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2401. Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 01, 2022 - However, the clinical implication of improvement in continuous measures of depressive symptoms is unclear … study population Heterogeneity of assessment tools Susceptibility to risk of bias Lack of uniformity of measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2020. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2402. Personal Health Records | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      January 12, 2017 - Health Records Technical Brief Archived March 5, 2015 Public Reporting of Cost Measures … in Health Technical Brief Archived January 15, 2015 Relationship Between Use of Quality … Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness Research Report September 29, 2014 … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2403. Personal Health Records | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      January 12, 2017 - Health Records Technical Brief Archived March 5, 2015 Public Reporting of Cost Measures … in Health Technical Brief Archived January 15, 2015 Relationship Between Use of Quality … Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness Research Report September 29, 2014 … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2404. Disposition of Comments for Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders (pdf file)
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      August 27, 2012 - TEP #5 Discussion/ Conclusions 1) you say the ABC is the "best" outcome measure in terms of reliability … of some measures to really measuring meaningful outcomes in adolescents and adults. … As a rule, manuals on which to base fidelity measures are not available for these programs. … remains fair quality. … remains fair quality.

2405. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      July 05, 2011 - 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 … conditions, such ascongenital anomalies, the overall size of the NICU andthe available resources are measures … A better word choice would be “to continuously improve and asses the quality of outcomes.” … This variation in scientific quality is a challenge for maternal-fetal surgery and the report should

2406. Medication-Therapy-Management Executive (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2014 - of life as measured by generally accepted generic health-related quality-of-life measures (e.g., short-form … MTM did not improve most measures of health-related quality of life (low strength of evidence for no … Patient-centered outcomes focused on numerous measures of quality of life as well as adverse drug … In fact, many studies were able to measure changes in this outcome only in the intervention group. … Neither did they measure fidelity to intended MTM elements for post hoc evaluation.

2407. Disposition of Comments for CER 177 Agitation Aggression Dementia (pdf file)
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      March 21, 2016 - of life and measures of distress. … The overlap of agitation/aggression and behaviors measured by scales such as NPI and RMBPC, Behave-AD … TEP #1 Methods Delineation of the scales used in these studies is perhaps an accurate reflection of … and why there is only one measure included. … We did not pool frequency measures with severity measures.

2408. Management of Primary Headaches in Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      June 01, 2022 - attempting to become pregnant), postpartum, or breastfeeding, and (2) existing SRs that met minimal quality … For example, we did not find a SR that fulfilled our minimum quality criteria and provided evidence for … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2020. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2409. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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      February 23, 2012 - Patient experiences, assessed using a validated measure. 2. … Patient experiences, assessed using a validated measure. b. … The last two will be assessed using validated measures. c. … To carry out these analyses, we will rank studies by impact level, based on an overall impact measure … Developing a quality measure for clinical inertia in diabetes care.

2410. Disposition of Comments for CER 202 Effectiveness and Safety of Bronchial Thermoplasty in the Management of Asthma (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2017 - such as quality of life. … healthcare utilization was not directly measured within the AIR or RISA trials, these trials did measure … FEV1 data was collected in AIR2 as a safety measure, to confirm that pulmonary physiology does not … of life measure AQLQ (97.9% PPS per protocol). … may not be clinically important, as it did not achieve the minimum important difference for this measure

2411. Multidisciplinary Postacute Rehabilitation for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults Disposition of Comments (pdf file)
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      October 07, 2012 - We selected one outcome measure on which to investigate how MCID was addressed in eligible studies. … In addition, of the three ICF levels - participation is by far the most difficult to define and measure … The scales selected to measure community integration contain items that measure activities. … psychometric capacity to identify MCID, couldn't one conclude that the metric selected (participation scales … improve more global measures.

2412. Nephropathy-Contrast-Induced Executive (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2015 - limitation (in allocation concealment or blinding of participants and personnel) but were designed to measure … significant was measured at 4 hours, and it was insignificant at 48 hours, which was the timeframe for the measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2014. … Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: Comparative Effectiveness of Preventive Measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2015.

2413. Early Imaging for Back Pain and Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults: A Brief Summary of Findings and Key Points for Clinician-Patient Discussions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      November 01, 2017 - Study Design and Outcome Measures This prospective observational study enrolled patients 65 years of … intensity in the past week, pain interference with activities, depression and anxiety, health-related quality … Baseline measures were administered up to 3 weeks after the index visit and, thus, could reflect responses … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2414. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Principle 2: Consider Appropriate Test Characteristic Measures and Their Precision (1 of 4) The next … use of the test affects what should be considered the most important accuracy measures. … If a meta-analysis was performed, this will be the confidence interval around the summary measure(s) … This may be reported as confidence intervals around the summary measure(s) of test performance. … It shows need to evaluate the surrogate measure in the context of the clinical outcome.

2415. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Principle 2: Consider Appropriate Test Characteristic Measures and Their Precision (1 of 4) The next … use of the test affects what should be considered the most important accuracy measures. … If a meta-analysis was performed, this will be the confidence interval around the summary measure(s) … This may be reported as confidence intervals around the summary measure(s) of test performance. … It shows need to evaluate the surrogate measure in the context of the clinical outcome.

2416. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2011 - Cognitive 22 Insufficient 1 fair trial: no significant differences in ECT + rTMS functioning a single item measure … No differences between groups on a single-item measure of cognitive functioning were found in a study … With respect to patient-reported health-related outcomes, we focused on quality of life (various measures … Followup periods were generally shorter than desirable, but most were sufficient to measure an initial … Including key relevant measures and subgroups in subsequent research is desirable.

2417. Title (pdf file)
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      March 31, 2010 - status), school factors (e.g., nutrition service, curriculum including physical activity, annual BMI measure … Additionally, BMI is an indirect measure of adiposity, and thus has several limitations. 12 Other … measures, such as percentage of body fat measured via direct measures such as dual-emission X-ray … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Article quality will be assessed using … limitations to individual study quality (using individual quality scores), consistency, directness,

2418. Research Protocol: Clostridium difficile Infection Update (pdf file)
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      December 23, 2014 - Do performance measures vary with sample characteristics? c. … appropriateness of pooling data.38 We will assess statistical heterogeneity with Cochran’s Q test and measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Yes Valid measures, groups ~equivalent No Non-validated measures or nonequivalent groups Uncertain … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e., objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent

2419. Lung Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 23, 2018 - Cancer Systematic Review Archived November 24, 2014 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Pneumonia Research Protocol Archived July 19, 2013 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Management of Chronic Cough Systematic Review Archived November 30, 2012 Closing the Quality … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

2420. Lung Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      March 23, 2018 - Cancer Systematic Review Archived November 24, 2014 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Pneumonia Research Protocol Archived July 19, 2013 Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Management of Chronic Cough Systematic Review Archived November 30, 2012 Closing the Quality … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD