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381. #14 SUBSTANCE ABUSE (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/substance-abuse-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 … No more than two experts with a possible COI are considered out of a total of the seven or eight experts … potential was archived in the system at the time of this report because it had been tracked for more than

382. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/antipsychotics-children-update_research-protocol.pdf
     December 04, 2015 - Rather than distinguishing between benefit outcomes primarily by type of outcome (symptom vs. other … Because of the addition of several conditions, we will run all searches back to 1987 rather than 2010 … The decision to pool studies will not be based on the deviance statistics, but rather on interpretation … Rather than providing a simple pairwise analysis of similar comparisons (e.g., a group of interventions … For these assessments, we will largely rely on evidence from direct rather than mixed comparisons (e.g

383. Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/sleep-apnea-diagnosis-future_research.pdf
     February 01, 2012 - that recruitment and randomization will be logistically easier if it is done at the center level, rather … We aimed for about five topics, but we used natural breaks in the rankings of the topics, rather than … (We chose to maintain links between the list of topics and the topic discussions, rather than manually … than a nurse or resident anesthetist. … If centers, rather than patients, were randomized, it may be possible to consider such a trial to be

384. #05 DEPRESSION (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … tracking of more than 900 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and one cross-cutting area. … management for these patients, not only because it provides a new treatment modality (surgical implant rather … change estimates to pharmacotherapy, although DBS is not likely to compete with pharmacotherapy, but rather … adequate treatment. 58 The majority of reserve soldiers who seek care do so in the civilian sector, rather

385. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - • Other than stone recurrence, there was minimal trial reporting of clinical outcomes. … comparing low protein/low sodium/high calcium diet to low calcium diet was assessed as “good” quality, rather … evaluation and uniform diet was assessed as “poor” quality” rather than “fair” quality; and (3) the … Borghi 1996 study comparing increased fluid intake to control was assessed as “poor” rather than “ … Five strength of evidence grades were reassessed as insufficient rather than low for the following

386. Prehospital EMS Blood Transfusion and Fluid Interventions for Hemorrhagic Shock (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ems-blood-transfusion-protocol.pdf
     September 24, 2024 - harms when influenced by questions such as: Under what circumstances is whole blood more effective than … because the interventions are not contributing to hemostasis, but rather replacing blood loss through … • ED • Inpatient, surgery • Studies conducted in countries rated less than High in the HDIa … internal validity: the extent to which post-treatment outcomes can be attributed to the treatments rather … than other factors.

387. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/trauma-interventions-maltreatment-child_research-protocol.pdf
     January 12, 2012 - Rather, they often exhibit symptom clusters that can be characterized in terms of alternate diagnostic … of the KQs has been changed to align with the definition of the population and focus on children, rather … The term “primary caregiving context” is used rather than “caregiver type,” reflecting guidance from … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000. … Rather, the model incorporates any evidence-based therapeutic treatment designed to repair the relationship

388. Technical Brief 16 Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/advanced-care-decision-aids_disposition-comments.pdf
     July 29, 2014 - Arguable more ACP than the Making Choices, Medical Care for Serious Illness. b. … than “population-specific”. … prompting doctors to educate their patients about their prognosis and offer educational support tools rather … than engaging in formal shared decision making. … The tools were accessed from different search engines rather than through the sites listed.

389. DEMENTIA INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S #04 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … tracking of more than 900 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and one cross-cutting area. … dementia priority area focuses on Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—its diagnosis and new disease-modifying (rather … than symptom management) treatments in development. … This theory is being explored by several research institutions, rather than by insulin manufacturers

390. Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/pain-chronic_research-protocol.pdf
     July 28, 2010 - Pain (of various types) is responsible for a half million lost workdays and costs more than $150 billion … The biopsychosocial model is more appropriate than the biomedical model for disease states for which … Rehabilitation, rather than cure, is viewed as the most appropriate therapeutic objective. … Patients with acute pain (e.g. pain less than 3 months and post-surgical pain) 3. … Since we are employing a rather stringent definition of MPP, it is important to identify the loss in

391. Diagnosis and Management of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2023 - impairment in adulthood.5, 7-10 Establishing an OCD diagnosis can be more challenging in children than … Thus, rather than focusing on comparison of diagnostic strategies, KQ 1 was amended to focus on the … modifier, but that the review should not specifically address diagnosis or treatment of PANS/PANDAS; rather … We will prefer continuous effect metrics on the original scale, rather than use standardized effect … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $5,000.

