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161. Best Practices for Conducting Economic Evaluations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Tools (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Despite the appeal of a summary score to measure quality, research has found that the use of summary … (i.e., cost- effectiveness measure)? … of life weights and their sources 16. … Were the health outcomes measures/scales valid and reliable? … measures/scales used?

162. Obesity Prevention and Control | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 09, 2017 - or 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). … When available, we will abstract the effect size and units, measure of variability, and 95% confidence … List of Commonly Used Validated Dietary and Physical Activity Measures Dietary Measures Common short

163. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Since they did not measure the outcomes in the Key Questions, they are also not included in the strength-of-evidence … In studies of health plans and long-term care, the outcomes studied most often were quality measures … In general, these studies found that public reporting has a positive impact on the quality measures, … Insufficient Inappropriate diagnosis and treatment: In one study, the hypothesis that a publicly reported measure … • Quality measures that are publicly reported improve over time.

164. Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk Was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2008 - Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Center under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2008. … It did not measure exposure to antidepressants or attempt to control for patient factors that may change … required at least six months of data prior to study eligibility to ensure an adequate period in which to measure … the goal of identifying a potential wide range of potential signals to be further tested, did not measure

165. 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

166. 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

167. 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

168. 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

169. 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

170. Comparative Effectiveness of Case Management for Adults With Medical Illness and Complex Care Needs | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 11, 2011 - 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

171. 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.

172. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - ) bleeding, the primary exposures of interest are these two treatments, but it is also important to measure … a dose-response relationship) Categorical variables (may introduce less bias) Precision of exposure measure … In this case, an ordinal scaling of the exposure measure for the number of doses of a medication may … Precision of Exposure Measure The source of the data being used for the analysis can limit the ability … predictive value, when possible If there are no validation studies to define the exposure of interest, use measures

173. 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?

174. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 11, 2011 - Surrogate outcomes (KQs 1b, 2, 3, and 4) Cardiac measures Left ventricular hypertrophy Left ventricular … Not : adherence to SMBP monitoring Health care–process measures such health care encounters (visits … Not just as a device to measure the outcome BP. … quality recommended in Chapter 5 of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Methods Guide for … hypertension/ 5 exp Self Care/ 6 (3 or 4) and 5 7 ((blood pressure or hypertens$) and self and (measure

175. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 25, 2013 - data can be reported as means, mean differences, or differences in change score from baseline, and measures … topics applicable to quantitative synthesis of continuous outcomes measured in RCTs: choice of effect measures … interpretation of the standardized mean difference (SMD) and of the ratio of means (RoM) as an alternative measure … recommendations was circulated for comment to peer reviewers and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

176. 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

177. 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.

178. 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

179. 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.

180. Comparative Effectiveness of Approaches to Weight Maintenance in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 25, 2011 - 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 … considered only if the study also reports a qualifying measure of weight. … Revise this section to make it clear that the following measures are the primary measures of interest