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281. S158 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Measures: Association between nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and mortality. … these factors, such as attitudes toward health,3 prevention,4 and frailty,5,6 are subtle and hard to measure … main disadvantage of external validation studies is that they often do not contain exactly the same measures … It is based on data from a validation study that includes the “error-prone” measure of the variable used … Sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding assuming a marginal structural model for repeated measures

282. Disposition of Comments for CER 196 The Role of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Asthma (pdf file)
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     March 23, 2018 - , and all measures seem appropriate Thank you for your comment. … Page 38 line 32 should read "measured" not "measure". Thanks for your edits. … conclusions on whether SCIT increased risk of anaphylaxis primarily because the RCTs did not directly measure … effect of SCIT on asthma symptoms as we limited our review to studies that used validated tools to measure … conclusions on whether SCIT increased risk of anaphylaxis primarily because the RCTs did not directly measure

283. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - The Joint Commission has expressed concern about U.S. cesarean birth rates as a performance measure … in its Specifications Manual for Joint Commission National Quality Core Measures, noting that, “There … to enable use and adjustment of the data and results Studies must include at least one outcome measure … Specifications manual for Joint Commission national uality core measures. Version 2010B2. … Prenatal care measure PC0-02. Cesarean section.

284. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Can the ability to measure FLC, with their shorter half lives, improve treatment protocol selection

285. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - diet subgroup, it was not possible to isolate the effects of any individual baseline biochemistry measure … Many RCTs reported results of followup biochemistry measures, but none reported and compared between … • A substantial minority of RCTs reported no information on baseline biochemistry measures. … could adjust stone recurrence outcomes by results for change in or followup level of biochemistry measure … Scales CD, Jr., Curtis LH, Norris RD, et al. Changing gender prevalence of stone disease.

286. Disposition of Comments Report for Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2013 - clear that good-quality studies should have blinded measurement of outcomes (it said "appropriately measure … environment it would not be possible, because there are so many factors involved, that it is impossible to measure … Risk assessments scales only can improve the intention to use adequate preventive measures. … (Section on direct comparisons between scales). … the AHRQ report on pressure ulcer treatment and both of the studies were specifically designed to measure

287. Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services (pdf file)
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     July 27, 2023 - Although many quality and outcome measures that have been studied, there is a general lack of consensus … Potential outcome measures include quality of life, functional independence, general satisfaction of … What quality measures related to person-centered HCBS interventions exist or are under development ( … Which patient populations and outcome measures have no or inadequate evidence? c. … Do you know of any commonly used quality measures or quality measures under development? 7.

288. Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration: Evaluating Effectiveness and Eliciting Public Views on Use of Evidence--Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - greater acceptance or greater doubt about one’s convictions.1 Although we used attitude change as a measure … After completing a factor analysis using the attitude items, our final attitude measures included six … group, all four deliberative methods showed significant change on at least one knowledge or attitude measure … control group, each of the four deliberative methods shifted participants’ attitudes for at least one measure … control that used reading materials only on the basis of change on at least one knowledge or attitude measure

289. Obesity Prevention and Control (pdf file)
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     February 08, 2017 - use of a validated instrument (see Appendix B for list of commonly used validated instruments) to measure … We will use a list of validated measures as illustrated in Appendix B. … For the obesity measures and behavioral outcomes, we will additionally abstract the measures or instruments … When available, we will abstract the effect size and units, measure of variability, and 95% confidence … List of Commonly Used Validated Dietary and Physical Activity Measures.

