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421. Erythropoiesis-Stimulating-Agents-Utilization Research (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/erythropoiesis-stimulating-agents-utilization_research.pdf
     February 01, 2011 - An extremely small proportion of non-KD beneficiaries used ESAs (<0.4%), and this proportion decreased … A small proportion of cancer only beneficiaries used ESAs; use declined from 6 percent to about 2 percent

422. Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2017 - predictive value: 99.8% Negative predictive value: 68.5% Nondiagnostic rate: 14% ��� Harms 16 (2,422)b A small … results NA ��� Local recurrence-free survival 2 (217) Better results with RN, but all studies had a small

423. Assessing the Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - reconciliation method • Reviewers must be trained • Pilot test assessment of risk-of-bias tools using a small … Pilot test assessment of risk-of-bias tools using a small subset of studies that are likely to represent

424. Data-Points-6-Tables (xls file)
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     January 01, 2006 - population) by Class of Drug and Active Ingredient, 2006-2009 Note: A single period (.) signifies a small … 0.50 Other Immunosuppresives CYCLOSPORINE 7.45 7.32 7.19 7.07 Note:a single period (.) signifies a small … population) by Class of Drug and Active Ingredient, 2006-2009 Note: A single period (.) signifies a small … Other Immunosuppresives CYCLOSPORINE 81.38 79.12 77.58 73.12 Note:a single period (.) signifies a small … population) by Class of Drug and Active Ingredient, 2006-2009 Note: A single period (.) signifies a small

425. Breast-Abnormalities-Tests-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2012 - We excluded case-control studies, meeting presentations, and very small (<10 patients) studies. … For ultrasound, in 2006 we evaluated a relatively small set of studies of B-mode grayscale ultrasound … Macromolecular contrast medium (feruglose) versus small molecular contrast medium (gadopentetate) enhanced … contrast-enhanced power Doppler sonography using a microbubble echo-enhancing agent in evaluation of small

426. Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2016 - Most studies enrolled predominantly female patients, had small sample sizes, and were conducted in … specialty clinics based on the CDC (Fukuda, 1994) or Oxford (Sharpe, 1991) case definitions, had small … Available studies generally enrolled small numbers of participants, and many treatment trials were … too small to detect significant differences between groups.

427. CER 221 Disposition of Comments: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2019 - We agree that small number of studies per meta- analysis is an issue. … Comment Response Peer reviewer #4 General Comments Statistical issues: When the number of studies is small … doesn’t always converge and may overestimate the confidence intervals when the number of studies is small … We agree that small number of studies per meta- analysis is an issue.

428. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 265_Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Bone Disease: Effectiveness and Harms (pdf file)
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     August 29, 2023 - TEP #2 General comments A summary table that is small, understandable and at 30k feet might be worth … Peer Reviewer #2 Results The authors state that SF EBRT is associated with a small decrease in overall

429. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-biopsy-executive.pdf
     December 01, 2009 - to remove the entire lesion during the biopsy procedure (excisional biopsy) if the lesion is fairly small … A core-needle biopsy is a procedure that involves removing small samples of breast tissue through a hollow … For others, the greater safety and less invasive nature of core-needle biopsy are worth a small sacrifice

430. Colon-Cancer-Gene-Profiling Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 13, 2012 - In this group, adjuvant chemotherapy may produce a small improvement in overall survival when compared … with surgery alone, and it may afford a small reduction in the risk of disease recurrence. … The data indicate that MMR deficiency or high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) may identify a small

431. Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/nonopioid-pharm-chronic-pain-protocol.pdf
     February 01, 2019 - same system as in the 2018 AHRQ noninvasive treatment for chronic pain review,13 recognizing that small … A small/slight effect was defined for pain as a mean between-group difference following treatment of … The clinical relevance of effects classified as small/slight might vary for individual patients depending

432. S16 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Addition- ally, trials are often too short or too small to detect harms that are rare or which emerge … patients might place a higher value on preventing a stroke, but they would also need to consider the small … Individual RCT and meta-analysis26,28 Net benefits emerge at 2 yr but are small (100 operations to prevent

433. Cancer-Pancreas Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - does not always differentiate malignant from benign pancreatic lesions, and its ability to detect small … tumors or small hepatic/peritoneal metastases is limited. … The evidence base in both reviews was small: four or five studies each. … patients without jaundice that same test is worse), and tumor characteristics 17 (e.g., for staging small … Trikalinos TA, Hoaglin DC, Small KM, et al.

434. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/phenylketonuria_research-protocol.pdf
     March 29, 2011 - Published Online: March 29, 2011 EPC Protocol – Version 8 – 12.22.10 Scan of the Literature A small … effectiveness using traditional statistical methods, we will use appropriate methods for studies with small … anticipate that the evidence garnered from the literature search described above will consist of small … Scan of the Literature A small body of literature reports on aspects of treatment of PKU; initial searches … We anticipate that the evidence garnered from the literature search described above will consist of small

435. Depression-Treatment-Ssri Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - The exception was a single study that showed that lower-dose sertraline had some small improvement … antipsychotics (olanzapine, risperidone, ariprazole, quetiapine) used as augmenting agents, which showed small … The second trial evaluated a dose escalation of fluoxetine in a small sample, and was suggestive of … A second study, a pilot with small sample size evaluating dose escalation, showed no effect. … Phenytoin as an augmentation for SSRI failures: A small controlled study.

436. Procalcitonin Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - The pool of studies was too small to permit meaningful subgroup and sensitivity analyses. … A second study22 (n=72) was judged too small to be informative. … of evidence was judged insufficient to make conclusions on mortality and morbidity because of the small … The evidence consisted of one small (n=20) trial.33 Discussion Clinical Context and Applicability … Although this was a small study, it suggests that this approach might identify a group who would benefit

437. Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tympanostomy-tubes-executive-170523.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - chose to swim may be less likely to report minor degrees of otorrhea). 15 Overall, aside from the small … The changes in the disease-specific health-related quality- of-life scores at 2 weeks were small but … We were unable to provide pooled results due to the small number of studies, multiple interventions … systematically excluded from comparative trials, limiting the applicability of the evidence to these and other small … However, a nuanced understanding of which children may benefit from adenoidectomy is limited by the small

438. Kidney-Disease-Medicine Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - • Limits: There were small sample sizes in all but one trial; few trials reported most outcomes … • Limits: Sample size was small; there were few clinical events; no data were reported for mortality … • Limits: This was a small trial; there were few outcomes. … • Limits: This was a small trial with few deaths; no data were reported for clinical vascular … clinical outcomes in patients with CKD stages 1–3 is unclear because diet intervention RCTs were small

439. Antiplatelet-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - We used Egger’s regression-based test37 to assess the presence of small- study effects.37,38 Strength … We considered evidence to be sparse if it was from only one study with a small sample size. … Asian ethnicity; however, this finding needs to be interpreted with caution, given the relatively small … The sixth study was a small genetic substudy of 126 patients that reported no major bleeding events … Our confidence in these findings is limited by the relatively small number of studies available for

440. Case-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - The sample sizes of the studies of CM were variable, but many of the studies included fairly small samples … Due to heterogeneity in the characteristics of CM interventions and the limitation of small sample sizes … across studies, and overall, the improvements in QOL and functional status achieved by CM were either small … Because studies comparing CM with usual care have generally found only small differences in important