392. Kravitz_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - when patients were allowed to complete their opening statements, those statements rarely take more than … They should rather say, “Why do you ask?”

393. Disposition of Comments for Migraine in Adults: Preventive Pharmacologic Treatments (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/migraine-prevention_disposition-comments.pdf
     April 18, 2013 - Third grammar is even worse than mine. 4. … Many trials reported using Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A; BOTOX, Allergan Inc.) rather than onabotulinumtoxin … Stakeholders should make decisions based on all evidence rather than one study. … specific safety outcome (specific adverse effects or treatment discontinuation due to adverse effects) rather … than “general safety” or “reasonable tolerability” of the drugs.

394. Trauma-Interventions-Maltreatment-Child Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/trauma-interventions-maltreatment-child_executive.pdf
     April 01, 2013 - than remain static. … Rather, the central finding of this review for policymakers and payers is the relative scarcity of … Typically, an intervention was based on an event (maltreatment or involvement with CPS), rather than … Currently, outcomes generally reflect study constraints rather than the desired outcome of a constant … Rather it reflects the justifiable state of affairs where many promising or widely used approaches have

395. celiac-disease-protocol-140612 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/celiac-disease_research-protocol.pdf
     June 12, 2014 - Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … rating system was originally designed to assess the body of evidence on health care interventions rather … than diagnostic tests; thus, assessing these domains presents unique challenges. … account for the rating (or both, if this is the case); namely, use of intermediate/surrogate outcomes rather … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

396. Medical Therapies for Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gastric-cancers-protocol.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - using summary measures for the purpose of analysis (e.g., incidence of any moderate to severe AE) rather … than individual AEs, as these are likely to be rare to infrequent and result in underpowered analyses … validity: the extent to which post-treatment outcomes can be attributed to the treatments themselves rather … than other factors. … Members of the TEP must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $5,000 and any other

397. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/prostate-cancer-therapies-update_executive.pdf
     December 01, 2014 - Many men die with prostate cancer rather than from it.3 During its early stages, clinically localized … Studies were excluded if more than 15 percent of men with disease stage higher than T3a were enrolled … The decision to grade an evidence base as insufficient rather than low often reflected an imprecise … In general, subgroup analyses should be considered as hypothesis generating rather than definitive … EBRT plus ADT was associated with a significantly lower PCSM than EBRT alone among men older than 70

398. S116 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - used in the APM study was a measure of a physician’s APM preference for prescribing an atypical APM rather … than a conventional APM.4 The preference mea- sure was defined to be the type of the most recent APM … 1 medical service and filled more than 1 prescription, in each of the two 6-month intervals before the … In such a situation, the observed violation of the independence assumption is more of an artifact rather … than a real difference in prog- nosis across physician preference, and therefore not likely to be an

399. S103 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/s103.pdf
     October 01, 2007 - S107) In clinical and epidemiological studies, researchers often ask whether 1 treatment is better than … difference in outcomes between the 2 groups may simply reflect underlying differences between the groups rather … than effects that are caused by the treatments. … In general, partitioned estimators will have smaller asymptotic variance than the simple weighted estimators … Rather than include year in the model, a better strategy is to define meaningful time periods and estimate

400. CERs Report cover (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hip-feature-treatment-future_research.pdf
     September 23, 2010 - specific areas for research improvements, the comments were principally directed toward orthopaedic rather … than non-orthopaedic researchers. … than by outside entities. … specific areas for research improvements, the comments were principally directed toward orthopaedic rather … than non-orthopaedic researchers.