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221. final Fibromyalgia CER protocol_3-31-14 (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2014 - the ACR that eliminated the tender point examination, but relied on physician-rated severity in two scales … Clinical applications of visual analogue scales: a critical review. … Psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep measure. … Yes Valid measures, groups ~equivalent No Non-validated measures or non- equivalent groups … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e. objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent

222. No Slide Title (ppt file)
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     May 29, 2025 - sources Peer communication Assessing how well consumers understand health information Baseline measures

223. Evidence-Summary-Cer-197-Fractional-Exhaled-Nitric-Oxide (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - likely insufficient and its ability to predict exacerbations can be substantially enhanced by clinical measures … quite heterogeneous in terms of design, population, control tests, control strategies, and outcome measures … Studies evaluating disease activity and outcomes should use validated measures of activity and well defined

224. Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     November 18, 2024 - c See Section IV for an example table of measures with periodicity. … We will prioritize validated measures conducted by trained evaluators, ideally with a reference to a … standard, along with constructs and subscales of global measures (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant and … We will classify the magnitude of effects for measures (e.g., ≤ SS = 85 as clinically significant, ≤ … T-score = 40 as clinically significant for behavioral measures).

225. Self-Measured Blood Pressure: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - The proper outcome measure for such analyses is the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained per unit … hypertension/ 5 exp Self Care/ 6 (3 or 4) and 5 7 ((blood pressure or hypertens$) and self and (measure … Enrolling by invitation Device: Home monitoring 100 NCT00299468 The Effect of the Patient Activation Measure … on Chronic Care Completed Behavioral: Patient Activation Measure Intervention Package 283 NCT01155050 … recruiting Device: Mobile phone-based self- report system, electronic Patient- Reported Outcomes Measure

226. Disposition of Comments for CER 159 Insomnia (pdf file)
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     December 30, 2015 - or measure of insomnia treatment effects on function. … Removed ‘a more comprehensive sleep measure’. … included, but no objective measures. … greatly appreciated by clinicians who often struggle to understand what changes in scores on research scales … measures.

227. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Interventions to Prevent Nonventilator Hospital-acquired Pneumonia (NV-HAP) for Inpatients (pdf file)
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     August 05, 2024 - report the incidences monthly.12 In addition, NV-HAP is one of the outcomes included in the quality measure … , Death Rate among Surgical Inpatients with Serious Treatable Complications (CTIM Measure ID:134; Hospital … .15-20 In the prioritization process, the MHS IV TEP considered both screening and preventative measures … on mechanical ventilators: • Systemic antibiotic prophylaxis • Infection transmission prevention measures … Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Measures Inventory Tool: Death Rate among Surgical Inpatients

228. Update Topic CER 31 Clostridium difficile NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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     February 19, 2014 - (a) Do the differences in performance measures vary with sample characteristics? … § Do the differences in performance measures vary with sample characteristics? § KQ 2.

229. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 22, 2008 - growth.4,5 Treatment has improved considerably over the past 25 years, resulting in improvements in measures … Patients with CF also exhibit poor measures of growth compared to normal healthy children and these … measures can be reported in a variety of ways.12 Growth indices such as height and weight are reported … CF are at a disadvantage in terms of height and weight, and treatments are aimed at getting these measures … , bone measures, lung function, pulmonary exacerbations, exercise tolerance, antibiotic use, sex hormones

230. Asthma-Immunotherapy-2011 Research (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Published tools (scales or checklists) for quality assessment of observational studies 3. … 6±2 3±0 Are item weights adequate to detect major flaws in validity? … Comparing our checklists with previously published scales and checklists, we could find only one that … Previously published appraisals tested the ability of the checklists or scales to discriminate poor … Quality Assessment Scales for Observational Studies.: Ottawa Health Research Institute; 2004. 82

231. 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

232. Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 19, 2024 - c See Section IV for an example table of measures with periodicity. … We will prioritize validated measures conducted by trained evaluators, ideally with a reference to a … standard, along with constructs and subscales of global measures (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant and … We will classify the magnitude of effects for measures (e.g., ≤ SS = 85 as clinically significant, ≤ … T-score = 40 as clinically significant for behavioral measures).

233. Research Protocol: Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases (pdf file)
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     October 10, 2019 - ), volume of metastases (mean, SD, other measures), size of metastases (mean, SD, other measures) … outcomes functional status and quality of life we will assess whether the outcome assessment used scales … Quality of life as measured by validated scales 3. Cognitive function measured by any scale 4. … mean differences, will be translated into absolute effects or mean differences on known scales to help … We will review the applicability of the assessment scales to the population of interest.

234. Measuring Documentation Burden in Healthcare | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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235. Case-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Quality of care, as indicated by disease-specific process measures, receipt of recommended health care … Ability To Remain at Home One measure of the clinical significance of improvements in functioning for … Most studies did not carefully measure the amount of effort case managers devoted to different functions … CM programs that focus on clinical guideline measures for care of dementia do increase adherence to … those measures (1 study).

236. Nephropathy-Contrast-Induced Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - Effectiveness Review Number 156 Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: Comparative Effectiveness of Preventive Measures … We also sought to determine whether the risk of CIN, and therefore the need for preventive measures, … limitation (in allocation concealment or blinding of participants and personnel) but were designed to measure … significant was measured at 4 hours, and it was insignificant at 48 hours, which was the timeframe for the measure … Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: Comparative Effectiveness of Preventive Measures.

237. Disposition of Comments for CER 202 Effectiveness and Safety of Bronchial Thermoplasty in the Management of Asthma (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2017 - healthcare utilization was not directly measured within the AIR or RISA trials, these trials did measure … FEV1 data was collected in AIR2 as a safety measure, to confirm that pulmonary physiology does not … 2010 AIR2 trial, there existed a 96% PPS of an improvement in the asthma-specific quality of life measure … may not be clinically important, as it did not achieve the minimum important difference for this measure … Reviewer 10 Ann Roy on behalf of Boston Scientific Results Detailed Synthesis – Symptoms (secondary measure

238. 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

239. 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

240. 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?