patient outcomes?

290. Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Anticoagulant Use in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2024 - Most telemedicine interventions to prevent adverse events of anticoagulation in the ambulatory setting improved

291. Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2024 - Infection rates may be improved when IPC practices are implemented in the context of certain logistical

292. Physical Therapy for Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis Disposition of Comment Report (pdf file)
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     November 06, 2012 - In one study, low- and high-intensity exercises similarly improved function, gait, and pain. … In one study, unloader brace improved disability, composite, joint, and gait functions.” … The results indicated that aerobic exercise improved function and reduced pain independently of the … I think the key finding that no one intervention improved all outcomes should be minimized. … exercise, and ultrasound reduced pain and improved function.

293. Developing Consistent and Useful Quality Improvement Study Data Extraction for Health Systems | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2020 - However, the final revision was not significantly improved over revision one (p=0.14).

294. Improving Medication Safety in High Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Toolkit | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2019 - drugs under the prescription drug plan are appropriately used to optimize therapeutic outcomes through improved … The core components of MTM in Part D entail patient education, improved adherence to medication, determining … programs may also have other goals, depending on their patient populations (other goals may include improved … The general components of the MTM provider-based intervention visits provide a framework for improved … With improved medication reconciliation accuracy, patient safety should be increased.

295. A Bayesian Missing Data Framework for Multiple Continuous Outcome Mixed Treatment Comparisons | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - We aimed to build on existing hierarchical modeling and missing data methods to obtain novel and improved

296. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Primary Care (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - Improved recruitment is needed for older adults, individuals with pain-related diseases and chronic … Key Messages • Integrated pain management programs improved both pain and function in patients with … • Comprehensive pain management programs also improved function at multiple timeframes and pain … • Comprehensive programs also improved function and pain compared with medications alone at multiple … • Numerous studies found that packages are associated with improved asthma control, reduced symptom

297. Interventions-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1306 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Experts expected to see the program’s most dramatic effects in reduced health care costs, improved … They noted the potential for improved patient outcomes and the reduced number of hospital admissions … implemented by pharmacists who should widely accept the program due to the potential benefits to improved … adherence and ultimately improved patient outcomes.”37 Most experts opined that this intervention … Multiple experts pointed out that although evidence is limited to a single trial, its data showed improved

298. Effectiveness of Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Gut flora may be important, but improved understanding of healthy gut ecology and the complex interactions

299. Treatment of Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Conclusions Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin-based regimens improved survival in patients with

300. PCA3 Testing for the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - accuracy for positive biopsy results than tPSA elevations, but insufficient evidence that this led to improved