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5961. Evidence Summary: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/breast-cancer-screening
      April 30, 2024 - With DBT, more invasive cancers were detected at the first screening round than with digital mammography … registries and studies of breast cancer generally infer gender based on physiology and medical history rather … than measuring self-reported gender. … Black women are at highest risk of breast cancer mortality, 52 with lower 5-year survival than all other … Continuation of annual screening mammography and breast cancer mortality in women older than 70 years

5962. Primary Care–Relevant Interventions to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder: Current Research and Evidence Gaps (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/prevention-of-opioid-user-disorder-ehc-tech-brief.pdf
      May 14, 2021 - Key Informants must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $10,000 and any other … prescribed; use for effects other than analgesia (e.g., euphoria, as a sleep aid, to manage anxiety … Opioid Epidemic: Includes more than 100 organizations across the United States working around four … this report, most of the ongoing research appears to focus on the misuse of prescription opioids, rather … than on prevention or risk reduction related to illicit opioid use.

5963. Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hyperactivity-disorder-protocol-amendment.pdf
      January 08, 2025 - The diagnosis of ADHD in adults is often made by primary care providers and nurse practitioners31 rather … than specialists, and the dispensing of ADHD medications has been increasing steadily, highlighting … Members of the TEP must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $5,000 and any other … Potential peer reviewers must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $5,000 and any … Invited peer reviewers with any financial conflict of interest greater than $5,000 will be disqualified

5964. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/hyperactivity-disorder-protocol.pdf
      November 10, 2024 - The diagnosis of ADHD in adults is often made by primary care providers and nurse practitioners31 rather … than specialists, and the dispensing of ADHD medications has been increasing steadily, highlighting … Members of the TEP must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $5,000 and any other … Potential peer reviewers must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $5,000 and any … Invited peer reviewers with any financial conflict of interest greater than $5,000 will be disqualified

5965. Obesity-Child Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/obesity-child_executive.pdf
      March 31, 2010 - considered a study precise if the results for the given outcome were significant at a p value less than … reported on diet, physical activity, and combination interventions; therefore, it was counted more than … The results of RCTs are often better than non-RCT results. … Some studies did not state that their original goals were obesity prevention but rather stated that … We need more research to test interventions conducted in settings other than schools, especially to

5966. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Z6Rfj-qwfoMbuLp-hBmhzS
      May 01, 2021 - An AUC less than 0.70 is thought to indicate in- adequate discrimination.33,34 Calibration, which is … Eighteen trials reported a mean baseline ESS score of less than 10,40, 43, 46, 66, 73-75, 78, 79, 85, … In studies with a mean baseline ESS score of less than 10, the effect size was smaller and the pooled … focused gener- ally on diagnostic testing (of adults with symptoms suggestive of dis- ordered sleep) rather … than on screening (of asymptomatic persons with OSA or those with unrecognized symptoms of OSA).

5967. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) KID Description of Data Elements - Core Notes (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KID_2003_CORE_Volume2_M-Z.pdf
      January 01, 2003 - Elements (M-Z) 3 • Some hospitals assign their own internal physician identification numbers rather … than using the license numbers issued by the licensing agency of the physician or other health care … When the source values were shorter than six characters, the HCUP value was padded to bring it into … Elements (M-Z) 11 • Some hospitals assign their own internal physician identification numbers rather … 25 and greater than 1 million) .

5968. Webinar Transcript - The 2014 Quality and Disparities Report and the National Quality Strategy: Working Together to Improve Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinar-2014-qdr-working-together-to-improve-health-care.html
      November 01, 2016 - So in most of the chartbooks, we're not summarizing, we're rather tracking individual measures and you … you'd see that the number of years before the 0-64 group reaches a benchmark will be far, far longer than … Disparities Reports more because it promotes and flags and highlights information about disparities much more than … in the main report itself, but in the chartbooks we show displays that are related to things other than

5969. 2. Study Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/study-methods.html
      June 01, 2020 - federal agencies, with agency staff assessing and awarding contract proposals often on shorter timelines than … Access to Care output domain was not included in condition (a) since this domain was developed later than … The scan results we report in Chapter 3 are based on the number of projects, rather than funding amounts

5970. Refining Key Questions: Interactive Case Study Quiz
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/rfviia.pptx
      May 01, 2010 - most relevant to patient well-being but are often more difficult to measure or occur less frequently than … focused on patients who were not on oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT) and had intracerebral hemorrhage, rather … than other forms of intracranial bleeding (e.g., subarachnoid or subdural hemorrhage). … or equal to 40 µg/kg, greater than 40 but less 120 µg/kg, and at least 120 µg/kg, respectively. … bleeding not related to liver disease Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Liver disease (other than

5971. Refining Key Questions: Interactive Case Study Quiz
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/rfviia.pptx
      May 01, 2010 - most relevant to patient well-being but are often more difficult to measure or occur less frequently than … focused on patients who were not on oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT) and had intracerebral hemorrhage, rather … than other forms of intracranial bleeding (e.g., subarachnoid or subdural hemorrhage). … or equal to 40 µg/kg, greater than 40 but less 120 µg/kg, and at least 120 µg/kg, respectively. … bleeding not related to liver disease Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Liver disease (other than

5972. Layout 1 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/autism_executive.pdf
      April 01, 2011 - interventions included in this category use ABA principles to focus on teaching pivotal behaviors to parents rather … than on directed intensive intervention … We also excluded studies with fewer than 10 total participants for studies of behavioral, educational … , allied health, or CAM interventions; or fewer than 30 total participants for medical studies. … We identified more than 100 distinct outcome measures used in this literature base, not accounting for

5973. Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/-KMSTWRT9xbm7spaqDq_GE
      February 12, 2019 - P erinatal depression is a common condition that was esti- mated in 2012 to affect more than 180 000 … b Studies may appear in more than 1 KQ. … maximum likeli- hood models with the Knapp-Hartung correction for small samples were used when fewer than … associated with omega-3 fatty acids, although reports of adverse events were collected spontaneously rather … than systematically through a validated instrument and adherence was by self-report.

5974. AHRQ Individual Research Career Development (K) Award Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/funding/training-grants/kaward/kaward-evalreport.pdf
      August 01, 2016 - The K01 Awardees were slightly older than K02 and K08 Awardees, with an average age of 42 versus 37 … tly higher for funded AHRQ Awardees than for unfunded applicants, and were slightly higher for AHRQ … than for NIH K Awardees. … compared to grantees observed in the study might have been due to their characteristics as researchers rather … than non-participation.

5975. AHRQ Hospital Financial Measures Database Methodology Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/hfmd-methodology-report.pdf
      August 02, 2024 - The PUFs do not contain all measures reported in HCRIS but rather include a subset of commonly used … However, we preserved 4 groups with fewer members, although more than 10. … we observe that differences between group profitability by ownership within location and size are rather … Winsorizing extreme variation has been used in some policy-relevant analyses at CMS and AHRQ rather … than discarding extreme values or imputing for missing or discarded data.

5976. Seamless Care: Safe Patient Transitions from Hospital to Home (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Spehar.pdf
      April 18, 2004 - those with recent hospitalizations are almost surely more vulnerable to errors and misadventures than … Methods This study involved two geographically proximal (less than a mile apart) but distinctive hospitals … broad array of providers and variety of health service organizations often lead to fragmentation, rather … than a continuum of care. … of possible practical interventions consistent with the transitional care model—but less expensive than

5977. Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tympanostomy-tubes-executive-170523.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - • If bothersome drainage from TT occurs, evidence supports treating with ear drops rather than oral … otorrhea that reflect acute bacterial infection may be otherwise asymptomatic and less troublesome than … palate/lip and primary ciliary dyskinesia, respectively, average hearing threshold was lower in TT than … normal hearing, defined as hearing threshold < 20 dB bilaterally, was significantly higher in TT than … No significant benefit of adenoidectomy was found in children less than 4 years old.3 Data were very

5978. Final progress Report: Improving Over-the-Counter Medication Safety for Older Adults (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/chui-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Of the 2.2 million older adults who are at risk for a major ADE, more than 50% of them are because of … SCOPE Background Older adults (aged 65+ years) use more OTC medications than any other age group. … This was significantly higher than previous reported literature, which cited a 57% incidence of misuse … Third, throughout this study, patients were not randomly selected but rather were chosen through recruitment … Exceeding the recommended dosage can do more than wipe out your pain.

5979. Impact of a Wellness Portal on the Delivery of Patient-Centered Preventive Care (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017188-mold-final-report-2010.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - Patient recruitment in the pilot study was less successful than we anticipated. … For example, in administering pneumococcal vaccination, patients younger than 65 years old (2-64) should … Minority group proportion 10% 6.1% High school education proportion 82% 90% Household income less than … intent of using focus groups was exploratory and fact finding, and therefore, the sample was purposive rather … than random.

5980. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-topic-nomination_methods.pdf
      November 01, 2012 - Such a decision does not constitute endorsement of non-AHRQ systematic reviews, but rather the recognition … conducted in another country where practice patterns or epidemiology are significantly different than … Would a new report likely have a different outcome than existing reports? 27. … Does this question address broader issues than comparative effectiveness (e.g., natural history, cost … This process was developed and refined over the past 4 years and has been applied to more than 400