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1581. Research Protocol: Clostridium difficile Infection Update (pdf file)
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      December 23, 2014 - Review PICOTS for KQ2 Prevention PICOT Included Excluded Population Primary prevention: Adults at risk … baseline demographics, method of diagnosis, enrollment, and severity, descriptions and results of primary … Since two primary endpoints will be used, sensitivity and specificity, we will calculate 99 percent … risk ratios (RR) and absolute risk differences (RD) with the corresponding 95 percent CI for binary primary … Are statistical methods used to assess the primary outcome appropriate to the data?

1582. breast-biopsy-update-130920 (pdf file)
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      September 20, 2013 - of these methods are evaluated by pathologists and classified into histological categories with the primary … Finally, we will collect any primary research articles, regardless of design (i.e., case reports and … Author contact will be by email (to the corresponding author of each study), with a primary contact … The grading will be outcome specific, such that a given study that reports its primary outcome well …  of  test  accuracy  should  search  a   range  of  databases  to  identify  primary

1583. Colorectal-Surgery-Preparation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      March 26, 2013 - o For all KQs, we will exclude primary research studies in emergency settings, including studies where … o For all KQs, we will exclude primary research studies on animals, as well as editorials, commentaries … , narrative reviews, letters to the editor, and other manuscripts not reporting primary research findings … Author contact will be by email (to the corresponding author of each study), with a primary contact … The grading will be outcome specific, such that a given study that reports its primary outcome well

1584. Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2014 - We will conduct a primary literature search to capture studies published after the included systematic … For primary studies not covered in the systematic reviews, we will assess the risk of study bias in … extraction forms within DistillerSR to capture information from the included systematic reviews and primary … We will upload all extracted data from the included systematic reviews and primary articles to the Systematic

1585. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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      December 15, 2010 - was agreed that planning to comprehensively compare the quality of different marketed products as a primary … publication year or status • Publication language: o Systematic reviews: limited to English o Primary … At this time we will consider reviewing reports of primary studies in languages other than English. … The primary reason for exclusion of each record will be recorded. … McMaster Quality Assessment Scale of Harms (McHarm) for primary studies: manual for use of the McHarm

1586. Microsoft Word - finbody.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - We included peer reviewed primary studies of adult patients treated for ARAS and excluded studies that … Although mortality was commonly stated to be a primary outcome of the comparative studies, no study … Follow-up of primary Palmaz-Schatz stent placement for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. … Primary renal artery 30 stenting: characteristics and outcomes after 363 procedures. … Gold coating and restenosis after primary stenting of ostial renal artery stenosis.

1587. Disposition of Comments Report for Outpatient Case Management for Adults With Medical Illness and Complex Care Needs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - be most effective when the case manager works closely with patients’ usual care providers (usually primary … Primary care based CM may be effective if the right care managers are working with the right patients … We recognize that Increased primary care utilization may be viewed as a positive outcome in various … This is a primary concern to community-based practitioners. … The report of that project is intended to inform those who will perform primary research in this area

1588. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
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      January 17, 2017 - I suggest you use a primary source for statements of this type and check the accuracy. … We have added references to the primary sources. TEP Reviewer #2 Executive summary 2. … We do not agree that CPAP is an ineffective primary treatment in children with OSDB; in the opinion … Evidence contradicts "failure of tonsillectomy for primary management of . . . throat infections." … Patients were also selected from primary care offices and clinics.

1589. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2013 - and low magnesium.13-17 Risk of kidney stones also may be increased by medical conditions such as primary … Except in one trial in which participants were recruited from primary care settings,57 study subjects … • RCTs should use symptomatic stones as the primary outcome, or if using composite stone recurrence … as the primary outcome, they also should separately report symptomatic and radiographic stones … McMaster Quality Assessment Scale of Harms (McHarm) for primary studies: manual for use of the McHarm

1590. Menopause Executive (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2015 - length of followup, intervention, uterine status, disclosures and conflicts of interest, funding, primary … For vasomotor symptoms and quality-of-life outcomes, network meta-analyses formed the primary analyses … Approximately half specified some psychological symptom as a primary outcome. … For some of the outcomes reported, the outcome was stated as primary in only half of the studies. … Menopausal Hormone Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review To Update