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21. Macular Degeneration | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 26, 2011 - Description Macular degeneration, or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is a leading cause of vision loss … Regular comprehensive eye exams can detect macular degeneration before the disease causes vision loss … Treatment can slow vision loss. It does not restore vision.

22. Hearing Disorders and Deafness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 18, 2015 - What causes hearing loss? … Certain medicines Long-term exposure to loud noise Aging There are two main types of hearing loss … Treatment or surgery can often reverse this kind of hearing loss.

23. Comparative Effectiveness of Approaches to Weight Maintenance in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - loss. … If a goal of a study is weight loss, a combination of weight loss and weight gain prevention (without … Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with prediabetes. … Weight loss during the intensive intervention phase of the weight-loss maintenance trial. … Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

24. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 01, 2021 - Weight loss and general exercise programs show medium- and longterm benefits. … infrared, or ultrasound; orthoses (knee braces, shoe inserts, or specially designed shoes); weight loss … also included single-arm and prospective observational studies that analyzed the effects of weight loss … agility training and general exercise programs for pain and function, and manual therapy and weight loss … With the exception of weight loss, agility training, and general exercise programs, few have been tested

25. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - weight loss. … □ If a goal of a study is weight loss, a combination of weight loss and weight gain prevention ( … Long-term non- pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with prediabetes. … Weight loss during the intensive intervention phase of the weight-loss maintenance trial. … Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

26. Management and Outcomes of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Diagnostic Criteria for Binge Eating Disorder and Loss-of-Control Eating Disorder or behavior … What is the course of illness of loss-of-control eating among bariatric surgery patients? … What is the course of illness of loss-of-control eating among children? … A prospective study of pediatric loss of control eating and psychological outcomes. … Grazing and loss of control related to eating: two high-risk factors following bariatric surgery.

27. Optic Nerve Disorders | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    Damage to an optic nerve can cause vision loss . … The type of vision loss and how severe it is depends on where the damage occurs. … With others, there is no treatment, or treatment may only prevent further vision loss.

28. Ptsd-Adult-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2013 - or people that arouse recollections of trauma • Failure to recall an important aspect of trauma • Loss … For binary outcomes (e.g., remission, loss of PTSD diagnosis, adverse events), we calculated risk … Relaxation PTSD symptoms 50% vs. 20% of subjects improved, p=0.04, 1 trial, N=34 Insufficient Loss of … SIT PTSD symptoms SMD, -0.14 (-0.69 to 0.41; 1 trial, N=51) Insufficient Loss of diagnosis RD, 0.18 ( … Unlike the studies of psychological treatments, which often reported loss of PTSD diagnosis as an

29. Binge-Eating Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    July 21, 2014 - distress and symptoms of depression,7 as well as excess weight gain in children and suboptimal weight loss … Diagnostic Criteria for Binge Eating Disorder and Loss-of-Control Eating Disorder or behavior Criteria … KQ 9: What is the course of illness of loss-of-control eating among bariatric surgery patients? … KQ 14: What is the course of illness of loss-of-control eating among children? … A prospective study of pediatric loss of control eating and psychological outcomes.

30. Disposition of Comments for Strategies To Prevent Weight Gain Among Adults (pdf file)
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    March 25, 2013 - Expertise on the TEP included several weight loss experts. … However, this study did NOT target weight loss. … We did not include studies of weight loss. … Notably, the authors exclude studies that focus on weight loss and weight loss maintenance yet don’t … There is a vast literature on weight loss and weight maintenance after weight loss.

31. hemorrhage-postpartum-protocol-140611 (pdf file)
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    June 11, 2014 - defining and diagnosing PPH include change in hematocrit, need for transfusion, rapidity of blood loss … Transfusion and anemia are markers for the amount of blood loss. … Loss to follow-up should be minimal for effectiveness studies. … Visually estimated and calculated blood loss in vaginal and cesarean delivery. … Measurement of blood loss: review of the literature.

32. Topic 0533 Postpartum Hemorrhage NSD FINALsj (pdf file)
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    May 15, 2013 - to each other) Outcome(s): Mortality and complications related to postpartum hemorrhage, including loss … What is the best approach to managing excessive blood loss in the postpartum period once the patient's … submit-a-suggestion-for-research/how-are-research- topics-chosen/.) § Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), defined as blood loss … § There are many possible causes for PPH, but generally PPH occurs due to one of the “four Ts”: loss

33. Management and Outcomes of Binge-Eating Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - treatments for patients with binge-eating disorder (BED) and bariatric surgery patients and children with loss-of-control … Behavioral weight loss treatment produced greater weight loss than CBT at the end of treatment but not

34. Disposition of Comments for CER 151 Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage (pdf file)
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    April 28, 2015 - If we clinically stage hemorrhagic shock by volume of blood lost, a blood loss of up to 900 ml or up … Only with the loss of up to 25% of the blood volume or approximately 1200 - 1500 ml do we observe a … The use of a blood loss definition, in which, there is mild shock (20-25% blood loss volume or 1200 … the maternal blood loss. … Visual estimation of blood loss is too imprecise to be used in research."

35. Engaging-Caregivers-Appendix-C (xls file)
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    January 08, 2024 - Is There Important Differential Loss to Followup or Overall High Loss to Followup or Missing Data?

36. Lewy Body Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 31, 2020 - Dementia is the loss of mental functions severe enough to affect normal activities and relationships … and attention Hallucinations Problems with movement and posture Muscle stiffness Confusion Loss

37. Glaucoma-Treatment Surveillance (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - A new area of research that may warrant a review is that of measuring progression in visual field loss … studies addressing the secondary outcomes of change in visual acuity and change in visual field loss … Treatment for Reducing Visual Impairment • Although trabeculectomy may reduce the risk of vision loss … • Intraocular surgery rarely results in severe vision loss due to infection and/or bleeding. … • Intraocular surgery rarely results in severe vision loss due to infection and/or bleeding.

38. Management and Outcomes of Binge-Eating Disorder in Adults: Current State of the Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - The review assessed psychological interventions, behavioral weight-loss treatment, and pharmacological … frequency and increased binge- eating abstinence. † CBT has been compared with behavioral weight-loss … d Lisdexamphetimine is not indicated by the FDA for weight loss. … The FDA notes that use of other sympathomimetic drugs for weight loss has been associated with serious … restriction and increased physical activity, to promote weight loss.

39. Comparative Effectiveness of Screening for Glaucoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - million people worldwide by 2010. 1,2 Glaucoma may be classified by optic nerve damage, visual field loss … tandem to confirm diagnosis. 3 Damage is irreversible, so early detection may prevent severe vision loss … How do optic nerve damage and visual field loss vary when comparing different screening-based programs … as well as the impact of functional loss on activities of daily living ( Primary outcome ). … The proportion of participants with progression of visual field loss as defined by included studies

40. Hemorrhage-Postpartum Executive (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - RCTs addressed interventions for acute blood loss after PPH is stabilized. … Visual estimation of blood loss is too imprecise to be used in research. … Methods for estimating blood loss, when reported, varied and were limited. … Visually estimated and calculated blood loss in vaginal and cesarean delivery. … Measurement of blood loss: review of the literature.