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341. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - for identifying and judging the risk of bias when results deviate from protocols in the timing or measure … Risk of Bias and Outcome Measures The use of valid and reliable outcome measures reduces the likelihood … Notice that such declarative statements implicitly assign weights to the different items. … For a scale, the weights of different items are explicit rather than implicit. … Scales to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review.

342. Appendix: Test Performance Metrics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - and their application can be confusing in practice. 1 The basic measures are described briefly below … The quotation marks are retained to stress that, in the calculation of the basic measures reviewed here … The two measures have clear clinical interpretations, but are not as useful clinically as the positive … The systematic reviewer must be familiar with the mentioned measures and their interpretation: the same … Thus this single measure includes information about both sensitivity and specificity and tends to be

343. Ankyloglossia Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - Future studies could provide additional data to confirm or change the measure of effectiveness; thus … Observer-rated measures did not show significant improvements. … Future studies could provide additional data to confirm or change the measure of effectiveness. … Lack of a consistent objective measure to define and classify this condition may limit the reproducibility … A measure of success: audit of frenulotomy for infant feeding: problems associated with tongue-tie.

344. Surveillance Report: CER 30: Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management for Hip Fracture (pdf file)
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     July 08, 2015 - Acute pain was measured using different scales (numbering rating score [1-5] and 10cm VAS). … Acute pain was measured using the 10cm VAS; the baseline measure was 6.5cm. … Acute pain was measured using different scales (i.e., numeric rating scales and 10cm VAS). … Acute pain was measured using different scales (numbering rating score [1-5] and 10cm VAS). … Acute pain was measured using different scales (i.e., numeric rating scales and 10cm VAS).

345. Outcomes of Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitor (ACEI) Use During Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Main Outcome Measure Congenital malformation in live births.

346. Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2022 - How do outcomes vary depending on measures or tools used to detect malnutrition? … Such measures would potentially support assigning accountability for the assessment and treatment of … BMI, weight loss, serum albumin levels) experts have expressed concern that these measures are not reliable … As noted, many studies identified malnutrition based only on biometrical measures, such as serum albumin … To assess which measure is more effective, one could envision a multi-arm clinical trial that compares

347. Disposition of Comments: Technical Brief No. 38_Automated Entry Patient Generated Health Data for Chronic Conditions: The Evidence on Health Outcomes (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - Were measures consistent over time? … Defining interoperability and basis for rating scales is important. … In the text it was acknowledged that the majority were scales and accelerometers. … We understand that pedometers simply measure steps. … Response Public Reviewer #4 (Rob Havasy, Personal Connected Health Alliance) General · Weight scales

348. Methods-Balancing-Harms-Benefits Research-2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Studies generally prespecify and measure benefit outcomes with great reliability. … As a consequence, no measures of uncertainty are available. … Systematic reviews often use NNT and NNH as a measure of benefit and harm. … Benefits and harms may be reported on different scales. … The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect.

349. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - MCIDs were determined for several outcomes scales, but not used consistently. … MCIDs in scales were determined for 26 scales, but therapeutic studies did Examination, Evaluation, … What are the valid and reliable instruments used to measure patient-centered outcomes? … What are the valid and reliable instruments used to measure the following intermediate outcomes when … Several stakeholders mentioned the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology recommended set of outcomes measures

350. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - The trials were greatly heterogeneous, varying in population, intervention, and outcome measures and

351. Field Triage Guideline Revision: Glasgow Coma Scale: Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Performance of the scales also may vary across different types or mechanisms of injury. … characteristics of risk assessment instruments, 20,21 including GCS, 4 but these can be difficult to measure … Scientific Information Packets Not applicable for this topic, which addresses non-proprietary assessment scales … comparison groups clear reporting of missing data; apply appropriate means to prevent; and appropriately measure … the Glasgow coma scale (mGCS) to the prehospital total GCS (tGCS) as a prehospital risk adjustment measure

352. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - the analytic validity (sensitivity, specificity, reproducibility, reliability) of tests designed to measure … Do measures of AV vary by assay design, method of sample collection, etc.? 3.

353. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2010 - Outcome measures for harms, or adverse events, are the same as in KQ3, and KQ5 below. … the selection based on their professional knowledge and also considering the frequency of an outcome measure … To arrive at a quantitative measure for controlled trials, we will use the Jadad scale, which was developed … For subgroups where pooling is done across several scales, we will calculate an unbiased estimate using … Since most of the scales used as outcome measures in the pooled analyses are scored so that more severely

354. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 29, 2010 - IgG, and IgA RF if rabbit IgG is used as the substrate.6 Latex agglutination and nephelometry only measure … 19S IgM RF, whereas ELISAs have been designed to measure the various RF isotypes.4 Though the biological … Definition of Terms • Antinuclear antibody test (ANA): The measure of serum level of antinuclear … • Rheumatoid factor test (RF): The measure of serum level of rheumatoid factor antibody which is … The CCP test measures of serum level of the autoantibody targeting these citrullinated peptides.

355. Hawley-notes-151016 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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     November 11, 2015 - were  able  to   characterize  Latina  patients into  high  or low acculturated  based  on the  SASH measure … colorectal cancer patients and  breast cancer patients, this study used  Margaret Holmes-­ Rovner’s measure … Finally, we  need then  ways to  measure  and assess culture   that go  beyond  race/ethnicity.

356. Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity: A Systematic Evidence Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2019 - Outcome measures included dietary behavior (148 studies), physical activity (152 studies), childhood … Sixty-two percent of the 71 US data systems contained at least one of the main measures for weight or … Outcomes/Measures: Of the 294 included studies, we identified 112 studies with childhood weight measures … , 32 studies with adult weight measures, 152 studies with physical activity measures, and 148 studies … with dietary measures.

357. Untitled (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2016 - Performance of the scales also may vary across different types or mechanisms of injury. … characteristics of risk assessment instruments,20,21 including GCS,4 but these can be difficult to measure … Scientific Information Packets: Not applicable for this topic, which addresses non-proprietary assessment scales … comparison groups clear reporting of missing data; apply appropriate means to prevent; and appropriately measure … the Glasgow coma scale (mGCS) to the prehospital total GCS (tGCS) as a prehospital risk adjustment measure

358. SEAD Submission Form for Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2025 - for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures … Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements Research Protocol May 17, 2023 Measures

359. SEAD Submission Form for Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2025 - for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures … Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements Research Protocol May 17, 2023 Measures

360. Cer-250-Cannabis-Table-E5-2022-Update 0 (xls file)
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     January 01, 2022 - Cannabis cohort studies PMID Author, Year Study Design Setting Pain Population Pain Condition Age Measure … Female % Race, White % Race, Black % Race, Hispanic/Latino % Race, Asian % Race, Other % Pain Duration Measure