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241. Menopause Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2015 - of cases and controls, response rate, equal application of diagnostic tests, accurate and equal measure … Pooling across scales can be accomplished only by using SMDs. … psychological symptoms: standardized mean differences from pairwise comparisons Sexual Function Some measure … and multiple scales requiring the use of SMDs is challenging. … measures.

242. Adjuvant Treatment for Phenylketonuria (PKU) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Currently, findings on the association of Phe levels and measures of executive function are inconsistent … , and too few studies have used the same outcome measures to combine data meaningfully. … Evidence on the association of Phe and measures of executive function is insufficient. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

243. Treatment for Bipolar Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Outcome measurement issues inherent in the psychometric properties of the questionnaires used to measure … We will assess strength of evidence for validated scales (such as the Beck Depression Inventory, Young … Yes Measure valid and reliable (i.e. objective measures, well validated scale, provider report); and … (self-report, scales with lower validity, reliability); not equivalent across groups Uncertain … of quality, no certification process MD, PhD, Resident, MA clinician with no quantitative measures

244. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2021 - ), volume of metastases (mean, SD, other measures), size of metastases (mean, SD, other measures) Prognostic … used scales that have been validated for patients with brain tumors. … of life as measured by validated scales Cognitive function measured by any scale Deaths due to brain … mean differences, will be translated into absolute effects or mean differences on known scales to help … We will review the applicability of the assessment scales to the population of interest.

245. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring Methods for Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Summary of process measures and intermediate and clinical outcomes Process Measures Intermediate … Outcomes measures for each KQ: Process measures Ratio of basal to bolus insulin Frequency of … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Article quality will be assessed differently … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Summary of process measures and intermediate and clinical outcomes Process Measures Intermediate

246. Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - anxiety, depression, or psychological well-being, and (2) for agents where PFS is the primary outcome measure … for KQ1 sought to identify studies that showed a causal relationship between PFS and improvement on measures … summarized in data tables on study characteristics, treatment efficacy and safety, patient-reported outcome measure … as an outcome in the absence of association with OS; and (3) the extent to which improvement in QOL measures … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

247. Obesity Prevention and Control (pdf file)
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     February 08, 2017 - use of a validated instrument (see Appendix B for list of commonly used validated instruments) to measure … of language across the quality systems. … measures are out of scope). … For the obesity measures and behavioral outcomes, we will additionally abstract the measures or instruments … When available, we will abstract the effect size and units, measure of variability, and 95% confidence

248. pneumonia-antibiotic-treatment-protocol-130718 (pdf file)
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     July 19, 2013 - Abdul-Aziz and colleagues26 did not appraise the quality of individual studies or grade the quality … sufficient data are available, meta-analyses and results will be stratified by (1) method of PK/PD measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality; 2012:69-97. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012:98-111. … Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) measures.

249. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - It is also reasonable to assign different importance or weight to each measure. … When there is only one measure to optimize the alternative choices can be ranked readily. … on all measures. … In another example, a theorem proves that normalized weights that are inversely proportional to the … fragility of study rankings and inconsistency of subgroup analyses produced by comparing 25 published scales

250. Research Protocol: Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases (pdf file)
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     October 10, 2019 - ), volume of metastases (mean, SD, other measures), size of metastases (mean, SD, other measures) … used scales that have been validated for patients with brain tumors. … Quality of life as measured by validated scales 3. Cognitive function measured by any scale 4. … mean differences, will be translated into absolute effects or mean differences on known scales to help … We will review the applicability of the assessment scales to the population of interest.

251. Juvenile-Arthritis-Dmards Surveillance (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2013 - measures most commonly used. … The ACR Pediatric 30 is also a relative measure of disease activity and not a measure of current disease … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2009. 3. … Abatacept improves health-related quality of life, pain, sleep quality, and daily participation in … The ACR Pediatric 30 is also a relative measure of disease activity and not a measure of current disease

252. Juvenile-Arthritis-Dmards Surveillance (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2013 - measures most commonly used. … The ACR Pediatric 30 is also a relative measure of disease activity and not a measure of current disease … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2009. 3. … Abatacept improves health-related quality of life, pain, sleep quality, and daily participation in … The ACR Pediatric 30 is also a relative measure of disease activity and not a measure of current disease

253. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Making Healthcare Workers' Implicit Bias Training and Education (pdf file)
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     August 04, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harm associated with HCW implicit … implicit bias training is often evaluated through pre-post surveys or standardized assessments that measure … For Review Question 2, 5 we will focus on identifying relevant measures that are included in … , or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … • Secondary outcomes: o Patient satisfaction o Measures of HCW communication effectiveness

254. 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 … Since there were numerous scales for the different measures of affect, we organized the scales to best … Many studies assessed only certain measures, and the scales may have been limited in their ability to … reporting on various measures.

255. Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - support and maintain patient safety; and (3) the increasing presence of pediatric-specific clinical quality … measures. … 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

256. Contrast-Induced Nephropathy (CIN): Current State of the Evidence on Contrast Media and Prevention of CIN | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The other review assessed the evidence regarding the comparative efficacy of measures to prevent CIN. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2015. … Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: Comparative Effectiveness of Preventive Measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2016. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

257. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the frequency and severity of … 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. … review questions, and will include author, year, study design, frequency and severity of the harms, measures

258. Methods Research Report - Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Three of the studies also included disease-specific scales (the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy … QOL measurement description Author, Year QOL Measure Significant Change Threshold QOL Measure … ; standard quality assessment tools have shortcomings in this setting requiring novel quality measures … Motzer Level: 2, State: Excluded Refid: 326, Patient preference-based utility weights from the functional … Scales, F. Zhan, K. A. Boehm, L. Asmar and A.

259. SEAD Submission Form for Improving the Management of Menopausal Symptoms in Perimenopausal and Early Postmenopausal Women: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 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

260. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 20, 2011 - Furthermore, knowledge of the variation of a test measure is important when treatment is based on a … Variation in a test measure is a function of the analytical variation of the assay method (bias and … assessment scales for case- control studies and cohort studies, 30 the Jadad scale 31 for RCT studies … with regards to comparability of study populations, diagnostic standard, treatments, and outcome measures … , Denmark) and the DerSimonian and Laird random and fixed effects models 34 to generate summary measures