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421. S143 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Measures: Exposure to statin therapy was assessed at the beginning of follow-up with all cohort members … Lipoprotein measures (LDL, HDL, and TG) were assumed to be valid for up to 6 months from the date of … We found that measures of healthcare utilization (in- tensities of lipid-related laboratory testing, … chronic therapy as well as the physician’s urgency in recommending a therapy will be reflected in these measures

422. Dementia-Nursing-Home-Characteristics Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Among four other morbidity measures the evidence was insufficient. 7 Evidence on dementia SCUs … Low New/worsening morbidity and various discrete measures Morbidity across multiple measures differed … Many studies in this review used the CMAI (the Cohen Mansfield Agitation Inventory, a measure of behavioral … symptoms),20-23 and other established measures are available for other outcomes of interest. … • Use established outcome measures to enable the pooling of data or qualitative interpretations.

423. Disposition of Comments Report for Testing of CYP2C19 Variants and Platelet Reactivity for Guiding Antiplatelet Treatment (pdf file)
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     September 25, 2013 - Definitions, outcome measures and statistical methods are appropriate. … The outcome measures used for this topic are quite complicated with several of them relying on epidemiological … Analytic sensitivity and specificity are used in the characterization of tests that measure levels of … identifies 40 studies that examined the association of genotype results with platelet reactivity measures … Teirstein Results Platelet reactivity should be considered a viable surrogate outcome measure.

424. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Examining the Impact of Implementing High-Reliability Organization Principles on Patient Safety Outcomes (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2025 - event Secondary outcomes: • Intermediate outcomes related to embedding HRO principles, e.g., measures … the review questions, and included author, year, study design, frequency and severity of the harms, measures … characteristics Author, Year Study Design Setting HRO Framework HRO Activities* Primary Outcome Measures … Secondary Outcome Measures Sculli, 202215 Pre-post Compare d to all VHA facilities (All … Developing well defined structural measures to guide implementation would be a potential strategy to

425. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update (pdf file)
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     June 15, 2016 - in Rheumatology) has developed guidelines on outcome measures.24 General tools that have been adapted … Studies of similar interventions will be grouped by outcome measures if feasible. … However, if most studies that report on a common outcome report different measures, we will conduct … Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)--development of a self- administered outcome measure … Development and Validation of the Computer-Administered Animated Activity Questionnaire to Measure

426. GRADING THE STRENGTH OF A BODY OF EVIDENCE (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - GRADE Approaches to Evaluating Evidence The EPCs’ strength of evidence approach is based in large measure … For example, studies in a review may use a variety of scales to measure the same outcome, and those … Moreover, some or all of such scales may not have been subjected to reliability or validity testing. … Thus, EPCs may not be able to determine a meaningful threshold across scales with different measurement … because of potential problems in their interpretation and lack of statistical power.45,46 No single measure

427. Topic Brief: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation for Breast Cancer (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2022 - Group scores and Late Effects Normal Tissue Task Force-- Subjective, Objective, Management, Analytic scales … scores and Late Effects Normal Tissue Task Force-- Subjective, Objective, Management, Analytic scales … Homogeneity of variance of measures associated with objective assessment of esthetic outcome after treatment … There are several groups that regularly measure patterns of care and publish on adherence with ASTRO … ASTRO will collaborate and support patterns of care studies to measure and compare rates of concordance

428. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 22, 2010 - The assessment included items intended to directly measure health literacy. …  Measures of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality. … Low parental literacy is associated with worse asthma care measures in children. … Testing the feasibility of an interactive learning styles measure for U.S. … Agreement between scales in the measurement of breast cancer risk perceptions.

429. Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Weights are based on the rank numbers (1–12) of each gap multiplied by how many stakeholders assigned … Short-term quality of life Nine studies found an SVR associated with greater improvement in measures … a Weights are based on the score (high=3, medium=2, low=1) multiplied by the number of stakeholder endorsements … a Weights are based on the rank numbers (1-12) of each gap multiplied by how many stakeholders assigned … treatment and post- treatment D-5 NCT Number Study Titles Interventions Age Groups Outcome Measures

430. Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - Secondly, it does not measure any health-related outcomes that would help deduce which AHI measurements … The proper outcome measure is quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained. … survey respondents’ answer to favor sleep specialists or nonspecialists with respect to any outcome measure … vs. high), the (predictive) sensitivity and the (predictive) specificity of a CPR would be a way to measure … (which are quick and easy to collect), symptoms (e.g., sleepiness scales), clinical outcomes (e.g.,

431. Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment (pdf file)
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     January 12, 2022 - determining which outcomes to assess and challenges in assessing them (e.g., use of multiple instruments to measure … (e.g., VAS, NRS, NDI, SF-36, SF-12, EQ-5Dm, mJOA score, Nurick score, MDI, PROMIS-29, dysphagia scales … We will classify the magnitude of effects for continuous measures of pain and function using a similar … For analysis of continuous measures 11 across the same … for outcomes measures with similar constructs together with 95% confidence intervals.

432. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - Treatment advances in CF over the past 25 years have improved measures of nutrition, pulmonary function … It has been investigated for the treatment of CF because of the decreased growth measures and increased … The link between different measures of weight and mortality was supported in a majority of studies that … between pulmonary function and HRQoL in patients with CF was evaluated in 14 studies, but 10 different scales … between anthropometrics and HRQoL in patients with CF was evaluated in 10 studies, but nine different scales

433. Covariate Selection for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research
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     January 01, 2013 - adherence, and a newer class of causal effect estimators, such as inverse probability of treatment weights … Inverse probability-of-censoring weights for the correction of time-varying noncompliance in the effect

434. Masks-Surveillance-2-Appendix-Table-A-3 (xls file)
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     March 23, 2020 - reported Potential recall bias; 60% of eligible cases included Chen W et al. 2009 Which preventive measures … controls were exposed to SARS-1 patients but otherwise not matched; collinearity in model not addressed Scales … SARS; collinearity in model not addressed Yin W et al. 2004 [Effectiveness of personal protective measures

435. Masks-Appendix-Table-B-3-Surveillance-Report (xls file)
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     February 01, 2020 - ; analyses appear to exclude 2 patients with subclinical SARS-1 Chen W et al 2009 Which preventive measures … controls were exposed to SARS-1 patients but otherwise not matched; collinearity in model not addressed Scales … probable SARS; collinearity in model not addressed Yin W et al 2004 [Effectiveness of personal protective measures

436. Masks-Appendix-Table-B-3-Version-2 (xls file)
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     February 01, 2020 - ; analyses appear to exclude 2 patients with subclinical SARS-1 Chen W et al 2009 Which preventive measures … controls were exposed to SARS-1 patients but otherwise not matched; collinearity in model not addressed Scales … probable SARS; collinearity in model not addressed Yin W et al 2004 [Effectiveness of personal protective measures

437. Calcineurin_Inhibitors_Protocol_FINAL_10-07-2014 (pdf file)
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     October 08, 2014 - Compared with the immunoassays, HPLC and LC-MS/MS offer more precise measures of the parent compound … In the absence of such studies, we will include as indirect evidence studies that report measures of … We will compute effect sizes and measures of variance using standard methods and will perform random-effects … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? 18. … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome? 19.

438. Systematic Review of Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and of Long-acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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     December 27, 2016 - increasing the dose of ICS that is otherwise taken as controller therapy, either strategy in response to a measure … • Asthma Control o Composite Measures Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published online … interventions (e.g. intervention drug(s), comparison, dose, frequency, concomitant medications), outcome measures … , and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability. … self-reported symptoms, nighttime awakenings, rescue SABA use, interference with normal activities; objective measures

439. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Management of Infertility (pdf file)
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     September 02, 2016 - September 2, 2016 3 • Number of study arms • Intervention description • Study design • Outcomes measures … ] Methods: primary outcome measure M/D/P [Primary outcome measure] Results: All planned timepoints reported … M/D/P [Secondary outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome-1 reported M/D/P [Secondary outcome measure … ] Results: secondary outcome-2 reported M/D/P [Secondary outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome … outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome-5 reported M/D/P [Secondary outcome measure] Results: secondary

440. The Use of Conjoint Analysis to Elicit Patient Preferences in Selecting Treatment Endpoints (pdf file)
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     August 27, 2012 - Choice Example Instruments SF-36 EQ-5D Tariffs Tailored Metrics HRQoL Scores QALYs Preference Weights … , HTE, MAR, MAB, WTP Uses CEA, licensing CEA, reimbursement Preference Weights, HTE, MAR, MAB …  Statistical model estimates preference weights consistent with observed choices. …  Preference weights quantify relative importance as the willingness to accept tradeoffs. …  Idea of treating patient-preference measures as evidence is novel for most clinicians.