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101. Liver Function Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     Liver function tests measure certain proteins, enzymes, and substances, including: Albumin, a protein … Prothrombin time, which measures how long it takes for your blood to clot.

102. Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) (pdf file)
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     December 28, 2023 - How should the current NHQDR measure selection prioritization criteria be updated? … How should the new NHDQR measure selection prioritization criteria be applied? III. … the importance of selecting measures, suggesting measures only for individual clinical areas or … regarding the procedural effort to obtain measures, evidence of content validity for the measure selection … Quality Indicator" [Title/Abstract] OR "Healthcare Quality Indicators" [Title/Abstract] OR "quality measure

103. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - • Health-related quality of life as measured by absenteeism, presenteeism, the SF-36 or other scales … • Maintenance of weight within same BMI category as the baseline measure. … • Alternative measures of weight other than weight in pounds or kilograms or BMI (e.g., waist-to-hip … The additional alternative measures of weight have variable reporting consistency, and not including … Revise this section to make it clear that the following measures are the primary measures of interest

104. Comparative Effectiveness of Approaches to Weight Maintenance in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Health-related quality of life as measured by absenteeism, presenteeism, the SF-36 or other scales. … Maintenance of weight within same BMI category as the baseline measure. … Alternative measures of weight other than weight in pounds or kilograms or BMI ( e.g., waist-to-hip … The additional alternative measures of weight have variable reporting consistency, and not including … Revise this section to make it clear that the following measures are the primary measures of interest

105. Integrating stakeholder preferences in comparative effectiveness research using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Conjoint Analysis (CA) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - The pattern of choices reveals the implicit decision weights patients attach to therapeutic benefits … response it is possible to estimate the part-worth utility of the levels and to estimate attribute weights … Extreme Slide 12 Eigenvalue to obtain criteria (Ci) and level (Li) weights (1) Clinical … The left most patient bar (representing effectiveness, response) is the Rank 1 Outcome measure for patients … and the bar representing effectiveness, remission is the Rank 1 Outcome measure for psychiatrists.

106. Comparative Effectiveness of Surgical Options for Inguinal Hernia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - This will only be used for outcomes that have a baseline measure (e.g., quality-of-life). … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? … If reported as a continuous measure, 1 week difference between groups. … To measure heterogeneity, we will use I 2 and tau. … Heterogeneity measures will be used to determine whether a meta-regression will be attempted.

107. OUTLINE (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - A quality indicator or quality measure is an agreed-upon process or outcome measure that is used to … That is, the first step identifies who to measure, steps 2-4 identify what to measure, and step 5 assesses … This will require determining appropriate weights for individual components, as well as considering … Cancer care quality measures: symptoms and end-of-life care. … Outcomes assessment in cancer: Measures, methods, and applications.

108. Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2021 - Introduction Significant variation exists in both the types and definitions of outcome measures used … A framework for creating standardized outcome measures for patient registries. … Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures. Research White Paper. … Project Timeline Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures Mar 16, 2021 … Procedures for Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure

109. Standardized Library of Depression Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - Introduction Significant variation exists in both the types and definitions of outcome measures used … Harmonized outcome measures for use in depression patient registries and clinical practice . … Standardized Library of Depression Outcome Measures. Research White Paper. … A framework for creating standardized outcome measures for patient registries. … Management of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure

110. Serum Free Light Chain Analysis for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Plasma Cell Dyscrasias: Future Research Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - assay (the Freelit™ Assay, The Binding Site Ltd., Birmingham, United Kingdom) was introduced in 2001 to measure … It detects low concentrations of FLCs and can measure the ratio of kappa chains to lambda chains.

111. Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) in Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA); and to describe selected tools commonly used to measure … No comparator was required for reports of adverse events or of the clinical outcome measure tools.

112. Introduction to N-of-1 Trials: Indications and Barriers (Chapter 1) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - between clinician and patient) or explicitly (using shared decisionmaking tools that assign specific weights … pre-existing measure cannot be found. … An interesting compromise is a validated questionnaire (e.g., Measure Your Medical Outcome Profile, or … First, should outcomes data be presented item by item (or scale by scale) or as a composite measure? … Measuring outcomes in primary care: a patient generated measure, MYMOP, compared with the SF-36 health

113. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2022 - Primary PTSD outcome measure b. … Analysis type of primary PTSD outcome measure (ITT, completer) d. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure(s) for studies that used a clinician-administered measure abstracted … as primary PTSD outcome measure l. … have been selected, on the basis of the results, from multiple eligible outcome measurements (e.g. scales

114. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Primary PTSD outcome measure b. … Analysis type of primary PTSD outcome measure (ITT, completer) d. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure(s) for studies that used a clinician-administered measure abstracted … as primary PTSD outcome measure l. … have been selected, on the basis of the results, from multiple eligible outcome measurements (e.g. scales

115. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2018 - Primary PTSD outcome measure (if not reported, assume clinician-rated PTSD measure) w. … All other outcome measures (list) x. Assessment time points for primary PTSD outcome y. … Method for handing missing data for primary PTSD outcome measure d. … Results for primary PTSD outcome measure e. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure h.

116. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2018 - Primary PTSD outcome measure (if not reported, assume clinician-rated PTSD measure) w. … All other outcome measures (list) x. Assessment time points for primary PTSD outcome y. … Method for handing missing data for primary PTSD outcome measure d. … Results for primary PTSD outcome measure e. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure h.

117. Draft Comment Form for Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2024 - Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup Aug … for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … You Might Also Like Draft Comments Dec 17, 2024 Draft Comment Form for Measure

118. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2011 - This will only be used for outcomes that have a baseline measure (e.g., quality-of-life). #6. … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? … To measure heterogeneity, we will use I 2 and tau. … Heterogeneity measures will be used to determine whether a meta-regression will be attempted. … Determining clinically important differences in health status measures: a general approach with illustration

119. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Technical-Brief (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2015 - Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … as a proxy measure for costs. … Second-phase screening  Cost measures met the following definition: A financial measure of cost, … We tightened our definition of “cost measure” to include only those Web sites reporting financial measures … Representative cost measures and definitions extracted from Web sites Measure Definition Source Charges

120. Heart Transplantation | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     Although heart transplant surgery is a life-saving measure, it has many risks.