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41. Imaging Tests To Check for Kidney Stones in the Emergency Department (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2016 - They can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. But, big stones are rare. … groin that may come and go »Nausea and vomiting » Blood in your urine » The feeling of sand or small … What Researchers Found Next Steps If a Kidney Stone Is Found If a kidney stone is small enough, it can … You lie on your back or side, and a health care professional moves a small device around on your belly

42. Disposition of Comments for CER 182 Glasgow Coma Scale (pdf file)
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    January 12, 2017 - The clinical significance of small differences in discrimination are likely to be small, and could … The clinical significance of small differences in discrimination are likely to be small, and could … The clinical significance of small differences in discrimination is likely to be small, and could be … The clinical significance of small differences in discrimination are likely to be small, and could … The clinical significance of small differences in discrimination are likely to be small, and could

43. CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-229-opioid-treatments-chronic-pain-evidence-summary.pdf
    April 01, 2020 - opioid dosing strategies, and risk mitigation strategies Key Messages • Opioids are associated with small … Opioids vs. placebo or no opioid • Opioids were associated with a small mean improvement vs. placebo … • Opioids were associated with a mean improvement below the threshold for small vs. placebo in SF- … The third trial found a small difference in pain intensity favoring transdermal fentanyl. … might be associated with a small mean short- term improvement in SF-36 mental health status.

44. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 276: Diagnosis and Managment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children (pdf file)
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    December 06, 2024 - • A reviewer asked whether the review attempts to examine the potential impact of small study effects … using funnel plots or other methods for publication bias/small study effects? …  We acknowledge that small study effects may introduce some amount of bias. … publications by EPC members inform our opinion that formal statistical tests for publication bias/small

45. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/diabetic-neuropathy-disposition-170707.pdf
    March 24, 2017 - However, there are only 2 small RCTs with a total of 80 participants. … Given the imprecision due to the small size of the studies, we have changed the strength of evidence … The other study was a very small crossover study with a small placebo response. … Moderate evidence supports a small effect of gabapentin and pregabalin. … For Botox, given the imprecision due to the small size of the studies, we have changed the strength

46. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetic-neuropathy-disposition-170707.pdf
    March 24, 2017 - However, there are only 2 small RCTs with a total of 80 participants. … Given the imprecision due to the small size of the studies, we have changed the strength of evidence … The other study was a very small crossover study with a small placebo response. … Moderate evidence supports a small effect of gabapentin and pregabalin. … For Botox, given the imprecision due to the small size of the studies, we have changed the strength

47. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 266_Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-266-cdd-executive-summary.pdf
    November 01, 2023 - ACDF + EMS Small, favors ACDF + EMS (+) Insufficient Insufficient No evidence No evidence … evidence Reoperation: Large, favors cervical arthroplasty: 1-level: (+++) 2-level: (+) SAE: Small … PEEK cage Small, favoring PEEK (+) Insufficient Small, favoring PEEK (+) No evidence

48. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tonsillectomy_executive.pdf
    January 01, 2017 - sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).3, 4 Widely variable national and small … Across these small, short-term studies, coblation tonsillectomy was generally associated with faster … Electrocautery was generally associated with more favorable results in three small RCTs comparing it … placebo No significant group differences in 2 small studies with medium study limitations 5 RCT ( … Small area variations in health care delivery. Science 1973 Dec 14;182(4117):1102-8.

49. Disposition of Comment Report for Wireless Motility Capsule Versus Other Diagnostic Technologies for Evaluating Gastroparesis and Constipation (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/wireless-motility-capsule_disposition-comments.pdf
    May 20, 2013 - The wireless motility capsule can assess gastric emptying, small bowel transit, and colonic transit … On the other hand the ability to look at small intestinal contractions is an advantage. … However, the value of small bowel transit time in clinical gastroenterology is unclear. … We did not focus on small bowel wireless motility characteristics in our study as there was minimal … Any motility delaying transit in stomach, small bowel or in anorectal outlet obstruction would also

50. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/peptic-ulcer-horizon-scan-high-impact-1412.pdf
    December 01, 2014 - a systematic process that involves compiling information on topics and issuing topic drafts to a small … problems, related to malnutrition, that occur in individuals who have lost at least half of their small … problems, related to malnutrition, that occur in individuals who have lost at least half of their small … The primary cause of SBS is surgical removal of more than half of the small intestine because of … SBS affects a relatively small number of patients, but those affected have few treatment options.

51. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/peptic-ulcer-horizon-scan-high-impact-1406.pdf
    June 01, 2014 - a systematic process that involves compiling information on topics and issuing topic drafts to a small … problems, related to malnutrition, that occur in individuals who have lost at least half of their small … problems related to malnutrition that occurs in individuals who have lost at least half of their small … The primary cause of SBS is surgical removal of more than half of the small intestine because of … SBS affects a relatively small number of patients, but those affected have few treatment options.

52. Infantile-Hemangioma Executive (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - Insufficient SOE due to single small study with high study limitations. … propranolol in one small study. … Insufficient SOE due to single, small study with high limitations. … Insufficient SOE given small, single study with high limitations. … Insufficient SOE due to single, small study with high limitations.

53. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pepticulcer_hi_impact.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - problems, related to malnutrition, that occur in individuals who have lost at least half of their small … In a small study of four patients with UC who underwent a single dose (2,500 ova) of helminthic therapy … SBS affects a relatively small number of patients, but those with SBS are significantly affected … However, because the population of patients is relatively small, there might not be a large impact … Although teduglutide has been evaluated in only a small patient population, most of the reviewers were

54. Noninvasive Treatments for Low Back Pain: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2016 - Conclusions Several interventions for low back pain are associated with small-to-moderate, primarily … followed by back-specific function. �� When present, observed benefits for pain were generally in the small … Diazepam Placebo Pain 1 SR − ��� Systemic corticosteroids Placebo Pain, function 5 RCTs − ��� + = small … drug; RCT = randomized controlled trial; SOE = strength of evidence; SR = systematic review + = small … ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, low-level laser therapy, and Kinesio® taping had small

55. Evidence-Summary-CER-209-Noninvasive-Nonpharmacological-Treatment-For-Chronic-Pain (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2018 - • Most effects were small. Long-term evidence was sparse. … Small (slight) effects may not meet standard thresholds for minimal clinically important difference … In some situations, interventions with small benefits may be warranted (e.g., when harms and costs are … small). … In general, effect sizes for most interventions were small, based on mean differences.

56. Disposition of Comments for Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/lung-cancer-nonsurgical-therapies_disposition-comments.pdf
    June 12, 2013 - Disposition of Comments for Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non-Small-Cell … Research Review Title: Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non–Small-Cell … Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non–Small- Cell Lung Cancer. … Treatments for early stage non-small cell lung cancer will likely be used increasingly as disease is … Stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage non-small-cell lung carcinoma: four-year results

57. Slide 1 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq_community_forum_webinar_bonoff.pdf
    January 01, 2000 - • Understand motivations of learners • Provide on-going and mixed training methods – Lectures, small … training is evaluated and continuously updated • Advise on applied learning • Provide information in small … concepts and critical appraisal skills • Ground program in adult learning principles: – Repetition, small

58. Training and Support for Patients and Consumers Engaged in Research (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2000 - § Understand motivations of learners § Provide on-going and mixed training methods § Lectures, small … training is evaluated and continuously updated § Advise on applied learning § Provide information in small … § Repetition, small

59. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Expanded Guidance on Selected Quantitative Synthesis Topics (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2013 - The current report complements the posted document and includes the following topics: combining a small … The section on combining small number of studies provides the rationale for why meta-analyses of small … The current report complements the posted document and includes the following topics: combining a small … The section on combining small number of studies provides the rationale why meta-analyses of small number … Although these results were interpreted as small based on the most widely used classification, where

60. White Paper: Narratively Describing Effects of Interventions in Systematic Reviews (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2020 - The direction of effect could include “no or very small effect,” however, this statement requires making … a judgment that the effect is very small and not clinically important, thus overlapping with the concept … may affect the determination of the direction of effect (e.g., differentiating between no effect or small … reduces/increases outcome slightly X results in a slight reduction/increase in outcome Trivial, small … in outcome The evidence suggests X results in a slight reduction/increase in outcome Trivial, small