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181. Use of Natriuretic Peptide Measurement in the Management of Heart Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - These domains were adapted from the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scales for case-control studies … judgment with regards to comparability of study populations, diagnostic standard, treatments, and outcome measures … Copenhagen, Denmark) and the DerSimonian and Laird random and fixed effects models 34 to generate summary measures … Outcome Measurements Was the outcome defined clearly (i.e., was the measure described in … Outcome Measurements Was the outcome defined clearly (i.e., was the measure described in

182. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Deprescribing to Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harm associated with polypharmacy … 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. … (e.g., reduction of polypharmacy or PIMs; total medication count) Clinical outcome measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2023.

183. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 44: Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2024 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2024. … of primary care spending, not just more standardized measures. … It might be worth explicitly calling out the possibility of gaming different measures, and which measure … and extent of variation in the decisions made for each of those dimensions in existing measures. … Different measures simply reflect that primary care means different things to different people Our

184. Best Practices for Conducting Economic Evaluations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Tools | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - with respect to one aspect of an evaluation can compensate for lower quality with respect to another … The choice of an appropriate checklist should be made with the understanding that quality assessment … 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.

185. Postpartum Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Postpartum Treatment of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, and Peripartum Magnesium Sulfate Regimens for Preeclampsia With Severe Features | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2022 - Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), for example Global Quality of life* , e.g., SF-36 … Support to manage HTN Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), for example Global Quality … treatment Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), for example Global Quality of life*, … , PROM = patient reported outcome measure, QoL = quality of life IV. … Patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures.

186. Health Facilities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2015 - of the facility Quality is important. … One way to learn about the quality of a facility is to look at report cards developed by federal, state … Disease Systematic Review Archived November 24, 2014 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Approaches Research Protocol Archived January 13, 2014 Public Reporting of Cost Measures … Illness Research Protocol Archived July 19, 2013 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures

187. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2011 - ., AHI), blood pressure (an intermediate outcome for cardiovascular disease), and hemoglobin A1c (a measure … Scale (ESS); the quality-of-life measure Functional Outcomes Sleep Questionnaire (FOSQ); and compliance … Any differences in quality of life measures or neurocognitive tests were equivocal between treatment … It did not find statistically significant differences in ESS and quality of life measures between patients … The reported findings on sleep study and quality of life measures were heterogeneous across studies.

188. Quality-Gap-Palliative-Hospice Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Outcome Measures for Each Key Question For both Key Questions, we included all relevant patient or … measures, such as timeliness of response to pain and other symptoms • Family/caregiver psychosocial … a multicenter study found significant improvements, but a single-center study found no impact on measures … education in nursing homes found the intervention had a statistically significant improvement on measures … of attrition, and issues with outcome measures not designed for advanced or serious illness or not

189. Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies Agency for … Result from problems in data analysis and interpretation, such as choice of the wrong statistical measure … Did investigators concurrently measure intervention and exposure status for intervention and comparison … Did investigators concurrently measure outcomes for intervention and comparison groups? … rating Reporting Quality Ratings Key Messages (I): Definition of Quality Assessment Quality assessment

190. Menopausal Symptoms: Comparative Effectiveness of Therapies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Standardized mean differences were calculated to allow pooling of outcomes from varied measures. … symptoms less effectively than estrogens but were accompanied by the largest improvement in global measures … Measures of urogenital atrophy were improved with ospemifene and vaginal or oral estrogens. … measures. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

191. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - for identifying and judging the risk of bias when results deviate from protocols in the timing or measure … 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.

192. Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2025 - Among the measures frequently used, several use categorical/ordinal scales, which makes it difficult … ; 38 measures were used in only 1 or 2 publications. … Appropriate analyses should include how the change from baseline to follow-up in an outcome measure for … participants in the intervention arm compares with the change from baseline to follow-up in that outcome measure … For low-quality studies, we described limited study characteristics only.

193. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - Thank you for the comment that many of these scales have multiple versions. … Measures of integration: There are no standard tools but a measure of integration between palliative … We have given a detailed description in definitions: “Quality indicator: A population-based measure … result in a quality measure. … outcome rather than as a quality outcome per se quality measures.

194. Disposition of Comments Technical Brief 30 Assessment Tools for Palliative Care (pdf file)
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     May 04, 2017 - Thank you for the comment that many of these scales have multiple versions. … Measures of integration: There are no standard tools but a measure of integration between palliative … We have given a detailed description in definitions: “Quality indicator: A population-based measure … result in a quality measure. … outcome rather than as a quality outcome per se quality measures.

195. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - What standardized outcome measures should be used for HCBS and NH recipients that fully measure benefits … What quality-of-life measures and disease-specific measures should be used to capture an individual … What quality-of-life measures and disease specific measures should be used to capture an individual's … What quality-of-life measures and disease specific measures should be used to 6 (14) capture an individual's … What quality-of-life measures and disease specific measures should be used to capture an individual's

196. Imaging Techniques for the Surveillance, Diagnosis, and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Quality of life as measured with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ … with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ-5™) or as defined by the … with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ-5™) or as defined in the … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias (Quality) of Individual Studies The quality of individual … Quality of life, measured using scales like Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or EuroQol 5D (EQ-5™), or

197. 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 to examine the harms associated with the target of the patient … & Medicaid Services (CMS) patient safety measures, AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators, or the National … Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … of care measures Utilization of health care services (focusing on the main utilization measure … What measures or indicators have been used to examine the harms associated with the target of the patient

198. Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: A Systematic Review Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - to be significant symptom changes based on objective tests or subjective validated questionnaires or scales … This review will examine improvement thresholds of clinical importance in validated scales and checklists … Bladder and pelvic tests that do not measure UI specifically or are used for diagnostic purposes (e.g … ., urodynamic testing, pelvic muscle strength); urination measures that do not measure UI specifically … of UI, subjective measures of UI, generic quality of life, UI-specific quality of life, adverse events

199. Lower Limb Prostheses: Measurement Instruments, Comparison of Component Effects by Subgroups, and Long-Term Outcomes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2021 - Key Messages Thirty of 50 evaluated instruments (ambulatory/functional outcomes and other measures … reliability, and related psychometric properties for assessment techniques, predictor tools, and outcome measures … psychometric properties of 50 instruments (classified as assessment techniques, prediction tools, and outcome measures … analyses to allow assessment of heterogeneity of treatment effect, 7 used both predictor and outcome measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2018.

200. Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     August 24, 2012 - Added definition from source: “Feinglass defined financial pressure as a measure of the ‘gap between … assessed processes, the direct rewards were not based on quality measures. … of impact on costs and quality, especially as it relates to measures of quality. … for appropriateness of bundles, both to help address the unintended consequence above and also as a measure … If quality measures were used, many of the measures were process or intermediate health outcomes measures