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141. DEcIDE 32: The Incident User Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - An incident user design follows patients from the day that they started an intervention, which may reduce … Similarly, an intervention’s benefits may require an induction period of months or years to reduce clinical … Restricting enrollment to incident users is one way to reduce that potential distortion because it enables … entire class—versus requiring patients to have no use of a specific product or intervention—could reduce … Restricting enrollment to incident users can dramatically reduce the size of the cohort and the precision

142. #06 Developmental Delays ADHD, and Autism (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/developmental-delays-horizon-scan-high-impact-1312.pdf
     December 01, 2013 - in the labor and delivery setting to promote uterine contractions to induce or augment labor or to reduce … However, other experts concluded that this intervention would potentially reduce the need for some … other behavioral therapies and, as a result, might also reduce costs of care. … One expert noted that intranasal oxytocin use has the potential to reduce the stigma associated with … the most part, the experts concluded intranasal oxytocin would neither contribute to nor greatly reduce

143. Healthcare Industry Waste and Lifecycle Assessment (pdf file)
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     August 23, 2023 - studies present limitations in that it is not always possible to replicate the same strategies to reduce … commitment to sustainable practices.13 Scientific barriers include the need to evaluate interventions to reduce … sterilize infectious and sharp waste.12 Incineration of waste is used to remove hazardous waste and reduce … Protection Agency to assess and limit the release of the air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, to reduce … Material consumption in the healthcare sector: Strategies to reduce its impact on climate change - The

144. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - Evidence indicates that transitional care interventions reduce risk of readmission in patients with … pain, transitional care interventions represent a potential opportunity to optimize management and reduce … A review of reviews found that transitional care interventions reduce risk of readmission in patients … persons entitled to Medicare with pain represent a potential opportunity to optimize management and reduce … A systematic review of transitional-care strategies to reduce rehospitalization in patients with heart

145. Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Opioids, Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults: Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 29, 2019 - opioid-related hospitalizations and ED visits for older adults and what interventions are needed to reduce … What interventions have been studied to help providers… a. reduce opioid prescription where harms outweigh … b. reduce the risk of adverse events, misuse or opioid use disorder in older adults for whom opioids … studies are needed to develop evidence based interventions (for providers, patients, or systems) to reduce … Educational program for nursing home physicians and staff to reduce use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory

146. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/topic-brief1-care-coordination.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - Evidence indicates that transitional care interventions reduce risk of readmission in patients with … pain, transitional care interventions represent a potential opportunity to optimize management and reduce … A review of reviews found that transitional care interventions reduce risk of readmission in patients … persons entitled to Medicare with pain represent a potential opportunity to optimize management and reduce … A systematic review of transitional-care strategies to reduce rehospitalization in patients with heart

147. Crosscutting Hi Impact (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - clocks for better visibility; calendars and boards with the names of hospital and clinical staff to reduce … of routine practice, adopting minimal use of urethral catheters and other “tethering” devices to reduce … Most experts agreed that this program is likely to reduce long-term costs of care if ED visits are … clocks for improved visibility; calendars; boards with the names of hospital and clinical staff to reduce … Some experts also noted that this innovation might shorten lengths of stay, reduce readmissions, and

148. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0074_03-10-2009.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - In some cases, nurse case management has been shown to reduce costs, hospital length of stay, and readmissions

149. S5 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - maximize the likelihood that beneficial treatments are used and that harmful treatments are not used, to reduce … treated in such settings (ie, outpatient rather than inpatient).14 Methods to Control Confounding and Reduce … Increasing restrictions will change rate ratio estimates and reduce bias in studies of treatment effects … Innovative techniques, such as subclassification on a longitudinal propensity score, may reduce the multidimen

150. Disposition of Comments for CER 222: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-222-health-equity-preventive-services-comments.pdf
     December 03, 2019 - Thank you for your information about how health insurers are trying to reduce disparities in preventive … perspective, since they impact the ability of members of these populations to quit smoking and thereby reduce

