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141. Mortality Risk in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Using Theophylline | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 04, 2009 - obstructive pulmonary disease that were 45 years or older Measurements adn Main Results Primary outcome measures … exacerbations and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalizations; however we are unable to measure

142. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 25, 2013 - 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

143. Topic 0494 Tacrolimus Monitoring and Treatment Renal Transplantation NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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     March 13, 2013 - effectiveness question; should probably be a subquestion of KQ1]: Are analytical capabilities sufficient to measure … Sensitivity of monitoring for low dose CNIs: Are analytical capabilities sufficient to measure CNIs

144. Advancing Measurement of Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care | Effective Health Care Program
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     March 28, 2013 - Objectives The goal of Phase 2 was to refine the Phase 1 framework; identify, develop, and test PCC measures … Develop and Test Measures : We developed an inventory of PCC survey items by examining published literature … generally able to understand the questions, apply them to their own experiences, and use the response scales … followed by psychometric analysis, and finalizing the items and developing short and long-term versions of measures

145. Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 13, 2014 - Are the measures of costs that are being reported consumer centered? … What are the potential unintended consequences of public reporting of cost measures? … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … Are the measures of costs that are being reported consumer-centered? … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses

146. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Measure Evaluation Criteria. … Quality Measures for Supportive Cancer Care: The Cancer Quality- ASSIST Project. … Measure evaluation criteria and subcriteria descriptions. … Palliative Care Quality Measures Project (PEACE). … Consortium Measures.

147. Key Question Tumor Cell-free DNA for Cancer Screening (pdf file)
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     September 18, 2023 - precision medicine to aid in initial targeted treatment selection, identify treatment resistance and to measure … MCEDs is now uncommon, perhaps because payers still consider them to be investigational.8, 10 One measure

148. Treatment of Insomnia Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 03, 2014 - Sleep efficiency (total sleep time/total time in bed) is a broader sleep measure that may capture the … Despite discrepancies between objective and subjective measures of sleep parameters, the subjective measures … Sleep quality, subjectively measured in a variety of ways, is also an important measure. … Follow-up measures beyond 3 months of treatment will be used to evaluate long-term efficacy and comparative … Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related

149. Insomnia_protocol-140403 (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2014 - Despite discrepancies between objective and subjective measures of sleep parameters, the subjective … measures are considered more valuable because they are patient-centered outcomes. … Sleep quality, subjectively measured in a variety of ways, is also an important measure. … Follow-up measures beyond 3 months of treatment will be used to evaluate long-term efficacy and comparative … A systematic review reported outcome measures for sleep of insomnia and complementary disturbance and

150. Insomnia_protocol-140403 (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2014 - Despite discrepancies between objective and subjective measures of sleep parameters, the subjective … measures are considered more valuable because they are patient-centered outcomes. … Sleep quality, subjectively measured in a variety of ways, is also an important measure. … Follow-up measures beyond 3 months of treatment will be used to evaluate long-term efficacy and comparative … Development and validation of patient- reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related

151. Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 17, 2020 - There are several groups that regularly measure patterns of care and publish on adherence with ASTRO … ASTRO will collaborate and support patterns of care studies to measure and compare rates of concordance

152. Testing Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 17, 2010 - Measures. … Therefore, the denominator for this benchmark measure included only those patients who had chemotherapy … Our measure of chemotherapy toxicity may be a more specific measure of over-zealous chemotherapy use … Measures of the quality of end-of-life care can be divided into those that measure over-use of aggressive … The benchmark measure for chemotherapy toxicity is also measured for this time period.

153. Stakeholder-Engagement-Benefits White-Paper (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - How Can We Measure the Impact of Stakeholder Engagement? … The limited number of studies identified in our literature search focused primarily on measures of the … This example illustrates the challenge of designing appropriate measures for engagement. … This suggests that attempts to measure stakeholder impact need to include both process and outcome measures … Oliver et al., 200415 United Kingdom Box 3 of the Exec Sum proposes intermediate and final measures

154. Management Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 21, 2015 - commonly measured outcome, psychiatric readmissions, probably undercounts true readmission rates; other measures … those at high risk of psychiatric rehospitalization functioning in the community; (2) how to accurately measure

155. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     May 26, 2021 - What are the most optimal Quality metrics for a telemedicine environment in order to best measure health

156. Measuring-Blood-Pressure Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Thus the strategies to measure and control elevated BP may need to differ based on an individual’s … Three studies reported some significantly better measures of adherence with SMBP (although not always … for all evaluated measures of adherence); the remaining 4 studies found no difference. … Both found no differences using any quality-of-life measure. … Using different measures in each study, none found a significant difference in medication adherence.

157. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 06, 2011 - and cost are other relevant outcome measures. … Process measure outcomes (include but are not limited to): adherence to therapy; missed appointments … 3: In adults with medical illness and complex care needs, does case management affect process measure … Does the effectiveness of case management for process measure outcomes differ according to intervention … Analytic Framework Patients with medical illness and complex care needs Process measure outcomes

158. Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 18, 2019 - Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures White Paper April 18, 2019 Download Main Document PDF … Introduction Significant variation exists in both the types and definitions of outcome measures used … A framework for creating standardized outcome measures for patient registries. … Harmonized outcome measures for use in asthma patient registries and clinical practice . … Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures. Research White Paper.

159. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 22, 2012 - O utcomes measures for each question: The outcome measures of interest include: health outcome measures … To measure potential changes in the inequity of care between patient groups, priority condition studies … Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review Disparity Measure. … In identifying studies, we will include studies that capture and report a measure of disparity in health … Included studies should capture health outcome measures and/or process measures.

160. AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) Program Research Gaps Summary: Pain Management (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Outcomes • Future studies should include pain response, pain severity, measures of overall function … one or a few small trials, several nonpharmacological treatments for migraine may improve various measures … Study Design • Study designs need a consistent use of recognized standard measures of pain and function … • Most systematic reviews report pain outcomes using scales that measure only pain intensity, while … outcomes reporting, including pain and its impact on function and recovery as measured by multidomain scales