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681. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 24, 2017 - and CATD, then many of the studies reviewed are irrelevant, because they don’t look some general measure … I found it helpful that you reported scoring ranges for scales (e.g., Tabl 4!. … , depressive symptoms, and driving measures should be included. … Post-intervention outcomes appear to be measure after the 3 month intervention (our review required … Post-intervention outcomes appear to be measure after the 3 month intervention (our review required

682. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 24, 2017 - and CATD, then many of the studies reviewed are irrelevant, because they don’t look some general measure … I found it helpful that you reported scoring ranges for scales (e.g., Tabl 4!. … , depressive symptoms, and driving measures should be included. … Post-intervention outcomes appear to be measure after the 3 month intervention (our review required … Post-intervention outcomes appear to be measure after the 3 month intervention (our review required

683. Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - last resort.14-22 Finally, using seclusion and restraints is closely followed as a quality-of-care measure … terms of frequency, severity, or duration (measured by either direct counts or validated aggression scales … b Coercive measures covered a wide range of measures, from forced injection of psychotropic medication … b Coercive measures covered a wide range of measures from forced injection of psychotropic medication … when the evidence base for those measures is unclear?

684. Topic 0549 Diagnosis and Management of Gout NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     June 24, 2014 - of treatment differ according to patient baseline uric acid levels and blood and urine biochemical measures … gout being treated to prevent gout recurrence, do results of follow-up blood and urine biochemistry measures

685. Mrsa-Screening-2010 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Despite the adoption of infection-control measures, the incidence of MRSA infection at most U.S. … Given the continued dissemination of MRSA at most U.S. hospitals, it is clear that these measures, as … impact of a screening program without detailed information about the deployment of decolonization measures … The guidelines further advise that these measures “should be implemented in all types of health care … To attempt to measure the favorable impact of screening for MRSA carriage while ignoring its potential

686. S38 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Thus, measures of agreement in treatments received by patients of different providers within a practice … One simple measure of sharing would be the percent of potentially eligible patients who see multiple … More sophisti- cated measures of clustering within practices could use mul- tilevel models to quantify … intervention or control group in blocks of 4 within the 12 strata formed by the cross-classification of these measures

687. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - secondary to an inoperable obstructive endoluminal NSCLC Treatment and Evidence Base Outcome Unit of Measure … • LCT is of interest to patients because it measures the effectiveness of an intervention in disease … Although OS is the primary direct outcome for any cancer intervention study, it may not be the best measure … These measures include generic measures such as SF-36 and EQ-5D and lung cancer–specific measures such … Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ) modules C30 and LC13 and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) to measure

688. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2011 - risperidone and aripiprazole each have at least two RCTs demonstrating improvement in a parent-reported measure … of challenging behavior.109-120, 122, 123 A parent- reported hyperactivity and noncompliance measure … We identified more than 100 distinct outcome measures used in this literature base, not accounting for … this literature made preliminary strides in addressing these issues, but studies that specifically measure … The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits

689. Psoriasis-Chronic Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - psoriasis vulgaris, often appears as well-demarcated, erythematous plaques covered with silvery white scales … Therefore, we qualitatively evaluated the data and reported native measures of effect 5 that were … all were based on low strength of evidence.13,23 HRQoL was measured using both the DLQI and EQ-5D scales … Three scales were used to measure HRQoL in this trial—DLQI, EQ-5D, and SF-36 MCS (mental) and PCS ( … The validity and responsiveness of three quality of life measures in the assessment of psoriasis patients

690. Glaucoma-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - The Goldmann applanation tonometer uses a standard probe and is the current standard method to measure … Standard Automated Perimetry (SAP) A perimeter can measure the visual field of an eye in a systematic … Also considered was diagnosis of OAG requiring treatment. 10 Prespecified outcomes were measures … Seventeen primary studies included measures of diagnostic accuracy for HRT II.17-33 Naithani et al. … . (2009) included noncontact tonometry, individually and in all possible combinations, with other measures

691. Future Research Needs for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - While typically used as a measure for pain, visual analog scales varied, making comparisons across studies … Outcome measures a. … Outcome measures · Stakeholders agreed that standardized outcome measures are needed, specifically … · CPP outcome measures and scales should be established and validated. … Develop standardized outcome measures and scales for quality of life and functional capacity.

692. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - What specific dietary measures reduce stone formation? 3. … A number of drugs and dietary measures have been shown to reduce the rate of stone recurrence.

693. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - We also assume familiarity with the common measures of medical test performance (reviewed in the Appendix … covariates to explain heterogeneity in sensitivity or specificity or both; and again, covariates for each measure … Bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity produces informative summary measures in diagnostic

694. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - Yet, studies tend to emphasize a single measure of the impact of treatment, the ATE, which is a summary … including “joint” effects, “synergism,” “antagonism,” “interaction,” “effect modification,” and “effect measure

695. Technical Brief 13: Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - New assays that measure RNA to detect tumor cells are also beyond the scope of this Brief. … accurately identified patients who are considered to be at low risk for recurrence with currently used measures … suggest that future research on the various GEP assays, whether used for prognostic or predictive measures … GEPs measure the activity or “expression” of multiple genes in a single RNA sample, which may reflect … Analytic validity: How accurately and reliably the test measures the genotype of interest.50 The

696. Glaucoma-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 16, 2010 - www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/� Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: November 16, 2010 Measures … Standardized mean differences will be calculated if continuous outcomes are measured by using different scales

697. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - lipid levels; progression to type 2 diabetes; markers of carbohydrate metabolism/diabetes control; measures … of left ventricular (LV) mass/function; and measures of kidney disease. … Quality of life Low No differences were found in measures of general quality of life; this is based … diabetes metabolism/ mellitus, markers of carbohydrate metabolism/diabetes diabetes control, control, measures

698. Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Developing and Prioritizing a Future Research Agenda (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2012 - Development of standardized measures for short- and long-term maternal and infant outcomes. 2. … large-scale studies in this area hinges on the development of standard terminology and indicators to measure … nonmedical outcomes and process measures that influence TOL decisionmaking and access. … Using the Delphi technique to determine which outcomes to measure in clinical trials: recommendations … Development of standardized measures for short and long-term maternal and infant outcomes 2.

699. Renal Artery Stenosis Management Strategies: An Updated Comparative Effectiveness Review (pdf file)
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     August 16, 2016 - types of studies for renal artery stenosis management are well articulated--- as are the outcome measures … Outcome measures are adequately defined. … be noted that the CORAL trial was the only RCT that used an independent Angiographic Core Lab to measure … be noted that the CORAL trial was the only RCT that used an independent Angiographic Core Lab to measure

700. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Avoiding Bias in Selecting Studies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - The outcome measures included, and inclusion of non-English language papers account for at least some … that are notoriously characterized by variability in outcome measurement methods and a multitude of scales … choose to restrict to specific measurement methods (i.e., only including studies that used measurement scales … Because the study is registered at the beginning of the study, the intended primary outcome measures … Disagreements in meta-analyses using outcomes measured on continuous or rating scales: observer agreement