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161. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 255: Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2022 - exists for effective transition of care from pediatric to adult services for CSHCN, nor is a single measure … Methods The methods for this systematic review follow the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Similarly, no single measure or set of measures is used in this body of research. … Even within a single domain, such as transition readiness or quality of life, multiple measures are … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2022.

162. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2008 - including 1) reduced mortality, 2) reduced morbidity, 3) reduced adverse events, and 4) improved quality-of-life … erythrocytes or reticulocyte hemoglobin content in relation to other measures of iron metabolic status … erythrocytes or reticulocyte hemoglobin content in relation to other measures of iron metabolic status … What is the most effective interval in which to measure markers of iron metabolic status to achieve … Fatigue, poorer quality of life, and cognitive impairment have also been associated with anemia in these

163. Environmental, Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Resources to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections (pdf file)
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     January 16, 2025 - Environmental footprint A measure of the environmental impact of an individual, organization, or product … sheets which protect operating room beds and aid in patient mobility; blood pressure cuffs used to measure … not explicitly identify which perspective the authors used for their economic analysis and did not measure … The primary measure of interest was greenhouse gas emissions 32 (CO2-equivalent), but TRACI … Haessler S, Martin EM, Scales ME, et al.

164. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - What measures or indicators have been used in surgical report cards used to examine the safety of surgical … for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) patient safety measures, AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators, … or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … representatives who are not patients or family members Intervention Any intervention intended to measure … For Review Question 2, we will focus on identifying relevant measures that are ...

165. Treatment of Insomnia Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Despite discrepancies between objective and subjective measures of sleep parameters, the subjective measures … Sleep quality, subjectively measured in a variety of ways, is also an important measure. … Follow-up measures beyond 3 months of treatment will be used to evaluate long-term efficacy and comparative … The Glasgow sleep impact index: a patient generated measure for capturing sleep-related quality of life … Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related

166. Appendix: Test Performance Metrics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - and their application can be confusing in practice. 1 The basic measures are described briefly below … Thus this single measure includes information about both sensitivity and specificity and tends to be … Methods Guide – Chapter | Jun 1, 2012 Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

167. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2010 - Subjective (e.g., Epworth sleepiness scales); only validated measures ii. … Psychological function scales; only validated measures e. … Cognitive or Executive function scales; only validated measures f. … Physical function scales; only validated measures g. … Sleep quality; only formal scales or questionnaires i. Work days lost (and equivalent) 8.

168. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 23, 2012 -  Outcomes measures for each question: The outcome measures of interest include: health outcome … To measure potential changes in the inequity of care between patient groups, priority condition studies … Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review  Disparity Measure. … Included studies should capture health outcome measures and/or process measures. … improvement intervention and measure a change in outcomes relative to a referent group.

169. Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - Although many quality and outcome measures that have been studied, there is a general lack of consensus … Potential outcome measures include quality of life, functional independence, general satisfaction of … What quality measures related to person-centered HCBS interventions exist or are under development (See … The section for patient advocates will focus on their HCBS experiences, quality measures and outcomes … Do you know of any commonly used quality measures or quality measures under development?

170. Interventions for Dyspnea in Patients With Advanced Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2020 - This tool must include patient-or caregiver-reported measures of anxiety. … Respiratory rate Oxygen or carbon dioxide/ bicarbonate levels Heart rate Blood pressure Objective measure … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … with acceptable face or content validity, reliability, and/or construct validity. 14 Observational scales … For the purposes of this report focusing on breathlessness, we wanted to focus on an objective measure

171. Information Technology Infrastructure for N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 5) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - collection and user engagement support Data capture modules (e.g., choice lists, visual analog scales … Definition : What does this measure represent? … How did the patient record this measure? … When did the patient record the measure? … What, if any, prompt elicited the measure? Schedule .

172. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health (pdf file)
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     March 05, 2015 - Another measure of comprehensive information that would be more specific to the consumers’ needs. … I was confused by the distinction between “high value providers” and “quality comparators” If quality … We use the summery measure to summarize and not to say they that are equally important. b. … In box 1 (on page 4) we define what we mean when we say a cost measure: A financial measure of cost … information and quality measures are being conflated with those reporting on costs.

173. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - information as a quality improvement strategy. … Public reporting is associated with improvement in health care performance measures such as those included … Quality measures that are publicly reported improve over time. … Project Timeline Closing the Quality Gap Series: Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy … Gap Series: Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy.

174. Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide: 4th Edition | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2020 - while others have added patient-centered outcomes, such as patient-reported outcomes or other outcome measures … Emissions Associated With Products, Processes, and Waste Abstract Oct 14, 2021 Outcome Measure … White Paper May 12, 2020 Standardized Library of Depression Outcome Measures … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

175. Restless-Legs Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 16, 2011 - first 2 years of treatment and sometimes many years into treatment. 24 Several developed scales … MCIDs have not been defined for these scales. 23 Table 2: Scales to assess severity of RLS and …  Completed by patient  12-item questionnaire to measure impact of RLS symptoms on daily activities … We will evaluate methods used to define RLS, assess its severity, and measure treatment benefits and …  Studies that report only polysomnographic or other objective sleep-related measures.

176. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 269: Respectful Maternity Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - methods for systematic reviews1 based on methods developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … This review was limited to the intrapartum and postpartum periods, and some of the measures were not … Before widespread implementation of tools to measure RMC, further testing of current measures and a … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2024.

177. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - Notice that such declarative statements implicitly assign weights to the different items. … For a scale, the weights of different items are explicit rather than implicit. … Scales to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review. … Correlation of quality measures with estimates of treatment effect in meta-analyses of randomized controlled … Scales to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review.

178. Future Research Needs for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - This report, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), systematically reviewed … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

179. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2013. … or effect size meta-analyses can be used if the same outcome was assessed on different measurement scales … Results, however, are expressed in units of standard deviations, rather than in units of any measurement scales … For example, Hansen et al.33 combined functional outcomes measured on different scales in placebo-controlled … investigators could consider calculating an approximation of mean difference on the included measurement scales

180. Phenylketonuria Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - Quality Assessment Two reviewers independently assessed quality, with differences resolved though discussion … -31 were rated as poor quality. … , one poor- quality prospective cohort,62 and four poor-quality case series.56,57,59,61 No study included … Currently, findings on the association of Phe levels and any specific measure of executive function … Registries have been established and will provide important data, as will ongoing studies that measure