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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/evidence-summary-cer-200-post-acs-depression.pdf
November 01, 2017 - • Available depression-screening
tools may miss 3 percent of people
with depression, but less than … e
Effective Health Care Program
Archived: This report is
greater than 3 years old. … This means the
instruments would miss less than 3 percent of those
who have depression, but only 50 … Insufficient
aRated as indirect since 20.1% of patients enrolled for low perceived social support rather … than depression.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mental-health-children_disposition-comments.pdf
December 19, 2016 - (e.g., a short
descriptor of the strategy) might be helpful in
orienting the reader to the study, rather … used seem more appropriate for highly
controlled clinical trials used to test the efficacy of
drugs rather … publications component, repeated twice, is
confusing and probably best left to the more detailed
rather … than summarized text. … : December 19, 2016
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Commentator
& Affiliation Section Comment Response
TEP 6 General So, rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/schwitzer_eccs2012.pdf
July 23, 2012 - It would be
more than a year following surgery before he had the energy to play a
set of tennis
again … Discussed a woman with a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ who
chose to pursue active surveillance rather … than an immediate,
aggressive intervention, such as bilateral prophylactic mastectomy
Source: Eisenberg … Industry-‐Independent
Experts
Slide 24:
“I honestly believe it
is better to know
nothing
than
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s16.pdf
October 01, 2007 - confounding that often affect observational studies, where
treatments are chosen in the course of usual care rather … than
randomly assigned by an investigator. … relevant trial
evidence by designing trials that enroll representative pa-
tients, replicate “real-world” rather … Individual patients need to know more than that a
therapy works on average. … Subgroup analysis of trials indicates that the
benefits are much greater in asymptomatic men than in
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/developmental-delays-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
December 01, 2015 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and
guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, review of more than 21,000 leads about potential topics has resulted in … and tracking of about 2,250 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and 1 cross-
cutting area; more than … No more than two experts with a possible COI are considered out of a total of the five to eight
experts
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-cancer-imaging_disposition-comments.pdf
October 01, 2014 - they had seen situations in which
patients without adequate insurance coverage received
bone scans rather … We considered looking at literature published earlier than
2003. … Statement suggests the evidence is better than it appears. … Rather, imaging modalities should be considered in the context of
the information they add to the clinical … However, we offer that this is not a gap, but rather includes
endpoints which are inappropriate to evaluate
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/ehc-depression-research-protocol.pdf
February 07, 2018 - Approximately 15–20
percent of adults older than age 65 in the United States have experienced depression … .1
Multiple systematic reviews have shown that antidepressant medications are better than
placebo … patients with a specific
subtype of MDD (e.g., catatonic, melancholic, psychotic, or atypical features) rather … than
MDD generally; or 4) patients with bipolar depression. … Patients younger than 65 years
Studies that focus enrollment on patients with a
subtype of MDD rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-272-genitourinary-syndrome-executive-summary.pdf
July 01, 2024 - • A broad array of non-hormonal interventions other than moisturizers, including
natural products … For
studies that evaluated non-hormonal interventions (other than vaginal moisturizers), we
created … We derived
COE from statistical rather than clinical significance or effect magnitude, in part because … and are counted more than once
in the description above. … Bazedoxifene may improve QoL less than placebo (low COE).
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/pelvic-pain_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2012 - The
reviewer acknowleges that the data would be even more meger
than the one on LUNA. … Public Reviewer
#2
Results Better than 86% of patients are pain free in 1.8 clinic visits. … table 10
Assessment in the Stratton study was 18 months after patient
completed 6 months of treatment rather … than 12 months after
patient completed 6 months of treatment
We have clarified this statement in … The report does not
offer practitioners easy answers to their clinical questions - rather
it poses
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/clifford.pdf
May 29, 2025 - They were taking 10 milligrams
because their neuro said you don't need more than 10. … More than 10 milligrams
is gonna cause weakness in your legs.
