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1621. Disposition of Comments for CER 157 Appendicitis (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2015 - conceptualize deferred treatment strategies as diagnostic tests (that is, we only consider diagnostic procedures … Rather, it is added to the procedure of lap appe if the appendix is found to be normal. … I think combining a surgical procedure with radiologic tests and clinical evaluations in the review … It is an expensive and invasive procedure with morbidity that can be life threatening. … These studies are useful as they describe the method of risk stratification of patients using clinical

1622. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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      May 04, 2017 - Sharon Inouye's Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) for delirium and Meg Campbell's RDOS -- respiratory … Thank you for your comment. 7 Peer Reviewer #2 Methods Overall, the methods are clearly stated. … Explanations should be provided in the text on why this method was selected and information provided … Thank you for your comment. 54 Key Informant #5 Methods Methods are clear for researchers. … Again, this is a gap that is not identified, as a direct result of the method chosen.

1623. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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      May 04, 2017 - Sharon Inouye's Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) for delirium and Meg Campbell's RDOS -- respiratory … Thank you for your comment. 7 Peer Reviewer #2 Methods Overall, the methods are clearly stated. … Explanations should be provided in the text on why this method was selected and information provided … Thank you for your comment. 54 Key Informant #5 Methods Methods are clear for researchers. … Again, this is a gap that is not identified, as a direct result of the method chosen.

1624. Disposition of Comments Report for Pharmacologic and Mechanical Prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism Among Special Populations (pdf file)
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      May 29, 2013 - - yes Thanks Reviewer 10 Methods The statistical methods used are appropriate. … Reviewer 10 Methods change "evidence based" to "evidence base" This has been fixed Reviewer 10 Methods … Reviewer 12 Methods yes to all the questions. … The statistical methods are sound. … While this is not a method of prophylaxis it certainly is part of a comprehensive VTE prophylaxis program

1625. Integrating stakeholder preferences in comparative effectiveness research using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Conjoint Analysis (CA) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - MCDA methods enable the evaluation of many alternatives by explicit ranking, rating or pairwise comparison … one of the most widely used MCDA techniques available (Saaty, 1989)  Conjoint Analysis (CA) methods … Conjoint analysis methods MCDA (e.g. … Use in marketing (i.e. creates a hypothetical market)  Large datasets required Slide 10 MCDA methods … Slide 18 General remarks on use of MCDA and CA methods  MCDA or stated preference techniques do

1626. Disposition of Comments for Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2012 - versus another method) who then go on to treatment (if diagnosed with open angle glaucoma). … versus another method) who then go on to treatment (if diagnosed with open angle glaucoma). … versus another method) who then go on to treatment (if diagnosed with open angle glaucoma). … versus another method) who then go on to treatment (if diagnosed with open angle glaucoma). … versus another method) who then go on to treatment (if diagnosed with open angle glaucoma).

1627. #06 Developmental Delays ADHD, and Autism (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2015 - Please see the methods section for more details about this process. … interested in innovations in drugs and biologics, medical devices, screening and diagnostic tests, procedures … identification of new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests and procedures … For purposes of horizon scanning, AHRQ’s interests are broad and encompass drugs, devices, procedures … Executive Summary Background Methods Results Discussion

1628. #06 Developmental Delays ADHD, and Autism (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2015 - Please see the methods section for more details about this process. … interested in innovations in drugs and biologics, medical devices, screening and diagnostic tests, procedures … identification of new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests and procedures … For purposes of horizon scanning, AHRQ’s interests are broad and encompass drugs, devices, procedures … Executive Summary Background Methods Results Discussion

1629. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2011 - These questions have been derived through AHRQ procedure and cannot be changed Peer Reviewer #4 … in order to conduct the review at all, but “because I said so” is not exactly a strong, scientific method … Peer Reviewer #3 Methods Overall, the method section did a good job in describing how studies were … Single studies with contrary findings raise questions about the method that merit explication and caution … subsequent to PR version Peer Reviewer #7 Results p 127 L-20 Treated prevalence –more specific than method