151. Intermittent Inhalded Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2017 - persistent asthma.2 Rather than being taken for immediate symptom relief, controller therapy is intended to reduce

152. Assessing Applicability (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - applicability through these different mechanisms: Effect modifiers Modifiers of baseline rates Factors that reduce … healthier, and more adherent to therapy than is typical of patients with osteoporosis, which would reduce … gender, race, or other important factors between the study population and patients in the community reduce … If the dose is much higher than previously used or requires multiple daily doses known to reduce compliance … However, these trials were undertaken before therapies that have been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality

153. Gout Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2016 - These agents include xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOIs- allopurinol and febuxostat) to reduce serum … We rated this chain of evidence as moderate for pharmaceutical therapies to reduce the risk of acute … • High-strength evidence supports the efficacy of NSAIDs to reduce pain in acute gout. … • High-strength evidence supports the efficacy of systemic corticosteroids to reduce pain in acute … • Moderate-strength evidence supports animal-derived ACTH formulation to reduce pain in acute gout

154. Executive Summary: Peripheral Nerve Blocks for (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2025 - effect profiles of different opioids in the perioperative setting: are they different and can we reduce

155. Crosscutting-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1312 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/crosscutting-horizon-scan-high-impact-1312.pdf
     December 01, 2013 - Senior-specific EDs use furnishings and equipment designed to provide comfort, reduce injury risk, … Reclining chairs and padded/lined stretchers are intended to improve patient comfort and reduce risk … complications through better adherence.”15 Health disparities: This technology is not likely to reduce … outcomes: A great need exists to provide transitional care after hospitalization, particularly to reduce … Health disparities: Postdischarge clinics could reduce disparities by increasing access to care in

156. Evidence Summary: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-221-copd-evidence-summary_0.pdf
     October 01, 2019 - • Oral and intravenous corticosteroids improve dyspnea and reduce the clinical failure rate. … A Cochrane review published in 2012 found evidence that airway clearance techniques may reduce the … benefit from this treatment of ECOPD.34 These questions are important to address in view of trying to reduce … prescriptions of antibiotics, where safely possible, to reduce potential adverse events including … development of antibiotic resistance, and to reduce potentially significant adverse events from systemic

157. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2013 - Appropriate study design can reduce the potential for bias. … One way to reduce the potential for confounding is to compare the treatment of interest with a different … A comparator treatment within the same indication is likely to reduce the potential for bias from both … The new-user design and the use of comparator treatments reduce the potential for immortal time bias. … An appropriate study design is a prerequisite to reduce potential for bias.

158. Assessing Applicability (ppt file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/assessing-applicability.ppt
     January 01, 2009 - healthier, and more adherent to therapy than is typical of patients with osteoporosis, which would reduce … gender, race, or other important factors between the study population and patients in the community reduce … If the dose is much higher than previously used or requires multiple daily doses known to reduce compliance … technology that are not currently in use, either because they are too new or because they are outdated, can reduce … However, these trials were undertaken before therapies that have been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality

159. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 47: Measuring Documentation Burden in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     May 21, 2024 - However, this review does not address interventions to reduce documentation burden. … This report does not address interventions to reduce documentation burden. … Interventions to reduce burden are out of scope. … Interventions to reduce burden are out of scope. … Immediate efforts, like promoting wellness, are needed to reduce burdens now.

160. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Anticoagulant Use in Adults (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - antiphospholipid syndrome, genetic or acquired thrombophilia, cancer).1,2 While anticoagulants may reduce … Compared to usual care, telemedicine plus self- testing did not reduce major bleeding, rehospitalization … Most telemedicine interventions improved TTR relative to usual care, which theoretically should reduce … Telepharmacy was the only telemedicine intervention shown to significantly reduce the risk of any bleeding … particularly important, but evidence on PSPs that target this period generally did not find that PSPs reduce