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421. Disposition of Comments Report for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (pdf file)
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     August 23, 2013 - #4 General: Quality of the Report Good Thank you Peer Reviewer #5 General: Quality of … Peer Reviewer #7 General: Quality of the Report Good Thank you TEP #1 General: Quality … As a results, the CHA2DS2-VASc measure and has been evaluated in fewer studies than the CHADS2 measure … instruments such as measures of calibration, or strengths of association (e.g., RR’s/OR’s) or measures … Not all studies included measures of strength of association, and very few included measures of diagnostic

422. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 22, 2011 - ticagrelor) can overcome the effects of genotype on platelet reactivity. 15-17 Phenotypic testing measures … We refer to all these assays as “phenotypic tests,” because they attempt to measure an intermediate … Results include metrics of analytic validity (e.g., sensitivity, specificity, measures of variability … : Analytic validity refers to the technical performance of a test—that is, how well does the test measure … what it is designed to measure?

423. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 10, 2010 - will include the type of instrument or scale, primary or secondary outcome status, type of effect measure … (endpoint or change score, measure of variance (standard deviation, standard error, etc), and definition … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies We interpret methodological quality to include … based on clinical judgment with regards to comparability of study populations, treatments, and outcome measures … and outcome characteristics (e.g., long-term follow-up vs. short-term follow-up; different measuring scales

424. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 9 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - an obvious choice for a reference standard (e.g., when both tests are alternative methodologies to measure … At the same time, portable monitors can be used to measure AHI instead of facility-based polysomnography … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2012. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 8, 2007. … Rockville, Maryland: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2012.

425. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2013). … Specify a measure of data variability. … to the minimum treatment effect of interest, calculating the needed study size requires specifying a measure … be specified, including primary study outcome, clinically important minimum effect size, variability measure … specified, including the primary study outcome, clinically important minimum effect size, variability measure

426. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 263: Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - review, we used methods consistent with those outlined in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Evidence from 5 single-arm studies indicates that most patients submit BP measures when given HBPM … antihypertensive medications (reported adjusted odds ratio [OR] and relative risk [RR] = 1.0; other measures … ascertainment in the early postpartum period, largely through greater adherence with reporting of BP measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2023.

427. Treatment for Restless Legs Syndrome Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     November 27, 2012 - Can you tell us which quality of life scales were used in the report? … Outcome measures are valid in their limitations. Statistical methods are appropriate. … used in this report – consider changing primary outcome measure to standard measures traditionally … There are no validated measures indicating “clinically important differences”. … correlating change in IRLS and meaningful improvement, almost all of these studies also used CGI scales

428. S81 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - paradigm are typically reported in terms of the Effect Strength for Sensitivity (ESS), the targeted measure … such as the area under the receiver operator curve (ROC AUC), a more commonly used measure of discrimination … Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. HCUP CCS.

429. Telehealth During COVID-19 (pdf file)
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     April 28, 2022 - measures (e.g., adhering or meeting Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) standards … or other validated quality measures), e.g.: • Practice efficiency • No-show rates NA … of statistical heterogeneity, using tests such as Cochran’s Q test and the I-squared statistic, to measure … or other validated quality measures), e.g.: • Practice efficiency • No-show rates • Staffing hours … or other validated quality measures), e.g.: • Practice efficiency • No-show rates • Staffing hours

430. Antidepressant Treatment of Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2014 - 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—e.g., Medical Outcomes Survey 36-item Short Form (SF-36) … interventions, or no treatment; and (3) measured outcomes of interest directly and did not use proxy measures … Our review indicates that use of SSRIs did not result in differences on most measures.

431. Surveillance Report: CER 30: Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management for Hip Fracture (pdf file)
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     July 08, 2015 - Health-related quality of life f.! Quality of sleep in the hospital g.! … Health-related quality of life •! Quality of sleep in the hospital •! … Acute pain was measured using different scales (i.e., numeric rating scales and 10cm VAS). … Health-related quality of life f. Quality of sleep in the hospital g. … Acute pain was measured using different scales (i.e., numeric rating scales and 10cm VAS).

432. Disposition of Comments Report for Technical Brief 15 Transition Care for Children With Special Health Needs (pdf file)
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     June 17, 2014 - No measure has been well validated and there is little data on measures other than the TRAQ and a few … measures) is not well supported. … When should a child know how to measure their insulin and inject themselves? … Doing quality improvement projects using the SQUIRE guidelines for quality improvement reporting. … what information I gained, for example, with the examination of length of follow-up and outcomes measure

433. Weight-Gain-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Quality Assessment of Individual Studies Study quality was assessed using the Downs and Black methodologic … quality assessment checklist (Appendix F).21 This checklist was developed to assess the quality of … Measures of weight change included weight, BMI or waist circumference. … abstracted only if the study also reported a qualifying measure of weight. … or cross-sectional measures of weight.

434. Ced-Appendix-3 (xls file)
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     June 24, 2022 - : Data are accurate and complete; routine, documented, traceable, and repeatable measures are taken to … in a learning health system, as will standardization and harmonization of data elements and outcome measures … NAM2017 To engage patients and consumers as meaningful partners, researchers could measure outcomes that … Is there a supplemental way to measure these confounders? … Is there a supplemental way to measure these confounders?

435. Executive Summary_Systematic Review: Psychosocial and Pharmacologic Interventions for Disruptive Behavior in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2025 - interventions were better than usual care or waitlist in reducing parent-reported disruptive behavior measures … parent-only interventions resulted in greater improvement on parent-reported disruptive behaviors scales … as substantial heterogeneity in psychosocial treatments (and how they were delivered) and outcome measures … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2025.

436. Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - It is limited to review of measures. … This report is much smaller in scope and really is limited to analysis of a small set of measures. … I would report some measure of effect size rather than statistically significant results. … Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures appropriate? … The diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures and the statistical methods are appropriate.

437. Fibromyalgia Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - eliminated the criterion of tender points examination and added (1) physician-rated severity on two scales … difference in mean change from baseline between treated and control groups by subgroup strata as a general measure … Multiple measures 11 for pain were used. … Fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales for clinical and epidemiological studies: a modification … A comparative study of patients with and without abnormality in (MMPI) psychological scales.

438. genetic-testing-developmental-disabilities-protocol-140930 (pdf file)
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     September 30, 2014 - abilities), Inventory for Client and Agency Planning, Scales of Independent Behavior, and Vineland … on Standardisation and Quality Assurance. … Analytic specificity: is defined as the ability of a measurement procedure to measure solely the analyte … the properties or characteristic it is intended to measure (e.g., a gene mutation)? … refers to the reaction that an assay may have with analytes other than the ones it is designed to measure

439. Topic 0614 Tonsillectomy NSD FINAL CC (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or no intervention Outcome(s): Improvement in sleep, improved quality … These conditions result in lowered quality of life, lack of sleep, and high direct and indirect costs … recommendation of tonsillectomy in children with recurrent throat infection stems from the varied measures … greater amount of evidence supporting the effectiveness of tonsillectomy to reduce SDB and improve the quality

440. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     November 16, 2010 - Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Testability— the ability to perform the test, including measures among those administering the test … Measures of treatment effect We will calculate summary risk ratios or odds ratios as appropriate for … standardized mean differences will be calculated if continuous outcomes are measured by using different scales … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.