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1421. Effectiveness of Screening and Treatment of Subclinical Hypothyroidism or Hyperthyroidism | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 10, 2010 - Outcomes Intermediate outcomes: lipid levels, osteoporotic fractures Health outcomes: quality of … However, study duration will affect assessment of the quality and applicability of the study. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Each team member was asked to rate the quality … Quality will be assessed following the guidance in the current USPSTF Manual as described in Section … Committee on Patient S, Quality I, Committee on Professional L.

1422. Disposition of Comments Report for Antinuclear Antibody, Rheumatoid Factor, and Cyclic-Citrullinated Peptide Tests for Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complaints in Children (pdf file)
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      March 07, 2012 - under quality). … Peer Reviewer #5 Results Methodological Quality As the quality of the studies is similar across key … Peer Reviewer #5 Results Key question 3.6, methodological quality - you use medium quality here, … how does this differ from moderate quality? … We have changed this to moderate quality.

1423. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - or psoriatic arthritis, do drug therapies differ in their ability to improve functional capacity or quality … One-quarter of the individual trials were rated good quality; most were found to be fair quality. … However, patients on methotrexate had less improvement in functional status and health-related quality … Three fair-quality observational studies, however, indicated that infliximab might have a higher risk … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. November 2007.

1424. Considering the Range of Decision-Relevant Effects (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2012). … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … questions of this review was whether predicting prognosis with spirometry, with or without clinical indicators … , is more accurate than predicting prognosis with clinical indicators alone.

1425. Considering the Range of Decision-Relevant Effects (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2012). … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … questions of this review was whether predicting prognosis with spirometry, with or without clinical indicators … , is more accurate than predicting prognosis with clinical indicators alone.

1426. Disposition of Comments for CER 159 Insomnia (pdf file)
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      December 30, 2015 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … its contents, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … AASM evidence quality and AHRQ strength of evidence are different. … These are higher quality trials and we have incorporated their findings into our analysis. … We no longer refer to the ‘previous fair quality systematic review in the executive summary.

1427. Effects of Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intake on Chronic Disease Outcomes and Related Risk Factors | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 01, 2017 - frameworks: one that maps the proposed linkages between sodium intake (as demonstrated by validated indicators … and a second that maps the proposed linkages between potassium intake (as demonstrated by validated indicators … include observational studies but will be limited to studies that measure and quantify intake with valid indicators … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2014. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. November 2013.

1428. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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      March 07, 2013 - Associated with dementia, psychological comorbidities (e.g., depression, anxiety) are common, detrimental to quality

1429. EPC Methods: An Exploration of Methods and Context for the Production of Rapid Reviews (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2015 - Only one of the five products involved quality assessment and grading the quality of evidence. … None of the six products involved quality assessment or grading the quality of evidence. … Quality assessment was conducted in the majority of cases, with two specifically indicating no quality … Five products involved quality assessment, one indicated that quality assessment varies, and only one … Includes quality appraisal and grading.

1430. PKU Surveillance Assessment_CER 56_Low (pdf file)
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      January 15, 2013 - Evidence from 17 studies (mostly poor quality) suggests increasing probability of low IQ at higher … Three brief studies of poor to fair quality, using varying doses addressed the effects of LNAAs. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD: February 2012. 2. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2009. 3. … Three brief studies of poor to fair quality, using varying doses addressed the effects of LNAAs.

1431. Health-Careassociated-Infections Executive (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2012 - lower quality. … , three67,69,70 of medium quality, and seven14,23,35,61,64,68,71 of lower quality. … indicators in hospitals. … indicators was audit and feedback. … Using quality indicators to improve hospital care: a review of the literature.

1432. Colorectal-Surgery-Preparation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      March 26, 2013 - in the operative field typically induces most surgeons to create an ostomy, which impacts patients’ quality … Quality of life • Terminal clinical outcome Source: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Posted: … The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2012. … HHSA-290-2012-0012-I from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S.

1433. Meditation Executive (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - They measure sleep as the amount of time spent asleep versus awake or as overall sleep quality. … Studies measure sleep time through either polysomnography or actigraphy, and sleep quality through … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2011. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2011. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2014.

1434. Identification of Future Research Needs in the Comparative Management of Uterine Fibroid Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 10, 2011 - Section 1013 of MMA authorized the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to conduct and support … (See Crossing the Quality Chasm, 2000, available at: http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/ … Crossing-the-Quality-Chas... … Health-Care-Quality-Initiative.aspx.) … These data sources were derived from the Medical Quality Improvement Consortium of General Electric Healthcare

1435. The purpose of our tool is to compile a comprehensive list of questions that may be used to evaluate the quality of non-randomized studies of interventions or exposures (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2012. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … 5 RCTs/TOTAL N=690 Study N Quality HAM-D Responders: Fluoxetine vs. … 1 RCT/TOTAL N=108 Study N Quality Results: Fluoxetine vs. … 6 RCTs/TOTAL N=689 Study N* Quality Results: Fluoxetine vs.

1436. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. April 2012. … The searched used the following quality of life key words or phrases: quality of life, functional consequences … Assessing Quality of Life in patients with Glaucoma Using the Quality of Life- 15 Questionnaire. … The quality of the evidence was variable. … of IOP and how treatment should be modified for those cases 'resistant' to change--that is, what indicators

1437. Future Research Needs for First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children and Young Adults (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2012 - for Healthcare Research and Quality Stephanie Chang, M.D., M.P.H. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … • Health-related quality of life? … Web-based prioritization exercises allowed each stakeholder to distribute a limited number of star-shaped indicators … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 2012. 2.

1438. Research Protocol: Diabetes Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: An Update Focused on Monotherapy and Add-On Therapy to Metformin (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2015 - KQ3, we will include RCTs, non-randomized experimental studies with a comparison group, and high-quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2007. 11. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2011. 12. … Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: is blinding necessary? … The Task Order Officer reviewed contract deliverables for adherence to contract requirements and quality

1439. Summary Variables in Observational Research: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      May 15, 2012 - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Parivash Nourjah, Ph.D., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … medications, 10 diagnostic groups for hospital discharges, 10 diagnostic groups for outpatient visits, and 10 indicators

1440. Data Points 13: Use of Preoperative Breast MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2009. AHRQ Publication No.09-E018. 7. … HH- SA29020100013I from the Agency for Healthcare Re- search and Quality, U.S. … in the report should not be con- strued as endorsement by the Agency for Healthcare Re- search and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2012.