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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/biorepositories-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
February 01, 2018 - Match rates for common cancers were high; for example, 93 percent of records
matched for lung and respiratory … system cancers, 91.7 percent matched for breast cancer, and
89.5 percent matched for colon and rectal … Eleven percent of participants refused permission to create a cell line,
12percent refused to allow … commercial access to their DNA, 7 percent refused to allow outside
researchers access to any type of … sample, and 6 percent refused to have their samples stored
indefinitely.56
The primary benefit of
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mrsa-screening-2010_executive.pdf
January 01, 2010 - steadily increased for
many years,2 but it is now decreasing.3-6
Burton and colleagues4 found a
49.6-percent … colleagues6
found a reduction in the incidence rate
of hospital-onset invasive MRSA
infections of 9.4 percent … Because routine
clinical cultures may identify as few as 18 percent of
patients with asymptomatic carriage … Robicsek
et al.17 found that the rate of hospital-acquired MRSA
infection declined by 52.4 percent … (CI, 9.3 to 78.3%) in
the universal screening group, while Leonhardt et al.20
showed a 0.12-percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-cancer-imaging_technical-brief.pdf
October 01, 2014 - in the United States, with an estimated 234,580 individuals with new diagnoses in
2013.1 About 33 percent … Approximately 5 percent
were diagnosed with distant metastases, most commonly to the bones, lungs, liver … , or brain, and
had a 5-year relative survival rate of only 23 percent.1
Several imaging modalities … therapy and declined only
14 percent for patients taking estrogen-depleting agents.19 Finally, one … • Even at major cancer centers, only 10 percent of PET-CTs done in a facility would be
related to
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives_research-protocol.pdf
March 13, 2012 - studies suggest a protective effect of OCs
on ovarian cancer risk, with a reduction in risk of up to 50 percent … will tentatively exclude any outcome from grading if the potential impact
of OC use was less than 50 percent … When possible, we will use ranges for
inputs based on reported or calculated 95 percent confidence intervals … Otherwise, we will estimate ranges by adding or subtracting 25 percent
from the base-case estimate.
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April 01, 2010 - joint.1
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis.2 Osteoarthritis of the knee afflicts 28
percent … of adults over age 453 and 37 percent of adults over age 65 in the United States.4 OA of
the knee may … We will also randomly select a
10 percent sample of excluded randomized studies for a second review … standard deviations of continuous
variables will be abstracted to calculate mean differences with a 95 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/alcohol-misuse_disposition-comments.pdf
July 10, 2012 - to 29 percent across primary care
populations, with prevalence estimates of 0.3
to 10.0 percent for … harmful drinkers and 2.0 to
9.0 percent for alcohol dependence.15 More
recent data from the American … {Vinson, 2010} Alcohol dependence
has lifetime prevalence rates on the order of
17 percent for men … and 8 percent for
women;18 prevalence of current dependence
(within the last 12 months and as defined … or more among outpatients, 30 to 40 percent among
patients in emergency departments, and 50 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/colorectal-cancer-screening_executive.pdf
February 01, 2012 - [95% CI,
5 to 57] versus 51.6 percent [95% CI, 34.8 to 68.0])
(Table B). … The specificity for detection for CRC or advanced
adenomas was approximately 93 to 96 percent (Table … validation studies for the prototype of
PreGen Plus had sensitivity for CRC estimates around
90 percent … test validation studies in
screening populations showed much lower sensitivities
(about 25 to 50 percent … Abbreviations
95% CI 95 percent confidence interval
ACR American College of Radiology
ACS American
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/labor-nitrous-oxide_disposition-comments.pdf
August 23, 2012 - Twenty-eight percent assessed it as more positive than
negative, “suggesting that coping with pain is … (16/20) would request Entonox again,
compared with 88 percent (44/50) of women who chose epidural.57 … In the
postpartum survey, 57 percent of women who had nitrous oxide (n = 362)
reported a positive … Reviewer #5 Results Page 67, paragraph 1: The authors present the percent of newborns
scoring 35-40 … Reviewer #11 Results Apgar scores, p. 59-66: Do you know what percent of Apgar scores <8 at
1 minute
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/dietary-supplements_surveillance.pdf
January 01, 2013 - G. biloba plus cilostazol combination
group improved platelet aggregability
(MD, 18.00 percent [95% … compared
with ACE inhibitors alone, but
significantly more participants
experienced at least 50 percent … of time
INR was in therapeutic range and in
percent of patients achieving stable INR
compared with … G. biloba plus cilostazol combination group improved platelet
aggregability (MD, 18.00 percent [95% … range and in percent of
patients achieving stable INR compared with warfarin alone
(1 trial).
