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181. 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.

182. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 15, 2012 - Yet as you acknowledge when doing population surveillance we need to measure in a standard way drawing … ACSs as a quality measure for studying disparities among people with disabilities as you state is a … can be used to “identify needs, match patients to interventions, track functioning over time, and measure … The measure was an open-ended qualitative response item for feedback from providers whose patients … The capability to measure and study outcomes over time with precision would mitigate the ceiling and

183. Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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184. 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

185. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - medical tests; however, there is no empirical evidence that any sort of score based on quantitative weights … can be addressed when considering all relevant studies through the use, if appropriate, of a summary measure … West et al.7 evaluated 18 tools (six scales, nine guides, and three EPC rating systems). … Three scales met all six criteria considered important: (1) the Cochrane Working Group checklist,8 ( … In 5-6 this way, reviewers can revise unreliable terms and measure the reliability of the ultimate

186. Liver-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 24, 2013 -  Quality of life as measured with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF- 36) or EuroQol … 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-36â) or EuroQol 5D (EQ … Recurrence of HCC, including rates of seeding by fine needle aspiration • Quality of life, measured using scales

187. Future Research Needs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers, Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages, and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - scales, quality of life scales, and measures that capture school performance learning capacity, social … scales, quality of life scales, and measures that capture school performance learning capacity, social … (KQ 2) 16 Standardized outcome measures such as global impairment scales or quality of life scales … , parent rating scales, and semistructured interviews is limited. … such as global impairment scales, quality of life scales, and measures that capture school performance

188. Physical Therapy for Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis Disposition of Comment Report (pdf file)
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     November 06, 2012 - A patient-centered outcome measure will identify when this goal has been achieved, but interim measures … We analyzed clinical importance of pain reduction using the same measure (VAS). … If so this is a poor measure of intensity. … How was disability defined and what instruments were used to measure disability in these studies? … comprehensive literature review about minimally clinically important differences in WOMAC, VAS, and others scales

189. 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.

190. 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

191. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - What measures or indicators have been used in surgical report cards used to examine the safety of surgical … 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. … representatives who are not patients or family members Intervention Any intervention intended to measure … For Review Question 2, we will focus on identifying relevant measures that are ...

192. Test-Performance-Metrics Appendixes (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - 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 … medical test can be used in different settings and roles, and different measures will best capture … Thus this single measure includes information about both sensitivity and specificity and tends to be

193. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - It is also reasonable to assign different importance or weight to each measure. … When there is only one measure to optimize the alternative choices can be ranked readily. … on all measures. … In another example, a theorem proves that normalized weights that are inversely proportional to the … fragility of study rankings and inconsistency of subgroup analyses produced by comparing 25 published scales

194. Hypertension-Pulmonary-Arterial Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - year (unadjusted hazard ratio 6.2).11 Uncertainty remains 4 regarding which echocardiographic measure … In studies evaluating correlation of the above measures with RHC measures or a commonly used measure … were imprecise, making it difficult to interpret the clinical importance of the findings for this measure … were imprecise, making it difficult to interpret the clinical importance of the findings for this measure … – Consider further development of data on the use of echocardiography to measure exercise response

195. 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.

196. 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

197. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - 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

198. Hawley-notes-151016 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - 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.

199. Future Research Needs for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs (pdf file)
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     March 31, 2010 - More vigorous analytic approaches are desirable in future studies, to better analyze the repeated measures … Associations between mothers' and their children's weights at 4 years of age. … More vigorous analytic approaches are desirable in future studies, to better analyze the repeated measures … Studies should pre-specify their analytic plan regarding multiple measures over time. … Associations between mothers’ and their children’s weights at 4 years of age.

200. 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?