1630. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions To Improve Patient Adherence to Hepatitis C Treatment: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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      December 20, 2012 - Although this may represent an alternative classification approach, we don’t find this method is superior … methods may include systems which do not fit well under “counseling methods” (e.g., behavioral, alarm … TEP #3 Methods I found the methods to be adequate and described with enough detail Thank you. … TEP #6 Methods The methods are clearly stated and appropriate. Thank you. No response necessary. … Although this may represent an alternative classification approach, we don’t find this method is superior

1631. Introduction-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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      April 26, 2012 - However, funding proposals may also lack specificity in analysis plans, procedures, measurements, … Furthermore, it serves as a reference for increasing the transparency of the methods used in a study … Update on the methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: insufficient evidence. … Extension of kaplan-meier methods in observational studies with time-varying treatment. … Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews.

1632. Disposition of Comments Report for The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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      September 29, 2014 - Peer Reviewer 1 Methods The authors explain that the methods used for this manuscript conform to those … independent assessment of study quality resulted in initially equivalent determinations, given the method … Peer Reviewer 9 Methods The methods are well described with what I consider appropriate inclusion and … Methods are adequate. … Peer Reviewer 11 Methods Appropriate statistical methods used?

1633. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
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      June 11, 2013 - Please see the methods section for more details about this process. … interested in innovations in drugs and biologics, medical devices, screening and diagnostic tests, procedures … identifying new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests and procedures … For purposes of horizon scanning, AHRQ’s interests are broad and encompass drugs, devices, procedures … below lists two topics for which (1) some human data were available for programs (no drug, device, or procedure

1634. Slide 1
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      January 01, 2013 - Available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/Methods-OCER.cfm. … Available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/Methods-OCER.cfm. … Available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/Methods-OCER.cfm. … The case-crossover design: a method for studying transient effects on the risk of acute events. … Case-control study proposals should clearly describe the control sampling method, employ a new-user design

1635. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2011 - rTMS was beneficial relative to controls receiving a sham procedure for all three outcomes (severity … Indirect evidence about procedures or psychotherapy (vs. sham or nonpharmacologic controls) was presented … Three fair trials compared rTMS with a sham procedure and found no significant differences. … procedures or other controls. … groups had greater rates of withdrawals (overall and due to adverse events) than groups receiving sham procedures

1636. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 23 Genetic Testing (pdf file)
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      June 30, 2015 - These tests are not considered one test, although they are based on the same genetic testing method … These sequencing tests may use the Sanger method or next-generation sequencing platforms. … Peer Reviewer 2 Methods The methods are the appropriate methods to address the stated guiding questions … In this report, aCGH/microarray is considered a testing method, not a clinical test. … Listing as a PCR test isn’t useful without a detection method – e.g.

1637. Slide 1 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cf_deliberativemethodswebinar_introduction.pdf
      April 19, 2012 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Community Forum April 19, 2012 Using Deliberative Methods … Purpose: “How to” webinar to provide practical guidance for those interested in using deliberative methods

1638. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2013 - We truncated the search at 1995 to ensure comparability of procedures and technologies. … , or RFA compared with a conformal radiotherapy method. … process and defined key data elements to ensure accuracy and consistency in the data abstraction procedure … For radiotherapy, key factors would include the imaging and planning method, immobilization method, … Treatment-related AEs would be assessed from the date of the procedure extending to a reasonable time

1639. Calcineurin_Inhibitors_Protocol_FINAL_10-07-2014 (pdf file)
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      October 08, 2014 - 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

1640. Transcript Deliberativemethodswebinar (pdf file)
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      April 19, 2012 - And also, you know, the sort of dialogue, the two-way dialogue that is part of a good deliberative procedure … appropriate, given all that you’ve heard so far about the importance of goal setting, of matching the method … that have been used in deliberative procedures for informing and educating participants. … One is what I call the so-called kind of conflicting-experts method. … methods and each of these has key distinguishing features, so the methods vary in terms of size.