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281. Disparities-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.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

282. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/allergy-seasonal_research-protocol.pdf
     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?

283. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
     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…

284. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
     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…

285. Strategies for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/strategies-integrating-behavioral-health-protocol.pdf
     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

286. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.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

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

288. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-grading-evidence_methods.pdf
     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

289. People-With-Disabilities-Draft-Report-App-E-F (xls file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/people-with-disabilities-draft-report-app-e-f.xlsx
     January 01, 2022 - self-identify as having physical disabilities, able to communicate in English, tolerate travel to centers for independent … living site Self-identified with physical disability Day center for independent living (multisite) Mean … Physical Sensory NA NA Women with disabilities, 18 years of age or older, selected through the local Independent … Living Center and the Starkloff Disability Institute in St.

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

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

292. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.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

293. Appendices (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/patient-clinician-level-strategies-appendixes-draft-tech-brief.pdf
     February 01, 2023 - ● Alternative strategy/intervention Outcomes ● Health-related outcome measures … ., disease specific morbidity and mortality, BP control, Hba1c levels) ● Process of care measures … ● Care utilization outcome measures ● Barriers to care measures ● Financial … /re-imbursement measures ● Harms (e.g., unintended negative consequences) ● Stigma … oncologist-Patient talk time ratio, oncologist patient-centered communication, self-reported measures

294. Hypertension-Pulmonary-Arterial Research-Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hypertension-pulmonary-arterial_research-protocol.pdf
     January 30, 2013 - 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 … mortality and functional class; we will, therefore, summarize these outcomes by a weighted-effect measure … treatments considered to be supportive therapy), and clinical relevance and timing of the outcome measures

295. Integrating Palliative Care in Ambulatory Care of Non-Cancer Serious Chronic Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/palliative-care-integration/protocol
     January 10, 2020 - Prediction tools for potential life-shortening illness include measures such as the Palliative Performance … 7 Triggers could include health care utilization such as hospitalizations, or patient-reported measures … eligibility criteria, interventions and their characteristics, details about their implementation, outcome measures … and the method of ascertainment, and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability. … self-care, identification of at-risk populations, a feedback loop between patients and care providers, measures

296. Mixed MethodsReview -Integrating Palliative Care with Chronic Disease Management in Ambulatory Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/palliative-care-research-amended-protocol.pdf
     November 21, 2019 - Prediction tools for potential life-shortening illness include measures such as the Palliative Performance … 7 Triggers could include health care utilization such as hospitalizations, or patient-reported measures … eligibility criteria, interventions and their characteristics, details about their implementation, outcome measures … and the method of ascertainment, and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability … self-care, identification of at-risk populations, a feedback loop between patients and care providers, measures

297. Venous-Ulcers-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/venous-ulcers-treatment_executive.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - We included pain and quality of life outcome measures in our evaluation. … (e.g., definitions, results, measures of variability). … The studies did not measure quality of life, functional status, or pain. 17 Table F. … , and no studies assessed quality of life using standard or validated scales. … surgical approaches, the vast majority of studies are uncontrolled case series or studies that did not measure

298. 8 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_chou_assessing_harms_when_comparing.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - 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

299. 8 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - 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

300. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 240: Treatments for Acute Pain: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-240-acute-pain-revised-comments.pdf
     December 29, 2020 - The current system that measures MME is flawed. … Trying to “standardize” pain scales across studies (in order to somehow combine results) by converting