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101. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     November 23, 2010 - Our managed care program contracts with CCNC for robust reporting on quality measures around prevention … Providers support and work to adopt national measures. … Accountability for quality services may make some clinicians uncomfortable. … This may increase as financial incentives are tied to quality of work vs quantity of work. … Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness

102. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2014 - measures, a lack of measures for some patient-important outcomes (such as urgency), limited long-term … of Life (multiple scales, such as the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life [FIQL], 25 Gastrointestinal … Outcomes measurement issues inherent in the psychometric properties of the questionnaires used to measure … whether or not the measure provides a composite or subscale scores. 28,30,31,33 FI episode counts/ … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e., objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent across

103. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Quality measures for symptoms and advance care planning in cancer: a systematic review. … National Quality Forum. Measure Evaluation Criteria. … Quality Measures for Supportive Cancer Care: The Cancer Quality- ASSIST Project. … Palliative Care Quality Measures Project (PEACE). … Consortium Measures.

104. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     October 01, 2011 - AHRQ is leading the improvement, enhancement, and development of core healthcare quality measures for … affecting child health. ( www.ahrq.gov/chipra ) Postpartum depression screening was not selected as a core measure … Measure Program awardees enhance and improve existing measures (e.g., NCQA) or develop new measures … of the quality of postpartum depression care. … of the quality of postpartum depression care.

105. Disposition of Comments for Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (pdf file)
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     November 24, 2014 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2014. … All provided strict measure for the review, though external/clinical validity may have been compromised … reason, we cannot answer the reviewer’s question about “how good and reproducible” the instruments and scales … factors in influencing outcomes, and that MIC may be a predictor of patient outcomes rather than a measure … Rockville MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008.

106. Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 12, 2013 - Progression-Free Survival: What Does It Mean for Psychological Well-Being or Quality of Life? … 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

107. Asthma-Immunotherapy-2011 Research (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Published tools (scales or checklists) for quality assessment of observational studies 3. … 6±2 3±0 Are item weights adequate to detect major flaws in validity? … Comparing our checklists with previously published scales and checklists, we could find only one that … Previously published appraisals tested the ability of the checklists or scales to discriminate poor … Quality Assessment Scales for Observational Studies.: Ottawa Health Research Institute; 2004. 82

108. Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Nosocomial Pneumonia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 19, 2013 - Abdul-Aziz and colleagues 26 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 .

109. S58 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - measures. … Nachega et al27 found a significant relationship between a claims-based measure of antiretroviral adherence … Construction of a refill persistence measure must also take into account the complexity of many treatment … Thus, researchers should be wary of simply selecting a single measure and mechanically applying the required … to control for co-occurring conditions.34,35 However, such indices may under-adjust, as they force weights

110. Fecal-Incontinence Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 30, 2014 - measures, a lack of measures for some patient-important outcomes (such as urgency), limited long-term … of Life (multiple scales, such as the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life [FIQL],25 Gastrointestinal … Outcomes measurement issues inherent in the psychometric properties of the questionnaires used to measure … whether or not the measure provides a composite or subscale scores.28,30,31,33 • FI episode counts … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e., objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent across

111. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - or objectivity of diet or physical activity measures, whereas it is well known that high quality measures … types of measures were described) but I think the quality issues of these measures, which are not … However, we did not delve into the details of quality issues among these measures because this was … We did not have a process for ranking the quality of the data collection measure, outside of the bias … We did describe which studies used validated measures as a proxy for quality.

112. 13-MDM347013 30..38 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Many studies now include quality-of-life measures to document additional effects of the medical interventions … of quality of life. … one feels that testing may lead to clinically relevant anxiety, 7 one of the existing anxiety scales … These scales are probably not sensitive enough to detect more subtle changes, which could help to explain … Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: grading quality of evidence and strength

113. 13-MDM347013 30..38 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Many studies now include quality-of-life measures to document additional effects of the medical interventions … of quality of life. … one feels that testing may lead to clinically relevant anxiety, 7 one of the existing anxiety scales … These scales are probably not sensitive enough to detect more subtle changes, which could help to explain … Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: grading quality of evidence and strength

114. Amended Protocol: Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients with Advanced Cancer (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2020 - This tool must include patient-or caregiver-reported measures of anxiety. … A review of quality of care evaluation for the palliation of dyspnea. … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … Observational scales are used for patients unable to self-report and are validated against self-report … For the purposes of this report focusing on breathlessness, we wanted to focus on an objective measure

115. Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services (pdf file)
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     July 27, 2023 - Although many quality and outcome measures that have been studied, there is a general lack of consensus … Potential outcome measures include quality of life, functional independence, general satisfaction of … What quality measures related to person-centered HCBS interventions exist or are under development ( … The section for patient advocates will focus on their HCBS experiences, quality measures and outcomes … Do you know of any commonly used quality measures or quality measures under development? 7.

116. Usefulness of Economic Evaluation Data in Systematic Reviews of Evidence (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Summary measures of equity and efficiency o Cost of illness: A measure of the expected lifetime costs … o Burden of disease: A measure of the costs (and possibly quality of life and potential years of life … o Quality of life: A broad measure that is often, but not always, combined with costs in assessing … All Measures All Measures Summary Measures & Supply Summary Measures & Demand Dictated … X X X X Summary Measures Summary Measures Summary Measures Summary Measures Summary Measures

117. Physiologic Predictors of Severe Injury: Systematic Review, Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2018 - • Included measures have: – Low sensitivities, so normal values on the physiologic measure (a negative … known or suspected trauma who are treated out-of-hospital by EMS personnel, what is the evidence that scales … and Key Questions for this topic were initially developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Studies were evaluated for risk of bias using the Quality in Prognosis Studies (QUIPS) tool.7 The complete … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2018.

118. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for Restless Legs Syndrome | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 16, 2011 - MCIDs have not been defined for these scales. 23 Table 2: Scales to assess severity of RLS and its … Instrument (RLS-QLI) Measures of RLS impact on social function, daily function, sleep quality, and … Completed by patient 12-item questionnaire to measure impact of RLS symptoms on daily activities … We will evaluate methods used to define RLS, assess its severity, and measure treatment benefits and … Studies that report only polysomnographic or other objective sleep-related measures.

119. Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 13, 2013 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2013. … or effect size meta-analyses can be used if the same outcome was assessed on different measurement scales … Results, however, are expressed in units of standard deviations, rather than in units of any measurement scales … For example, Hansen et al. 33 combined functional outcomes measured on different scales in placebo-controlled … investigators could consider calculating an approximation of mean difference on the included measurement scales

120. Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - Knowledge Brief #2 Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program … Community Forum Knowledge Brief Number 2: Methods and Measures of Public Deliberation Public deliberation—a … process elements (e.g., whether participants had equal opportunities to contribute) to assess the quality … • Evaluative case studies report on either single cases or multiple cases; they compare selected measures … Outcomes measured in the literature include process measures as well as measures of the effect of deliberation