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1041. Research White Paper Biorepositories Addendum Registries For Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/biorepositories-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
      February 01, 2018 - If the repository is not created for a single investigator or patient registry but rather as a resource … It should be noted that many participants will have more than one sample and often more than one sample … Rather, they should inform participants that, despite substantial efforts to safeguard their confidentiality … furthering medical research; an emphasis on intentionally asking patients to become research participants, rather … be deposited in biorepositories for future use (assuming appropriate patient consent is obtained), rather

1042. Disposition of Comments for Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-screening_disposition-comments.pdf
      April 01, 2012 - key questions 1, 4 and 5 to assess whether early detection reduces the risk of developing outcomes rather … These should be consistent and/or the reasons for examining sensitivity and specificity rather than … Peer Reviewer #2 Future Research Needs This Reviewer finds the future research section rather vague … “Losses in VF of more than 5 dB [decibels] and gains of more than 3 dB were associated with clinically … Rather, it states that evidence linking screening with outcomes is lacking.

1043. Hepatitis-C Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c_executive.pdf
      November 01, 2012 - Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (Methods Guide).33 We used the term “quality” rather … than the alternate term “risk of bias.” … with reduced risk of all-cause mortality, liver-related mortality, and other hepatic complications rather … frequently encountered in clinical practice, are needed to better understand comparative effectiveness, rather … than just comparative efficacy.

1044. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/peptic-ulcer-horizon-scan-high-impact-1306.pdf
      June 01, 2013 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, review of more than 16,000 leads about potential topics has resulted in … Treatment success with no serious complications was reported in more than 90% of patients in these … patients might become eligible for the surgery or elect to undergo surgical treatment for achalasia rather … than receiving nonsurgical treatment.

1045. Ch 11-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ch_11-user-guide-to-ocer_130129.pdf
      January 03, 2012 - definition of all cardiovascular events including angina could lead to a different effect estimate than … validation data, which may work for unmeasured confounders,9 it is difficult to account for more than … reports given back to the General Practice, that usually are less detailed), but better recording than … Examples include the degree of polynomial expressions, splines, or additive rather than multiplicative … Overfit occurs when you are fitting a model to random variations in the data (i.e., noise) rather than

1046. Disposition of Comments for CER 175 Total Worker Health (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/worker-health_disposition-comments.pdf
      May 31, 2016 - Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … TEP Reviewer #1 Methods Because the methods focused on integration rather than the intervention, … evaluation might still contribute relevant information if the comparator were OSH alone or HP alone (rather … than no program at all).

1047. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/observational-research-scores_research.pdf
      May 01, 2012 - The choice of whether to use summary variables to adjust for confounding rather than traditional multivariate … Though the question “does rosuvastatin lead to more rhabdomyolysis than other statins?” … transparency may be reduced by inclusion of the propensity score to a single term in an outcome model rather … propensity score to account for situations where the outcome of interest might not be a disease at all, but rather … We suggest clear descriptions and characterization of the study population using numbers (rather than

1048. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
      April 01, 2012 - appropriate to consider early visual field deterioration as a direct measure of visual impairment, rather … the drops, they more likely agreed with the statement that glaucoma treatment would “not do much” rather … at baseline, showing better preservation of visual field in those patients who had initial surgery, rather … In the CIGTS study, the average loss of visual field is less than ½ dB over seven years. … This does not involve the data itself, but, rather, how the data are presented and executive summary

1049. Migraine-Adults-Executive-130408 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/migraine-adults-executive-130408.pdf
      April 01, 2013 - Systematic reviews have focused on the efficacy of specific drugs rather than on the comparative effectiveness … bias in individual studies into the synthesis of evidence by using individual risk of bias criteria rather … This analysis provided pair-wise triangular comparisons for drugs that were compared against placebo rather … than network meta-analysis … More than half of the RCTs had medium risk of bias.

