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461. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     August 01, 2009 - Small columns denote outcomes (overall survival, cancer-specific survival, or other outcomes). … See how few RCTs there are; they are relatively small and cover cancer types that are not very common

462. Gout Executive-2016 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - For reasons that remain unclear, only a small proportion of individuals with hyperuricemia go on to … We identified a small number of relatively recent systematic reviews on various aspects of gout diagnosis … Because of the relatively small number of studies identified, the strength of evidence for definitive … However, we identified only a small number of studies on patients without previous diagnoses of gout … Accuracy of Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Gout Although we identified only a small number of studies

463. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 05, 2011 - Given small sample size and the corresponding width of confidence intervals that would be expected … compression as tolead to pulmonary hypoplasia at birth We have changed the text to note: "Only a small … They tend to be small and asymptomatic at birth and therefore only detected if a prenatal diagnosis … prenatally diagnosed CPAMs regresspartially or completely by the third trimester, and thatonly a small … have added an emphasis on the limited utility of prognostic indicators and emphasized that only a small

464. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2017 - However, our study examined a small set of interventions for a single condition (infertility) and included … a relatively small set of trials.

465. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     May 22, 2012 - These studies vary from small and large nonrandomized, single-center studies to randomized, prospective … The relatively small number of patients included in each trial makes definitive conclusions about the … Finally, a few small observational studies have suggested that autonomic ganglionic plexi ablation or … Background, “Rhythm Control,” last 2 paragraphs Finally, a few small observational studies have … For those KQs with a small body of RCT data available (KQ 2 and KQ 5 studies related to CRT), observational

466. Breast-Cancer-Imaging Technical-Brief (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - to imaging evaluation of treatment response among metastatic breast cancer patients were limited to small … A small amount of a radionuclide tracer is injected intravenously and the patient is then scanned 2 … Although these studies were small (both had n=47), both studies found that the uptake of PET tracers … Most reports were from small, single-institution, nonrandomized observational studies. … Although many of the reviewed published literature studies examined small populations of metastatic

467. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 3 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2022 - A small effect was defined for pain as a mean between- group difference following treatment of 0.5 to … placebo, short-terma pain Opioids associated with small improvement in short-term pain • SOE: High … placebo, short-term function Opioids associated with small improvement in short-term function • … Placebo): Short-Term Followup; Pain and Function The 2020 report found opioids associated with a small … opioid tapering versus no tapering on long-term pain, function, and quality of life, although one small

468. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Do not select if the unmet need is a small incremental (e.g., next-generation) development. h. … In a small number of cases in which others had performed and published cost-effectiveness models, we … Provide your rationale. * 1 2 3 4 Not important Small importance … * 1 2 3 4 None Small Moderate Large Rationale: * 4 … Provide your rationale.* 1 2 3 4 None Small impact Moderate Impact

469. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Do not select if the unmet need is a small incremental (e.g., next-generation) development. h. … In a small number of cases in which others had performed and published cost-effectiveness models, we … Provide your rationale. * 1 2 3 4 Not important Small importance … * 1 2 3 4 None Small Moderate Large Rationale: * 4 … Provide your rationale.* 1 2 3 4 None Small impact Moderate Impact

470. Trauma-Child-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - These pharmacologic interventions were small trials and none had findings of benefit. … Second, the sample sizes of the studies included in this review were small to medium. … Insufficient funding also may contribute to small sample sizes. … The small sample sizes created several problems with the reliability of the analyses, and rendered … Subgroup analyses become difficult as well with small sample sizes, evidenced by the review finding

471. Dementia-Nursing-Home-Characteristics Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Settings include NHs, RC/AL, Green House homes, other small NHs, Alzheimer’s/dementia SCUs, residential … reasons: 772 Wrong PICOTS: 301 Wrong publication type/study design: 289 Wrong country: 132 Small … in exposure to organizational characteristics, such as NH settings compared with RC/AL settings, small … In addition, some statistically significant results were relatively small, meaning their clinical importance

472. breast-biopsy-update-130920 (pdf file)
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     September 20, 2013 - inclusion criterion is intended to reduce the risk of bias from nonrepresentative participants in small … Further, small studies do not produce precise estimates of test performance. 6. … Such criteria are often inadequate (e.g., low power when the number of studies is small) and do not … www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published online: September 20, 2013   12   also expect to find a small

473. Disposition of Comments for CER 168 Infantile Hemangioma (pdf file)
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     January 15, 2016 - As this is quite rare, case series usually with small number of patients. … For instance, there are several small reported series' of infants with symptomatic hepatic hemangiomas … While Timolol therapy is very promising for small superficial IH, its efficacy for larger and more bulky … Certainly, there will be better treatment outcomes when evaluating effects of timolol therapy in small

474. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - The magnitudes of these differences, however, were small and are likely not to be clinically significant … In general, trials and observational studies were too small and study durations too short to assess the … comparisons rendered statistically significant results; the magnitudes of the differences, however, are small … Some of these differences are small and might be offset by adverse events.

475. Venous-Ulcers-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - to great or lesser saphenous vein Ablation • Thermal ablation involves the closing of the great or small … A small study found improved rates in terms of area healed and overall healing rates compared with … The difference was not significant between the four groups because of the small sample sizes. … number, small size, and poor quality of studies. … Most studies were very small and therefore had limited statistical power.

476. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2012 - This can easily be determined by aspiration with a very small 20 gauge needle. … need some detail about size of lesions included in study....Whole body PET is not sensitive to small … I would delete this table as we just don't use PET or PET-CT this way due to low sensitivity to small … hypoechoic mass that may be a complicated cyst, which can easily be resolved by aspiration with a very small

477. Multiple-Sclerosis Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Except for those noted above, studies were high risk of bias and had small sample sizes, and reported … effects were small in magnitude. … • Because of high risk of bias and small sample sizes, evidence is insufficient for whether rebound … • Because of high risk of bias and small sample sizes, evidence is insufficient to address the risks … complexity of understanding preferences and behaviors, and the wide range of study designs used over a small

478. Rapid Evidence Product Patient Navigation Models For Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2018 - study22 (n≈200) will examine the effectiveness of nurse-led patient navigation in early stage non-small … African Americans (21 years or older) with clinically suspicious or biopsy-proven, early stage non- small-cell … Sclerosing Hemangioma/ or Adenocarcinoma in Situ/ or Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar/ or Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell … Lung/ or Small Cell Lung Carcinoma/ 8 (adenocarcinoma or ((lung* or pulmonary or bronch*) adj3 (cancer … tomography OR bronchoscopic AND Lung Cancer (MH "Lung Neoplasms+") OR (MH "Carcinoma, Non-Small

479. Physiologic Predictors of Severe Injury: Systematic Review, Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2018 - age means this is not purely a physiologic measure, but it is included as it is simple and there is small … as they use different thresholds and outcomes, and the differences across our pooled estimate were small … If we had limited our examination to comparable head-to-head comparisons we would have had small numbers … have large samples, while more clearly prospective studies we identified were often exploratory with small … studies that considered the use of physiologic measures for children and older adults, this is still a small

480. Disposition of Comments for CER 208 Treatment for Bipolar Disorder in Adults A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 07, 2018 - deemed insufficient when no studies are done or perhaps when there are one or two studies with very small … The amount of redundancy is fairly small and offset by a more coherent user experience. … anti-psychotic," whatever that means, and did nothing to treat his depression, except give him many small … Moreover, 14 studies had small sample sizes of less than 200 participants and 21 studies (79 percent … The discussion of TMS is quite small, but it seems incorrect to group it with non-somatic therapies