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221. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 49: Evidence Map on Home- and Community-Based Services and Person-Centered Care for Older Adults (pdf file)
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     September 05, 2024 - Users still need to read the details of each quality measure. … Peer Reviewer #3 Findings In Table 3, the HCBS Quality Measure Set is not a conglomerate of measures … It is not a measure by itself. The set has not been tested for psychometric properties. … We agree that this set may not be a measure by itself. However, we included it for completeness. … Indeed, each measure can be appraised in a standalone systematic review.

222. AHRQ EPC Pilot Projects Summary: Improving Health Systems' Access to High Quality Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - Michael White, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP Quality Measure Index Assessing the Impact of Indexing … Performance Measure Codes on the Perceived Value of EPC Reports to Health Systems Nonsurgical

223. Summary Variables in Observational Research: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - Disease risk scores may also be preferable summary measures when the exposure is infrequent or consists … However, it is common to see differences in measures of risk between people exposed to different treatments … between treated and untreated individuals, the IPTW weighting approach can lead to extremely large weights … The study defines surrogate measures of cardiovascular risk factors from medical care encounters. … Conditioning on the propensity score can result in biased estimation of common measures of treatment

224. The series of articles beginning with this issue of the Journal form the most up-to-date version of the Guide for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2009 - example, to follow the principle of patient-centeredness, the Program encourages EPCs to use absolute measures … Studies that measure health outcomes (events or conditions that the patient can feel and report on, … self-reported measures of quality of life or function41 and long-term outcomes that require longitudinal … data collection to measure. … • Short-term head-to-head trials that use surrogate (efficacy) measures.

225. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2023 - Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety–related measures. … There are few publicly reported measures related to surgical patient safety. … Evaluation of the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard "Adjusted Complication Rate" Measure Specifications. … Implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in U.S. … What Is the Best Way to Measure Surgical Quality?

226. Disposition of Comments for CER 159 Insomnia (pdf file)
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     December 30, 2015 - or measure of insomnia treatment effects on function. … Removed ‘a more comprehensive sleep measure’. … included, but no objective measures. … greatly appreciated by clinicians who often struggle to understand what changes in scores on research scales … measures.

227. EPC and Health Systems Partnership Pilot Project Reports (2018) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning Assessing the Impact of Indexing Performance Measure … Systems Guidelines Development Web Interactive Presentation of EPC Reports and Mapping to Quality Measures

228. Topic 0438 Risk stratification and CAD NSD FINAL_SJ-2 (pdf file)
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     November 15, 2013 - used (exercise, vasodilators [dipyridamole and adenosine] and dobutamine) and the method used to measure

229. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements to Improve the Safety of Surgical Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - What measures or indicators have been used in surgical report cards used to examine the safety of surgical … For Review Question 2, we will focus on identifying relevant measures that are included in the Centers … for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) patient safety measures, AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators, or … the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … public representatives who are not patients or family members Intervention Any intervention intended to measure

230. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2007 - to determine clinical effectiveness or cost effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure … or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. … In choosing measurement scales for assessing patient-reported outcomes, it is preferable to use scales … • Measuring or improving quality of care, including conducting programs to measure and/or improve the … that can be confirmed by an unbiased observer—such as death, test results, and scores from validated measures

231. Evaluation and Treatment of Tinnitus: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Measures Various measures can be used to evaluate the presence and severity of the tinnitus. 9 There … Psychological grading scales can aid in the discrimination between clinically significant and nonsignificant … Visual analog scales (VASs) are well known psychometric measures of subjective attitudes and characteristics … the following changes to our KQs: KQ 1 has been amended to be inclusive of tinnitus evaluation scales … These domains were adapted from the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scales for case-control studies

232. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - data can be reported as means, mean differences, or differences in change score from baseline, and measures … topics applicable to quantitative synthesis of continuous outcomes measured in RCTs: choice of effect measures … interpretation of the standardized mean difference (SMD) and of the ratio of means (RoM) as an alternative measure

233. Registry of Patient Registries (RoPR): Overview | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2022 - Overview | Dec 6, 2019 Outcome Measures Harmonization Overview | Jan 1, 2005 Registries … Clinical Trial Registrations to Their Published Results Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure … White Paper Mar 19, 2021 Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures

234. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2008 - What are the benefits and associated costs of using hematologic measures such as percentage of hypochromic … erythrocytes or reticulocyte hemoglobin content in relation to other measures of iron metabolic status … What are the benefits and associated costs of using hematologic measures such as percentage of hypochromic … erythrocytes or reticulocyte hemoglobin content in relation to other measures of iron metabolic status … What is the most effective interval in which to measure markers of iron metabolic status to achieve

235. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health (pdf file)
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     March 05, 2015 - Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health Technical … Another measure of comprehensive information that would be more specific to the consumers’ needs. … We use the summery measure to summarize and not to say they that are equally important. b. … In box 1 (on page 4) we define what we mean when we say a cost measure: A financial measure of cost … Taxonomy Table 3: Information on value – please include more discussion of how sites define and measure

236. Updating the Framework and Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2023 - The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) presents trends for measures related … The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities covering a broad array of healthcare … Safety, Person-Centered Care, and Access to Care) Update the criteria for selecting and prioritizing measures … disparities/equity Update the criteria for evaluating benchmarking In each topic brief, pilot a sample of measures

237. Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Systematic Review Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - All other comparisons Outcomes KQs 1–3: PTSD symptom reduction (see Appendix A for a list of measures … analysis was used, method of handling dropouts and missing data, validity and reliability of outcome measures … Impact of event scale: a measure of subject stress. Psychosom Med. 1979;41(3):209-18. … PTSD outcome measures Outcome Measure Description DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical … It can be scored as a continuous measure of PTSD symptom severity.

238. Future Research Needs for the Comparative Effectiveness of Breathing Exercises and/or Retraining Techniques in the Treatment of Asthma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, and Spinal Cord Injury Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure

239. Health Outcomes of Biologic Agents for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - We will measure the size of the implementation gap (Efficacy-Effectiveness between trial and non-experimental

240. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - In consultation with the TEP, the JADAS was not selected as a priority measure. … This study focused on the most commonly used measures. … Outcome measures appropriate as are statistical methods. … The nature of the CHAQ as a disability measure has been clarified. … When testing inter-rater reliability, the same measure should be used.