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361. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay 1 Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay Date: 8/6/2019 Nomination Number: 866 Purpose: This document summarizes the information addressing a nomination submitted on 6/28/2019 through the Effective Health Care Web…

362. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - chronic pain, what is the comparative effectiveness of different tapering protocols and strategies on measures … Predictors of long-term use of prescription opioids in the community- dwelling population of adults … Prolonged Opioid Use After Lumbar Fusion and the Effects of Opioid Use on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures … A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling … Opioid-Related Risk Screening Measures for the Emergency Care Setting.

363. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic outcome measures can additionally be studied to understand inter-individual … observational studies are susceptible to the effects of confounding, future observational studies should measure

364. Methods-Guide-Chapter-Prioritization-And-Selection-Of-Harms-For-Inclusion-In-Systematic-Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - We categorized the harms assessed as “individual” or “composite harms;” composite harms included measures … given that the principles underlying the prioritization of outcomes are similar, whether they are to measure … Anticipated harms: (specific vs non-specific) o Unanticipated harms: difficult to say how you would measure … There is a weakness in composite measures. … Number of patients who stop treatment because of side effects is a homogeneous measure, otherwise, lumping

365. Obesity (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - 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 …  Key Expert Comments: Most experts acknowledged that a treatment gap exists between conservative measures … other obesity drugs are available, several experts cited liraglutide’s potential to improve some measures … Quality of life measures improved in the REDUCE pivotal trial.

366. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2011 - showed clinically significant symptoms, defined by referral to treatment or high scores on screening measures … reported as standardized mean differences (SMDs) whereby the difference in outcome (using continuous measures … SMD is used as a summary statistic in meta­analysis when the studies use different instruments to measure … Only recently have investigations of PBT included direct measures of ADHD symptoms and associated functional … of justifying health services, the lack of quality control regarding reliability and validity of measures

367. Cell-Free-Dna-Appendix-C (xls file)
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     September 01, 2024 - Table C-1. KQ 3,5 Char. Table C-1 Characteristics of included studies KQ 3 and KQ 5 First Author Last Name Year of Publication Citation Study Cohort Name Study Registration Number Related Publications Study Funder Country Study Design Population Narrative Age (years) Eligible Minimum Age Actual Minimum Age Eligible M…

368. Interventions-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1306 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - by 1 cm) that records the information sent from the ingestible sensor and that can also be used to measure … with the names of hospital and clinical staff to reduce risk of patient delirium; fall prevention measures

369. nnovative Methods in Stakeholder Engagement: An Environmental Scan (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Overall, the key informants highlighted the importance of measures such as selecting stakeholders that … prioritized are important Ensure that money and resources are not wasted Ensure that outcome measures … A final way to measure or evaluate stakeholder engagement, especially if it occurs online, is via usage

370. Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - flow reserve (FFR), which relies on the use of specialized catheters placed in the coronary artery to measure … Information on traditional measures of accuracy (e.g., sensitivity and specificity) of noninvasive tests … angiography with or without FFR and for comparison between noninvasive tests on traditional diagnostic test measures … reference standard Brief summary of the diagnostic accuracy, in terms of traditional test performance measures … diagnostic accuracy of noninvasive tests compared with each other, in terms of traditional test performance measures

371. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - plasma (PRP), and fat matrix, injected into the intra-articular space, improvements in several disease measures … receiving placebo.” 64 The study authors had defined the minimum clinically important change on this measure … ) with similar ACR20 [American College of Rheumatology 20% improvement in a number of different measures … The SLE responder index, the primary endpoint measure and a novel evaluation survey created for use

372. FRN 39 - Nonoperative and Operative Treatments for Rotator Cuff Tears: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - The criteria did not have weights assigned to them; stakeholder responses were thus based on an inductive … symptomatic plasma augmentation for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: a state (PASS) for visual analog scales … on outcomes measures that are most important both to clinicians and patients. … ultrasound, MRI, CT arthrogram)  Tear classification/ cuff integrity: which modality and  As outcome measure … additional measures based on specific patient populations and research questions

373. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - colleagues reported that bariatric surgery in adolescents was generally safe and improved several health measures … colleagues reported that bariatric surgery in adolescents was generally safe and improved several health measures … Patients treated with Afrezza had a 40 mL (95% CI, -80 to -1) greater decline from baseline in a measure

374. Screening and Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Methods I believe the inclusion & exclusion criteria are appropriate, the search strategies, statistical measures … & outcome measures are appropriate. … The outcome measures are listed but not individually defined in the methods. … KQ3 results which we feel addressed the reviewer’s comment: “While many studies have attempted to measure … and diagnostic criteria, the Academy has encouraged the National Quality Forum to develop quality measures

375. Disposition of comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 244: Safety of Vaccines Used for Routine Immunization in the United States: An Update (pdf file)
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     May 25, 2021 - For example, when the effect measure of interests is RR, it first computes log(RR) and its standard … Vaccine safety and surveillance measures are also included as well as the purpose and scope of the … The definitions, outcome measures and statistical methods are appropriate. … The definitions, outcome measures and statistical methods are appropriate. … The definitions for the outcome measures appropriate.

376. CERs Report cover (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2010 - Determinants of percentage and area measures of mammographic density. … Ultrasound protocols to measure carotid intima-media thickness: a post-hoc analysis of the OPAL study … The use of preventive measures among healthy women who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.

377. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 44: Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2024 - of primary care spending, not just more standardized measures. … and different measure features with outcomes. … It might be worth explicitly calling out the possibility of gaming different measures, and which measure … and extent of variation in the decisions made for each of those dimensions in existing measures. … Different measures simply reflect that primary care means different things to different people Our

378. Comparative Effectiveness of Medications in Patients with Epilepsy (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - Peer Reviewer #2 Methods “We also considered measures of heterogeneity from our meta- analyses in … some instances the order in which the performance of PB, LEV and LTG are listed on various cognitive measures … some instances the order in which the performance of PB, LEV and LTG are listed on various cognitive measures … those taking concomitant medications); additional studies are indicated examining pharmacokinetic measures

379. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 22 Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     August 10, 2015 - It provides a similarly thorough discussion of methods to measure cleanliness. … These are actually the only studies which objectively document an outcome measure in an endemic setting … We have noted that some disinfectants interfere with the ATP measure. … Given paucity of clinical outcomes and the numerous factors leading to infection, I don’t how measures … raises an important fact and perhaps we should also name the stakeholders needed to commonly agree on measures

380. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Anticoagulant Use in Adults (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harm associated with anticoagulant … Contextual information • Rationale for PSPs • Patient safety measures or indicators • Toolkits and … What Patient Safety Measures or Indicators Have Been Used To Examine the Harm Associated With Anticoagulant … The most important patient safety measure to assess the harm associated with anticoagulant use is the … Different authors used different scales for assessing risk of bias; therefore, the same study may have