290. Disposition of Comments Report for Cardiac Troponins Used as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests in Patients Wtih Kidney Disease (pdf file)
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     August 11, 2014 - Peer reviewer #2 Methods Both the diagnostic criteria for the outcomes measures and the statistical … For this reason I would suggest avoiding these measures. … The discussion on high-sensitivity troponin should be based on objective measures. … What is written does not differentiate between conventional and high sensitivity measures. … troponin in normal individuals or can measure it only at levels below the LoQ or measuring range of

291. Ch 2-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Here again the crux of the problem is that frailty is hard to control for because it is difficult to measure … Measures of association Measures needed to compare outcomes across treatment groups. … The main epidemiologic measures of association are ratio measures (risk ratio, incidence rate ratio … Difference measures have some very specific advantages over ratio measures, including the possibility … All measures of association should be accompanied by a measure of precision, e.g., a confidence interval

292. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Triage systems and explicit triage acuity scales have been used in emergency departments for many years … Several studies did not measure health outcomes or even the most relevant process outcomes. … Instead, most of the studies focused on measures of throughput. … further broaden our coverage of the topic, we included in a separate section studies that had some measure … There was some degree of subjectivity in assigning scores to each item in our quality assessment scales

293. Disposition of Comments for CER 147 Menopausal Symptoms: Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies (pdf file)
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     March 05, 2015 - When describing the many scales used to measure outcomes, authors should consistently note direction … Direction of all scales for all outcomes have been defined. … Scales for outcome measures appear to be focused on overall QOL measures and components of QOL measures … The table has been edited so that all reflect some measure of improvement. … VAS scales have been removed.

294. Disposition of Comments Report for Local Hepatic Therapies for Metastases to the Liver From Unresectable Colorectal Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 11, 2012 - The search strategies are clear as are the definitions of the criteria for outcome measures. … Reviewer #4 Methods The inclusion and exclusion criteria for studies are reasonable and the outcome measures … The mention of the MSKCC clinical risk score was intended as an example of how a composite measure … Peer Reviewer #7 Methods The outcomes measures are very appropriate as are the statistical methodologies … RECIST criteria do not work for image-guided therapies, and alternative imaging measures of response

295. pneumonia-antibiotic-treatment-protocol-130718 (pdf file)
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     July 19, 2013 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Project Title: Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … This review will not address aerosolized antibiotics and antifungals because PK/PD measures are not …  Different targets of PK/PD measures  Usual care (e.g., physician discretion or judgment, local … sufficient data are available, meta-analyses and results will be stratified by (1) method of PK/PD measure … Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) measures.

296. Peripheral-Artery-Disease-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Continuous outcome measures comparing two treatments made on different scales (such as quality-of-life … RCTs reporting continuous outcome measures on different scales (such as functional capacity and quality-of-life … interval. 18 • A random-effects meta-analysis of 10 studies examining the difference in the SF-36 measure … thought to be less responsive to change than a disease- specific measure is. … However, we would expect that RCTs or 37 prospective cohort studies would make it a priority to measure

297. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     October 22, 2012 - KQ 2: All of the above-listed interventions compared both within class and across classes Outcome measures … and responsiveness index  Feasibility: response rate, time required  Validity: test validity measures … sputum (relevant only to patients with wet or productive cough) or bronchoprovocation challenge (measures … in comparison with care models currently in use, and clinical relevance and timing of the outcome measures … ] OR “visual analogue”[tiab]OR severity[tiab] OR sound[tiab] OR sounds[tiab] OR register*[tiab] OR measure

298. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults (pdf file)
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     October 19, 2020 - These measures intend to help assign accountability for the assessment and treatment of malnutrition … Ultimately, the findings of this review will aid in the development of quality measures that will reduce … How do outcomes vary depending on measures or tools used to detect malnutrition? b. … We recognize that well-defined populations are key to measure development, and that granularity about … The following population relevant measures are frequently used within hospital settings to measure severity

299. Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     August 24, 2012 - Added definition from source: “Feinglass defined financial pressure as a measure of the ‘gap between … measures. … for appropriateness of bundles, both to help address the unintended consequence above and also as a measure … If quality measures were used, many of the measures were process or intermediate health outcomes measures … we believe that ACS NSQIPderived outcomes-based measures are an ideal example of such measures.

300. Quantitative Synthesis Chapter 3. Choice of Statistical Model for Combining Studies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - The Peto odds ratio viewed as a new effect measure. … The Peto odds ratio viewed as a new effect measure.