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341. Strategies for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/strategies-integrating-behavioral-health-protocol.pdf
     August 04, 2022 - effective these strategies are; increase understanding of implementation and sustainment; identify measures … What reliable, valid, clinically meaningful, and/or patient-centered measures and metrics are available … Are the measures or metrics specific to characteristics; level of complexity; or the structure, process … What are the gaps in measurement and what are the implications for our current ability to measure and … emergency care or inpatient care for behavioral health crises • Total health care utilization Measures

342. Slide 1 (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - procedures usually inform, educate participants • Materials should be comprehensible, engaging – Can measure … • Measure perceived independence, adequacy of information 3 � �Educating Session Participants

343. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2017 - As above, change is a type of outcome measure. … Reviewer (Allergen) Methods Quality of Life (pg. 11) – AHRQ’s Current Symptom Severity Scale Does Not Measure … In fact, the intent of the Symptom Severity Scale is not to measure the “variability and severity of … It measures the “distress due to the frequency and severity of uterine leimyomata symptoms”. … Instead, item response choices are presented as five-level Likert scales ranging from ‘not at all’

344. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Primary PTSD outcome measure b. … Analysis type of primary PTSD outcome measure (ITT, completer) d. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure(s) for studies that used a clinician-administered measure abstracted … as primary PTSD outcome measure l. … have been selected, on the basis of the results, from multiple eligible outcome measurements (e.g. scales

345. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2022 - Primary PTSD outcome measure b. … Analysis type of primary PTSD outcome measure (ITT, completer) d. … Results for other PTSD outcome measure(s) for studies that used a clinician-administered measure abstracted … as primary PTSD outcome measure l. … have been selected, on the basis of the results, from multiple eligible outcome measurements (e.g. scales

346. Disposition of Comments for Strategies To Prevent Weight Gain Among Adults (pdf file)
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     March 25, 2013 - Environment level interventions can benefit people of all weights. … In a study of weight – where weights are objectively measured on scales (most of which are digital) … Thus, the public health goal should not be keeping adult weights between 18.5 and 29.9 (as stated by … We consider multiple measures of weight for this reason. … BMI is a standard measure to categorize weight.

347. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Choice of contrast media (low-osmolarity vs. iso-osmolar or high- osmolar contrast media), prophylactic measures

348. Executive Summary_Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2024 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and the PTSD CheckList (PCL) were measures most frequently … The CAPS and the PCL were measures most frequently used to assess continuous PTSD outcomes, used in

349. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 20, 2011 - Appendix A, at the end of this report, describes each of the PTSD measures in detail. … gr=cli&prod=dts&id=overview#scales. 30. National Center for PTSD. Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS). … gr=cli&prod=dts&id=overview#scales http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/assessments/dts.asp http … PTSD outcome measures Outcome Measure Description Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)2, 28 … • It can be scored as a continuous measure of PTSD symptom severity.

350. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review: Implementing Recommended Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Counseling Interventions in Primary Care Settings for in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     April 09, 2025 - importantly, this is the need for a stable baseline before the intervention is implemented to be able to measure … Quality measures should be codesigned with individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions … The authors should bring attention to the validated screening measures that exist for infants and young … Our report did not assess the effectiveness of screening measures. … The report may benefit from some language clarification to ensure the scope and outcome measures in

351. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2017 - We have added information about the utility of commonly used outcome measures to the Research Gaps … The multitude of outcome measures are defined. … Our key outcomes of interest included AHI, desaturation nadir, and measures of sleep quality including … under KQ1 I would like to read something about whether the AHI versus symptom relief is a better measure … We have expanded our discussion of outcome measures in the Research Gaps section of the Discussion.

352. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/phenylketonuria_research-protocol.pdf
     March 29, 2011 - Cognition, including measures of executive function Primary outcomes in infant of PKU mother 1. … and adjustment of the data and results Other criteria Studies must include at least one outcome measure … We will capture all validated outcome measures available within these constructs and report on their … Cognition, including measures of executive function Primary outcomes in infant of PKU mother 1. … We will capture all validated outcome measures available within these constructs and report on their

353. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - Executive function measures did not differ among children receiving tonsillectomy or no surgery in one … Studies compared different measures of recovery, thus limiting our ability to draw conclusions about … total tonsillectomy had consistently more favorable outcomes but unit of measure varied across studies … Most studies used subjective outcome measures or relied on caregiver- or child-completed diaries to … Additionally, standardized measures of sleep outcomes are lacking.

354. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Principle 2: Consider Appropriate Test Characteristic Measures and Their Precision (1 of 4) The next … use of the test affects what should be considered the most important accuracy measures. … If a meta-analysis was performed, this will be the confidence interval around the summary measure(s) … This may be reported as confidence intervals around the summary measure(s) of test performance. … It shows need to evaluate the surrogate measure in the context of the clinical outcome.

355. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Principle 2: Consider Appropriate Test Characteristic Measures and Their Precision (1 of 4) The next … use of the test affects what should be considered the most important accuracy measures. … If a meta-analysis was performed, this will be the confidence interval around the summary measure(s) … This may be reported as confidence intervals around the summary measure(s) of test performance. … It shows need to evaluate the surrogate measure in the context of the clinical outcome.

356. 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

357. Disposition of Comments Report for Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Unlike medications, a subject does not just measure glucose and realize benefits or risks. … (I did not see that for the JRF study- which cited improved QOL for glycemic control and socal scales … In a broader view, all of the tools measure some aspect of quality of life. … While agreeing that the separate measures do all measure some aspect of quality of life, they each … measure different domains and have been verified in different settings.

358. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Eleven randomized trials reported quality-of-life data using a variety of different measures. … Development of evidence-based process measures for PCI and CABG would facilitate efforts to improve quality … of care and might provide better performance measures than procedure volume. … However, research is required to understand the relative ability of structural measures (e.g., volume … ) and process measures to predict institutions or physicians with low-quality CABG and PCI outcomes.

359. Fiber Intake and Laxation Outcomes (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2023 - Timing • Minimum duration of intervention: 2 weeks • In cross-over studies, any change in outcome measure … regarding fiber intake that exists and known issues regarding the lack of reliability of subjective measures … Particularly since several outcome measures (e.g., fecal frequency) may be commonly measured over a … requiring a 1- week washout for all cross-over studies), the inclusion criteria require that outcome measures … the threshold above which further increasing fiber intake will not significantly improve laxation measures

360. Methods Research Report: Improving Health Systems' Access to High-Quality Evidence: AHRQ EPC 2018 Pilot Projects Summary (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2019 - Duke University, Minnesota EPC Web Interactive Presentation of EPC Reports and Mapping to Quality Measures … Investigators needed to perform a review to identify relevant quality measures as this information is … Interactive Data Visualization Products • Quality measure indexing. … development Identify and match AHRQ EPC evidence reports associated with quality improvement measures … information added None Contextual information Contextual information Relevant Quality Measures