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41. Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2016 - These strategies can address preventing aggressive behavior or reducing aggressive behavior once it … We conceptualize “de-escalate” in terms of both preventing aggressive behaviors and reducing use of … Six Core Strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint Use. … Reducing seclusion through involuntary medication: a randomized clinical trial. … Multinational experiences in reducing and preventing the use of restraint and seclusion.

42. FRN 29: Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2014 - How does procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy compare to other approaches to reducing unnecessary … This would allow for assessing the impact of a PCT-guided treatment strategy for reducing antibiotic … How does procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy compare to other approaches to reducing unnecessary … Potential role for PCT guidance in reducing antibiotic usage in the ambulatory patients with mild … antibiotic use in this population without reducing outcomes.

43. Nephropathy-Contrast-Induced Executive (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2015 - hemofiltration or hemodialysis; statins; use of low-osmolar or iso-osmolar nonionic contrast media; and reducing … Two observational studies reported a beneficial effect of sodium bicarbonate in reducing CIN. … Future studies could explore the effect of statins on reducing CIN when contrast media are administered … with intravenous saline, compared with intravenous saline alone, appears to have a small benefit in reducing … Similarly, in patients receiving LOCM, sodium bicarbonate appears to have a small benefit in reducing

44. For adults and children with asthma what is the effectiveness of the Buteyko Breathing method on reducing bronchodilator and inhaled steroid use and improving health status? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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45. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 246_Management of High-Need High-Cost Patients: A "Best Fit" Framework Synthesis, Realist Review, and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - Interventions for HNHC patients aim to improve their quality of care and health outcomes while reducing … interventions for HNHC patients KQ 3: Effectiveness and harms of interventions for HNHC patients in reducing

46. FRN 35 - Preventive Pharmacological Treatments for Migraine in Adults: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2013 - OnabotulinumtoxinA was better than placebo in reducing monthly migraine attack by 50 percent or more … The ACE inhibitor lisinopril was better than placebo in reducing migraine days and migraine severity … In contrast, ARB telmisartan was not better than placebo in reducing monthly migraine attacks by 50 … OnabotulinumtoxinA was better than placebo in reducing monthly migraine attack by 50 percent or more … The ACE inhibitor lisinopril was better than placebo in reducing migraine days and migraine severity

47. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2009 - )  Immunotherapy is a method of reducing sensitivity to a given allergen by repeated administration

48. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    July 27, 2023 - Rapid Response Protocol Project Title: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Protocols for High-Risk Drugs: Reducing … The “Protocols for High-Risk Drugs: Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Anticoagulants” as a patient … MHS II10 expanded this scope to include interventions aimed at reducing adverse events linked to intravenous … MHS II10 expanded this scope to include interventions aimed at reducing adv...

49. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 262_Pharmacotherapy for Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder in Outpatient Settings: Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2023 - report, the addition of 11 new studies of baclofen have demonstrated low strength of evidence for reducing … return to any drinking and studies of gabapentin demonstrated low strength of evidence for reducing … Naltrexone had moderate strength of evidence for reducing return to any drinking, return to heavy drinking

50. Disposition of Comments Report for Strategies To Reduce Cesarean Birth in Low-Risk Women (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - The report limited to studies that had a stated AIM of reducing cesarean birth. … We did not retrieve other studies about fetal scalp sampling that had the aim of reducing cesarean. … Agree it confuses the issue about use of amnioinfusion for reducing cesarean. … It would have been a great service to look at that literature, whether or not it aimed at reducing … Too much literature was excluded for not having the AIM of reducing CS.

51. Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2016 - Targeting preventable HF readmissions is a potential strategy for reducing overall health care costs … interventions such as home-visiting programs and multidisciplinary- HF clinic interventions were effective in reducing

52. Hemorrhage-Postpartum Executive (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - Strength of evidence is moderate for a lack of benefit for systems- level interventions in reducing … Systems- level interventions (n = 9 studies) showed little benefit in reducing the incidence or severity … PPH incidence Sites were aware of objectives with regard to reducing PPH, and assessors of a somewhat … A floor would suggest that we need very large pragmatic trials aimed not at reducing the occurrence of … Reducing maternal deaths through state maternal mortality review.

53. Migraine-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2013 - Topiramate, 50 to 200 mg/day, was no more effective than placebo in reducing monthly migraine attacks … Divalproex sodium, 250 to 1,000 mg/day, was no more effective than placebo in reducing monthly migraine … Off-Label Pharmacologic Agents: Antidepressants Trazodone was more effective than placebo for reducing … No studies examined reducing monthly migraine attacks by ≥50 percent or other patient- centered outcomes … migraine duration or severity, or for reducing use of drugs for acute migraine attacks (one RCT of

54. Untitled (pdf file)
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    October 05, 2015 - In this case, we conceptualize “de-escalate” as including preventing aggressive behaviors and reducing … Interventions for preventing and reducing the use of physical restraints in long-term geriatric care … Six Core Strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint Use. … Reducing seclusion and restraint use in mental health settings: core strategies for prevention. … Interventions for reducing the use of seclusion in psychiatric facilities: review of the literature.

55. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Is clopidogrel more effective than aspirin in reducing adverse cardiovascular events in PAD? 3.

56. EHC Protocol: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Deprescribing to Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - has the potential to improve multiple aspects of patient safety and quality of care, including by reducing … Reducing inappropriate polypharmacy: the process of deprescribing. … Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults.

57. Evidence Summary: CER 237_Integrating Palliative Care in Ambulatory Care of Noncancer Serious Chronic Illness (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2021 - • The models evaluated for integrating palliative care may have little to no effect on reducing overall … utilization, the models evaluated for integrating palliative were not more effective than usual care for reducing

58. Gastric-Cancers-Supplementary-App-D (xls file)
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    January 01, 2023 - Double-blinding was maintained, reducing the risk of performance bias. … Objective outcomes (e.g., survival, adverse events) were centrally assessed, reducing potential bias. … treatment discontinuations), though ITT analysis helped mitigate bias Missing data were minimal, reducing

59. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2011 - The review of 216 studies concluded that most oral diabetes medications had a similar effect on reducing … Metformin was more effective in reducing HbA1c than the DPP-4 inhibitors as monotherapy (by about 0.4 … High Combination therapies were better than monotherapy regimens at reducing HbA1c, with an absolute … Moderate The combination of metformin plus thiazolidinedione had a similar efficacy in reducing HbA1c … Microvascular Moderate Pioglitazone was more effective than metformin in reducing the urinary albumin

60. psychiatric-readmissions-protocols-140904 (pdf file)
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    December 31, 2014 - With increasing pressure to decrease health care costs, reducing hospital bed days (psychiatric or otherwise … hospitalization.7 Nominators for this technical brief are concerned about changes based on the assumption that reducing … Identify important issues raised by the use of these management strategies for reducing readmissions … strategies are used), and 4 (key important issues raised by the use of these management strategies for reducing … essential for informing a well-rounded and balanced technical brief about management strategies for reducing