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201. Effectiveness of Indoor Allergen Reduction in Management of Asthma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - Single intervention studies were not associated with improvement in clinical asthma outcomes, with most … Multicomponent intervention studies demonstrated improvement in various outcomes, but no specific combination

202. Technical-Brief-31-Mobile-Health-Applications-For-Self-Management-Of-Diabetes (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2018 - Director Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … two apps and statistically significant improvement using one additional app. … Usability (out of 100) Patients who used the app saw improvement in which outcomes? … Usability (out of 100) Patients who used the app saw improvement in which outcomes? … Usability (out of 100) Patients who used the app saw improvement in which outcomes?

203. Closing the Quality Gap Series: The Patient-Centered Medical Home | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Organizational learning strategies (e.g., quality improvement collaboratives 22 ), and any theoretical … These designs can yield valid evidence about quality improvement interventions. … Quality improvement strategies for hypertension management: a systematic review. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

204. Prognostic Tests (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - The net reclassification improvement (NRI) statistic is the sum of net improvement in classification … The NRI is the sum of the net improvement in classification of patients in both groups (the net improvement … of those that died plus the net improvement of those that survived). … The “continuous formulation” version of the net reclassification improvement (NRI) statistic calculates … When pooling net reclassification improvement (NRI) or integrated discrimination index (IDI) estimates

205. Prognostic Tests (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - The net reclassification improvement (NRI) statistic is the sum of net improvement in classification … The NRI is the sum of the net improvement in classification of patients in both groups (the net improvement … of those that died plus the net improvement of those that survived). … The “continuous formulation” version of the net reclassification improvement (NRI) statistic calculates … When pooling net reclassification improvement (NRI) or integrated discrimination index (IDI) estimates

206. Development and Usability Testing of EPC Evidence Review Dissemination Summaries for Health Systems Decisionmakers (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2018 - Director Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Task Order Officer Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and … Each SCN identifies priority areas of research or quality improvement initiatives within their scope … Participants also identified a few areas for improvement. … Some participants suggested areas for improvement.

207. Tinnitus Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Anxiety symptoms 141 Insufficient All groups in the study demonstrated improvement, but adding a noise … The strength of evidence is insufficient to conclude whether TRT or relaxation showed improvement in … The strength of evidence is insufficient to conclude whether relaxation showed improvement in subjective … The strength of evidence is insufficient to conclude whether relaxation or TRT showed improvement in … Despite this diversity, the overall SOE was low that CBT and coping approaches showed an improvement

208. Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2023 - The most common study themes included: implementation of quality improvement projects and investigation … characteristics (e.g., type, size), total care models such as the patient-centered medical home, and processes of improvement

209. Ankyloglossia Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - of the three RCTs, the independent blinded observers did not detect a difference in breastfeeding improvement … Outcomes that failed to show a difference in these two RCTs included percent improvement (50% vs. 40% … Mothers reported significant improvement in bottle-feeding in all eight infants who received the frenotomy … Two poor-quality cohort studies16,18 reported an improvement in articulation and intelligibility with … Two poor-quality cohort studies16,18 reported an improvement in articulation and intelligibility with

210. Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2025 - Synthetic and purified THC (high THC to CBD) may be associated with small improvement in pain severity … mean difference [MD] −0.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] −0.95 to −0.19, I 2 =39%; SOE: moderate); improvement … Synthetic and purified high THC to CBD ratio products were associated with a small improvement in pain … Pain response, defined as a 30 percent or greater improvement in pain, was reported in 10 of 37 studies … For example, the MCID for improvement in pain is 15 points on a 0 to 100 scale.

211. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 09, 2010 - Improvement in any three of these domains by 30 percent and worsening in not more than one by 30 percent … is considered to be improvement.7 Other disease scoring systems have been developed (e.g., the Juvenile … For example, many providers would not consider a 30 percent improvement to be a clinically significant … improvement. … We anticipate that studies may report dichotomous outcomes (e.g., global assessment of improvement)

212. Health Information Technology | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 03, 2023 - Report September 21, 2012 Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement

213. The Performance of Fusion Procedures for Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - with chronic low-back pain resulting from degenerative disease of the lumbar spine, does symptomatic improvement … by ODI, SF-36, or SF- 12 Harms of treatment Harms of treatment therapeutic challenge (i.e. - improvement … of symptoms vs. non- improvement of symptoms) Harms of treatment Harms of treatment TIMING

214. App-F1-Surv-Report-1-Nonopioid-Pharmacol-Chronic-Pain (xls file)
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     September 20, 2022 - on NRS 14 Short 83 167 167 Langford, 2013 Good NPP (MS) Placebo Placebo ≥30% improvement on NRS 14 … Short 77 172 172 Lee, 2020 Fair NPP (DPN/PHN) PGB/GBP Pregabalin CR ≥30% improvement on DPRS 12 Short … 93 130 176 Lee, 2020 Fair NPP (DPN/PHN) PGB/GBP Pregabalin IR ≥30% improvement on DPRS 12 Short 91 … 131 176 Lee, 2020 Fair NPP (DPN/PHN) PGB/GBP Pregabalin CR ≥50% improvement on DPRS 12 Short 62 130 … 176 Lee, 2020 Fair NPP (DPN/PHN) PGB/GBP Pregabalin IR ≥50% improvement on DPRS 12 Short 59 131 176

215. Video available for April 2024 Grand Rounds on AHRQ’s Making Healthcare Safer Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2024 - Then Elizabeth Cope, Ph.D., M.P.H., vice president of health systems improvement at AcademyHealth, moderated

216. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - used. 4 To accurately assess quality of care and provide tools for targeting and evaluating quality improvement … training, a nurse project manager and three professional nurse abstractors from Delmarva, a Quality Improvement … supportive and end-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer and to identify areas for quality improvement … Improvement in oncology practice performance through voluntary participation in the Quality Oncology … American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Consortium Measures.

217. Standardized Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2021 - Acting Director Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement … Evidence-based Practice Center Program Center for Evidence and Practice Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement … Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The HL7 Clinical Quality Improvement committee is actively harmonizing QDM and FHIR resources, and a

218. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 247_Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain: Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2021 - outcomes were pain and function, and additional outcomes were quality of life, emotional function, global improvement … Vertebroplasty was associated with a small improvement versus sham or usual care in function at 2 to … compression fracture (2 trials, N=434) was associated with large reductions in pain and moderate to large improvement … for sacroiliac pain was associated with a moderate to large reduction in pain and small to large improvement

219. The Performance of Fusion Procedures for Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2024 - with chronic low-back pain resulting from degenerative disease of the lumbar spine, does symptomatic improvement … loosening  Results are to be stratified according to patient response to therapeutic challenge (i.e. - improvement … of symptoms vs. non-improvement of symptoms) Harms of treatment No use of intraoperative monitoring

220. Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: A Systematic Review Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - However, definitions of improvement in UI vary and include different degrees of change in frequency and … Patients often define improvement as reduced lifestyle restrictions or improved overall perception of … Conversely, researchers define improvement as a decrease in the amount of UI based on objective tests … Ultimately, discussions of UI improvement are complicated by the wide variety of measures used to describe … This review will examine improvement thresholds of clinical importance in validated scales and checklists