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December 01, 2019 - Question 2 on comparative effectiveness, if meta-analysis is appropriate, we will compute effect sizes and measures … reason that we will consider sensitivity and specificity together for a single grade is that the two measures … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome?
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December 01, 2024 - effective these strategies are; increase understanding of implementation and sustainment; identify measures … What reliable, valid, clinically meaningful, and/or patient-centered measures and metrics are available … Are the measures or metrics specific to characteristics; level of complexity; or the structure, process … What are the gaps in measurement and what are the implications for our current ability to measure and … of clinician time use Population/community/clinic panel health outcomes: BH-related preventive care measures
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity-horizon-scan-high-impact-1412.pdf
December 01, 2014 - Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of an individual’s weight relative to his or her height
(kg/m2). … BMI is significantly correlated to an individual’s body-fat percentage and is used as a
measure to … 56 weeks of treatment, patients taking the
drug had statistically significant improvements in all measures
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/disparities-quality-improvement_executive.pdf
August 01, 2012 - To measure potential changes in disparity between patient
groups, studies had to include a target and … Paper Selection Process
We included studies that captured health outcome
measures and/or process measures … outcomes
such as blood pressure and HbA1c); process measures (e.g., proportion of patients treated … Inclusion of a target group and an internal or external referent group to measure changes in disparities … In addition, they were required
to provide data that could be used to measure a disparity
before and
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March 08, 2012 - Development and testing of a new measure of health status for
clinical trials in rhinoconjunctivitis … • Were outcome measures clearly valid, reliable, and equally applied to treatment
groups?
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September 01, 2015 - Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision
AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System
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September 01, 2015 - Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision
AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System
Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual
September 2015 Revision
Prepared for:
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
540 Gaither Road…
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/methods-guidance-harms/methods
May 01, 2020 - and harms of an intervention are usually very different in character and are measured on different scales … applicability (study populations, interventions, or settings)
Differences in methods used to define or measure
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August 04, 2022 - effective these
strategies are; increase understanding of implementation and sustainment; identify measures … What reliable, valid, clinically meaningful, and/or patient-centered
measures and metrics are available … Are the measures or metrics specific to characteristics; level of complexity; or the
structure, process … What are the gaps in measurement and what are the implications for our current ability to
measure and … emergency care or inpatient care for behavioral
health crises
• Total health care utilization
Measures
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/mental-health-children_research-protocol.pdf
December 11, 2015 - to cases
that demonstrated a statistically significant difference between arms for at least
one measure … improvement, to cases that demonstrated a
statistically significant difference between arms for at least one measure
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/insomnia_disposition-comments.pdf
December 30, 2015 - Removed ‘a more comprehensive sleep measure’. … The relevant population for our review was
community-dwelling adults. … included, but no objective
measures. … greatly appreciated by clinicians who often struggle to
understand what changes in scores on research scales … measures.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/colorectal-surgery-preparation/research-protocol
December 01, 2019 - 43.9%), followed by diverticulitis (30.4%) and inflammatory bowel disease (4.5%). 3 As a precautionary measure
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November 01, 2013 - GRADE Approaches to Evaluating Evidence
The EPCs’ strength of evidence approach is based in large measure … For example, studies in a review may use a variety
of scales to measure the same outcome, and those … Moreover, some or all of such scales may not have been
subjected to reliability or validity testing. … Thus, EPCs may not be able to determine a meaningful
threshold across scales with different measurement … because of potential problems in their interpretation and lack of
statistical power.45,46 No single measure
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August 01, 2019 - bias by utilizing blinding, randomization, control conditions, and a priori decisions about outcome measure … n-of-1 trials testing the same intervention and conducted in similar patients with identical outcome measures … In addition, HHS is committed to taking every appropriate opportunity to measure and improve the quality … such as Crohn's or ulcerative colitis manifest a set of symptoms that are not always correlated to measures … A researcher at the hospital designs a two-armed study to measure quality-of-life outcomes alongside
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December 01, 2022 - achieve long periods of nonproblematic drinking. 26-30 As a result, research has used other outcomes to measure … the effectiveness of treatment, which can be subsumed under the concept of harm reduction. 31 These measures … analysis was used, method of handling dropouts and missing data, validity and reliability of outcome measures … If we combine multiple scales (e.g., different scales to measure quality of life) in one meta-analysis … We will grade the strength of evidence for alcohol-consumption measures, accidents, injuries, quality
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/racial-disparities-health-healthcare-protocol.pdf
January 06, 2022 - algorithm-informed healthcare decision tools commonly
include clinical and sociodemographic variables and measures … purposes of this project, we define disparities as differences between racial/ethnic
populations in measures … and addressing other types of variables
that could introduce bias leading to disparities, such as measures … development and validation methods, and report data when available on sensitivity,
specificity, and similar measures … forecasting'/exp/mj OR scale:ti,kw OR
scales:ti,kw OR instrument*:ti,kw OR index*:ti,kw OR indices:ti,kw OR measure
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/lung-cancer-staging_research-protocol.pdf
December 08, 2014 - 2 on comparative effectiveness, if meta-analysis is appropriate, we will
compute effect sizes and measures … reason that we will consider sensitivity and specificity together for a single
grade is that the two measures … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured?
18. … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome?
19.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/hypertension-pulmonary-arterial/research-protocol
December 01, 2019 - As with initial diagnosis, right heart catheterization is used to measure pulmonary arterial pressures … more information to help refine individualized care for patients with PAH, and help define outcome measures … pharmacotherapy versus another pharmacotherapy
Monotherapy versus combination therapy
Outcome Measures … as mortality and functional class; we will, therefore, summarize these outcomes by a weighted-effect measure … of treatments considered to be supportive therapy), and clinical relevance and timing of the outcome measures
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/alcohol-misuse-drug-therapy_executive.pdf
January 27, 2012 - As a result, research has used other outcomes
to measure the effectiveness of treatment, which can be … subsumed under the concept of harm reduction.21 These
measures include significant increases in abstinent … difference (95% CI) was not statistically significant, so we did not calculate an NNT, or that the effect
measure