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141. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - services, or suppliers for the purpose of increasing the likelihood of optimal clinical quality of care measured … the intervention to the individual patients or the health care system will be captured if they are measured … disparities in health care between certain groups of patients are numerous and well described but not clearly measured … services, or suppliers for the purpose of increasing the likelihood of optimal clinical quality of care, measured

142. Public Deliberation To Elicit Input on Health Topics: Findings From a Literature Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - How are outcomes of public deliberation measured? … Cost-effectiveness has also been measured (Rowe and Frewer, 2005). … These outcomes are typically measured through pre/post surveys. … Studies of deliberative processes have consistently reported changes in knowledge as measured by objective … These constructs are assessed as change between pre- and post-deliberation attitudinal patterns measured

143. Methods Future Research Needs Number 8: Framework for Considering Study Designs (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - If a question cannot be answered because all existing studies only measured surrogate markers, additional … Baseline characteristics can be measured, but may not be balanced between the two groups. … There may be differences in both measured and unmeasured characteristics at baseline. … Controlled Before–After Study In a controlled before-after study, the outcome(s) of interest is measured … In all cases the investigator(s) controls the timing of the measurement and the variables being measured

144. Summary Variables in Observational Research: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - Both provide a means of accounting for a large number of measured covariates through a single computed … If some patient characteristics that lead to the choice of one therapy over another are not measured … However, if the prescribing decision is made using patient characteristics that are measured and recorded … A greater concern is prognostic variables that are not measured. … A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between

145. S131 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - The ideal comparison group should comprise patients with identical distributions of measured and unmeasured … cardiac risks; nonusers as defined above may differ substantially from users of the index drug for both measured … Propensity scores estimate each patient’s proba- bility of treatment given all measured covariates. … would have been eligible to participate in the PROS- PER trial18 based on their baseline covariates as measured … 3 (propensity score trimming) and 5 (restriction to typical trial exclusion criteria) are based on measured

146. Noninvasive Treatments for Low Back Pain: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2016 - . �� Outcomes were mostly measured at short-term (up to 6 months) followup. �� Effects on function … were generally smaller than effects on pain; additionally, fewer studies measured function only.

147. Technical Brief 13: Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - for example, current indications, relevant patient populations and subgroups of interest, outcomes measured … Thus, MSI-status needs to be measured and/or taken into consideration in the analysis. … This can be measured through prospective studies. … • What aspects of analytic validity were measured (e.g., accuracy, reproducibility)? … o For response to adjuvant chemotherapy, how was it measured?

148. Mrsa-Screening-2010 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - decolonize) when compared with no screening on: • Intermediate outcomes such as MRSA transmission (as measured … patient populations (targeted screening) on: • Intermediate outcomes such as MRSA transmission (as measured … decolonize) when compared with no screening on: • Intermediate outcomes such as MRSA transmission as measured … such as patients admitted to the ICU) on: • Intermediate outcomes such as MRSA transmission (as measured … As a result, the measured effect of the screening strategy may have been influenced by the application

149. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR WORK ASSIGNMENT (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2009 - Outcomes During follow-up, we measured three outcomes: (1) all-cause mortality; (2) COPD exacerbations … Exposure Medication exposure was measured as a time-varying covariate during follow-up. … Exposure was measured as the presence of a prescription for a respiratory medication in the 180 day … For healthcare utilization, we measured COPD-related and non-COPD healthcare. … We measured use of respiratory and other medications that preceded the medication switch.

150. S108 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - , particularly in comparison to propensity scores, another method for re- moving confounding due to measured … In practice, severity of illness is not likely to be measured at intervals more frequently than 4 times … for confounding control, IPW illustrates the key principle that making exposure indepen- dent of the measured … covariate history removes confounding due to measured variables. … Measured indicators of severity of illness do demonstrate substantial day-to-day variability, comparable

151. Developing and Testing a Tool for the Classification of Study Designs in Systematic Reviews of Interventions and Exposures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Interrater reliability was measured using Fleiss' kappa (?)

152. Research Protocol: Characteristics of Existing Asthma Self-Management Education Packages (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - • What asthma outcomes are measured? Are packages associated with good outcomes? … medication adherence o Asthma-related quality of life 5 • What patient-centered outcomes are measured … use o Acceptability o Patient/family/instructor satisfaction • What implementation outcomes are measured

153. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - Changes in symptoms between the treatment arms were not measured with significant precision to detect … Changes in health status between the treatment arms were not measured with significant precision to … reported whether a flare occurred, three reported active joint count, and four reported quality of life as measured

154. Cancer-Pancreas Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2013 - Some outcomes such as test performance can be measured immediately after performing the tests, but the … most important outcomes (such as long- term survival and quality of life) are measured after completion … For harms (KQ 3), there is a statement in the Methods section that harms/complications would be measured … For questions on single-test accuracy, consistency will be measured meta- analytically using the tau … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? 18.

155. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - Both provide a means of accounting for a large number of measured covariates through a single computed … If some patient characteristics that lead to the choice of one therapy over another are not measured … However, if the prescribing decision is made using patient characteristics that are measured and recorded … A greater concern is prognostic variables that are not measured. … A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between

156. Sleep-Apnea Surveillance (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Analysis of difference versus average analyses plots suggest that substantial differences in the measured … Each study measured compliance differently, including thresholds of 1, 2, or 3 hours of use per night … or as a continuous variable, and undefined “objective compliance” measured by the device. … Each study measured compliance differently, including thresholds of 1, 2, or 3 hours of use per night … or as a continuous variable, and undefined “objective compliance” measured by the device.

157. Back (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - • Existing analyses  focus  on decision making • Measured: parameters of decision making o Information

158. Advancing Measurement of Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Many participants reflected that the items measured important aspects of their interactions with clinicians

159. Change Score or Followup Score? An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Choice of Mean Difference Estimates | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Abstract Background In randomized controlled clinical trials, continuous outcomes are typically measured

160. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Effectiveness of Treatments Options for the Prevention of Complications and Treatment of Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2016 - What would be the impact on the strength of evidence (including impact of knowledge of outcomes measured … What would be the impact on the strength of evidence (including impact of knowledge of outcomes measured