1050. Protocol for Quantitative Assessment of Benefit and Harm analysis of Aspirin for primary prevention (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-balancing-harms-benefits_research.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - to the actual metric used, which were primarily incidence rates (number of events per person-time) rather … estimate (target of inference) The NNT is the number of person-years of treatment with aspirin, rather … The NNH is the number of person-years of treatment with aspirin, rather than with placebo or comparators … still conclude that aspirin is likely to cause more harm than benefit. … We did not evaluate which preference assessment methods are most appropriate; rather we used available

1051. Protocol: Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/lung-cancer-staging_research-protocol.pdf
      December 08, 2014 - indirectly reveals sites of metabolic bone turnover in reaction to bone marrow metastatic disease rather … than the metastatic lesions directly. … one of the above) • Multiple test (more than one of the above) vs. other multiple tests (more than … difference in accuracy may be due to reader experience rather than the tests themselves. … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

1052. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Clinician (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/alcohol-misuse-drug-therapy_clinician.pdf
      February 01, 2016 - Alcohol misuse is associated with numerous health and social problems and more than 85,000 deaths per … It is estimated that fewer than 1 in 10 people who are treated for AUD receive medications.† Expanding … Alcohol is taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended. 2. … be interpreted to mean that medications cannot be used to treat AUD in primary care settings, but rather

1053. Asthma-Immunotherapy-2010 Research-Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/asthma-immunotherapy-2010_research-protocol.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - They differ from classical hormones in that they are produced by a number of tissue or cell types rather … than by specialized glands. … They generally act locally in a paracrine or autocrine rather than endocrine manner. … They should be taken daily, work over time rather than immediately, reduce or prevent inflammation and … serious AE (SAE); anaphylaxis] i) Adverse events (AE): An injury caused by medical management–rather

1054. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/01_-arthritis_potential_high_impact_june_2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, more than 11,000 leads about topics have resulted in identification and … tracking of more than 900 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and one cross-cutting area. … These interventions are not proprietary products, but rather biologic products prepared at the medical … 23 As such, PRP is thought by some to have potential to address the underlying pathology of OA rather

1055. Assessing the Impact of Indexing Performance Measure Codes on the Perceived Value of EPC Reports to Health Systems (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-assessing-impact.pdf
      September 01, 2018 - identifying the page numbers where the most relevant information on a quality measure could be found rather … As the Southeast’s preeminent health care provider, Duke University Health System attracted more than … 68,000 inpatient stays and more than 2 million outpatient visits in FY17. … own report be responsible for identifying the quality measures and creating the hyperlinked tables rather … than having an outside entity linking across reports.

1056. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives_research-protocol.pdf
      March 13, 2012 - has been largely attributed to the fact that ovarian cancer typically presents at a much later stage than … ovary means that many cancers identified at Stage I may represent a subgroup of less aggressive tumors rather … than a necessary first step in the development of all tumors. … this project, we anticipate that quantitative evidence synthesis will take the form of the model, rather … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

1057. Disposition of Comments for Treatment To Prevent Fractures in Men and Women With Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis -- Update of a 2007 Report (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/osteoporosis-bone-fracture_disposition-comments.pdf
      March 01, 2012 - than “AmGen.” … For the sake of completeness, we chose to include all prior meta- analyses, rather than trying to pick … We agree that adherence should be measured in the clinical setting rather than in trials, and for that … Rather it is the HR associated with the effect of prior fracture on subsequent fracture; the text was … The value of these interventions should not automatically be assumed inconsequential, but rather simply

1058. Prostate-Cancer-Test Research-Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prostate-cancer-test_research-protocol.pdf
      October 14, 2011 - use of this test without a systematic review of current evidence has the potential to create harms rather … than benefits to health care outcomes. … studies will include only a single test (e.g., PCA3 or fPSA), and the comparison will be made between, rather … than within, studies … In general, comparisons will be made between, rather than within, studies. C.

1059. uterine-fibroids-protocol-160301 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/uterine-fibroids_research-protocol.pdf
      March 01, 2016 - States, an estimated 26 million women between the ages of 15 and 50 have uterine fibroids.1-4 More than … to randomized clinical comparisons of effectiveness, including medical management versus surgical, rather … than restricting comparisons only to abdominal hysterectomy. … pool a set of studies using random effects depends not on how heterogeneous their outcomes are, but rather … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

1060. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/topic-refinement.ppt
      March 01, 2010 - Food and Drug Administration for hypertension, so it obviously reduces blood pressure more than placebo … Food and Drug Administration for hypertension, it obviously reduces blood pressure more than placebo … The first question is, “Does aliskerin reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients more than other … We also found out that the occurrence of infections would not be informative to stakeholders; rather, … would have on pulmonary function, so we decided not to limit the literature to prepubertal patients but rather