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401. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/osteoarthritis-knee-update-executive-170505.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - The goals of treatment for OA of the knee include relief of pain and inflammation, and improvement in … Therefore, a lack of effect might simply reflect the limits of possible improvement over that from … Reported outcomes need to include the percent of participants who experience improvement as well as … Is there a dose response relationship between weight loss and symptom improvement in persons with knee … Minimum clinically important improvement and patient acceptable symptom state in pain and function

402. Research Protocol: Improving Cultural Competence To Reduce Health Disparities for Priority Populations (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cultural-competence_research-protocol.pdf
     July 09, 2014 - leadership, workforce; communication and language assistance; organizational engagement, continuous improvement

403. Goal Setting (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/delilberative-methods-design-gupta.pdf
     May 29, 2025 - 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…

404. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/opioid-chronic-pain-surveillance-report-2.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - placebo, short-term pain Opioids associated with small improvement in short-term pain • SOE: High … , based on 44 to 71 RCTs 1 small (n=40) new RCT4 found tapentadol associated with moderate improvement … placebo, short-term function Opioids associated with small improvement in short-term function • … Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency … Sleep Disturbance Predicts Less Improvement in Pain Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of the SPACE Randomized

405. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/osteoarthritis-knee-future_research.pdf
     February 01, 2013 - efficacious when supervised by a physical therapist and typically resulted in a clinically meaningful improvement … no high quality observational studies or administrative databases analyses suggesting significant improvement … Prognosis (including plan of care)–Determination of level of optimal improvement and interventions, … randomly assigned to either exercise alone or multimodal program and followed over time to determine improvement … no high quality observational studies or administrative databases analyses suggesting significant improvement

406. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/antibiotics-respiratory-infection_executive.pdf
     January 01, 2016 - Improvement in patient symptoms, speed of improvement. … Evidence on symptom improvement was conflicting, with slightly longer duration of symptoms (N = 3 RCTs … Relative: RR range, 0.69 to 0.17 (5 RCTs) SOE: Moderate No evidence Conflicting evidence on symptom improvement … There were no differences in return clinic visits or rate of improvement of symptoms. … of Pediatrics), patient and family education for uncomplicated acute bronchitis (Michigan Quality Improvement

407. Physical Therapy for Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis Disposition of Comment Report (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/arthritis-knee-physical-therapy_disposition-comments.pdf
     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

408. Sleep-Apnea Surveillance (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/sleep-apnea_surveillance.pdf
     April 01, 2012 - Three assessed sleepiness and found an improvement. … Two RCTs assessed neurological or neurocognitive outcomes, only 1 showed an improvement. … Quality of life was assessed in 1 RCT, no improvement was reported. … A statistically significant improvement in AHI was observed in the MAD group compared with the surgery … A statistically significant improvement in AHI was observed in the MAD group compared with the surgery

409. Methods Research Report: Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/linking-evidence-reviews-methods_0.pdf
     October 01, 2018 - 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 … Task Order Officer Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and … delivery of care within a system (e.g., decision-making regarding training, patient safety procedures, improvement

410. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/urinary-incontinence-treatment_research-protocol.pdf
     September 30, 2010 - - We will prioritize clinical outcomes of continence and improvement of incontinence, quality of life … Improvement in incontinence: Reduction frequency and severity of incontinence episodes and reduction … as they were used by the authors of the original studies and with calculated rates of continence, improvement … the FDA guidelines for UI.82 In addition, we will evaluate the patients’ global report of overall improvement … We will group different definitions of continence and improvement in incontinence to have an overall

411. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/01_arthritis_potential_high_impact_2012-12-10.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - seven standardized points also revealed that patients treated with MSC had a 0.4 mm and 0.8 mm mean improvement … The median duration of the clinical improvement provided by PRP for knee OA was 9 months. 27 Autologous … 59.8% and 65.7% in the 5 and 10 mg groups, respectively) met the American College of Rheumatology 20% improvement … Researchers reported, “ACR response rates showed a trend for improvement over time (month 1-24) with … 5 or 10 mg twice daily revealed durable ACR 20, 50, and 70 responses (measuring 20%, 50%, and 70% improvement

412. Heart-Failure-Transition-Care Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/heart-failure-transition-care_executive.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - evaluating 30-day readmissions is important for certain stakeholders (hospitals, payers, quality improvement … We found that improvement in HF-specific quality of life (as measured by the Minnesota Living With … U.S. hospitals found wide variation in education, discharge processes, care transition, and quality improvement … methods for patients hospitalized with HF.15 Our findings provide some guidance to quality improvement … on Performance Measures and the American Medical Association-Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

413. Psychosocial and Pharmacologic Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/disruptive-behavior-disorder_clinician.pdf
     August 01, 2016 - . ��� Antiepileptic (divalproex) Aggression 3 (3 RCTs) 121 �� Improvement in aggression was more

414. Disposition of Comments CER 219 Antipsychotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Delirium (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/delirium-disposition-comments.pdf
     September 03, 2019 - However, one major point is that the only positive finding with respect to improvement from antipsychotics … care or hospice settings, haloperidol or second-generation antipsychotics may have slightly less improvement … The concept of "slightly less improvement in severity than with placebo" was hard to conceptualize … compared with those who received placebo in palliative care or hospice settings may have slightly less improvement

415. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_slutsky_comparing_medical_interventions.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - Accessed November 2007. 3 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2008

416. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/medical-interventions-comparing_methods.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - Accessed November 2007. 3 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2008

417. final Fibromyalgia CER protocol_3-31-14 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fibromyalgia_research-protocol.pdf
     April 03, 2014 - following suggestions were made and incorporated into the revised key questions below: 1) We added improvement … pain (Visual Analog Scale (VAS)40, Brief Pain Inventory41, McGill Pain Questionnaire42) § Symptom improvement … Revised FIQ (FIQR)44, Patient Global Impression of Change (PGI-C)45, Patient Global Impression of Improvement … of drugs or interventions KQ 2 KQ 1 Final health outcomes § Overall pain § Symptom improvement

418. Disposition of Comments for CER 178 Newer Medications for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/prostatic-hyperplasia-medications_disposition-comments.pdf
     May 26, 2016 - Indicate whether the 1.8 point improvement in mean I-PSS between combination and placebo met criterion … for clinical improvement. … My interpretation is that a 3 point improvement would be necessary to establish clinical superiority … Maybe instead they could say "While vardenfail use was associated with significant improvement in mean

419. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/ehc-presentation-quantitative-synthesis-chapter-5.pdf
     February 01, 2018 - reporting methods and results in network meta-analyses: an overview of reviews and suggestions for improvement … reporting methods and results in network meta-analyses: an overview of reviews and suggestions for improvement

420. Data Points 13: Use of Preoperative Breast MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dcis-mri-utilization_research.pdf
     August 01, 2012 - breast cancer.8-12 Nevertheless, preoperative breast MRI has not been significantly associated with improvement … MRI’s detection capabilities may contribute to surgical planning, but studies have not confirmed improvement