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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/mcda_webinar_transcript2.pdf
August 27, 2012 - What we ended up doing 
with our stakeholders is rather than going through each of 
the seven criteria … August 27, 2012 
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rate the relative importance of the various topics on the 
overall importance rather … than focusing specifically on 
each of the criteria because, frankly, of feasibility 
issues. … were 
using that were consistent with the choices that we 
observed so this is an indirect approach rather … obstructive pulmonary 
disease, we didn’t say that some topics are not important 
to us for study but rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/biorepositories-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
February 01, 2018 - If the repository is not created for a single investigator or patient registry but 
rather as a resource … It should be noted that many participants will have more than one sample and often more than 
one sample … Rather, they should 
inform participants that, despite substantial efforts to safeguard their confidentiality … furthering medical research; an emphasis on intentionally asking patients to become research 
participants, rather … be deposited in 
biorepositories for future use (assuming appropriate patient consent is obtained), rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-screening_disposition-comments.pdf
April 01, 2012 - key questions 1, 4 and 5 to assess whether early 
detection reduces the risk of developing outcomes 
rather … These should be consistent and/or the 
reasons for examining sensitivity and specificity rather 
than … Peer Reviewer #2 Future 
Research 
Needs 
This Reviewer finds the future research section rather 
vague … “Losses in VF of 
more than 5 dB [decibels] and gains of more than 3 dB 
were associated with clinically … Rather, it states that evidence linking 
screening with outcomes is lacking.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hepatitis-c_executive.pdf
November 01, 2012 - Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews 
(Methods Guide).33 We used the term “quality” rather … than 
the alternate term “risk of bias.” … with reduced risk of all-cause mortality, 
liver-related mortality, and other hepatic complications 
rather … frequently encountered in clinical 
practice, are needed to better understand comparative 
effectiveness, rather … than just comparative efficacy.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/peptic-ulcer-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 … Treatment success with no serious complications was reported in more than 90% of 
patients in these … patients might become eligible for the surgery or elect to undergo surgical treatment for 
achalasia rather … than receiving nonsurgical treatment.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ch_11-user-guide-to-ocer_130129.pdf
January 03, 2012 - definition of all cardiovascular events including 
angina could lead to a different effect estimate than … validation data, 
which may work for unmeasured confounders,9 it is 
difficult to account for more than … reports given back to the General Practice, 
that usually are less detailed), but better recording 
than … Examples include 
the degree of polynomial expressions, splines, or 
additive rather than multiplicative … Overfit occurs when you are 
fitting a model to random variations in the data 
(i.e., noise) rather than
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/worker-health_disposition-comments.pdf
May 31, 2016 - Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … TEP Reviewer 
#1 
Methods Because the methods focused on integration rather than the 
intervention, … evaluation might still contribute 
relevant information if the comparator were OSH alone or HP 
alone (rather … than no program at all).
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/observational-research-scores_research.pdf
May 01, 2012 - The choice of whether to use summary variables to adjust for confounding rather than 
traditional multivariate … Though the question “does rosuvastatin lead to more rhabdomyolysis than other statins?” … transparency may be reduced by inclusion of the 
propensity score to a single term in an outcome model rather … propensity score to account for 
situations where the outcome of interest might not be a disease at all, but rather … We 
suggest clear descriptions and characterization of the study population using numbers (rather 
than
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
April 01, 2012 - appropriate to consider early visual field deterioration as a 
direct measure of visual impairment, rather … the drops, they 
more likely agreed with the statement that glaucoma treatment 
would “not do much” rather … at baseline, showing better preservation of visual field in 
those patients who had initial surgery, rather … In the CIGTS study, the average loss of 
visual field is less than ½ dB over seven years. … This does not involve the data itself, but, rather, how the data are 
presented and executive summary
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-balancing-harms-benefits_research.pdf
February 01, 2014 - to the actual 
metric used, which were primarily incidence rates (number of events per person-time) rather … estimate 
(target of inference) 
The NNT is the number of person-years of treatment with 
aspirin, rather … The NNH is the number of person-years of treatment with 
aspirin, rather than with placebo or comparators … still conclude that aspirin is likely to cause more harm than benefit. … We did not evaluate which preference assessment methods are most appropriate; 
rather we used available
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/migraine-adults-executive-130408.pdf
April 01, 2013 - Systematic reviews 
have focused on the efficacy of specific drugs rather 
than on the comparative effectiveness … bias in individual studies into the synthesis of evidence 
by using individual risk of bias criteria rather … This 
analysis provided pair-wise triangular comparisons for 
drugs that were compared against placebo rather … than 
network meta-analysis … More than half of the RCTs had medium risk of bias.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/lung-cancer-staging_research-protocol.pdf
December 08, 2014 - indirectly reveals sites of metabolic bone turnover in reaction to bone 
marrow metastatic disease rather … than the metastatic lesions directly. … one of the above) 
•	 Multiple test (more than one of the above) vs. other multiple tests (more than … difference in accuracy may be due to reader experience rather than 
the tests themselves. … Invited Peer 
Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/asthma-immunotherapy-2010_research-protocol.pdf
January 01, 2010 - They differ from classical hormones in that they are produced by a number of tissue or cell types rather … than by 
specialized glands. … They generally act locally in a paracrine or autocrine rather than endocrine manner. … They should be taken daily, work over time rather than immediately, reduce or prevent inflammation and … serious AE (SAE); anaphylaxis] 
 
i) Adverse events (AE): An injury caused by medical management–rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/alcohol-misuse-drug-therapy_clinician.pdf
February 01, 2016 - Alcohol misuse is associated 
with numerous health and social problems and more than 85,000 
deaths per … It is estimated that fewer than 1 in 10 
people who are treated for AUD receive medications.† Expanding … Alcohol is taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
2. … be interpreted to mean that medications cannot 
be used to treat AUD in primary care settings, but rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/01_-arthritis_potential_high_impact_june_2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the 
planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, 
more than 11,000 leads about topics have resulted in identification and … tracking of more than 900 
topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and one cross-cutting area. … These interventions 
are not proprietary products, but rather biologic products prepared at the medical … 23
 As 
such, PRP is thought by some to have potential to address the underlying pathology of OA rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives_research-protocol.pdf
March 13, 2012 - has 
been largely attributed to the fact that ovarian cancer typically presents at a much later stage than … ovary means that many cancers identified at 
Stage I may represent a subgroup of less aggressive tumors rather … than a necessary first step in 
the development of all tumors. … this project, we anticipate 
that quantitative evidence synthesis will take the form of the model, rather … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have 
any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-assessing-impact.pdf
September 01, 2018 - identifying the page numbers where the most relevant information on a quality 
measure could be found rather … As the Southeast’s preeminent health care provider, Duke University Health System 
attracted more than … 68,000 inpatient stays and more than 2 million outpatient visits in FY17. … own report be responsible for identifying the quality measures and 
creating the hyperlinked tables rather … than having an outside entity linking across reports.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/osteoporosis-bone-fracture_disposition-comments.pdf
March 01, 2012 - than “AmGen.” … For 
the sake of completeness, we chose to include all prior meta-
analyses, rather than trying to pick … We agree that adherence should be measured in the clinical 
setting rather than in trials, and for that … Rather it is the HR associated with 
the effect of prior fracture on subsequent fracture; the text was … The value of these interventions should 
not automatically be assumed inconsequential, but rather 
simply
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/uterine-fibroids_research-protocol.pdf
March 01, 2016 - States, an estimated 26 million women between the ages of 15 and 50 have uterine 
fibroids.1-4 More than … to randomized clinical comparisons of effectiveness, including medical 
management versus surgical, rather … than restricting comparisons only to abdominal 
hysterectomy. … pool a set of studies using random effects 
depends not on how heterogeneous their outcomes are, but rather … Invited Peer 
Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/topic-refinement.ppt
March 01, 2010 - Food and Drug Administration for hypertension, so it obviously reduces blood pressure more than placebo … Food and Drug Administration for hypertension, it obviously reduces blood pressure more than placebo … The first question is, “Does aliskerin reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients more than other … We also found out that the occurrence of infections would not be informative to stakeholders; rather, … would have on pulmonary function, so we decided not to limit the literature to prepubertal patients but rather