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241. Executive Summary: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 256_Effectiveness of Telehealth for Women's Preventive Services (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2022 - comparator Preventive Service Outcome Intervention Comparison Number of Studies;* Study Design; Participants … 5 Preventive Service Outcome Intervention Comparison Number of Studies;* Study Design; Participants

242. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - • Approaches that educate the participants about an intervention will be reported in the section … If a study includes a portion of participants under age 18 and results are not reported separately … □ For KQ1-5 inclusion, the participants measured at the first timepoint must be the same participants … □ For KQ6 inclusion, the participants measured at the first timepoint are not required to be the … same participants as those measured at least 1 year later.

243. Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 09, 2009 - 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

244. S158 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Results: Validation studies are categorized as internal (ie, additional information is collected on participants … The main limitations stem from selection of participants into trials who are healthier and want to pursue … not represented in trials.1 In observational studies, it is possible to include a wide variety of participants … This subsample can then be conceptualized as “complete subjects,” in contrast to the other participants … Internal validation studies depend on the feasibility of collecting additional data from study participants

245. Smoking-Pregnancy-Infants Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2014 - Studies were required to include a minimum of 20 participants with data in each study arm. … studies are needed to confirm the effectiveness of this intervention, as the study included only 54 participants … in the full report) summarize the total number of studies and, within those studies, the number of participants … Note: Table shows data from 8, 086 participants randomized in 23 RCTs. … Interventions were generally more effective among participants with lower levels of tobacco dependence

246. 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

247. 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.

248. Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-Being | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 06, 2014 - Results After a review of 17,801 citations, we included 41 trials with 2,993 participants.

249. 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

250. 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

251. 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

252. 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.

253. 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

254. 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

255. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cerebral-palsy-feeding_research-protocol.pdf
     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

256. 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

257. 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

258. Engaging Patients in Information Sharing and Data Collection: The Role of Patient-Powered Registries and Research Networks | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 30, 2013 - trials, however, although an important source of new knowledge, may have a limited reach in garnering participants

259. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 06, 2016 - There is a LOW RISK OF BIAS if the participants and investigators enrolling participants could not foresee … There is a HIGH RISK OF BIAS if participants or investigators enrolling participants could possibly foresee … Were PARTICIPANTS adequately BLINDED? … There is a LOW RISK OF BIAS if blinding of participants was ensured and it was unlikely that the blinding … (Yes/No) YES if they state ITT and methods used were actually ITT, or **all** participants were analyzed

260. 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.