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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/technologies-underserved-populations-qas-02282023.pdf
February 28, 2023 - Because the world is full of
randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that show efficacy, but for a variety … We would love to do a postpartum trial, but it takes years. … In our trial, despite the ruralness and the poverty of the country, young people between the ages of … Enforcement Agency, actually just put out some guidelines three days ago making it easier to prescribe
controlled … Enforcement Agency, actually just put out some guidelines three days ago making it easier to prescribe controlled
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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/nudge-unit-supports-physician-patient-behavioral-changes-towards-medical-decisions
July 23, 2024 - unnecessary daily imaging during palliative radiotherapy for adults with cancer: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized … clinical trial. … decision support tool to reduce polypharmacy in elderly people with chronic diseases: cluster randomised controlled … trial.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hypofractionated-radiation-therapy-draft-appendix-d2.xlsx
January 01, 2024 - Intervention Details
Author, year KQ Trial Arms, number Arm Group Total dose, Gy Total number of fractions … Dose constraints were applied to organs at risk and were amended during the trial… Androgen deprivation … Rectal balloon used for planning only No NR No NR
Kishan, 2023 KQ5 IG1 IG1 40 5 8 UHF NR Patients were randomized … MRI No NR No NR Yes Full bladder, Empty rectum
Kishan, 2023 KQ5 IG2 IG2 40 5 8 UHF NR Patients were randomized … (Computed tomography) No NR No NR No NR No NR No NR
Wang, 2022 KQ1 IG2 IG2 78 39 2 CF NR Patients randomized
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/medication-safety-events-related-diagnostic-imaging
January 26, 2022 - 2014
Supplemental perioperative oxygen and the risk of surgical wound infection: a randomized … controlled trial. … administration of high-risk drug combinations, and their monitoring: a cluster randomised stepped-wedge trial
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/pediatric-ehr_research-protocol.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Examples of sources of grey literature include government
websites, clinical trial databases, trade … Designs: We will allow randomized controlled trials, cohort, and pre-post study designs because
these … population Pediatric, outpatient
Publication languages English only
Admissible evidence Study design
Randomized … controlled trials, including wait-list control, cohorts with comparison, pre-post
cohort without comparison
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/918.html
June 01, 2024 - Incidence of drug-related adverse events related to the use of high-alert drugs: a systematic review of randomized … controlled trials .
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015430-gurwitz-final-report-2008.pdf
January 01, 2008 - have an enormous beneficial
impact on the quality of medical care.”7 Based on a systematic review of controlled … During the 12
months of the trial, we captured in an audit file each alert that was displayed to a physician … be differences among units in
terms of the specific drugs ordered during the 12-month period of the trial … Nursing Home Setting for Improving the
Quality of Medication Ordering
During the 12 months of the trial
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/glycemic-control/abstract
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/ps-research-summary-pfe.pdf
April 30, 2025 - Trial
of Home Self-Efficacy
Enhancement
2003-2008
$2,270,621
Final Report
Purpose: To determine … controlled trial across three Houston-area
surgical clinics with 450 enrolled patients. … clinical portal
and the physician-controlled electronic medical record (EMR) system. … controlled trial (RCT). … controlled trial to assess
the implementation of three diagnostic and evidence-based interventions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/spotlight_case_csf_leak_after_elective_spine_surgery_slides_-_final.pptx
January 01, 2024 - hydrogels, absorbing fluid and swelling to minimize mass on the spine.56,57
One prospective, multicenter, randomized … controlled trial comparing a synthetic sealant to standard-of-care closure during spinal surgery showed … A prospective randomized trial in patients with supratentorial craniotomies. … intraoperative watertight closure than standard of care during spinal surgery: a prospective, multicenter, randomized … controlled study.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-225-substance-abuse-adolescents-evidence-summary%20225%20Substance%20Use%20Adolescents.pdf
May 01, 2020 - Results
We found 118 randomized controlled trials that evaluated treatment of adolescents or
young
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-250-cannabis-other-plant-based-treatments-surveillance-report-1-updated_0.PDF
December 01, 2021 - Results to Date
Results Overview
The systematic review included evidence from 27 studies (20 randomized … controlled trials
and 7 observational studies), all assessing cannabis interventions (see the full
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship-references.html
August 01, 2024 - Reflective testing - a randomized controlled trial in primary care patients. … Randomized trial of rapid multiplex polymerase chain reaction-based blood culture identification and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/direct-oral-anticoagulants-are-high-risk-medications-potentially-complex-dosing
August 21, 2005 - multiple-dose administration have been reported for rivaroxaban and apixaban, respectively, but, no randomized … Rivaroxaban Versus Vitamin K Antagonist in Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Randomized Noninferiority Trial … Effects of CPOE on provider cognitive workload: a randomized crossover trial. … limb ischemia and outcomes with vorapaxar in patients with peripheral artery disease: results from the trial
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/field-triage-glascow_executive.pdf
January 01, 2017 - For all
Key Questions, we included cohort studies and randomized
trials that directly compared the … of the mGCS versus the tGCS were published in 1998 and
2003.18,19
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled … A number of studies
on predictive utility were conducted in ED settings, which
is more controlled and … Research Recommendations
Head-to-head observational or randomized studies that
assess one set of patients … Randomized controlled
trial of a scoring aid to improve Glasgow Coma Scale scoring
by emergency medical
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/mkAgTNR-2jobBcN-2Ysxfb
July 01, 2007 - increased risk for chlamydial infec-
tion was based largely on the results of a good-quality ran-
domized, controlled … trial of screening in a managed care
organization. … This trial found that screening and treatment
of young women at risk for chlamydial infection reduced … In a cluster random-
ized trial, Ostergaard and colleagues (4) found that a
1-time home-based screening … sampling versus
conventional swab sampling for screening of Chlamydia trachomatis in women: a
cluster-randomized
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/006-ss-preop-chlorhexidine.pptx
April 01, 2025 - hospitals, 2005–2007
88.1 percent surgical patients
S. aureus nasal carriers, screened on admission
Randomized … Preventing surgical site infections: a randomized, open-label trial of nasal mupirocin ointment and nasal
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/nephropathy-contrast-induced_executive.pdf
October 01, 2015 - We included
randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of any intervention to
prevent CIN (including administration … independently assessed each study’s risk of
bias using five items from the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool
for randomized
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/community-health-worker-protocol.pdf
March 26, 2019 - conducted outside of the United
States
Study
design
• Studies with a comparison group, such
as randomized … controlled trials,
nonrandomized controlled trials,
before/after studies, cross-sectional, or
historical … Information Management
Aided, where appropriate, by controlled vocabulary terms and text words, we will
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/depression-postpartum-screening_research-protocol.pdf
May 01, 2013 - symptoms meet the diagnostic criteria for depression are given effective treatments, then
a study that randomized … 17
Study
Characteristic Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria
Study design • Original data
• Randomized … controlled trials: All sample sizes
• Observational studies: sample size ≥100 subjects
• Editorials … controlled trial [RCT]
versus observational study) that may be related to outcomes. … controlled trial
RDC Research Diagnostic Criteria
SADS Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia