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301. Investing in Deliberation: Defining and Developing Decision Support Interventions for People Facing Difficult Health Decisions (Session III) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 01, 2019 - He is a founding member of the Institute of Medicine Forum on the Science of Quality Improvement and … Project Timeline Translating Information Into Action: Improving Quality of Care Through Interactive … 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

302. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Data Extraction Details on design, patients, interventions, outcomes, and quality were extracted into … The trials were greatly heterogeneous, varying in population, intervention, and outcome measures and … Many studies were of moderate to poor quality and had short followup periods. … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

303. Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - being debilitating for the mother, postpartum depression affects maternal-infant interactions and some measures … measuring depression, or validated scales used to measure anxiety symptoms Functional capacity … Quality of life using validated scales, for example, Medical Outcomes Survey 36-item Short Form (SF- … rated good in quality; the remainder will be rated fair in quality. … Appropriate measures will be chosen based on the type of data for meta-analysis.

304. Future Research Needs: Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Excerpt This Future Research Needs (FRN) report is based on a draft Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children 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

305. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     July 27, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harm associated anticoagulant … 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. … Contextual information: • Rationale for PSPs • Patient safety measures or indicators • Toolkits and

306. EPC Systematic Review Protocol: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - progression, and premature or excessive mortality from specific conditions; (2) a population health measure … We will not exclude studies rated as being poor in quality a priori, but poor-quality studies will not … europe/ or exp islands/ or exp oceania/ 25 exp Obesity/ 26 Overweight/ 27 exp "Body Weights … and Measures"/ 28 (obese or obesity or overweight or "body mass" or bmi or weight).ti,ab,kw. … "MAYAS -- Ethnic identity" OR DE "MEXICANS -- Ethnic identity" OR DE "MULTIGROUP Ethnic Identity Measure

307. App-F1-Surv-Report-3-Nonopioid-Pharmacol-Chronic-Pain (xls file)
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     September 20, 2022 - 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time (Wk) Time Category Grp 1 Baseline N Grp 1 Baseline … 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time (Wk) Time Category Grp 1 Baseline N Grp 1 … 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time (Wk) Time Category Grp 1 Baseline N Grp 1 … Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time (Wk) Time Category Grp 1 Baseline N Grp 1 Baseline … Quality of life outcomes for osteoarthritis Author, Year Quality Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class

308. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harms associated with opioids … 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 Stewardship . 2018. … R Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  

309. bipolar-disorder-treatment-protocol-140623 (pdf file)
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     June 23, 2014 - We will assess statistical heterogeneity with Cochran’s Q test and measure magnitude with I2 statistic … 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 Could … of quality, no certification process MD, PhD, Resident, MA clinician with no quantitative measures

310. Mrsa-Screening-2010 Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Despite the adoption of a number of measures to prevent spread, the incidence of MRSA infection at … The impact of screening is likely to be exceptionally sensitive to the measures deployed once MRSA … □ Sample variability measures □ Precision of estimate □ p values Regression modeling … O Were outcome measures clearly valid, reliable, and equally applied to treatment groups? … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

311. AHRQ EPC Program Research Gaps Summary: Women's Health (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - registries are conducted, they should be adequately designed and analyzed to compare treatments and measure … • Studies with consistent use of recognized standard measures of pain and function to facilitate … related to study design, including potential tradeoffs between risk of bias, efficiency, ability to measure … o A set of core outcome measures needs to be adopted for effectiveness and for safety outcomes. … o The core outcome measures should include standardized definitions for patient-centered outcomes.

312. Evaluating Outcomes of PET Scanning Using the National Oncologic PET Registry | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Hospital-acquired Pneumonia (NV-HAP) for Inpatients 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

313. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 09, 2010 - However, standardized “absolute” measures may provide greater insight. … Regardless of the measure, it is important to be able to measure clinically meaningful responses to … KQ5 • Any measure that can establish psychometric properties. … Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (KQ 4)  Laboratory measure of inflammation … • Cross-sectional studies are acceptable to evaluate clinical outcome measure tools (KQ5).

314. Disposition of Comments for Evidence Report #208 Part 5 (pdf file)
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     July 26, 2012 - Comment Response Peer Reviewer 4 General Comments In addition, most reports on providers do not measure … improvement, more global measures of performance that might be used to assess quality from a policy … What are the implications of the measures used in interpreting the results? … With better risk adjustment measures now available, should mortality measures be revisited? … Do you have suggestions for key measures to include in the public reports?

315. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - of life in glaucoma patients using validated quality of life measures. … There are two types of Quality of Life (QoL) measures: function- and preference-based.1 Function-based … Preference-based instruments measure the value that the patient puts on his/her quality of life. … points were lost on the VFQ composite score, and more than one point on the Dependency and Driving Scales … of life " in front of the word "measures".

316. Heart-Failure-Transition-Care Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - For continuous outcomes (e.g., scales of quality of life or functional status) measured with the same … When we combined multiple scales in one meta-analysis, we used the standardized mean difference, Cohen … Given the heterogeneity of included interventions, we were unable to develop a single measure of intensity … of Life Few trials measured quality of life or function using the same measures at similar timepoints … Future research should include validated measures of caregiver burden, patient-reported measures of

317. Chapter 12: Systematic Review of Prognostic Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Evaluation of the quality of prognosis studies in systematic reviews. … Assessing the methodological quality of prognostic studies. … Overall C as a measure of discrimination in survival analysis: model specific population value and confidence … Extensions of net reclassifcation improvement calculations to measure usefulness of new biomarkers. … A new measure of prognostic separation in survival data. Stat Med 2004;23(5):723-48.

318. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - MCIDs were determined for several outcomes scales, but not used consistently. … MCIDs in scales were determined for 26 scales, but therapeutic studies did Examination, Evaluation, … What are the valid and reliable instruments used to measure patient-centered outcomes? … What are the valid and reliable instruments used to measure the following intermediate outcomes when … Several stakeholders mentioned the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology recommended set of outcomes measures

319. Disposition of Comments for Screening of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Lance Peterson describes a useful outcomes measure: the percent (%) of MRSA isolation days captured, … of the page, the report states that health care-associated MRSA acquisition is an indirect outcome measure … Acquisition is, in fact, the best measure of transmission of MRSA. … differentiate between acquisition of MRSA (colonization) versus infection as the primary outcome measure … Failure to specifically measure acquisition is a potential weakness of the study.

320. Key Question Alternative Payment Models (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2024 - of that care.4 Alternative payment models (APMs) attempt to attach reimbursement to value and quality … Payments are based on volume of services and not linked to quality or efficiency. … Category 2: Fee for service- link to quality & value. … Fee-for-Service Architecture- This approach blends the traditional Fee-for-Service payment approach with measures … re-hospitalizations, ED visits; mental health metrics including follow-up after ED visits or hospitalizations; measures