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2101. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - We considered 67 studies to have low risk of bias, 110 to have moderate risk, and 41 to have high risk … cohort studies had high risk. … Eighteen studies had low risk of bias, 28 had moderate risk, and 13 had high risk. … Twenty-two studies had low risk of bias; 36 had moderate risk; and 12 had high risk. … balance needs for relief of illness-related outcomes (including missing school and work) with the risks

2102. Disposition of Comments Report for Core Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for Diagnosis of Breast Lesions: An Update to the 2009 Report (pdf file)
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      September 10, 2014 - Also, in Table C, it is not clear whether “high risk” refers to high risk women, or a high risk lesion … Because over-diagnosis is the end result of lead time (due to screening) and competing risks (specifically … Because over-diagnosis is the end result of lead time (due to screening) and competing risks (specifically … , regardless of patient risk. … to assess risk of bias.

2103. Managing Gout: A Review of the Research for Adults (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - What increases the risk of gout? The exact cause of gout is not known. … But, certain things may increase the risk of getting it. … Being overweight can also increase the risk of gout. … � Allopurinol (Zyloprim®) and febuxostat (Uloric®) do not lower the risk of a gout attack in the … In fact, these medicines can increase the risk of a gout attack when you first start to take them.

2104. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0319_06-17-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - whether these serum biomarkers provide evidence for the diagnosis or prognosis of sepsis for patients at risk … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, are there serum biomarkers available for the diagnosis and … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does C reactive protein provide any utility in their management … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does procalcitonin provide any utility in their Sepsis Biomarkers … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does cortisol provide any utility in their management?

2105. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Executive summary for the update of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Consensus Statement (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2017 - define a group of patients with low-risk DCIS for whom observation confers a low absolute risk of IBTR … of IBTR.17 When analyzed by the ECOG 5194 risk criteria, the risk was 2% for patients meeting these … low-risk criteria. … However, given the low risk of IBTR in low-risk DCIS with wide local excision alone, coupled with favorable … results following APBI for low-risk DCIS in several series, the task force recommends inclusion of low-risk

2106. breast-biopsy-update-130920 (pdf file)
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      September 20, 2013 - a lesion will be classified as benign or as high risk (e.g., atypical ductal hyperplasia [ADH]) or … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias for … We discuss the handling of high risk of bias studies in sections E and F below. … levels of risk of bias will lead to downgrading the strength of the evidence. … of cancer (women at “average risk” vs. those at “high risk” may affect estimated test performance because

2107. Lupus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2108. Diarrhea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2109. Mosquito Bites | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2110. Fatty Liver Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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