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281. Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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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?

282. Strategies for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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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

283. Obesity (pdf file)
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     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

284. Disparities-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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     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

285. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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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?

286. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
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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: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 540 Gaither Road…

287. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
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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: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 540 Gaither Road…

288. Assessing Harms when Comparing Medical Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     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

289. Strategies for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (pdf file)
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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

290. Untitled (pdf file)
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     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

291. Disposition of Comments for CER 159 Insomnia (pdf file)
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     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.

292. Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - 43.9%), followed by diverticulitis (30.4%) and inflammatory bowel disease (4.5%). 3 As a precautionary measure

293. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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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

294. Strategies to Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

295. An Ethical Framework for N-of-1 Trials: Clinical Care, Quality Improvement, or Human Subjects Research? (Chapter 2) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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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

296. Pharmacotherapy for Adults With Alcohol-Use Disorders in Outpatient Settings: Systematic Review Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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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

297. Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare (pdf file)
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     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

298. Protocol: Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     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.

299. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     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

300. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Executive (pdf file)
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     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