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341. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review 133 Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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     May 27, 2014 - visits) are important because an increase in these outcomes may be an unintended consequence of measures … CMS measures 30-day readmission because there is evidence that suggests a higher proportion of early … The definitions or diagnostic criteria are appropriate for the outcome measures. … The outcome measures chosen are the relevant ones for this population. … Due to heterogeneity in scales and reporting of the measures in general, it was difficult to assess

342. S58 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - measures. … Nachega et al27 found a significant relationship between a claims-based measure of antiretroviral adherence … Construction of a refill persistence measure must also take into account the complexity of many treatment … Thus, researchers should be wary of simply selecting a single measure and mechanically applying the required … to control for co-occurring conditions.34,35 However, such indices may under-adjust, as they force weights

343. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Template for Reports Developed Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews Developing and Selecting Topic Nominations for Systematic Reviews ii Comparative Effectiveness Reviews are systematic reviews of existing r…

344. Evidence Report No. 222, Data Linkage Strategies To Advance Youth Suicide Prevention (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Social support and connectedness ● Access to lethal means All outcomes were limited to standardized measures … Summary of data systems identified for Key Question 1 Measure Yes No N/A Geographic Coverage United … risk for suicide attempt and suicide and often did not include suicidal behavior in their outcome measures … Study 3733 36 32.7(7.8) NR NR Personal Growth Class Thompson , 200015 Three group repeated measures

345. Disposition of Comments for Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - your comment Peer Reviewer #3 Methods Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures … Yes, the outcome measures – sensitivity, specificity and AUROC are appropriate. … The definitions of the outcome measures appropriate. … outside of the scope of this comparative effectiveness review Public comment/ Pfizer Methods To measure … The value of screening must be used to measure a more important and valuable outcome, preventing early

346. Developing and Selecting Topic Nominations for Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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347. Disposition of Comments for Treatments for Fibromyalgia in Adult Subgroups (pdf file)
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     January 26, 2015 - The use of all known FMS criteria and standard FMS outcome measures were appropriate. … information from the entire review process is provided in Table 12- Strength of Evidence, which gives a measure … We did not add this reference on how best to measure outcomes changes in chronic pain since that is … older groups--I have used the Late Life Function and Disability Index to capture a more accurate measure … We did not add a discussion of functional measures which is beyond the scope of this project.

348. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - infection two to four decades earlier.8,9 HCV without cirrhosis is associated with worse quality of life measures … provided (usually sample size, prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity) and compared calculated measures … The AUROC, which is based on sensitivities and specificities across a range of test results, is a measure … dropouts and have low dropout rates; use appropriate methods for preventing bias; and appropriately measure … may have importance not only in terms of individual clinical outcomes, but also as a public health measure

349. Crosscutting-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1506 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - It reportedly predicts surgical risk, characterizes overall health, and objectively measures frailty … together in clinical trials exclusively to provide clinical investigators worldwide the ability to measure … It reportedly predicts surgical risk, characterizes overall health, and objectively measures frailty

350. Disposition of Comments for CER 160 Binge Eating Disorder (pdf file)
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     December 09, 2015 - Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for Binge Eating to Support Use in Clinical Trials as a Measure … Both studies utilized the gold standard assessment measure (EDE) to determine the same primary outcomes … The outcome measures (behavioral=binge eating, weight, and psychological) are entirely appropriate. … overall b/c of lack of reporting of baseline differences, especially use of medications; also no measure … Therapeutic: non-therapist led CBT using similar methods and outcomes measures C.

351. Glaucoma-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - for the analysis of primary studies, including the assessments of heterogeneity, reporting bias, measures

352. Obesity (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Body mass index (BMI), a measure of an individual’s weight relative to his or her height (kg/m2), is … significantly correlated to an individual’s body-fat percentage and is used as a measure to determine … behavior modification program in adults with BMI of 30–40 kg/m2 for whom more conservative weight measures … other obesity drugs are available, several experts cited liraglutide’s potential to improve some measures … (T2DM).2 However, a treatment gap exists between invasive bariatric surgery and more conservative measures

353. #05 DEPRESSION (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2014 - researchers use Child Depression Rating Scale (CDRS) scores as a primary intervention assessment measure

354. Disposition of Comments Report for Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Unlike medications, a subject does not just measure glucose and realize benefits or risks. … (I did not see that for the JRF study- which cited improved QOL for glycemic control and socal scales … In a broader view, all of the tools measure some aspect of quality of life. … While agreeing that the separate measures do all measure some aspect of quality of life, they each … measure different domains and have been verified in different settings.

355. Guidance for the Conduct and Reporting of Modeling and Simulation Studies in the Context of Health Technology Assessment (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Sometimes “utility” is defined as a “cardinal measure of the strength of one’s preference.”94-96 … for variables in the model (e.g., treatment effects, transition probabilities, costs, and utility weights … studies of interventions, estimates of treatment effects and other inputs (together with corresponding measures … For example, inconsistency in network meta-analyses can indicate the presence of effect measure modification … Calibrating models in economic evaluation: a comparison of alternative measures of goodness of fit,

356. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Patient and Family Engagement (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2023 - Utilization of healthcare services (focusing on the main utilization measure reported in the study … allergies; diagnostic laboratory test orders and results; current diet; vital signs; glucose levels; weights … Length of stay: an appropriate quality measure? … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/measure-fall-rates.html … Person and Family Engagement TOOLKIT: A Guide for Measure Developers.

357. Microsoft Word - Comparative_Effectiveness_Research_Review_Disposition_of_Comments_Report_Final_120710_refs_delinked1.docx (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2010 - Varied instruments were used for different children to measure outcomes for the same domain. … Strength of evidence is a measure of our confidence in the results currently observed. … We do not intend to imply that within group change is a measure of treatment effect. … because it can be argued that many different interventions distally focus on skills that impact these scales … skills various treatments tend to directly address (i.e., proximal measures) and do not measure the

358. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Analgesics for Osteoarthritis—An Update of the 2006 Report. (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2011 - The appendixes were helpful in understanding some of the methods and measures used to rate studies.

359. Options for Developing a Repository of Expired Patient Registries | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2019 - Registries collect additional information that is typically not contained in claims records, such as measures … Information should be available in the repository as to whether the data were subject to quality measures … and, if so, what measures. … An important point to include in dataset information is what quality control measures, if any, were used … In addition, storing registry data requires appropriate levels of security measures based on the types

360. Disposition of Comments Report for Treatments for Ankyloglossia and Ankyloglossia With Concomitant Lip-Tie (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2015 - Abstract vii (6 of 274), line 30: Future studies could provide additional data to confirm or change the measure … problem with the studies of articulation and speech is that when intelligibility was assessed, this measure … Measures of intelligibility should be made based on published protocols for ways to assess it. … I'm concerned that maternal report of pain is being discounted as a valid measure. … Pain scales are commonly used in medical research.