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261. Topic 0589 Cleaning and Monitoring of HAIs NSD SJ Clean (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND-0718-140819.pdf
     March 11, 2013 - Studies also appear to be heterogeneous, with small amounts of evidence across a wide range of pathogens

262. Cancer-Anemia-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Assessment of Cancer Therapy Any clinical significance of the improvement in HRQoL is likely to be small … ESAs were accompanied by some additional expected quality-adjusted life-years— consistent with the small

263. Dp5 Summary (xls file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Beneficiary Count Claim Count File Type Year Category Mean Minimum Median Maximum Number of Small … Cells Mean Minimum Median Maximum Number of Small Cells Durable Medical Equipment 2006 5-Digit ICD

264. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
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     September 23, 2014 - EUS is valuable in determining resectability of small tumors or tumors that are not visualized on CT … Would recommend adding that EUS-FNA small advantage for staging over MDCT, may be outweighed by the … Given the small quantity of evidence we graded this as Low strength. … For example, a PET scan may be ordered in follow up to a CT scan that shows small indeterminate lesions … EUS detects small liver lesions that are impossible to detect by CT 5.

265. Obesity-Child Executive (pdf file)
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     March 31, 2010 - reason for the nonsignificant effect on weight outcomes might have been that the sample sizes were small … This study was small and imprecise. Key Question 3. … A small number of studies tested interventions primarily implemented in other settings, such as at … Such demand may help explain the small number of intervention studies conducted in nonschool settings … Subgroup analysis is necessary, as the effect size of a specific intervention may be small due to the

266. Insomnia Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - ● Four small trials compared CBT-I versus nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics or benzodiazepines. … The mean difference in ISI scores was small (-1.7 points [95% CI, -2.6 to -0.9]) (moderate-strength … Most trials were small, with several arms, and assessed efficacy in the general adult population. … Only six small studies specifically enrolled older adults. … When positive, the effect was typically small in magnitude.

267. Systematic Review on Treatments for Acute Pain: Surveillance Report 3 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2022 - on 4 RCTs) One RCT (n=70)8 identified for Surveillance Report 1 found opioid associated with a small … 5 (Postoperative pain): Music therapy vs. no music therapy Pain, <1 day and 1 day to <1 week: Small … ) One RCT (n=47)5 identified for Surveillance Report 1 found music therapy associated with a small … NSAID, single dose Pain, <1 day and 1 day to <1 week: Small to moderate increase at <1 day and … acetaminophen, multidose course Pain, <1 day: One very small (n=20) RCT found opioid associated

268. Hepatic-Fibrosis White-Paper (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2014 - ratio for the Fibrotest at a cutoff of >0.10 to >0.22, the actual change in the median estimates was small … did not change for any of the tests for which we obtained additional data, due to the relatively small … blood tests to identify patients with clinically significant fibrosis or cirrhosis were generally small … ratio, and the age-platelet index, the changes in the actual median likelihood ratio estimates were small … tests originally rated moderate strength of evidence, effects of new data were more variable, with small

269. White Paper_Supplementing Systematic Review Findings With Healthcare System Data: Pilot Projects From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center Program (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2024 - • Single health system datasets may be too small for subgroup analyses, and use of larger, national … relying on RCTs to identify harms is problematic due to the relatively short duration of followup and small … Given these current limitations, it is likely that only a small proportion of EPC evidence review topics … Because many health systems are small and may not have the necessary sample size to address the evidence … and data cleaning required may not be commensurate with the incremental value provided, and only a small

270. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetes-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
     June 01, 2015 - The insulin pump delivers a small preset basal dose of rapid-acting insulin to the patient through … an infusion set (a flexible delivery cannula with a small needle on the end) inserted under the skin … then connects the distal small intestine to this gastric pouch. … Next, the surgeon connects the duodenum portion of the upper small intestine to a distal section of … the small intestine, thereby bypassing the duodenum and upper jejunum, creating the second limb of

271. Disposition of Comments for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2013 - Furthermore, it is so small that numerical estimates are imprecise. … Furthermore, it is so small that numerical estimates are imprecise. … Furthermore, it is so small that numerical estimates are imprecise. … These study small numbers of subjects and need to be expanded. … Furthermore, it is so small that numerical estimates are imprecise.

272. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - only a few studies directly compared these approaches and the total number of patients studied was small … This one study on Stretta™ versus sham had a small number of patients and short duration of followup

273. Treating Infantile Hemangiomas in Children (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2016 - The mark starts as a small bump or colored patch on the skin and may grow quickly. … It may stay as small as the tip of a crayon. Or, it may grow as big as a baseball or larger.

274. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetes-horizon-scan-high-impact-1512.pdf
     December 01, 2015 - The device size is small, and fits in the palm of the user’s hand. … then connects the distal small intestine to this gastric pouch. … Next, the surgeon connects the duodenum portion of the upper small intestine to a distal section of … the small intestine, thereby bypassing the duodenum and upper jejunum, creating the second limb of … This keeps digestive nutrients away from the bowel and limits small intestine length and absorptive

275. Development and Usability Testing of EPC Evidence Review Dissemination Summaries for Health Systems Decisionmakers (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2018 - the tables with results and conclusions and found that a lot of information could be organized in a small … It puts a lot of information in a small space which I think is great […].” … (Participant 5) Others agreed that it was not clear why the section on first-line treatment was small … ; 1788) MD, -1.31; 95% CrI, -2.05 to -0.58 PANSS Negative; range 7-49 SGAs probably decrease to a small … ; 1788) MD, -2.20; 95% CrI, -2.98 to -1.48 PANSS Positive; range 7-49 SGAs probably decrease to a small

276. Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/osteoarthritis-knee-update-executive-170505.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - • Manual therapy had a small beneficial effect on long- term pain of borderline significance when … Key Points • TENS showed a small but significant beneficial short- term effect on pain compared with … • WBV-based exercise showed a small but statistically significant medium-term beneficial effect on … • Small sample size. … Based on our finding of a significant effect of PRP in a small number of small, high RoB studies, and

277. Disposition of Comments for Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2013 - For example, as pertains to mortality, because the relative risk is small, patients at low underlying … risk have corresponding small increases in absolute risk. … Patients with low underlying mortality risk will experience corresponding small increases in absolute … As mentioned above, patients with small cell lung cancer and Hodgkin’s disease treated with specific … It seems at least possible that when the baseline risk is small, that absolute increase in risk may

278. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methodological-recommendations-framework-communications_research.pdf
     September 01, 2013 - It is arbitrary, because the alternative options included only the small set of metrics traditionally … Wallace BC, Small K, Brodley CE, et al. … A modified test for small-study effects in meta-analyses of controlled trials with binary endpoints … Wallace BC, Small K, Brodley CE, et al. Who should label what? … Wallace BC, Small K, Brodley CE, et al.

279. 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 - It is actually a small proportion (7% or less). … The authors note the biases that can be introduced with small samples and high attrition, but are too … The number of open breast biopsy studies included in the report was small, which explains the absence … We have edited the text in both places to reflect that the proportion is small. TEP #1 02. … Of all women, even those recalled, only a small percentage need biopsies.

280. Stem-Cell-Children Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - it is well recognized that a common challenge in the study of rare diseases is the preponderance of small … For small series or a compilation of case reports in which the prognosis without HSCT is uniformly … disorder, where without treatment there is uniformly certain mortality in infancy, so that even very small … Risk of bias is presumed to be high in a body of evidence comprising small numbers of case reports