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401. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 272_Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2024 - from statistical rather than clinical significance or effect magnitude, in part because validated measures … Few validated scales or thresholds for clinical importance exist which makes it difficult to translate … by a standard definition and uniform diagnostic criteria for GSM, a common set of validated outcome measures

402. Executive Summary_Systematic Review: Psychosocial and Pharmacologic Interventions for Disruptive Behavior in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2025 - interventions were better than usual care or waitlist in reducing parent-reported disruptive behavior measures … parent-only interventions resulted in greater improvement on parent-reported disruptive behaviors scales … as substantial heterogeneity in psychosocial treatments (and how they were delivered) and outcome measures

403. CER 221 Disposition of Comments: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2019 - Peer reviewer #4 General Comments Issues around outcomes: A fully defined outcome includes domain, measure … The only missing items were specific measures for symptom scales and quality of life. … Peer reviewer #4 Methods Summary measures Are the methods appropriate? … : No Summary measures Are the methods reported clearly and accurately? … Symptoms, including cough, were reported using scales. When multiple scales used, we used SMD.

404. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Can the ability to measure FLC, with their shorter half lives, improve treatment protocol selection

405. Diagnosis and Management of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2023 - Exclude: • Studies not reporting predictive validity that report other psychometric properties of scales … (PREMs) Patient reported outcome measure (PROMs) • Top Problems assessment (TPA) Quality of … Life (QoL) General and Health Related (HRQoL) (validated scales only)* • Quality of Life Enjoyment … include studies that evaluate the diagnostic accuracy (predictive validity) of different assessment scales … If reported, we will extract relevant measures at all reported thresholds.

406. 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

407. 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

408. Adverse Effects of First-Line Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     February 07, 2018 - for the CQ: • Response: commonly defined as a 50% or more improvement on either the HAM- D or MADRS scales … using the telephone, preparing meals, managing finances, taking medication, shopping, or physical measures … , and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability. … medications in the elderly and potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in the elderly quality measures … The arcsine difference as a measure of treatment effect in meta-analysis with zero cells.

409. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Instead, a set of diagnostic criteria (symptoms, signs, imaging results, and laboratory measures) is … For categorical test results: Cohen’s kappa statistic is a measure of categorical agreement that accounts … This statistic is a measure of categorical agreement that takes into account the probability that some … Portable monitors can also measure AHI. … PSG quantifies the Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI), which is a measure of episodes of reduced or no airflow

410. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Instead, a set of diagnostic criteria (symptoms, signs, imaging results, and laboratory measures) is … For categorical test results: Cohen’s kappa statistic is a measure of categorical agreement that accounts … This statistic is a measure of categorical agreement that takes into account the probability that some … Portable monitors can also measure AHI. … PSG quantifies the Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI), which is a measure of episodes of reduced or no airflow

411. Microsoft Word - cognitive-decline-protocol-160322.docx (pdf file)
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     March 22, 2016 - In some instances the other measures of decline could apply to either dementia or age-related cognitive … KQ 3: What is the strength of association between outcome measures examined in KQs 1 or 2 including … For outcomes measured with instruments that lack established thresholds to measure improvement, we … appropriateness of pooling data.16 We will assess statistical heterogeneity with Cochran’s Q test and measure … We will assess strength of evidence for key final health outcomes measured with validated scales.

412. S81 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Measures: Professional nurse reviewers identified ADEs using implicit chart review. … paradigm are typically reported in terms of the Effect Strength for Sensitivity (ESS), the targeted measure … such as the area under the receiver operator curve (ROC AUC), a more commonly used measure of discrimination … Table 1 lists the test characteristics and measures of association for selected independent variables … Table 2 lists the test characteristics and measures of association for selected independent variables

413. Antidepressant Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2014 - debilitating for the mother, postpartum depression affects maternal-infant interactions and some measures … measuring depression or validated scales used to measure anxiety symptoms • Functional capacity – … interventions, or no treatment; and (3) measured outcomes of interest directly and did not use proxy measures … Studies were generally not designed to measure benefits (e.g., effect on depressive symptoms) when … Our review indicates that use of SSRIs did not result in differences on most measures.

414. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, or receiver operating characteristic curves and derived measures … often remote from health outcome, in the short term, researchers rely on more proximate efficacy measures … one could consider jumping immediately to randomized clinical trials with patient-centered outcome measures … Memorandum for the evaluation of diagnostic measures. … Likelihood ratios as a measure of the diagnostic usefulness of excretory urogram information.

415. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, or receiver operating characteristic curves and derived measures … often remote from health outcome, in the short term, researchers rely on more proximate efficacy measures … one could consider jumping immediately to randomized clinical trials with patient-centered outcome measures … Memorandum for the evaluation of diagnostic measures. … Likelihood ratios as a measure of the diagnostic usefulness of excretory urogram information.

416. Ptsd-Adults-Trauma-Interventions Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 08, 2012 - Population, Interventions, Comparators, Outcome measures, Timing, and Setting (PICOTS) criteria for … gr=cli&prod=dts&id=overview#scales. … gr=cli&prod=dts&id=overview#scales Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published Online: … Online: November 8, 2012 patient reports little or no distress on Subjective Units of Distress Scales … PTSD outcome measures Outcome Measure Description Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)24, 49

417. Quantitative Synthesis: Learning Objectives and Recommendations (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2019 - • Chapter 2: Be able to recognize common measures of association for meta-analysis (e.g., risk difference … to analyze. ► Risk difference is the preferred measure if conversion to NNT or NNH is sought … ► Risk difference is not the preferred measure when the event is rare. … ► Risk ratio is not the preferred measure if switching between occurrence and non-occurrence of the … The Peto odds ratio viewed as a new effect measure.

418. Community-Based Participatory Research Slides Text Version (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - § Literature Review of measurement tools/metrics § 258 articles; 46 studies; 224 process/outcomes measures … CE) Survey: Perceived Perspectives of Partners Slide 15 Examples: Community Engaged/Key Informant Scales … garden § Retinal screenings Slide 24 Based on provider and patient input, we added a food security measure

419. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - Reviewer #4 Methods Page 11 line 15: "...we did not pool studies that used different tools to measure … Definitions and diagnostic criteria for outcome measures are appropriate. … The summary of results can be dense to read due to the multiple scales— low/moderate/high strength … the TENS over months duration or are we talking about short term application ( a few weeks, then measure … Peer Reviewer #2 Discussion /Conclusio n Also, another outcome measure may be exercise or activity

420. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - Reviewer #4 Methods Page 11 line 15: "...we did not pool studies that used different tools to measure … Definitions and diagnostic criteria for outcome measures are appropriate. … The summary of results can be dense to read due to the multiple scales— low/moderate/high strength … the TENS over months duration or are we talking about short term application ( a few weeks, then measure … Peer Reviewer #2 Discussion /Conclusio n Also, another outcome measure may be exercise or activity