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2601. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions To Modify Health Care Provider Adherence to Asthma Guidelines (pdf file)
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      May 19, 2013 - supporting the use of inhaled corticosteroids but it is my impression that there is much less evidence for improvement … we would find studies that addressed KQ3, but we felt that it was important to attempt to link any improvement

2602. Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      July 30, 2015 - falls, pressure ulcers, delirium and adverse drug events all have been the subject of hospital quality improvement … medical and nursing care, care for specialized populations such as individuals with dementia, quality improvement … home medical record information about care-process delivery: implications for staff management and improvement … The Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) quality improvement program: an overview

2603. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      January 13, 2014 - References AHRQ (2012) Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy. … Iowa Hospital http://www.ihconline.org/aspx/publicreporting/iowareport.a spx Kansas City Quality Improvement … Association Missouri Hospital http://www.missourihealthmatters.com/hospital-quality/ Kansas City Quality Improvement … /top-35-drgs Ohio Department of Health Ohio Hospital http://ohiohospitalcompare.ohio.gov/ Health Improvement

2604. Renal-Artery-Stenosis Surveillance (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2012 - p=0 .016 8 Baseline LVM: RR= 1.21; p= 0.07 Independent factors associated with SBP and DBP improvement … 1.29; p=0 .016 Baseline LVM: RR= 1.21; p= 0.07 Independent factors associated with SBP and DBP improvement … change: 33±12 mL · min-1 · 1.73 m-2 (mean ± SD) to 37 ±19 mL · min-1 · 1.73m-2 at 6 months ;P= .10 Improvement … in GFR ((>10% increase ) or stabilization of renal function: 67% of treated patients Not improvement … Findings Baseline LVM: RR= 1.21; p= .07 Independent factors associated with SBP and DBP improvement

2605. Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      April 03, 2013 - Current Page Topic Timeline Sep. 6, 2011 Topic Initiated Dec. 20, 2011 Research Protocol Apr. 3, 2013 Systematic Review Jul. 31, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Systematic Review Archived April 3, 2013 Web Version…

2606. Intermittent Inhalded Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2017 - Intermittent Inhalded Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 194 Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma Executive Summary Objectives and Rationale for the Review This report summarizes a systemati…

2607. Patient-Centered-Medical-Home Executive (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2012 - Quality improvement in chronic illness care: a collaborative approach. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

2608. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2017 - 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

2609. Survey of Medicare Part D Plans’ Medication Therapy Management Programs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - Effective Health Care Research Report Number 1 Abstract Purpose: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement … Effective Health Care Research Report Number 1 Introduction In 2003, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement … The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. HR1. … Sustained improvement in drug documentation, compliance, and disease control.

2610. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - Prenatal surgery also resulted in improvement in the composite score for mental development and motor … function at 30 months (p = 0.007) and in improvement in several secondary outcomes, including hindbrain … However, based on potential reduction in VP shunt malfunction, reduction in adverse events, and improvement

2611. Autism-Adolescents Executive (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2012 - in problem behaviors may slow down or stop after youth with ASD leave high school.7 This change in improvement … unvalidated measures.47,48 Studies assessing facilitated communication noted little communication improvement … This study suggested improvement in adaptive skills and high levels of family satisfaction with services

2612. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - For both treatment groups, investigators reported that symptom improvement was greater in plasma uric … The median duration of the clinical improvement provided by PRP for knee OA was 9 months. 52 In … Researchers reported, “ACR response rates showed a trend for improvement over time (month 1-24) with … similar ACR20 [American College of Rheumatology 20% improvement in a number of different measures] … One clinical expert stated that even a 20% improvement in the condition would be a significant improvement

2613. Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2016 - discharge üü Evaluating 30-day readmission rates is important to hospitals, patients, payers, and quality improvement

2614. Goal Setting (pdf file)
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      January 11, 2017 - Goal Setting Slide 5 Goal Setting Jyoti Gupta, MPH, Senior Public Engagement Associate Public Agenda Speaker notes: This webinar is part of a large, three-year project, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and led by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Slide 6 Purposes…

2615. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2009 - Effective Health Care Topic Number: 0155 Document Completion Date: 1-11-10 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Sublingual and subcutaneous immunotherapy will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including populations, interventions, compar…

2616. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - At 1 year postsurgery, patients exhibited improvement in multiple aspects of T2DM. … population, with one health systems expert explaining “the recently completed trial suggests significant improvement … ASMBS 2009: gastric banding achieves sustained weight loss, improvement of diabetes.

2617. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2009 - Effective Health Care Topic Number(s): 0128 Document Completion Date: 6-12-09 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Self-measured blood pressure monitoring will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including populations, interventions, comparato…

2618. Epstein_Respondent_Glasgow 1 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2009 - Epstein_Respondent_Glasgow 1   Source:    Eisenberg  Center  Conference  Series  2009,  Translating  Information  Into  Action:  Improving  Quality  of   Care  Through  Interactive  Media,  Effective  Health  Care  Program  Web  site   (http://www.effectivehealthcar…

2619. Topic 0494 Tacrolimus Monitoring and Treatment Renal Transplantation NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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      March 13, 2013 - The same family of agents responsible for the improvement in early outcomes, namely the calcineurin

2620. Physical Therapy for Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis Disposition of Comment Report (pdf file)
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      November 06, 2012 - -20, Table B, for Proprioception Exercises, finding for the outcome of Strength has been listed as Improvement … Page ES-20, Table B, for E-stim, finding for the outcome of Strength has been listed as Improvement. … Scale score of <4 had a conclusive diagnostic value for patient perception of clinically significant improvement … Peer Reviewer #2 Results I think the finding reported on p. 16 regarding the clinically important improvement … proposed that “benefits from physical therapy interventions should be defined as clinically important improvement