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261. An Ethical Framework for N-of-1 Trials: Clinical Care, Quality Improvement, or Human Subjects Research? (Chapter 2) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - example, in research, the goal is to produce a generalizable result; any benefit gained by individual participants … Five models of n-of-1 trials Abbreviations: IRB = Institutional Review Board, P = patients/participants … Participants will be required to mark their pain on a 10-point visual analog scale daily for 6 weeks. … At the end of each 6-week trial, participants will receive their individual results. … Informed consent of patients/participants is needed in all models of n-of-1 trials.

262. Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Even though there is a consensus that the average age of participants will be over 60 to 65 years old … nonrandomized controlled trials, cohort studies (prospective or retrospective), case-control studies Participants … Observational study designs with no comparison group (case reports, case series, cross sectional studies) Participants … Majority (>80%) of participants <50 years, as stated by the study investigators or evident from the … trial characteristics (e.g., mean/SD of patient population); participants with underlying pathological

263. Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - The Webinar participants also gave feedback on the list of gaps identified in the original CER. … Hepatitis C virus genotypes and viral concentratiosn in participants of a general population survey … SVR 12 Proportion of participants with SVR 24 Number of participants with HCV RNA level >1000 IU/ … mL Number of participants with viral breakthrough Number of participants with viral relapse Number … of participants with normalized alanine aminotransferase levels Number of participants with on-treatment

264. Rotator-Cuff-Tear-Surveillance-140925 (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2014 - Males comprised an average of 64.6 percent of study participants. … Males comprised an average of 58.9 percent of study participants. … Males comprised an average of 64.6 percent of study participants. … Males comprised an average of 50 percent of participants. … Males represented 55 percent of study participants.

265. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2017 - If studies reported whether their outcomes met a MCID or reported on the percent of participants who … Many RCTs of physical interventions reported that participants were not or could not be blinded. … Second, published MCIDs depend on the disease severity of the participants; the included studies often … did not report or varied widely in the disease severity of participants. … Reported outcomes need to include the percent of participants who experience improvement as well as

266. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 1. Decision To Combine Trials (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2019 - standard • It is recommended to explore variability: ► Clinical intervention ► Control condition ► Participants … ► Study design ► Outcome ► Follow-up time Heterogeneity • Clinical heterogeneity relates to participants

267. ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INCLUDED STUDIES (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2011 - matching in case-control studies Performance Bias Systematic differences in the care provided to participants … x x Did the strategy for recruiting participants into the study differ across study groups? … Participants also recognized that many of the tools being used were not based on empirical evidence … Was the NUMBER of participants that withdrew or were lost to follow-up specified for each study group … Was the TOTAL NUMBER of participants affected by harms specified for each study arm? 14.

268. Disposition of Comments for Evidence Report 221 Behavioral Programs for Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     September 28, 2015 - from the authors’ explicit statements for study inclusion or the clinical characteristics of the participants … We defined usual care as the clinical management received by all study participants, regardless of their … , study personnel, and outcome assessors, need to add a statement that blinding participants and study … Participants are aware of the treatment they are receiving and it is not possible to blind the treatment … While we agree that blinding of participants and providers is difficult, the risk of bias still remains

269. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 260: Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Health Outcomes (pdf file)
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     May 22, 2023 - We cannot recruit adequate numbers of participants for dietary/lifestyle interventions while requiring … biopsies, as supposed to industry drug trials, where participants are motivated by high monetary … given limited resources, we focused only on randomized controlled trials randomizing at least 50 participants … stakeholders, we chose to focus the review on randomized controlled trials randomizing at least 50 participants

270. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2012 - We anticipate that participants in studies of surgical interventions likely have more severe feeding … and personnel) Described all measures used, if any, to blind study participants and personnel from … Reviewer Comments: Performance bias due to knowledge of the allocated interventions by participants … Not described in sufficient detail Judgment: Blinding (participants and personnel) □ High … Detection bias Were the outcome assessors blinded to the intervention or exposure status of participants

271. Options for Developing a Web-Based Forum on Patient Registries (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - Meeting participants by stakeholder group (N=73)..................................................... … Meeting participants by stakeholder group (N=73) The in-person meeting combined presentations … Peripheral participants are those who have a sustained connection to the community, but are less engaged … Transactional participants are individuals who occasionally interact with the community to provide or … An in-person kickoff meeting was held in June 2012, and participants pledged to meet again to generate

272. Using Deliberative Methods to Engage the Public: How to Design and Implement an Effective Deliberative Session (Video Presentation) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Recruiting/Selecting Participants by Susan Dorr Goold in slide presentation (PDF, 116 kB) and text … Educating Session Participants by Susan Dorr Goold in slide presentation (PDF, 130 kB) or text (

273. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 273_Treatment of Stages I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2024 - and strength of evidence Intervention Comparison Outcome Number of Studies; Study Design; Participants … Low 4 Intervention Comparison Outcome Number of Studies; Study Design; Participants

274. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Patient and Family Engagement (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2023 - used specific items in the ROBINS-I tool that assess bias due to confounding, bias in selection of participants … of the included original studies Intervention Author, Year Study Design Setting Number of Participants … IV – Patient and Family Engagement Intervention Author, Year Study Design Setting Number of Participants … fall prevention plan.21 The Partnering With the Patient falls program involves patients as active participants … One study that implemented an electronic patient safety dashboard noted as a barrier that some participants

275. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Blind, Partic: = Blinding of participants and personnel. … XO, Equal = Was the number of participants analyzed in each crossover sequence equal or near equal?

276. Arthritis-Knee-Physical-Therapy Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - More than 70 percent of the participants were female. … Body mass index (BMI) of participants averaged 29 kg/m2. … Evidence from three RCTs with 167 participants contributed to the pooled analyses at the longest time … Adverse events were not severe enough to deter participants from continuing treatment. … Adverse events were not severe enough to deter participants from continuing treatment.

277. Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - The CPR would be applied to participants upon their entry to the cohort, and they would be followed … All participants were contacted 5 days before the online discussion board was made available. … Ideally, the study should follow participants longitudinally with multiple time points for outcome … The CPR would be applied to participants upon their entry to the cohort, and they would be followed … When the discussion period was announced, few participants logged onto the Web site within the first

278. Future Research Needs for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Therapies for Women (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - One of the strengths of our process included the constituents of the stakeholder participants. … In particular, few trials adequately concealed treatment assignments from participants, investigators … The drop-out rate exceeded 10 percent in eight studies and more than 20 percent of participants were … The CER recommended that future studies outline and report the diagnostic process for participants. … One of the strengths of our process included the constituents of the stakeholder participants.

279. #14 SUBSTANCE ABUSE (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Participants are required to respond to all parameters. … Combined, the portals allow participants to update their profiles and monitor their progress before … program can be accessed and used through the text interface alone. 3 Combined, the portals allow participants … the United States in June 2011. 2 In results of a 4-week pilot test of the intervention with 23 participants … who were smokers, the study authors reported that 14.3% of the participants quit smoking at 4 weeks

280. Masks for Prevention of COVID-19 in Community and Healthcare Settings (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2021 - The number of participants ranged from 164 to 7,687. … Blinding of participants to the mask and other interventions (e.g., hand hygiene) was not possible. … Participants in the trials generally received education on preventing respiratory infection and hand … used for research purposes, but should not be considered current. 18 PICOTS Participants … units Interventions N95 respirator Medical mask Condition COVID-19 Outcomes Number of participants