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441. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - those infections in which the first diagnostic test or clinical signs of infection manifest more than … acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was primarily acquired by community spread (rather … than hospital-acquired) during the global pandemic and was met with widely varied infection control … If any of the PSPs have more than one study of effectiveness, we will grade the strength of evidence … Invited peer reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $5,000.

442. Major-Depressive-Disorder Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - depressive disorder (MDD)1 is the most prevalent and disabling form of depression, affecting more than … After 24 weeks of followup, however, SGAs led to higher rates of overall discontinuation than CBT ( … analysis involving 727 patients, which was government funded, found that having mild or moderate rather … designed to test whether an outcome for one intervention was different from the outcome for another rather … than to test equivalence, which would generally require a much larger sample size.

443. Undescended-Testicle Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - testicles remains constant at approximately 1 percent.4,5 Between 1992 and 2000, there were more than … More studies were conducted in Asia (N=9) than in the United States (N=4) or Europe (N=5). … Primary orchiopexy had higher strength of evidence than one-stage and two-stage procedures based on … of the scope of this review, we do not suggest that the references included here are comprehensive; rather … These studies do not include untreated individuals with cryptorchidism; rather, the cryptorchid groups

444. Medical Therapies for Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
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     February 07, 2025 - 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

445. Medical Therapies for Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gastric-cancers-protocol-amendment.pdf
     May 02, 2025 - 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

446. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/mmm-draft-protocol-amendment.pdf
     February 02, 2022 - For example, despite spending more on maternity care than any other country, the United States has seen … considered preventable,12 research’s limited focus on individual person and medical-clinical risk factors rather … than system- and structural- level risk factors has obscured the lived experience of marginalized or … People of Color (BIPOC) individuals.13 Important to recognize is that race itself is not a risk factor; rather … If studies report more than one outcome timing, we will extract the last possible time point.

447. Multiple-Sclerosis Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - factor directly into their decisionmaking, such as relapse rates and changes in disability level, rather … than intermediate outcomes such as lab tests for neutralizing antibodies. … underestimation may indicate the uncertainty MS patients felt when contemplating their personal trajectories rather … than lack of knowledge (2 studies) … The literature tended to examine attitudes and cognition rather than patient knowledge and how that

448. Methods Future Research Needs Number 8: Framework for Considering Study Designs (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - investigators, environment)—the summative score is not a combination of the individual scores, but rather … Better than randomized trial, but challenges remain. … The points raised for each dimension are intended as a starting point to inspire discussion, rather … than a set recipe for evaluation. … The study is hypothesis generating rather than testing. Generally, one is unable to infer cause.

449. Menopause Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2015 - 80 percent, depressed mood occurs in approximately one-third, and sleep disturbance occurs in more than … Less than a third of trials (27.2%) were rated good or fair quality. … Intermediate outcomes were reported in many of the studies: for example, bone density rather than osteoporotic … fractures, and cholesterol levels rather than cardiovascular events. … Finally, in studies that included all women rather than focusing on menopausal women, it was difficult

450. Llewellyn-Thomas (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Slide  23: Assumptions underlying  explicit approaches… • Deeper insight into values than by passive … criteria has primarily unfolded in the larger arena of decision support/shared  decision making… • …rather … than in the narrower field of developing comparative criteria for V/P elicitation approaches per se.

451. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Fatigue and Sleepiness of Clinicians Due to Hours of Service (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/fatigue-sleepiness-protocol.pdf
     July 01, 2023 - and funding allocated for this rapid response, the report will focus on PSPs targeting clinicians rather … than other healthcare workers because patient outcomes are more directly related to the performance … of clinicians than to the performance of non-clinical healthcare workers. … in acute care hospital settings Non-clinician healthcare workers; Clinicians in settings other than … Related financial conflicts of interest that cumulatively total greater than $1,000 will usually

452. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c-screening_executive.pdf
     November 01, 2012 - by AHRQ in the Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews.59 We used the term “quality” rather … The total range, rather than the interquartile range, was chosen because certain outcomes were only … Rather, we searched clinical trial registries and grants databases in order to identify relevant unpublished … infection were all published after the USPSTF review,39 which included studies of referral populations, rather … than cohorts of patients identified through screening.

453. #05 DEPRESSION (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/depression_hi_impact.pdf
     October 01, 2014 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … of more than 900 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas. … paradigms, and patient management—not only because it provides a new treatment modality (surgical implant rather … change estimates to pharmacotherapy, though DBS is not likely to compete with pharmacotherapy, but rather … adequate treatment. 37 The majority of reserve soldiers who seek care do so in the civilian sector, rather

454. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/infertility_research-protocol.pdf
     October 12, 2015 - reproductive cancers, particularly ovarian cancer, are likely the result of the underlying infertility rather … In addition, the 2008 report was focused on outcomes of specific treatments, rather than organized around … approximate relative importance to patients, based on input from topical experts and Key Informants, rather … than temporal occurrence in the clinical pathway.) … than!18! or!45!and!older! 13!

455. Procalcitonin Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - mL, but often reach level greater than 10 ng/mL. … differ for different patient populations, so it could be misleading to synthesize results across, rather … than within, populations. … Therefore, the results of our systematic review are reported by patient population, rather than in … patients for whom the procalcitonin- guidance was used to guide intensification of antibiotic therapy rather

456. Management of Insomnia Disorder in Adults: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2017 - Pharmacological Therapy: Adverse Effects (See Table 3) �� Evidence regarding the long-term (more than … Findings Note: Most studies of pharmacological interventions were small and of short duration (less than … participant withdrawals, which may reflect feasibility issues (e.g., treatments are time-consuming) rather … than physical or psychological harms. �� Studies of pharmacological interventions rarely lasted more … than 6 weeks.

457. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dementia-nursing-home-characteristics_research-protocol.pdf
     November 03, 2011 - their members affected with dementia into LTC settings as care needs increase. 1 It is the norm rather … than the exception that older adults who live in residential LTC settings were cared for by family … The authors recommended implementing best practice rather than providing a specialized care environment … Such conditions may be associated with heterogeneity of treatment effect, measurement of absolute (rather … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

458. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/01_arthritis_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 … These interventions are not proprietary products, but rather biologic products prepared onsite by the … Experts thought that tofacitinib might have more favorable pricing than injectable biologic therapies … 23 As such, PRP is thought by some to have potential to address the underlying pathology of OA rather

459. Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/wheelchair-service_disposition-comments.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - The focus of the report, however, is on the overall process of service delivery rather than specific … than what is recommended in the literature. … than effectiveness of a service delivery model. … We clarified that the home environment limitation was from the Medicare guideline group rather than … than the service delivery process.

460. Disposition of Comments Report for CER 207 on PTSD (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2018 - Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … Rather, such studies compromise meta- analysis.Any study that does not satisfy minimal criteria, should … SMDs for all bodies of evidence and to be able to define magnitude of effect on the basis of SMDs rather … Almost every patient given treatment will be better off than every patient given Control. … methodological decisions used by the RTI-UNC EPC to complete this SR: 1) use of the category CBT-mixed rather