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181. 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

182. 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.

183. 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

184. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 19, 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). … Nationwide veterans affairs quality measure for cancer: the family assessment of treatment at end of

185. 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.

186. 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

187. 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

188. Efficacy and Safety of Screening for Postpartum Depression | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 09, 2012 - instruments of infant health and development, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Bayley Scales … of stigmatization Health-related quality of life, based on validated measures Maternal health-system … This allows an approach that compares total tests or false-positive results as a measure of “cost” or … “harm” to a measure of benefit, such as “cases of depression detected.” … BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory-II BPDS Bromley Postnatal Depression Scale BSID Bayley Scales

189. Rti-Item-Bank Research (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Empirical tests of the validity and reliability of these scales suggest the need for critical analysis … of individual bias components rather than dependence solely on checklists and scales. … Juni et al. noted dramatically different results in meta-analyses when different quality rating scales … intervention. 24 As noted above, available empirical evidence cautions against merely applying weights … PI: Yes, valid and reliable measure used ...................

190. SEAD Submission Form for Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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191. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 28, 2020 - ), 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.

192. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 19, 2010 - use of validated outcome measures as an inclusion/exclusion criterion. … Therefore, we will not restrict this review to validated outcome measures. … measure(s) as one factor when assessing the outcome reporting bias. … Outcome Measures: A Core Outcome Measure for chronic pain recommended by the Initiative on Methods, … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Assess Study Quality.

193. 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

194. Appendix-F1-Surveillance-Report-1 (xls file)
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     November 22, 2021 - Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time ( … Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time ( … Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time ( … Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time ( … Pain Population Drug Class 1 Drug Class 2 Drug 1 Drug 2 Measure Name Measure Scale Assessment Time (

195. 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.

196. 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

197. 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.

198. Amended Protocol: Maternal and Childhood Outcomes Associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2020 - and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability. … Outcomes Measures Maternal health outcomes [health risk] in:  Pregnancy  Postpartum Anemia … (infant and mother) (Diet quality measure Dietary intake (method) Diet quality score) Breastfeeding … measures (HEI, AHEI, DASH/Medical); glycemic load; servings of food groups, variety, adequacy and … Index; SSB =sugar-sweetened beverage; WISC=Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; BSID =Bayley Scales

199. Maternal and Childhood Outcomes Associated With the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability. … Outcomes Condition Measures Maternal health outcomes [health risk] in: Pregnancy  Postpartum … (infant and mother) (Diet quality measure Dietary intake (method) Diet quality score) … Outcomes Condition Measures Health outcomes Anemia Iron deficiency anemia, nutritional anemias … Eating Index; SSB=sugar-sweetened beverage; WISC=Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; BSID=Bayley Scales

200. 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