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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/safety-vaccines/protocol
April 06, 2020 - (Table 1):
Table 1: Eligibility criteria
Domain
Inclusion
Exclusion
Population
Human participants … vaccine)
Studies without intervention comparator
Outcomes
Adverse events identified in participants … e.g., use of a scale or checklist) and whether adverse event data were collected actively (e.g., all participants … were asked about the occurrence of specific harms) or passively (e.g., participants might have reported … In addition, we will review whether the authors specified the number of participants affected by each
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/prosthesis/research
September 06, 2018 - No eligible study addressed how study participants' preprescription expectations of ambulation align
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/migraine-prevention/research-2013
April 18, 2013 - network meta-analysis, and calculated numbers of outcome events attributable to treatments per 1,000 participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/bonoff-text.pdf
January 01, 2000 - advocacy careers
§ Collaborative: designed by NBCC with scientists, academics, and consumers
§ Select participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq_community_forum_webinar_bonoff.pdf
January 01, 2000 - careers
• Collaborative: designed by NBCC with scientists, academics, and
consumers
• Select participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/patient-family-engagement-protocol.pdf
December 31, 2019 - Office
of Management and Budget
requirements to avoid using
survey methods with more than 9
participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pdf/epc-ki-tep-confidentiality-form.pdf
August 01, 2020 - Disclosure Policy and Form
EPC Key Informant and Technical Expert Agreement
The primary role of the Key Informant is to provide input on proposed review questions to help
the EPC ensure that a resulting evidence review will be useful for people making real-world
decisions.
The primary role of the Technical…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gout_executive-2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - be
identified for a diagnostic test of interest, studies were also
included if some or all of the participants … Studies were excluded if participants had already been
definitively diagnosed with gout prior to enrollment … Applicability
Applicability is a measure of the extent to which the
participants, interventions, and … We reviewed 255 full-text articles, of which 234 were
excluded for the following reasons: participants … Relatively
few studies enrolled only participants with an inflamed
joint or even with suspected gout
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-207-ptsd-disposition-comments.pdf
May 17, 2018 - All studies included a majority of
participants with clinical PTSD and the portion who did
not had … the 2013 SR reports, for the same study, “At 6-
month follow-up, more than twice the percentage of
participants … No participants
achieved this level of relief in the fluoxetine or placebo
group.” … Participants were randomized to a multi-
component collaborative care intervention and not to
psychotherapy … None of the participants in the RCTs of
psychological interventions were blinded while all of the
participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-report-creating-efficiencies-extraction-data.pdf
August 01, 2021 - 3
abstracts to identify the first 75 randomized trials that reported on outcomes for participants … ExaCT’s extraction:
Sentence Ranking Sentence
1 Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental … cartridge”
ExaCT’s extraction:
Sentence Ranking Sentence
1 After a 7-day washout period when participants … received Peptamen 1.5 with their usual
dose of PERT products but without digestive cartridge, participants … received Peptamen 1.5 with their usual
dose of PERT products but without digestive cartridge, participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cell-free-dna-protocol.pdf
June 05, 2024 - % of participants <50
years (if reported)
Text
% Female
Note … Text
Age range of included population (if
reported)
Text
% of participants ≥65 years (if … Radio Yes
No
Other
Length of followup (in years) used to
consider participants cancer free … with cancer identified
through clinical presentation (if reported
Text
N (%) of participants … N True Negatives(participants without cancer and
negative test)
N False Positives (participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_chou_assessing_harms_when_comparing.pdf
November 01, 2008 - Data are often insufficient to assess the methods used to
select participants.
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In addition, because … Participants are asked in structured questionnaires or interviews about the occurrence of
specific adverse … Passive surveillance of
harms
Participants are not specifically asked about or tested for the occurrence … 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.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/renal-cancer_research-protocol.pdf
April 20, 2015 - Performance bias
Blinding of participants and
personnel Assessments should be
made for each main … Performance bias due to knowledge of the allocated interventions by
participants and personnel during … Were participants analyzed according to their initial intervention group throughout
follow up? … Risk of bias judgment
Bias in
selection of
participants
into the study
2.1. … 6.2 Were outcome assessors unaware of the intervention received by study participants?
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
November 01, 2008 - Data are often insufficient to assess the methods used to
select participants.
45
In addition, because … Participants are asked in structured questionnaires or interviews about the occurrence of
specific adverse … Passive surveillance of
harms
Participants are not specifically asked about or tested for the occurrence … 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.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tympanostomy-tubes-executive-170523.pdf
May 01, 2017 - n/N (%)
Odds ratio
(95% CI)
Goldstein 2005 15689760
7/1996-6/1999
U.S.
1 year Ear plugs All Participants … 42/90 (46.7) 0.68 (0.37 – 1.25)
No precautions All Participants 46/82 (56.1) [reference]
Ear plugs … 18/30 (60.0) 0.71 (0.29 – 1.76)
Ear plugs† All Participants 13/15 (86.7) 3.10 (0.64 – 15.04)
No precautions … All Participants 42/62 (67.7) [reference]
†Randomized to the nonswimming group, but self-selected to … Across RCTs relative to KQs 1 and 2, there was universal
lack of blinding of participants and, in many
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/case-management-future_research.pdf
June 01, 2015 - The research team sent written invitations to the potential stakeholders/participants (see
Appendix … Participation at all stages was voluntary, and participants were free to decline to participate in
any … Audio recordings were made after the participants
provided verbal permission to record the discussions … We incorporated suggestions from pilot participants before sending the final
link to stakeholders. … Participants
will then take part in a modified Delphi process to prioritize research topics.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/ehc-presentation-quantitative-synthesis-chapter-2.pdf
February 01, 2018 - Special topics:
Crossover trials
• In a crossover trial all participants receive both the treatment … control/pooled)
Special topics:
Cluster-randomized trials
• Cluster randomized trials are those where participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ebc-webinar-slides.pptx
June 01, 2014 - private chat message to the “HOST 1 COMMUNITY FORUM (Host)” or a public message to “Everyone” which all participants … private chat message to the “HOST 1 COMMUNITY FORUM (Host)” or a public message to “Everyone” which all participants
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-cancer-risk-reduction_research.pdf
October 25, 2010 - led to differences
in the numbers reported for allocation of participants. … Participants were contacted no more than three times. … Participants were asked to
complete the questionnaire by July 16. … (Figure 3) and the numbers of participants by stakeholder
category (Table 1). … Participants were not
substantially different from non-participants.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-225-substance-abuse-adolescents-comments.pdf
May 21, 2020 - We recommend adding in any
available information of participants’ demographics in the
studies reviewed