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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/quality-gap-palliative-hospice_research-protocol.pdf
June 27, 2011 - In addition, only 58 percent of
patients were informed of their life expectancy, and only 60 percent … undertreated,
particularly among vulnerable populations such as nursing home patients.
7
In 2009, only 42
percent … The survey results
showed that 18.2 percent of family members noted problems with inattention to their … needs for
support (variation among hospices, 25th and 75th percentiles, 12.6% and 21.4%), and 9.8 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/pressure-ulcer-prevention_research-protocol.pdf
January 10, 2012 - rates by medical care setting.
1
Estimates of the
incidence of pressure ulcers range from 0.4 to 38 percent … in acute care hospitals, from 2 to 24
percent in long-term nursing facilities, and from 0 to 17 percent … in the home care setting,
1,4
with
an overall prevalence in the United States of 13.5 percent in … 2008 and 12.3 percent in 2009.
5
Data on the cost of treatment for a pressure ulcer vary, but some
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/nephropathy-contrast-induced_executive.pdf
October 01, 2015 - is contrast-induced
nephropathy (CIN), defined as an increase
in serum creatinine of more than 25
percent … A body of evidence was assessed as having high study
limitations if greater than 50 percent of the studies … probability of CIN in the comparison group
and a minimally important relative risk difference of 25
percent … 0.02 probability in the comparison group and a minimally
important relative risk difference of 25 percent … The
SOE on statins versus intravenous saline was moderate,
with a CI suggesting at least a 20-percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/antidepressants-seniors-pneumonia_research.pdf
May 01, 2008 - If any factor changed the OR of
interest by ten percent or more, we considered it to be a confounding … However, when further adjusting for factors in Table 1 that changed the
OR by ten percent or more (number … When further adjusting for factors in Table 2 that changed the OR by ten
percent or more (number of … Adjusted for age, sex, calendar year, and any factor in Table 1 that changed the OR for exposure by ten percent … Adjusted for age, sex, calendar year, and any factor in Table 1 that changed the OR for exposure by ten percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/asthma-treatment_research-protocol.pdf
February 10, 2010 - quality of life, and significant activity limitations.2,3
In the United States, an estimated 7.7 percent … of people (22.2 million) had current asthma in
2007, affecting 9.4 percent (7.0 million) of children … and 7.3 percent (16.4 million) of adults and
accounting for nearly 3,500 deaths.4 Ethnic and racial … retraining
techniques for the treatment of asthma
Abbreviations: FEV1% = forced expiratory volume 1 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/binge-eating_clinician.pdf
May 01, 2016 - The lifetime prevalence of BED among adults in the United
States is 2.8 percent based on DSM-IV criteria … functioninge and
decreased impulsivity and disability in family and other social domains.
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95% CI = 95-percent … related to sleep
disturbance. ���
Overview of Clinical Research Evidence (Continued)
95% CI = 95-percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/colorectal-cancer-liver-metastases-therapies_research-protocol.pdf
September 27, 2012 - Review
Introduction
The liver is the most common location for solid organ metastases and up to 40 percent … metastases.1 Colorectal cancer is the most
common malignancy that metastasizes to the liver, with 25 percent … of colon cancer patients
presenting with synchronous liver metastases and another 50 percent developing … However,
only 10 to 25 percent of patients with metastases isolated to the liver are eligible for resection … adjunct to systemic chemotherapyInvolve an intervention of
interest
• Do not contain more than 10 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/schizophrenia-adult_research-protocol.pdf
September 23, 2016 - Lifetime prevalence is approximately 0.3 to 0.7 percent,
with onset most commonly between late adolescence … understanding of the causes and best treatments
of schizophrenia, prognosis remains poor, with nearly 80 percent … schizophrenia (including those with schizophreniform disorder)
§ Key Question 1:
• At least 90 percent … populations can be mixed-diagnoses, as the harms are not
population-specific
§ Key Question 2: 50 percent … the harms are not
population-specific
• Psychosocial and other nonpharmacological treatments: 50 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/topic-refinement.ppt
March 01, 2010 - end points (like pulmonary function tests), which surrogate end points would be optimal (i.e., FEV1 percent … evaluated the absolute change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), whereas others measured percent … experts did not want us to combine studies measuring absolute changes in FEV1 with those measuring percent … rhGH as an adjuvant to usual care improve intermediate outcomes, including pulmonary function (FEV percent … usual care improve intermediate outcomes, including: pulmonary function (FEV [forced expiratory volume] percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND__0399_01-07-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Although surgical resection is the preferred first-line treatment for HCC, approximately 80 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/ptsd-adult-treatment-update_research-protocol.pdf
December 31, 2017 - According to one
meta-analysis of 35 longitudinal study samples, 28.8 percent (range: 3.1 to 87.5%) … more potentially traumatic events meet criteria for PTSD within 1 month of
trauma exposure, and 17.0 percent … (9.7% in women
and 3.4% in men) and current (12-month) prevalence to be 3.6 percent (5.2% in women … the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment
Survey found a lifetime PTSD prevalence estimate of 18.7 percent … of U.S. men who fought in Iraq and 6.2 percent of U.S. men who fought in
Afghanistan.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/c-diff-infections_executive.pdf
December 01, 2011 - associated with CDI in 2005.2 Direct
attributable mortality from CDI has been
reported to be as high as 6.9 percent … soil and water
samples.10 Community-associated CDI
rates are generally much lower, accounting
for 27 percent … Approximately 1–2 percent of healthy
individuals are colonized with C. difficile.12 If these
people have … sensitivities
of commonly used immunoassays for toxins A and B
differ, and any differences in their percent … of false
positives (1 minus specificity) most likely are small (3
percent or less).
