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261. Comparative Effectiveness of Fecal DNA Testing in Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Average Risk Adults. (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/colorectal-cancer-screening_disposition-comments.pdf
     February 01, 2012 - Imperiale did report 95% CI for specificity though he expressed specificity as the detection of normals rather … The 641 subjects primarily included patients who simply did not perform the test rather than those … than a reflection of the sensitivity of the assay. … The 641 subjects primarily included patients who simply did not perform the test rather than those … than a reflection of the sensitivity of the assay.

262. 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

263. Disposition of Comments for Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cancer-anemia-update_disposition-comments.pdf
     April 25, 2013 - of tumors when ESAs are given at the minimum required doses to reduce/avoid red cell transfusions (rather … manner that minimizes ESA dose and exposure just enough to avoid or reduce red cell transfusions rather … Page 95, line 37: Should probably cite the 3 individual studies, rather than relying on citation of … The use of ESAs in these 3 trials was not to treat anemia, but rather to determine if ESA therapy would … Rather than a prespecified endpoint for the majority of the ESA clinical trials, on- study mortality

264. THIS IS OUR TEACHER! (ppt file)
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     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.

265. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review 133 Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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     May 27, 2014 - I suspect some of the variation in results relates more to who was included in the study rather than … than clinicians only. … For unsophisticated readers like me, you may want to indicate why you chose an absolute rather than … We have re-run analyses using risk ratios rather than risk difference and also described the variability … than saying you found ‘no difference’.

266. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - The authors mention in the discussion that RoB was assessed by one person and then checked, rather than … classified as a measure of function due to its focus even though it is more commonly used for pain rather … than PTSD. … ’t refer to psychotherapy interventions with cognitive components (classified as psychotherapy); rather … Figure 6: how were studies that used more than 1 category handled?

267. Disposition of Comments CER 194 Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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     March 19, 2018 - Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … than a real increase). … SOE is not graded per study rather per outcome, for each unique intervention/comparator pair. … This should be indicated more clearly, and if CI, a comma rather than “to” should be used (e.g., (0.46 … They will want to get to work on writing the final document as quickly as possible rather than going

268. Evidence Summary: CER 231 Care Interventions for People Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-231-dementia-interventions-evidence-summary_0.pdf
     August 01, 2020 - people with Down syndrome, who are living longer and who overall experience higher rates of dementia than … Because we excluded studies with fewer than 10 participants per study arm, we may not have identified … these populations; therefore, we erred on the side of assessing a body of research as insufficient rather … than ineffective.

269. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 24 Resident Safety Practices (pdf file)
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     May 27, 2016 - This is especially the case as we reviewed reviews rather than primary studies. 85. … The Technical Brief is not meant to summarize findings of these studies but rather to indicate where … The focus on reviews of staffing intervention studies only rather than individual studies gives an … The guiding questions are listed as if this is a paper about an intervention, rather than a review of … Rather it listed the report's limitations.

270. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/preterm-birth-terbutaline-pump_disposition-comments.pdf
     September 01, 2011 - Peer Reviewer 1 Methods (Study Section) The pump was commonly used among women less than 24 weeks … positive findings were likely due to the medium to high risk of bias detected in observational studies rather … than publication bias. … Overall, if you leave this section in, I would simply call it pump malfunction, rather than failure. … For others we cannot say that patients were probably not in labor, but rather that it is unclear how

271. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - They involve more than 600 health care leaders and cover more than one-third of the U.S. … Rather, this framework shows key pathways by which public reporting may lead to harms, intermediate … Applicability was assessed, rather than scored or rated, and may vary according to the characteristics … what came before, with an eye toward advancing understanding and a focus on developing the science rather … than repeating past approaches that have had a relatively low yield.

272. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 232_Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients With Advanced Cancer (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-232-breathlessness-cancer-comments.pdf
     November 19, 2020 - My conclusion based on the evidence is that there the evidence is inconclusive rather than opioids … of the questions as most of the readers reviewing these guidelines will be prescribing oncologists rather … I think this should be the first table to summarize things based on the endpoint rather than intervention … the discussion, I think it may be helpful to reference the table I recommended based on symptom (rather … than intervention).

273. Disposition of Comments Report for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     November 30, 2012 - The focus of this report was on how to change provider behavior rather than on the preventive interventions … Antibiotic timing adherence is an outcome with low quality rather than insufficient evidence as an SSI … Questions with Insufficient Data" (p. 134) so that it comes across as areas for researchers to focus rather … than the end may be more helpful. … The call for this is the paper is rather weak and muffled.

274. Disposition of Comments Report for Otitis Media With Effusion (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ear-infection_disposition-comments.pdf
     May 04, 2013 - than an abnormal condition (i.e. an incidental finding rather than a disease). … They represent a model for effectiveness rather that efficacy studies. … than “uninterruptable.” … The key is to perhaps look at other issues rather than restudy the prsent modalities We agree that … Is a study of proton pump inhibitors rather than of diet. Thank you.

275. Ced -Appendix-2 (xls file)
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     May 29, 2025 - many comments that were outside of the scope of this project in that they addressed the CED process rather … This largely arises because the therapies recommended for CED are often devices or diagnostics, rather … than drugs or biologics, or are therapies being used for novel indications, without FDA-approval for … This largely arises because the therapies recommended for CED are often devices or diagnostics, rather … than drugs or biologics, or are therapies being used for novel indications, without FDA-approval for

276. Future Research Needs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers, Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages, and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - Primary sources of variability were identified as methodological rather than geographic. … Primary sources of variability were identified as methodological rather than geographic, and included … Some needs address methodological rather than intervention issues and did not squarely fit into a PICOTS … Intervention and Treatment considerations are not a direct focus of this research need; rather, they … Therefore, rather than make strict assumptions about the treatments being tested, we estimated the sample

277. Liver-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - Rather, we synthesized these studies qualitatively, using the methods described below for assessing … Rather, we searched for unpublished studies through searches of clinical trials registries and regulatory … Rather, their purpose was to evaluate test performance for lesion identification, therefore providing … that it is not possible to perform a comprehensive contrast- enhanced examination of the liver.22 Rather … Rather, most studies of test performance that were not performed specifically to evaluate or characterize

278. Integrating Bodies of Evidence: Existing Systematic Reviews and Primary Studies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2015 - However, we did not collect examples of how existing systematic reviews have been used; rather we used … multiple relevant existing systematic reviews and that they would typically use the “best” review rather … than include all existing reviews. … Rather, the synthesis from the prior review could be presented along with an updated qualitative synthesis … than conducting a full comprehensive search for existing reviews?

279. Disposition of Comments for CER 166 Calcineurin Inhibitors (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2016 - displayproduct&productid=2193 Published Online: March 15, 2016 Archived: This report is greater than … Comment Response Peer Reviewer 1 General Comments My major concern is that the quality of studies is rather … transplant outcomes, given that these have not changed appreciably in the last 10 to 15 years, but rather … many of the questions that need to be addressed cannot be answered through traditional RCTs, but rather … which foster an improvement in long term graft survival and decrease the need for retransplantation, rather

280. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 10 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - literature, most systematic reviews of medical tests focus on “test accuracy” (or better, test performance) rather … than on the impact of testing on patient outcomes. … in the literature, most systematic reviews focus on “test accuracy” (or better, test performance) rather … than on the impact of testing on patient outcomes.2,3 The links between testing, test results, and … Overall Suggestions Many systematic reviews of medical tests focus on test performance rather than the