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  1. Technical Brief: Evaluation of Suspicious Skin Lesions Using Non-Invasive Diagnostic Techniques | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/skin-lesions-evaluation/research-protocol

  2. Diagnostic Errors | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
    June 15, 2024 - June 28, 2017 Ethical dilemma in missed melanoma: what to tell the patient and other

  3. Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Insufficient Evidence (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/inevidup.pdf
    September 01, 2009 - harms Costs Current practice About 1 000 000 cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer and 52 000 cases of melanoma … About 11 000 deaths per year are attributable to skin cancer, about 8000 of which are from melanoma. … Melanomas detected at a late stage have a poor prognosis.

  4. Exhibit 2.4 Average Length of Stay and Average Charges

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/figures/2005/2005_2_4.jsp
    January 01, 2005 - dysrhythmias (irregular heart beat) 696.6 19.444 3.5 0.033622 24,700 682 22 Skin melanoma … 0.044459 18,300 441 23 Other non-epithelial cancer of skin (skin cancer other than melanoma

  5. Data Points #10: Proton beam radiotherapy in the U.S. Medicare population: growth in use between 2006 and 2009 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/radiotherapy-proton-beam/research

  6. Particle Beam Radiation Therapies for Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/cancer-radiation/technical-brief

  7. Exhibit 4.3 Average Length of Stay and Average Charges

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/figures/2006/2006_4_3.jsp
    January 01, 2006 - Coma, stupor, and brain damage 4.9 22,787 Gastrointestinal hemorrhage 4.4 23,072 Melanomas

  8. Cancer-Drugs-Utilization Research (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-drugs-utilization_research.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - indications for advanced renal cell carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, and off-label use in melanoma … these biologics’ off-label use in renal cell carcinoma, chronic myelogenous leukemia, and metastatic melanoma

  9. Statistical Brief #37

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb37.jsp
    September 01, 2007 - – 20: Other respiratory and chest cancers (intrathoracic) – 21: Cancer of bone – 22: Skin melanoma … – 23: Skin cancer other than melanoma – 24: Breast cancer – 25: Cancer of uterus – 26: Cancer

  10. HCUP Statistical Brief #37: Pediatric Hospital Stays for Cancer, 2005 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb37.pdf
    September 01, 2007 - lung – 20: Other respiratory and chest cancers (intrathoracic) – 21: Cancer of bone – 22: Skin melanoma … /ccs.jsp 4 http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/costtocharge.jsp – 23: Skin cancer other than melanoma

  11. Chapter 6. Measure Maps and Profile | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter6.html
    June 01, 2014 - Melanoma Continuity of Care—Recall System Measure Titles New with this Update 62.

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49812/psn-pdf
    November 01, 2017 - Did the patient have a melanoma or invasive carcinoma? What treatment would have been indicated?

  13. Horizon Scanning_Rapid Cost Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Reports (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/horizon-scan_research-2015.pdf
    January 01, 2015 - Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for Treatment of Advanced Melanoma Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1 … activation of an immune checkpoint and leads to an increase in anticancer immune response against melanoma … Pembrolizumab was FDA approved in September 2014 for treating advanced melanoma in patients whose disease … has progressed after treatment with ipilimumab (Yervoy) or a BRAF inhibitor if the melanoma is BRAFV600 … 640–1,500 patients would receive 17 cycles of pembrolizumab as treatment for nonresectable melanoma

  14. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives_research-protocol.pdf
    March 13, 2012 - including myocardial infarction; disease-specific mortality associated with these outcomes), meningioma, melanoma … venous thromboembolic event (VTE), stroke, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction meningioma, melanoma … cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, endometrial hyperplasia, meningioma, melanoma

  15. Specimen Almost Lost | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/specimen-almost-lost
    September 21, 2022 - Did the patient have a melanoma or invasive carcinoma? What treatment would have been indicated?

  16. Cer-242-Radiation-Therapy-Brain-Metastases-Evidence-Summary (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-242-radiation-therapy-brain-metastases-evidence-summary.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - restricted to studies that included patients with non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma

  17. DXCCSR-vs-Beta-CCS-Comparison (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccsr/DXCCSR-vs-Beta-CCS-Comparison.pdf
    January 01, 2020 - Gastrointestinal cancers - bile duct 9 9 0 19 Cancer of bronchus; lung NEO022 Respiratory cancers 9 2 7 22 Melanomas … of skin NEO025 Skin cancers – melanoma 1 1 0 24 Cancer of breast NEO030 Breast cancer - all other types … 3 NEO022 – Respiratory cancers 21 Cancer of bone and connective tissue 2 NEO023 – Bone cancer 22 Melanomas … of skin 2 NEO025 – Skin cancers - melanoma 23 Other non-epithelial cancer of skin 4 NEO028 – Skin cancers

  18. Final Progress Report: Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - potential toxicities, including 6- mercaptopurine (pediatric leukemia), temozolomide (brain cancer and melanoma … potential toxicities, including 6-mercaptopurine (pediatric leukemia), temozolomide (brain cancer and melanoma

  19. Telemedicine and Patient Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/telemedicine-and-patient-safety
    September 01, 2016 - In the study, the authors tested the application's ability to detect melanoma by using it to evaluate … 93 photos of biopsy-proven melanoma.( 12 ) Disconcertingly, it correctly classified only 10.8% of the

  20. In Conversation With… Reed V. Tuckson, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-reed-v-tuckson-md
    September 01, 2016 - In the study, the authors tested the application's ability to detect melanoma by using it to evaluate … 93 photos of biopsy-proven melanoma.( 12 ) Disconcertingly, it correctly classified only 10.8% of the
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