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241. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review #68 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/nppv-respiratory-failure_disposition-comments.pdf
     July 01, 2012 - Comment Response Peer Reviewer 2 General: Clarity and usability Well-structured and organized, but rather … July 2012 14 Commentator & Affiliation Section Comment Response Peer Reviewer 4 Methods 2) Rather … than odds ratios. … than by weight. … In addition this sentence has been revised to specify “studies with mixed etiologies” rather than “

242. Alcohol-Misuse Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 28, 2010 - than to insist on complete abstinence. … o Studies enrolling more than 20 percent of subjects recruited via methods other than office-based … Letters to the editor Articles rated poor during quality assessment Studies with historical, rather … Rather, since our review has some differences in scope (described above on page 5), we will search … providers (i.e., they require substantial resources or time, they may be delivered by research staff rather

243. Research White Paper: Outcome Measure Harmonization and Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Depression (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/white-paper-outcome-measure-harmonization-depression.pdf
     November 01, 2020 - Events of Interest Suicide Ideation & Behavior Selection of “several days,” “more than half the … Because both registries are designed primarily to support quality improvement activities (rather than … validated instruments, such as the Geriatric Depression Scale or Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), rather … than the PHQ-9. … For example, patients may present to the emergency room rather than the primary care practice in these

244. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 11 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Rather, it focuses on issues that have been of particular concern to analysts and stakeholders and on … certain issues are relevant, particularly when considering genetic test results that provide predictive rather … than diagnostic information. … Rather, having cases and controls matched for ethnicity/race or ancestry (i.e., population stratification … in relation to a variety of health conditions, but should generally be used to generate hypotheses rather

245. Disposition of Comments for Evidence Report #208 Part 5 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/public-reporting-quality-improvement_disposition-comments.pdf
     July 26, 2012 - Jones rather than for Main Street Medical Clinic)? It is not clear from the narrative. … than in Methods. … 3) line 45-47: consider change working to “designs prevented determining if…” rather than “impossible … Peer Reviewer 5 Results results are more detailed than prior results. … than being referred out-of-state.

246. Back (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - context (not the same benefit as when we last made this sort of decision) • About directionality rather … than decisions Slide  16: Example: desensitization • “We will reach a time when the  chemo is

247. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetes-update-2015_disposition-comments.pdf
     January 01, 2015 - rather than forcing a recommendation to do more studies to compare different agents against each other … it may not be that more studies are needed, but rather certain type of studies would help define and … I thought the current discussion was rather weak and vague in this regard. … Rather it supports the conclusion of the current review that DPP4 inhibitors did not have worse GI … In our opinion this constitutes insufficient evidence rather than a low strength of evidence.

248. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review_Trauma Informed Care: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 14, 2025 - also emphasizing that this also does not mean that providers/clinicians should not attend to trauma, rather … conclusions and that this is not the same as saying that these approaches are ineffective; they note, rather … than advance the field. … the “harms” potentially caused by TIC could be dangerously leveraged as part of a political agenda, rather … than approached as an empirical question.

249. Disposition of Comments for Imaging Tests for the Staging of Colorectal Cancer (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/colorectal-cancer-staging_disposition-comments.pdf
     November 20, 2014 - of her other publications appear to be more focused on predicting tumor response to chemotherapy rather … B and B is better than C, then A is better than C) using data from other studies. … Because this report is about staging rather than diagnosis, we decided to focus on the types of staging … than our own reanalysis of the data. … Rather imaging modalities should be considered in the context of the clinical setting and their value

250. Technical Brief Summary - Impact of Community Health Worker Certification on Workforce and Service Delivery for Asthma and Other Selected Chronic Diseases (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/technical-brief-34-health-worker-certification-summary.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - Could shift the CHW model to that of disease management rather than one of individual- and community-capacity

251. Disposition of comments for CER 169 Low Back Pain (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/back-pain-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
     February 29, 2016 - The majority of studies reported pain (rather than function). … This is an important when only “mean changes versus control” are reported (rather than change from … Rather, the approach taken in the current assessment was to include existing systematic reviews that … I am not advocating that a new systematic review should or needed to be done, but rather it would … I know this is difficult given that this report focuses on the systematic review rather than the individual

252. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review: Implementing Recommended Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Counseling Interventions in Primary Care Settings for in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/behavioral-health-screening-disposition-comments.pdf
     April 09, 2025 - Therefore, in our view, ITS should be regarded as a distinct study design rather than merely a statistical … primary perspective of interest, focusing on the impact of adhering to an implementation strategy, rather … than solely considering the effect of assignment to such a strategy.” … than preventing them. … The report focused on evaluating the effectiveness of implementation approaches rather than assessing

253. autism-update-protocol-130920 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/autism-update_research-protocol.pdf
     September 20, 2013 - serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SRIs), which generally are intended to treat common comorbidities of ASD rather … than core symptoms. … foundational skills and behaviors (such as motivation to communicate or initiation of communication), rather … than global improvements. … than considering it to be insufficient.

254. PowerPoint Presentation
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ebc-webinar-slides.pptx
     June 01, 2014 - (Reports, rather than clinical recommendations or guidelines) Consumer, clinician, and policymaker guides … communities Purpose of the EBC Challenge Community Forum Community Forum Community Forum ADAPTED rather … than adopted 13 EBC Challenge Timeline Marketing/Promotion 14 Community Forum Community Forum

255. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/treatment-resistant-depression_disposition-comments.pdf
     September 01, 2011 - than from true treatment “resistance”. … The text itself becomes rather redundant reading over the entire work, but I doubt many readers will … In other words, the 20% bipolar mix, rather than representing pesky interference could be due to some … than to actual treatment effects. … rather than a conclusion based on facts.

256. Disposition of Comments Report for Primary Care Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/abnormal-uterine-bleeding_disposition-comments.pdf
     March 21, 2013 - Outcome measures in studies of uterine bleeding are especially problematic and rather unsatisfactory … Clearly treatment is not more effective than DMPA or the LNG IUS and may not be more effective than … than another. … Rather our goal is to assure the population, intervention, comparison groups, timing, and setting of … We are constrained by the content of the literature and rather than attempting to group as major and

257. Evidence Summary: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 236 Maternal, Fetal, and Child Outcomes of Mental Health Treatments in Women: A Systematic Review of Perinatal Pharmacologic Interventions (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-236-mental-health-pregnancy-evidence-summary.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - Pregnancy-associated suicide kills more women than hemorrhage or preeclampsia. … exposure to lithium is more likely to be associated with overall congenital and cardiac anomalies than … paucity of evidence does not mean that pharmacotherapy is not beneficial, nor that harms do not exist; rather … trimester exposure to lithium and overall congenital anomalies and cardiac anomalies may be greater than … As a result, our KQ 1 evidence base controls for underlying severity as a confounder better than the

258. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 240: Treatments for Acute Pain: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-240-acute-pain-revised-comments.pdf
     December 29, 2020 - reviewers noted that the paucity of studies was not attributable to the quality of the review but rather … be more consistent within the document using “might be” to describe low strength of evidence (SOE) rather … reviewers noted that the paucity of studies was not attributable to the quality of the review but rather … I would much rather have a decent quality of life. … We advocate ensuring that older adults are included in (rather than excluded from) the studies surveyed

259. THIS IS OUR TEACHER! (ppt file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/communicating_risk_media_wilkes.ppt
     April 01, 2006 - and journals; Public believes promotions about health and believes it is held to a higher standard than … Only to find that a clever RCT showed the procedure to be no better than a sham operation HealthNet … already used to prevent bone loss after menopause NCI used relative risk reductions in their promotion rather … than absolute risk reductions At the press release and conference call no data was given to scientists … Arguably, understanding statistics is much more important for good citizenship than knowing algebra.

260. Dispostion of Comments Report for Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c-screening_disposition-comments.pdf
     November 27, 2012 - There is a type on page v of the structured abstract (should be "on" rather than "one"). … The birth cohort strategy calls for testing of all persons born from 1945 through 1965 (rather than … There is a type on page v of the structured abstract (should be "on" rather than "one"). … The audience is broad and implied rather than explicitly stated. … Rather than explore screening vs. no screening, it would be more useful to compare different screening