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/preterm-birth-terbutaline-pump_executive.pdf
September 01, 2011 - birth is defined as delivery before
the completion of the 37th week of
gestation, and it affects 13 percent … The definition of labor was
unclear in 36 percent of the included studies. … we rated one RCT as low risk of bias10
and the second RCT as high risk of bias because more
than 90 percent … ,
exact central CI: 0.5%, 10%) and there was one pump
that malfunctioned (2 percent, exact central CI … Among the
studies that suggested that the pump was efficacious, 50 percent reported cervical
change
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/bladder-cancer-non-muscle-invasive_executive.pdf
October 01, 2015 - Approximately 75 percent of newly diagnosed
bladder cancers are NMIBC.6 Individuals with NMIBC
generally … have a good prognosis, with 5-year survival rates
higher than 88 percent.7 However, as many as 70 percent … of patients treated with BCG,
macroscopic hematuria in 21 to 72 percent, and fever in
27 to 44 percent … 24 percent following a positive result
and decreased to 1.8 to 2.5 percent following a negative
result … percent
following positive results and decreased to 8.0 to 11
percent following a negative result.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/eaagleston.pdf
May 29, 2025 - Some 80 percent of all
physicians have a smartphone. … Now, we actually had 10,000, you know, close to 10,000 site visits and 26
of that came from -- percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/crohns-disease_executive.pdf
February 01, 2014 - Crohn’s disease affects between
400,000 and 600,000 North Americans.1
Ten percent of Crohn’s disease … will
have active disease at least once each year,
67 percent will fluctuate between years of
active … Of those
studies, 84 to 100 percent of the patients were White. … The
largest non-White racial group in any individual study was
10 percent African American,23 8 percent … In
the RCTs, 55 to 69 percent of patients were male, more
than 90 percent of patients were White, and
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ptsd-protocol-2021_0.pdf
January 01, 2021 - , quality of life, and healthcare utilization.1 Lifetime prevalence of PTSD is estimated to be
6.1 percent … in American civilians and 6.9 percent in Veterans.2,3 Since PTSD was first included by
the Diagnostic … columns
focused on documenting the analysis type (e.g., intent to treat, per protocol), the overall percent … of missing primary PTSD outcome assessment data (i.e., overall attrition from measurement),
and the percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ptsd4-final-protocol.pdf
October 01, 2022 - , quality of life, and healthcare utilization.1 Lifetime prevalence of PTSD is estimated to be 6.1
percent … in American civilians and 6.9 percent in Veterans.2,3 Since PTSD was first included by the
Diagnostic … columns focused on documenting the analysis type (e.g., intent to treat, per protocol),
the overall percent … of missing primary PTSD outcome assessment data (i.e., overall attrition from
measurement), and the percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/bar-cohen_-eccs2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Education
and
Decision Making
(4 of 4)
“Women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer have a 98 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/kidney-disease-medicine_executive.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Epidemiology of CKD
Approximately 11 percent of U.S. adults age 20 or older
(23.5 million persons) … have CKD.6 Of these, nearly half
are stage 1 or 2, nearly another half are stage 3, fewer than
4 percent … are stage 4, and fewer than 2 percent are stage
5 and receive dialysis. … For
example, excluding those with ESRD, in 2008, 48 percent
of Medicare patients with CKD had diabetes … , 91 percent
had hypertension, and 46 percent had atherosclerotic heart
disease.1 Other risk factors