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221. Assessing the Validity of Administrative Data Using Clinical Medical Records | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - the proposed model, strategies to overcome or avoid them, and potential improvements to the model; Measure … You Might Also Like Research Protocol Aug 02, 2024 Pediatric Quality … 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

222. Statistical Design and Analytic Considerations for N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 4) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - Outcomes with substantial measurement variation such as quality-of-life measures will need to be collected … patient's true decisionmaking state, one might instead analyze each outcome separately and report a measure … For example, Guyatt 14 and Larson 15 both used Likert scales with ratings from 1–7 to measure patient … extend the previous models to multiple patients with n-of-1 studies, we assume that the same outcome measure … Explicit prespecification of weights across outcomes is preferable to post hoc weighting.

223. Vital Signs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 16, 2016 - They include Blood pressure, which measures the force of your blood pushing against the walls of … Heart rate, or pulse, which measures how fast your heart is beating. … Respiratory rate, which measures your breathing. … Temperature, which measures how hot your body is. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

224. Comparative Effectiveness of Approaches to Weight Maintenance in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Health-related quality of life as measured by absenteeism, presenteeism, the SF-36 or other scales. … Maintenance of weight within same BMI category as the baseline measure. … Alternative measures of weight other than weight in pounds or kilograms or BMI ( e.g., waist-to-hip … The additional alternative measures of weight have variable reporting consistency, and not including … Revise this section to make it clear that the following measures are the primary measures of interest

225. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - medical tests; however, there is no empirical evidence that any sort of score based on quantitative weights … can be addressed when considering all relevant studies through the use, if appropriate, of a summary measure … West et al.7 evaluated 18 tools (six scales, nine guides, and three EPC rating systems). … Three scales met all six criteria considered important: (1) the Cochrane Working Group checklist,8 ( … In 5-6 this way, reviewers can revise unreliable terms and measure the reliability of the ultimate

226. Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - medical tests; however, there is no empirical evidence that any sort of score based on quantitative weights … can be addressed when considering all relevant studies through the use, if appropriate, of a summary measure … West et al. 7 evaluated 18 tools (six scales, nine guides, and three EPC rating systems). … Three scales met all six criteria considered important: (1) the Cochrane Working Group checklist, 8 … In this way, reviewers can revise unreliable terms and measure the reliability of the ultimate criteria

227. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Patient and Family Engagement | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 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 reported … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

228. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - • Health-related quality of life as measured by absenteeism, presenteeism, the SF-36 or other scales … • Maintenance of weight within same BMI category as the baseline measure. … limitations to individual study quality (using individual quality scores), consistency, directness, … The additional alternative measures of weight have variable reporting consistency, and not including … Revise this section to make it clear that the following measures are the primary measures of interest

229. Future Research Needs: Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Stakeholders focused on behavioral, evaluation of transitional programs, and quality of life measures … to measure quality of life across the research base. 4 Need tools/measurements to assess harms throughout … Examples might be the development of quality of life measures or measurement of the goodness of fit … to measure quality of life across the research base. 4 Need tools/measurements to assess harms throughout … to measure quality of life across the research base. 4 Need tools/measurements to assess harms throughout

230. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 22, 2012 - Measures Various measures can be used to evaluate the presence and severity of the tinnitus.9 There … Psychological grading scales can aid in the discrimination between clinically significant and nonsignificant … Visual analog scales (VASs) are well known psychometric measures of subjective attitudes and characteristics … following changes to our KQs:  KQ 1 has been amended to be inclusive of tinnitus evaluation scales … These domains were adapted from the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scales for case-control studies

231. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2007 - or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. … In choosing measurement scales for assessing patient-reported outcomes, it is preferable to use scales … Different scales emphasize distinctive dimensions of quality and therefore can produce disparate results … • Measuring or improving quality of care, including conducting programs to measure and/or improve the … that can be confirmed by an unbiased observer—such as death, test results, and scores from validated measures

232. SEAD Submission Form for Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2025 - for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements Research Protocol May 17, 2023 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

233. SEAD Submission Form for Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2025 - for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Evaluation of Dietary Protein Intake Requirements Research Protocol May 17, 2023 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

234. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - use of validated outcome measures as an inclusion/exclusion criterion. … Therefore, we will not restrict this review to validated outcome measures. … measure(s) as one factor when assessing the outcome reporting bias. … Validated Outcome Measures: A Core Outcome Measure for chronic pain recommended by the Initiative … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Assess Study Quality.

235. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     February 16, 2011 - Therefore, we will not restrict this review to validated outcome measures. … Validated Outcome Measures: a. … Other Outcome Measures: a. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Assessing Study Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

236. The Performance of Fusion Procedures for Degenerative Disease of the Lumbar Spine | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2024 - ; SF-36 = 36-Item Short Form Survey; SF-12 = 12-Item Short Form Survey; EQ5D = EuroQol standardized measure … interbody fusion; LLIF = Lateral lumbar interbody fusion; PROMs = patient-reported outcome measures … Abstract May 12, 2020 Standardized Libraries of Harmonized 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

237. Research Protocol: Care Interventions for PeopleWith Dementia (PWD) and Their Caregivers (pdf file)
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     February 22, 2019 - Actual outcome measures will be defined by study authors. … Common measures are provided in Appendix B. … We will assess strength of evidence for key final health outcomes measured with validated scales. … Common Outcome Measures Test Name Domain Data Source Reference BEHAVE-AD General behavior scales … How rigorous are measures to increase adherence?

238. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 06, 2011 - outcomes can serve as measures of quality. … and cost are other relevant outcome measures. … Process measure outcomes (include but are not limited to): adherence to therapy; missed appointments … Does the effectiveness of case management for process measure outcomes differ according to intervention … Quality of care, as indicated by disease-specific process measures, receipt of recommended health care

239. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harms associated with opioids … For Review Question 2, we will focus on identifying relevant measures that are included in the Centers … 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. … National Quality Forum. National Quality Partners Playbook: Opioid Stewardshp. 2018.

240. Liver-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 24, 2013 -  Quality of life as measured with scales such as the Short-Form Health Survey (SF- 36) or EuroQol … 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-36â) or EuroQol 5D (EQ