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1. Treatments for Ankyloglossia and Ankyloglossia with Concomitant Lip-tie | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   May 04, 2015 - Four RCTs reported improvements in breastfeeding efficacy using either maternally reported or observer … Three studies with significant limitations reported improvements in other feeding outcomes with frenotomy … Three poor-quality comparative studies noted some improvements in social concerns and gains in tongue … Conclusions A small body of evidence suggests that frenotomy may be associated with improvements in … Comparative studies reported improvements in some measures of speech, but assessment of outcomes was

2. TND-0775-150722 (pdf file)
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   May 12, 2015 - ., different dosage of the same antipsychotic) Outcome(s): Social, occupational and functioning improvements … ; improvements Topic Number(s): 0622 Document Completion Date: 05-12-15 1 http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov … ability to live independently; harms of treatments (e.g., diabetes mellitus, extrapyramidal symptoms); improvements … dosage of the same non- pharmacological treatment) Outcome(s): Social, occupational and functioning improvements … ; improvements in health-related quality of life; reductions in hospitalizations; reductions in self-harm

3. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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   July 27, 2011 - (For example, improvements in patient symptoms or problems from treatment or diagnosis.) … Improvements in primary outcomes such as growth, quality of life, functional improvements, participation … Improvements in other outcomes such as nutritional status, decreased time spent in feeding-related activities … Improvements in delivering nutrition to patients with impaired oral feeding have increased the options

4. What is the most effective therapy for a depressed patient who has not responded to an SSRI? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   March 17, 2008 - Desired Health Improvements: If you question focuses on: … Identification of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in identification or diagnosis … Treatment of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in patient symptoms or problems would

5. Should subclinical hypothroidism be treated? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   March 21, 2008 - Desired Health Improvements: If you question focuses on: … Identification of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in identification or diagnosis … Treatment of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in patient symptoms or problems would

6. My nomination is about comparing outcomes of different glaucoma treatments, particularly canaloplasty to trabeculectomy and to medical therapy alone. | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   November 23, 2008 - Desired Health Improvements: If you question focuses on: … Identification of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in identification or diagnosis … Treatment of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in patient symptoms or problems would

7. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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   March 11, 2008 - Desired Health Improvements: If you question focuses on: … Identification of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in identification or diagnosis … Treatment of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in patient symptoms or problems would

8. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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   June 19, 2008 - Desired Health Improvements: If you question focuses on: … Identification of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in identification or diagnosis … Treatment of a particular disease or condition, what improvements in patient symptoms or problems would

9. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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   June 01, 2011 - (For example, improvements in patient symptoms or problems from treatment or diagnosis.) … Improvements in preoperative tumor staging and prediction of tumor-free resection margin (local extension … the United States in 2010.* Over the last two decades multimodality treatment has led to important improvements

10. Treatments for Schizophrenia in Adults: A Systematic (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Ideally, improvements in symptoms translate to long-term, clinically relevant, positive changes in … Benefits Outcomes for Key Questions 1 and 2 • Functional – Improvements in social and occupational … Women had greater improvements than men in core illness symptoms with clozapine and in quality of life … Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) resulted in improvements in global function and quality of life ( … SGA comparisons Core Illness Symptoms: Improvements in Negative Scale Scores • Olanzapine was more

11. 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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    The learning health systems panel will generate ideas, provide feedback, make improvements, and implement

12. Autism-Update Executive (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2014 - Improvements were most often seen in cognitive abilities and language acquisition, with less robust … Children’s symptom severity often decreased during treatment, but these improvements often did not … exceeded improvements related to the impact of ameliorated anxiety itself. … Limitations of the Evidence Base Despite improvements, the existing literature still has significant … across settings and continued improvements in methodologic rigor.

13. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2020 - The antidepressant duloxetine resulted in small improvements in pain, function, and quality of life … In patients with fibromyalgia, RCTs (n=24) show small short-term and intermediate-term improvements … Anticonvulsants pregabalin and gabapentin show short-term improvements in pain and function but not … Acetaminophen did not show improvements in pain or function, across all doses (SOE: Low). … In patients with inflammatory arthritis (k=30 RCTs), NSAIDs resulted in small improvements in pain

14. Comprehensive Overview of Methods and Reporting of Meta-Analyses of Test Accuracy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 27, 2012 - Improvements were associated with reporting of using quality-item checklists to guide assessment of methodological … Over time there have been substantial improvements in the literature review, quality assessment and statistical

15. Breathing Exercises and/or Retraining Techniques in the Treatment of Asthma: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 10, 2012 - Objectives To examine evidence for whether breathing exercises and retraining techniques lead to improvements … interventions (particularly those with 5 hours or more of patient contact) achieved medium to large improvements

16. Autism-Adolescents Executive (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - There is also evidence to suggest that improvements in symptoms and improvements in problem behaviors … One longer term case series reported improvements in general symptom severity and compulsive behavior … • Some improvements in emotion recognition in treated participants; no differences in measures of … • Improvements in aggression, irritability/agitation, repetitive behavior, sensory motor behaviors … A crossover study of the opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone found no significant improvements in

17. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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    October 01, 2011 - (For example, improvements in patient symptoms or problems from treatment or diagnosis.) … Improvements in patient depressive symptoms Improvements in parenting skills Improvements in quality

18. Hit-Patient-Care Executive (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2012 - one or more components of PCC effective in improving health care process outcomes, and how do these improvements … telemedicine to tools for patient self-management, has resulted in positive, and often significant, improvements … or more components of PCC effective in improving clinical outcomes for patients, and how do these improvements … providers; patient-clinician communication; and access to medical information; and how do these improvements … While real improvements in all outcomes are the ultimate goal, standardization of core outcomes pertinent

19. Evidence Summary Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 250: Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - • Comparable THC to CBD ratio oral spray is probably associated with small improvements in pain severity … In the short term (4 weeks to <6 months), small magnitude improvements in pain severity and overall … In the short term, moderate improvements in pain severity and no effect on overall function were found … In the short-term, moderate improvements in pain severity were found with whole-plant extracted, high-THC … In order to better understand the small to moderate improvements in pain, and the complete adverse event

20. Evidence Summary Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 250: Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - • Comparable THC to CBD ratio oral spray is probably associated with small improvements in pain severity … In the short term (4 weeks to <6 months), small magnitude improvements in pain severity and overall … In the short term, moderate improvements in pain severity and no effect on overall function were found … In the short-term, moderate improvements in pain severity were found with whole-plant extracted, high-THC … In order to better understand the small to moderate improvements in pain, and the complete adverse event