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1521. Case-Management Executive (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - 1 Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 99 Outpatient Case Management for Adults With Medical Illness and Complex Care Needs Executive Summary Background Chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States.1 Providing medical care for chronic illness is often compl…

1522. Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2012 - Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Future Research Needs Paper Number 11 Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Future Research Needs Paper Number 11 Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Identification of Future Research …

1523. Biomarkers for Assessing and Managing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Late-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - CHr/RetHe measurement is a function of the amount of iron in the bone marrow that is available for incorporation … %HYPO is a measurement of Hb in red blood cell (RBC), which factors in the absolute Hb content as well

1524. Glasgow Coma Scale for Field Triage of Trauma: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - Glasgow Coma Scale for Field Triage of Trauma: A Systematic Review 1 ww Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 182 Glasgow Coma Scale for Field Triage of Trauma: A Systematic Review Executive Summary Background Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among people in the United States ages 1 to…

1525. Antiplatelet-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2013 - Measurement of Platelet Reactivity Phenotypic testing measures the reactivity of platelets while a patient … different phenotypic tests for platelet reactivity because they are based on different principles of measurement … However, the evidence suggests that no test is a gold standard (i.e., all have measurement error). … meta-analyses, we did not combine results across different assays (i.e., across tests using different measurement … Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement.

1526. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2012 - Verification Procedure Inappropriate reference standard Errors of imperfect reference standard bias the measurement

1527. Hepatitis-C-Treatment-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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      September 22, 2011 - cohorts); sample retention; and outcome data (patient adherence, definition and method of adherence measurement … In addition, we were unable to pool intermediate outcomes due to differing definitions and measurement

1528. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2018 - Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis Quantitative Synthesis Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis Prepared for: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Training Modules for Systematic Reviews Methods Guide www.ahrq.gov Presenter Presentation Notes Prioritization and Selection of Harms…

1529. Ear-Infection Executive (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2013 - Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

1530. Disposition of Comments Report for Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2010 - Reviewer 4 Introduction Page 2, “Measurement of Glycemic Control;” this paragraph is not completely … “CGM through the measurement of interstitial glucose is available. … Accuracy of blood glucose measurement would be a potential outcome one would need to consider in the

1531. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2017 - not equivalent to noting a beneficial effect or statistical significance in changes, rather noting measurement … not equivalent to noting a beneficial effect or statistical significance in changes, rather noting measurement … not equivalent to noting a beneficial effect or statistical significance in changes, rather noting measurement

1532. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2008 - Effective Health Care Topic Numbers: 0011b, 0039, 0083b Document Completion Date: 5-19-09 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Sleep apnea treatment will go forward for refinement as a comparative effectiveness or effectiveness review. The scope of this topic, including popul…

1533. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2009 - Effective Health Care Topic Number(s): 0229 Document Completion Date: 2-5-10 1 Results of Topic Selection Process & Next Steps  Medical management of urinary stone disease will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including populations, interventions, co…

1534. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      June 27, 2011 - For end-of-life care, since other current projects are currently focusing on quality measurement and … framework and a recent consensus project conducted to develop a framework for end-of-life cancer quality measurement

1535. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - Layout 1 Background More than 65 million American adults— approximately one-third—have hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension increases with advancing age such that more than half of people 60-69 years of age and approximately three- fourths of those 70 years of age and older are affected. In addition to being…

1536. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2012 - DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores Research from the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) Network May 2012 Effective Health Care Program Research Reports Number 33 Summary Variables in Observational Research: Prop…

1537. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2013 - Thus, EPCs may not be able to determine a meaningful threshold across scales with different measurement … instruments that differed enough to make reviewers doubt the wisdom of converting to a standardized measurement … Because differences in effect sizes may reflect differences in measurement instruments, EPCs cannot … consistency and (b) the underlying statistical model used in a meta-analysis may have incorporated measurement

1538. Abnormal-Uterine-Bleeding Executive (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2013 - evaluation.9 In the research setting, the alkaline hematin method is the preferred technique for direct measurement

1539. Renal-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      April 20, 2015 - Risk of bias judgment Bias in measurement of interventions 3.1 Is intervention status well defined … Risk of bias judgment Bias in measurement of outcomes 6.1 Was the outcome measure objective? … 6.4 Were any systematic errors in measurement of the outcome unrelated to intervention received?

1540. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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      March 25, 2012 - Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews … but some question remains whether some (although not major) differences occurred with follow-up; measurement … initially are not close to being comparable or maintained throughout the trial; unreliable or invalid measurement