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261. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - may have questionable elements (e.g., the WALT as an ethical/legal document is open to question), scales … completed by or with patients or caregivers…” The SCID, and delirium and respiratory distress observation scales … Thank you for the comment that many of these scales have multiple versions. … We have now noted this in the limitations of the review: “Finally, some scales noted in the review … Measures of integration: There are no standard tools but a measure of integration between palliative

262. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - may have questionable elements (e.g., the WALT as an ethical/legal document is open to question), scales … completed by or with patients or caregivers…” The SCID, and delirium and respiratory distress observation scales … Thank you for the comment that many of these scales have multiple versions. … We have now noted this in the limitations of the review: “Finally, some scales noted in the review … Measures of integration: There are no standard tools but a measure of integration between palliative

263. Microsoft Word - Comparative_Effectiveness_Research_Review_Disposition_of_Comments_Report_Final_120710_refs_delinked1.docx (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2010 - Varied instruments were used for different children to measure outcomes for the same domain. … Strength of evidence is a measure of our confidence in the results currently observed. … We do not intend to imply that within group change is a measure of treatment effect. … because it can be argued that many different interventions distally focus on skills that impact these scales … skills various treatments tend to directly address (i.e., proximal measures) and do not measure the

264. Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Patients With Stage II Colon Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - New assays that measure RNA to detect tumor cells are also beyond the scope of this report. … Analytic validity relates to the reliability and validity of the test itself, that is, does it measure … GEPs measure the activity or “expression” of multiple genes in a single RNA sample, which may reflect … Various methods exist to measure gene expression, including the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain … Analytic validity: How accurately and reliably the test measures the genotype of interest. 14 Clinical

265. Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide: 4th Edition | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2020 - while others have added patient-centered outcomes, such as patient-reported outcomes or other outcome measures … toward data standards and includes a new chapter on using common data elements and standardized outcome measures … Emissions Associated With Products, Processes, and Waste Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure … White Paper Mar 19, 2021 Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures … White Paper May 12, 2020 Standardized Library of Depression Outcome Measures

266. Tinnitus Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - used (the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scales for case- control studies and cohort studies,7 … of populations, treatments, treatment modalities, study duration and followup periods, and outcome measures … validity of many of the outcomes used in the included studies; moreover, specific adaptations of measures … used to measure depression. … to measure patient-reported outcomes

267. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 03, 2011 - The outcome measures may also be enhanced by using selected process measures that address the extent … Measures related to performance of care coordination are also of interest. … 2011 Research Timing: We will assess the duration of followup generally applied with each measure … Measurement time frame and the potential for fluctuating levels Disability cut-points (if the measure … Care Coordination Measures Atlas. Version 3.

268. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2025 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - used both CAPS and another interview measure); 37 percent of studies did not use any interview measure … A larger number of studies used a self report measure (429 studies, 76%). … have used more than one measure to assess PTSD outcomes. … Measures used in 10 or fewer studies are grouped as categories within the measure type (“Other interview … may have used more than one measure to assess PTSD outcomes.

269. Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide, 3rd Edition | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2022 - in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure

270. The Effectiveness of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDS) in Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - First, these measures evaluate relative and not absolute changes in disease progression. … However, standardized “absolute” measures may provide greater insight. … Regardless of the measure, it is important to be able to measure clinically meaningful responses to therapy … KQ5 Any measure that can establish psychometric properties. … Cross-sectional studies are acceptable to evaluate clinical outcome measure tools (KQ5).

271. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, or receiver operating characteristic curves and derived measures … often remote from health outcome, in the short term, researchers rely on more proximate efficacy measures … one could consider jumping immediately to randomized clinical trials with patient-centered outcome measures … Memorandum for the evaluation of diagnostic measures. … Likelihood ratios as a measure of the diagnostic usefulness of excretory urogram information.

272. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, or receiver operating characteristic curves and derived measures … often remote from health outcome, in the short term, researchers rely on more proximate efficacy measures … one could consider jumping immediately to randomized clinical trials with patient-centered outcome measures … Memorandum for the evaluation of diagnostic measures. … Likelihood ratios as a measure of the diagnostic usefulness of excretory urogram information.

273. Interventions for the Prevention of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Adults After Exposure to Psychological Trauma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - is lack of trauma-related symptom development, which includes both clinician-rated and self-reported measures … PICOTS Criteria The population, interventions, comparators, outcome measures, timing, and setting ( … gr=cli&prod=dts&id=overview#scales . National Center for PTSD Web site. Professional Section. … desensitization has occurred (i.e., patient reports little or no distress on Subjective Units of Distress Scales … Post-traumatic stress disorder outcome measures Outcome Measure Description DSM

274. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 27, 2014 - conventional treatment (i.e., NSAIDs or corticosteroids) with or without methotrexate,d improve laboratory measures … h The outcomes measures assessed were those most commonly used in clinical trials and practice, as well … The outcome measures assessed were: Measures of disease activity: Active joint count (AJC) Physician … global assessment of disease activity (PGA) Parent/patient global assessment of well-being (PGW) Measure … of functional status/disability: Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) Measures of health-related

275. Environmental, Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Resources to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections (pdf file)
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     January 16, 2025 - Environmental footprint A measure of the environmental impact of an individual, organization, or product … sheets which protect operating room beds and aid in patient mobility; blood pressure cuffs used to measure … not explicitly identify which perspective the authors used for their economic analysis and did not measure … The primary measure of interest was greenhouse gas emissions 32 (CO2-equivalent), but TRACI … Haessler S, Martin EM, Scales ME, et al.

276. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review 255: Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs (pdf file)
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     May 31, 2022 - , utilization measures. … from NIH PhenX or PROMIS into a consolidated measure set. … Many of the measures may be classified as process measures (e.g., screenings for depression) as well … literature along with important contextual information to understand what the measure is, the measure … target, whether it was validated and which studies evaluated the measure.

277. Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Result from problems in data analysis and interpretation, such as choice of the wrong statistical measure … Did investigators concurrently measure intervention and exposure status for intervention and comparison … Did investigators concurrently measure outcomes for intervention and comparison groups?

278. S58 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - measures. … Nachega et al27 found a significant relationship between a claims-based measure of antiretroviral adherence … Construction of a refill persistence measure must also take into account the complexity of many treatment … Thus, researchers should be wary of simply selecting a single measure and mechanically applying the required … to control for co-occurring conditions.34,35 However, such indices may under-adjust, as they force weights

279. Imaging Techniques for the Surveillance, Diagnosis, and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Quality of life as measured with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ … Recurrence of HCC, including rates of seeding by fine-needle aspiration Quality of life as measured with scales … Recurrence of HCC, including rates of seeding by fine-needle aspiration Quality of life as measured with scales … Quality of life, measured using scales like Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ-5™), or … Recurrence of HCC, including rates of seeding by fine needle aspiration Quality of life, measured using scales

280. Disposition of Comments for CER 163 Appropriate Antibiotics (pdf file)
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     January 27, 2016 - This then leads onto concerns about the interventions and outcome measures. … Most of the studies included do not measure this. 5. … Definitions and criteria were stated, when applicable, as were outcome measures (though many interim … Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures appropriate? … The definitions or diagnostic criteria for all of the outcome measures also seem appropriate although