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June 12, 2013 - Published
survey results show that nearly 40 percent of solo
practitioners treat patients with SBRT … typically low in most
modern series in the stage I setting, with major
complications reported in about 6 percent … of
lobectomy cases and 18 percent of
pneumonectomy cases in a large study. … It has been
recommended that the risk of surgical mortality be
estimated less than 4 percent for lobectomy … and
less than 9 percent for pneumonectomy in order to
proceed.”
2.
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December 01, 2017 - Reviewer #2: Results, KQ1 line 41 – add the numbers to the percent in this bullet, as in the
one below … Results, KQ4 “Difference-in-difference studies also all had a single measure
pre-intervention, and 88 percent … Reviewer #4: Results, KQ5 From pdf comment:
“As shown in Figure 10, the 18 studies (n=7 percent) in … Is this n=7 or 7 percent (or neither)?
7 percent. We have corrected this in the
text.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/chronic-cough_executive.pdf
March 01, 2014 - As a
consequence, chronic cough is responsible
for up to 38 percent of pulmonary
outpatient visits … Kingdom, United States, and Japan evaluating patients
with chronic cough have estimated that up to 46 percent … The range of years of publication was 1953 to
2012; 76 percent of the articles were published before … Thirty-
three (33) studies (69 percent) had a followup duration of
2 weeks or less. … identified included drugs
that are not currently available in the United States
(12 studies, 30 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/pediatric-ehr_research-protocol.pdf
January 01, 2014 - charts, immunization tracking and forecasting, and support for
weight-based drug dosing.43,46 Only 31 percent … Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
Published online: Augusts 18, 2014
2
only 14 percent … use a fully functional1 EHR.4848 Only 8 percent of pediatricians are using a fully
functional EHR with
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June 05, 2013 - They decreased to
postoperative values of 5.8 percent for BPD to 6.3 percent for
gastric sleeve. … have a higher preoperative weight in general lose
more weight (measured in kg) but experience a lower percent … exaggerated among low BMI patients as relatively modest weight
loss yields a considerably higher percent … weight loss figure than
is seen for the higher BMI groups
We use change in BMI and percent of either … Outcomes reported include
percent excess weight loss, mean weight loss in kg or
pounds, changes in
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/c-diff-infections_disposition-comments.pdf
March 01, 2012 - TEXT: None of the reference
methods that were used are true gold
standards in that they are not 100 percent … testing of isolates, and therefore culture for
C. difficile, is common
REVISED TEXT; Greater than 90 percent … Where is the data that vancomycin and metronidazole is
ineffective in treating 25 to 30 percent of patients … Moreover, while C. difficile initially recurs in
20 percent of patients, it goes up to 40 to 60 percent … They reported findings
for prevention of recurrent CDI in the probiotic
+ antibiotic group as a percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-participant-generated-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
February 01, 2018 - of the registries that replied to the AAAS survey, the Federal government providing
funding for 23 percent … analysis in four weeks.22 The
study rapidly indicated that among those with an arm onset there was 64-percent … concordance
with dominance and only 55-percent concordance with leg onset. … ) would like to receive a summary of the results of trials in which they
participate, less than 10 percent … Some PGRs require verification of diagnosis from health care
providers; in the AAAS survey, 46 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/heart-failure-transition-care_policymaker.pdf
August 01, 2016 - Up to 25 percent of patients
hospitalized with HF are readmitted within 30 days.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/head-neck-cancer-update_consumer.pdf
August 01, 2015 - According to the National Cancer Institute, head and neck cancer
accounts for nearly 3 to 5 percent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-balancing-harms-benefits_research.pdf
February 01, 2014 - To
estimate the incidence rate we assumed a 50 percent increase from age category 65-74 years based … Among men in the oldest age category, a 35 percent
relative increase in the risk of hemorrhagic stroke … Among women age 45-54 years, a 62 percent relative increase in the risk of major
gastrointestinal (GI … by
Berger et al.9 Aspirin reduced major ischemic strokes to a similar extent (13 percent RR
reduction … At the same time, aspirin increased the number of major hemorrhagic strokes (35
percent RR increase,
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August 07, 2018 - In our judgment, studies
with greater than 50 percent
attrition are fatally flawed, unless
the outcome … The report did include
studies with greater than 50
percent attrition, but only
abstracted the “time … Methods Peer Reviewer
#6
p. 11 – the final bullet point should read “weight gain of > 7
percent”, … not “< 7 percent”. … Moreover, 14 studies had
small sample sizes of less than 200 participants and 21 studies (79
percent