They came to the site. … Here it is in
a -- in a graph rather than here's something someone told me online on
2diabetes.com … again and
weren't telling their neurologist are now saying I'm having seizures more
frequently than … the appropriate question to ask from a research perspective is
did you have fewer hospitalizations than
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/epilepsy-medicine_disposition-comments.pdf
March 01, 2012 - than one occasion. … If the drug was
working in the first place, why would the patient be put back on
the old drug rather … than a new one be tried? … Pooling Saetre 2007 with
Brodie (1999) rather than Brodie (2007) might yield more
consistent results … Rather, we were challenged with
evaluating the literature that currently exists.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/osteoporosis-bone-fracture_executive.pdf
March 01, 2012 - fracture, independent of BMD.3 Because the majority
of fractures occur in patients with low bone mass rather … In an effort to ease the
process of trial implementation, the Guidance Document,
rather than requiring … effectiveness, we included only
studies that compared two or more interventions within the
same study, rather … (Studies that addressed
more than one Key Question were counted more than
once.) … identified for this report, which tended to
focus on postmenopausal women with established
osteoporosis (rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/thromboembolism-update-disposition.pdf
June 22, 2017 - than suggestive of consistent
networks.” … prophylaxis
provides the best outcome for the
surgery-this is not a reflection of the
study but rather … We aimed to
focus on decisionmaking in the face of
incomplete evidence rather than make
any comments … We aimed to
focus on decisionmaking in the face of
incomplete evidence rather than make
any comments … Is one
better than the other?
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/medication-therapy-management_executive.pdf
November 01, 2014 - Most RCTs compared an MTM intervention
with usual care rather than with a different active
intervention … than fewer outpatient visits. … as insufficient for
most outcomes because of inconsistency in direction,
magnitude, and precision, rather … than lack of evidence. … program success or
failure using qualitative or single-arm designs may offer
hypothesis-generating rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/case-management_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2013 - when the
intervention was more prolonged, included more
patient contact, and included face-to-face (rather … than telephone only) interactions. … researchers stated
that they used the description of the case
management intervention and its components
rather … For the number of studies reviewed, this section is
rather short with only three limitations discussed … The issue is not
that AHRQ has failed to define case management;
rather, the problem is that a consistent
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/05_depression_potential_high_impact_2012-12-10.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and
guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, review of more than 15,000 leads about potential topics has resulted in … management for these patients, not only because it provides a new treatment
modality (surgical implant rather … cost-change estimates to
pharmacotherapy, although DBS is not likely to compete with pharmacotherapy but rather … adequate treatment.
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The majority of reserve soldiers who seek care do so in
the civilian sector, rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ch_10-user-guide-to-ocer_130129.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Propensity scores
often perform better than logistic regression when
the outcome is relatively rare … better than
propensity score analysis when the outcome is
common but the exposure is rare.7
Choice … These difficulties can be addressed by using
inverse-probability-of-treatment weighting
(IPTW),16 rather … than regression adjustment, for
confounding control. … becomes more complex.45 Moreover, when
two-stage least squares procedures are applied
to binary rather
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/labor-nitrous-oxide_disposition-comments.pdf
August 23, 2012 - than
the Rooks article. … than background information. … than a ‘chapter’? … The conclusions are
valid though perhaps raise more questions rather than enable policy and
practice … I
understand that this is relying on anecdotal evidence, rather than high-
quality clinical trials.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-237-integrating-palliative-care-disposition-comments.pdf
February 11, 2021 - throughout to address this
point, using terms such as “better integrate palliative care approaches"
rather … than “integrate palliative care” in the conclusions so as not to
assume that this is not already present … Question 4 Was the readmission rate of patients that
received ambulatory advanced care planning
lower than … Specifying the groups of key
informants rather than referring to
them “end-users,” particularly since … Appendices While the Methods section states that the
review focused on serious chronic illnesses
other than
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-research-report-pilot-promote-entry-data-srdr_0.pdf
October 01, 2019 - Participants were also informed that completing the survey would take no
more than 5 minutes of their … imported into SRDR should be provided only in the visible MS
Excel layer (i.e., within the cells) rather … than being visible only upon clicking in or
hovering over an individual cell. … Rather, SRDR imports each DistillerSR
file into a separate data extraction form section, where the data … Rather, SRDR imports each DistillerSR file into a separate data extraction form
section, where the data