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341. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 1 1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction to the Methods … This Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (referred to hereafter as the Medical Test Methods Guide … Development of the Medical Test Methods Guide In developing this Medical Test Methods Guide, we sought … described this same model as the “analytic framework.”16 These points were reiterated in the most recent Procedure … Preventive Services Task Force Procedure Manual. AHRQ Publication No. 08- 05118-EF.

342. Vitamin D and Calcium: A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes (Update) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … and procedures used for the interventional studies that aimed to assess the effect of vitamin D administration … on serum 25(OH)D concentrations, and to stratify key outcomes by methods used to assay serum 25(OH)D … Methods used to assay serum 25(OH)D in studies reporting on key outcomes diverged widely. … Studies suggest the method used to assay 25(OH)D may influence the outcomes of dose-response assessments

343. Quantitative Synthesis—An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - For related information, go to the Series Overview, Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative … initial teleconference meeting was used to outline the draft, discuss the timeline, and agree upon a method … We did not employ a formal voting procedure to assess consensus. … Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/methods-quantitative-synthesis-update/methods

344. Systematic Review of Calcineurin Inhibitors for Kidney Transplant | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Intervention Criteria Monitoring method. … meta-analysis using the Hartung-Knapp method. 31,32 Meta-regression and subgroup analysis will be used … A refined method for the meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials with binary outcome. … '/exp OR 'double blind procedure' OR 'single blind procedure'/exp OR 'single blind procedure' OR 'placebo … OR 'crossover procedure' OR 'triple blind procedure'/exp OR 'triple blind procedure' OR 'controlled

345. Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone in Coronary Stenting: Future Research Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Questions and Draft Reports Submit SEADs Resources for Getting Involved Research Methods … & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … Home Evidence Reports Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures … Methods Building on evidence gaps identified in a previous CER on intravascular diagnostic techniques … Project Timeline Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone

346. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis Methods … This is a chapter from " Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews ." … Women: A Systematic Review Research Protocol Dec 20, 2024 The Performance of Fusion Procedures … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/continuous-outcomes-quantitative-synthesis/methods

347. Management of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2024 - If a meta-analysis is deemed appropriate, we plan to use the DerSimonian and Laird random-effects method … treatments if the number of studies included in the analysis is larger than three.30 The fixed effect method … based on the Mantel and Haenszel method will be adopted when the number of studies is three or fewer … Assessing Applicability We will follow the procedures outlined in the EPC Methods Guide for Comparative … AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness

348. depression-pregnancy-postpartum-protocol (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2013 - Characteristics of diagnosis—whether depression was detected during screening or not, time of diagnosis, method … Methods A. … characteristics of diagnosis (whether depression was detected during screening or not, time of diagnosis, method … and pediatrician visits); numbers of patients screened, eligible, enrolled, and lost to followup; method … Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research.

349. Update of Comparative Effectiveness of Lipid-Modifying Agents | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, and any or unspecified revascularization procedure … ischemic stroke, any or unspecified stroke, TIA CEA, PCI, CABG, and any or unspecified revascularization procedure … Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. … Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. … [mh] or single-blind method[mh] OR clinical trial[pt] or clinical trials[mh] or (“clinical trial”[tw]

350. Gout Dx protocol_140715-draft (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Methods In general, this systematic review will follow the procedures of the Methods Guide for Medical … few studies will address the question of adverse outcomes or patient satisfaction with diagnostic procedures … Data Abstraction and Data Management – Data abstraction will follow the procedures described above. … For studies that assess the validity of an alternative diagnostic method against that of analysis of … , given the limitations of the oldest, gold standard method, the newness of most methods that rely on

351. Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain: Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2021 - invasive surgical procedures). … The interventional procedures for this review are: Vertebral augmentation procedures (vertebroplasty … Methods All methods used for this systematic review will be conducting in accordance with AHRQ’s Methods … Comparator Placebo, sham interventional procedure, or no interventional procedure For cooled … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies: Methods from the Methods Guide for

352. S81 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Conclusions: Hierarchically optimal classification tree analysis is a promising method for rapidly developing … Another approach is to use a partitioning analysis rather than a linear statistical method. … codes into general categories (eg, coronary/cerebral vascular disease, selected vascular/ orthopedic procedures … We attempted to minimize this outcome by using procedures to ensure jackknife stability and experimentwise … An almost unbiased method of obtaining confidence intervals for the probability of misclassification

353. Geographic Variation in Carotid Endarterectomy and Carotid Stenting Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2003-2006 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … followed up from the first observed procedure. … We used Kaplan-Meier methods to calculate unadjusted 30-day and 1-year mortality rates. … Using the direct standardization method, we calculated annual age-adjusted rates of carotid endarterectomy … clinical trials will provide critical guidance for the treatment of patients who are eligible for either method

354. chronic-fatigue-protocol (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - What methods are available to clinicians to diagnose ME/CFS and how do the use of these methods vary … Methods A. … Information that will be abstracted that is relevant for assessing applicability will include the method … quality of the studies and the heterogeneity among studies in design, patient population including method … Preventive Services Task Force Procedure Manual. AHRQ Publication No. 08-05118-EF.

355. Prognostic Tests (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - This method does not require clinically meaningful prognostic categories, since not all increases or … Instead, this method focuses on subjects that have a higher or lower predicted probability when a new … Dear’s method (1994) Uses a fixed-effects regression model Arend’s method (2008) Is similar to a DerSimonian-Laird … Dear’s method (1994) uses a fixed-effects regression model to do this. … Arend’s method (32008) is similar to a DerSimonian-Laird random-effects model and is used when there

356. Prognostic Tests (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - This method does not require clinically meaningful prognostic categories, since not all increases or … Instead, this method focuses on subjects that have a higher or lower predicted probability when a new … Dear’s method (1994) Uses a fixed-effects regression model Arend’s method (2008) Is similar to a DerSimonian-Laird … Dear’s method (1994) uses a fixed-effects regression model to do this. … Arend’s method (32008) is similar to a DerSimonian-Laird random-effects model and is used when there

357. Cer-265-Radiation-Bone-Disease-Addendum-App (xls file)
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     October 12, 2023 - of information Overall survival estimated using Kaplan-Overall suvival estimated using Kaplan Meier method

358. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 253: Maternal and Child Outcomes Associated With the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) (pdf file)
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     April 19, 2022 - • Reviewers suggested moving more details about the methods and literature flow figure from appendix … In the methods section of the Evidence Summary, we succinctly state that we focused on comparison … selection were based on the PICOTS method which described the populations, interventions, comparisons … This is mentioned in the Methods section under “Data Synthesis and Analysis.” … , recommended AHRQ method.

359. Depression Treatment after Unsatisfactory Response to SSRIs when used as First-line Therapy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Questions and Draft Reports Submit SEADs Resources for Getting Involved Research Methods … & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … Depression Treatment after Unsatisfactory Response to SSRIs when used as First-line Therapy Methods … Finally, we will attempt to explore the impact of key methodological study limitations, in particular … Summary of Protocol Amendments NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for

360. Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2022 - Questions and Draft Reports Submit SEADs Resources for Getting Involved Research Methods … & Tools Research Methods & Tools Tools & Software Education Resources About … Review methods. … studies included randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental observational studies, and mixed-method … Effective Health Care (EHC) Program Evidence Reports Health Topics Research Methods