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241. Disposition of Comments Report for Otitis Media With Effusion (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2013 - However, regarding the issue that is the most fundamental and of greatest clinical and societal concern … Some of the results could be eliminated, or presented more succinctly if word count is an issue. … Suggested change: The issue of harms/adverse events of tubes vs. … nontreatments make no difference in the long run doesn’t adequately address the important issue. … The issue of the developmental importance of the time-to-improvement is not directly discussed.

242. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - This is an interesting issue, but it was beyond our scope of work to critically assess the spin in … would be more useful if each Chapter for the key questions would begin with a description of what the issue

243. Disposition of Comments for Imaging Tests for the Staging of Colorectal Cancer (pdf file)
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     November 20, 2014 - Is it an issue for this review? How do the authors handle the different units if present? … Have the systematic reviews addressed this issue adequately? … Discussion/ Conclusion: I think that the issue about technical variation that may occur with MRI or … was distinguishing between T1/T2 and T3/T4, and on that issue, as indicated in our report, MRI and … We suggest addressing this issue.

244. Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Major Orthopedic Surgery: Systematic Review Update (pdf file)
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     June 22, 2017 - in underlying VTE rates between existing studies and clinical practice, we remain silent on the issue … Comments This report was a Herculean effort to analyze the extant literature on the important issue … We agreed that this was an important issue in regards to deriving conclusions from the network meta … Thank you TEP Reviewer #4 Discussion /Conclusio n The authors should discuss the issue raised … TEP Reviewer #4 Discussion /Conclusio n Furthermore, this issue of heterogeneity of the surgery

245. Disposition of Comments Report for Chronic Venous Ulcers: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Treatment Modalities (pdf file)
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     January 27, 2014 - However, we mentioned the expense issue in the Implications for Clinical Practice and Policy of our … The issue of patient compliance is not addressed. … This is a methodological issue that needs to be addressed in a consensus conference. … to help us establish the training programs and improve this issue. … There is a recent article in Jour Vasc Surgery addressing this issue.

246. Tool for Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - Tool for Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning Tool for Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning Accompanies Methods Report: Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive, Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence…

247. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions To Modify Health Care Provider Adherence to Asthma Guidelines (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2013 - Thank you PR #7 Introduction The introduction clearly summarizes past research on this complex issue … Issue may be related to authors handling of statistical significance versus direction of effect, but … If no data are available the importance of the issue should at least be recognized.

248. Disposition of Comments for CER 177 Agitation Aggression Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 21, 2016 - This is a key issue; most interventions of this type simply are not targeting aggression/agitation … The clinical issue is whether one should start with a non-pharmacological or pharmacological treatment … See my letter to the editor of JAMDA on this issue: Caspi, E. (2013). … We have addressed this issue in the future research needs section. … This is definitely a methodological issue relevant to many topics.

249. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2008 - Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program Comparative Effectivenes…

250. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2008 - Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program Comparative Effectivenes…

251. Disposition of Comments Report for Outpatient Case Management for Adults With Medical Illness and Complex Care Needs (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Peer Reviewer #1 General Comments The clinical usefulness of this report is the hardest issue … Regarding the issue of future research, I agree there is little use for further studies of the general … We have addressed this issue in the new Limitations of the Evidence Base section. … This leads us to our third issue: 3. … The issue is not that AHRQ has failed to define case management; rather, the problem is that a consistent

252. Disposition of Comments for CER 153 Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (pdf file)
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     October 27, 2015 - Commentator & Affiliation Section Comment Response For the radiotherapy key question 4, the issue … systematic review provides quite valuable current information for a very important public health issue … There are also a number of comments/questions that arose during review as listed below: This issue … results deserve a statement to that effect given that for some (or could argue all) biomarkers, This issue … BCG+MMC (given the issue with Figure 23 as noted above).

253. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2011 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: March 29, 2011 1 Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Project Title: Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spect…

254. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol - Management of Infantile Epilepsies (pdf file)
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     October 25, 2022 - The challenging issue of surgical outcomes is fairly addressed. … and current trends are to view as a treatment of choice and not last resort, but that is a separate issue … demarcated outside of anatomic hemispherectomy and functional hemispherotomy, which may represent a minor issue … observation and PO DPH should not be used in this population (IV for acute seizures is a different issue … vigabatrin may cause temporary vision abnormalities, but only a single pre/post study has addressed the issue

255. No Slide Title (ppt file)
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     May 29, 2025 - No Slide Title Communicating Harm and Benefits to Vulnerable Populations Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D. Mandell Professor of Health Communication and Chair Department of Communication George Mason University gkreps@gmu.edu Vulnerable populations in need of relevant health information Elderly Socio-economically deprive…

256. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life: is it a quality-of-care issue?

257. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 273_Treatment of Stages I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 20, 2024 - One example of a common issue cited by one reviewer was trying to infer noninferiority of newer interventions

258. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - The use of ECT was an issue submitted by the nominator of the topic. … In this instance timelines of harms is also not a trivial issue. … It seemed clear that the comparator groups represented an issue in some studies but then it was hard … This is both a significant omission and over simplification of the issue, which may lead to spurious … Mark Demitrack, Neuronetics Discussion Page 171: I would take issue with the statement that the

259. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - how the research question should dictate the type of data required and how to best match data to the issue … Definitions Validity assessment of key data in an investigation is an important but sometimes overlooked issue

260. Proposed Governance and Data Management Policy for the Systematic Review Data Repository (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Proposed Governance and Data Management Policy for the Systematic Review Data Repository Research White Paper Proposed Governance and Data Management Policy for the Systematic Review Data Repository Research White P…