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241. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 267: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     March 25, 2024 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2024. … Outcomes were not limited to specific health scales, but we differentiated between ADHD symptom measures … We have paraphrased the term broadband measure in the executive summary and added more detail to … other tables list broadband measures. … , when there are excellent scales.

242. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings, 2023-2024 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - Director Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Chief of Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness … o Future research should measure outcomes and unintended consequences in the same study to generate … ; and (3) multicomponent sepsis interventions showed improvement in at least one process measure, but … only two studies showed improvement in outcome measures. 5b.

243. Assessing-The-Risk-Of-Bias-In-Systematic-Reviews-Of-Health-Care-Interventions (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2005 - measurement bias; outcomes measures) measures) specifically validity, reliability, and variation … Choice of Outcome Measures The use of valid and reliable outcome measures reduces the likelihood of … Though the use of quantitative scales is a way to employ a transparent set of results, any weighting … Scales to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review. … Correlation of quality measures with estimates of treatment effect in meta-analyses of randomized controlled

244. Rapid Evidence Product: Masks for Prevention of COVID-19 in Community and Healthcare Settings Version 2 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2021 - Therefore, clinicians and policymakers advise preventive measures. … Eleven RCTs were rated good quality and seven were rated fair quality (Appendix D). … The studies were generally limited in their ability to measure and control for the amount and intensity … Scales DC, Green K, Chan AK, et al. … Scales DC, Green K, Chan AK, et al.

245. Assessing-The-Risk-Of-Bias-In-Systematic-Reviews-Of-Health-Care-Interventions (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2005 - measurement bias; outcomes measures) measures) specifically validity, reliability, and variation … Choice of Outcome Measures The use of valid and reliable outcome measures reduces the likelihood of … Though the use of quantitative scales is a way to employ a transparent set of results, any weighting … Scales to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review. … Correlation of quality measures with estimates of treatment effect in meta-analyses of randomized controlled

246. Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     November 18, 2024 - standard, along with constructs and subscales of global measures (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant and … T-score = 40 as clinically significant for behavioral measures). … Poorer maternal diet quality and increased birth weight. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Methods Guide: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

247. Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - measure, particularly for psychiatric patients in hospital settings.23 Treatment Strategies Much … terms of frequency, severity, or duration (measured by either direct counts or validated aggression scales … b Coercive measures covered a wide range of measures, from forced injection of psychotropic medication … b Coercive measures covered a wide range of measures from forced injection of psychotropic medication … What is the role of quality measures, designed to create incentives to improve the quality of care,

248. 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,

249. Methods-Balancing-Harms-Benefits Research-2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Studies generally prespecify and measure benefit outcomes with great reliability. … As a consequence, no measures of uncertainty are available. … Systematic reviews often use NNT and NNH as a measure of benefit and harm. … Benefits and harms may be reported on different scales. … Use of quality-adjusted life year weights with dose- response models for public health decisions:

250. 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

251. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings on Patient Safety Practices and Ratings by a Technical Expert Panel, 2024-2025 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2025 - Director Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … o A single-center study of a comprehensive HRO model showed initial improvements in several safety measures … • The TEP’s future research recommendations focused on stronger study designs, better outcome measures … • The discussion focused on how to measure the effectiveness of CRPs after patient harm. … • The TEP’s primary future research recommendations focused on better outcome measures, stronger

252. AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) Program Research Gaps Summary: Pain Management (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Outcomes • Future studies should include pain response, pain severity, measures of overall function … one or a few small trials, several nonpharmacological treatments for migraine may improve various measures … Study Design • Study designs need a consistent use of recognized standard measures of pain and function … • Most systematic reviews report pain outcomes using scales that measure only pain intensity, while … outcomes reporting, including pain and its impact on function and recovery as measured by multidomain scales

253. 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

254. 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

255. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2011 - Quality of life? Low (ACEI vs. … No differences were found between ACEIs and ARBs in ARB); measures of general quality of life; this is … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 2011. … of serial glucose measurements). • Measures of left ventricular mass/function (left ventricular mass … index and ejection fraction). • Measures of kidney disease (creatinine/glomerular filtration rate [GFR

256. Medical Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder—An Update (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2017 - Oppositional behavior Low SOE for no effect Significant improvement with MPH on parent- rated measure … Research in understanding outcomes of importance to patients and caregivers, such as quality of life … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. April 2011. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2014. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2014.

257. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2010 - • Secondary outcomes: o healthcare utilization/economics o quality of life measures • Adverse … This method measures quality on a scale that ranges from 0-5, assigning points for randomization, blinding … The latter have been called “good” quality and the former called “poor” quality.) … For subgroups where pooling is done across several scales, we will calculate an unbiased estimate using … Since most of the scales used as outcome measures in the pooled analyses are scored so that more severely

258. Update Topic CER 31 Clostridium difficile NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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     February 19, 2014 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. December 2011. … (a) Do the differences in performance measures vary with sample characteristics? … § Do the differences in performance measures vary with sample characteristics? § KQ 2.

259. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 15, 2011 - were added to address whether the efficacy of therapies differs according to baseline biochemical measures … treatment differ according to patient baseline stone composition and blood and urine biochemical measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2011. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Draft Posted October 2007. … Chapter 6, Assessing the quality and applicability of included studies.

260. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Effectiveness of Treatments Options for the Prevention of Complications and Treatment of Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2016 - What were the differences, if any, in pre-specified outcome measures, statistical plan and size of … subcutaneous treatments) to improve the symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and health-related quality … ferent domain used, different measurement or diagnostic test used, different reporting of the same measure … (e.g. change in pain scale or percentage from baseline), different results of the same reported measure … The predictive validity of quality of evidence grades for the stability of effect estimates was low: