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101. Glaucoma-Screening Surveillance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Sensitivities and specificities were reported for the parameters mean deviation, pattern standard … Sensitivity and specificity for pattern standard of 2 reviewers said they did not know. 17 … Conclusion Based on the Burr et al. (2007) findings, standard automated perimetry was compared with … Sensitivity and specificity for pattern standard of deviation (PSD) and glaucoma hemifield test are … Conclusion Based on the Burr et al. (2007) findings, standard automated perimetry was compared with

102. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - comparators Outcome(s):  Diagnostic accuracy (with pathological confirmation as the reference standard … There currently exists no standard procedure for the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer.

103. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - differences, or differences in change score from baseline, and measures of precision are reported as standard … deviation (SD), standard error (SE), or confidence intervals.

104. Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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     November 15, 2018 - Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures Research White Paper Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures Research White Paper Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quali…

105. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - This feature is now standard on CT systems. … This feature is now standard on many CT systems and is “built in” to each helical acquisition. … Public Reviewer Gail Rodriguez (MITA) General NEMA standard XR 29 - 2013, Standard Attributes on … This standard, known also as MITA “Smart Dose”, is the fourth dose-related standard to be released … This standard includes four components: 1.

106. Imaging Tests for the Staging of Colorectal Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - The selection of the reference standard is important in evaluating the true performance of an imaging … Were readers of the reference standard blinded to all other clinical information? … Were patients assessed by a reference standard regardless of the test’s results? … Were all patients assessed by the same reference standard regardless of the test’s results? … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome?

107. Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Historically, invasive coronary angiography (ICA) has been considered the standard reference diagnostic … of visualization, and reproducibility on measurement of stenosis is considered only moderate. 8-11 Standard … While there are a number of standard risk assessment tools, in clinical practice the clinician’s overall … Next, there is controversy regarding the suitability of ICA as a gold standard to which noninvasive tests … Studies using standard of care as a comparator will be excluded if components for standard of care are

108. Outcome Measures Framework: Literature Review Findings and Implications (pdf file)
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     April 15, 2019 - Data were extracted into a standard abstraction form and summarized qualitatively. … This information was collected using a standard abstraction table, a summary of which is included in … Overlaying the frameworks is the use of standard terminologies and data dictionaries, to the extent … outcome measures in specific study, report on development of standard outcome measures, discussion of … outcome measures in specific study, report on development of standard outcome measures, discussion of

109. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (pdf file)
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     September 23, 2014 - The word “harm” is standard in EPC reports. Peer Reviewer 1 9. … This feature is now standard on all new CT systems and has also been implemented on newer installed … for interventional procedures. • NEMA standard XR 29 - 2013, Standard Attributes on Computed Tomography … This standard, known also as MITA “Smart Dose”, is the fourth dose-related standard to be released … This standard includes four components: 1.

110. Research Protocol: Clostridium difficile Infection Update (pdf file)
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     December 23, 2014 - Toxigenic culture and cell cytotoxicity neutralization assay are no longer clinical standard practice … Tests in which the reference standard is not applied to all samples. … Standard Treatment: RCTs, nonrandomized controlled trials, and prospective Figure 2. … Nonantibiotic standard treatment: RCTs, nonrandomized controlled trials, prospective cohort studies, … Chapter 8: meta-analysis of test performance when there is a "gold standard".

111. Breast-Biopsy-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - Definitions of diagnostic groups based on index and reference standard test results Reference Standard … results), reference standard test (e.g., blinding of reference standard assessors to the index test … Reference standard tests also differed across studies: 26 used open biopsy on all included patients; … Chapter 8: meta-analysis of test performance when there is a “gold standard”. … Chapter 9: options for summarizing medical test performance in the absence of a “gold standard.”

112. Mental-Illness-Adults-Prisons Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - However, experts in the field recommend that all correctional facilities offer standard outpatient … For all effect- size metrics, we computed 95-percent confidence intervals (CIs) using standard methods … Comparing MTC with standard treatment, two trials found no between-group differences in psychiatric … Limited evidence also demonstrated that IDDTs were more effective than standard treatments in reducing … A final systematic review examined the effectiveness of MTC compared with standard of care.

113. PCA3 Testing in the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - testing against a biopsy gold standard. … The test is not currently a practice of care standard, and so blinding should pose no dilemma. … testing against a biopsy gold standard. … testing or standard testing alone. … testing or standard testing alone.

114. Comparative Effectiveness of Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - While in-laboratory polysomnography is considered the gold standard in clinical practice to diagnose … The standard measurement of AHI (and by extension, the diagnosis of sleep apnea) requires a comprehensive … for diagnosis of sleep apnea The report will not assume any test is a gold standard. … Extracted data will be recorded on standard forms in Microsoft Word. … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols.

115. Pressure-Ulcer-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - based on input from the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) that these modalities either were considered standard … However, in many care settings these applications (e.g., gauze dressings, standard hospital beds) are … We assessed the presence of statistical heterogeneity among the studies using standard χ2 tests and … with topical collagen applications compared with hydrocolloid dressings or standard care (3 studies … Therapeutic ultrasound Low Wound improvement was similar with ultrasound compared with standard care

116. Chapter 8: Meta-Analysis of Test Performance When There Is a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - ,” that is, a reference standard considered adequate to define the presence or absence of the condition … Another chapter discusses ways to summarize medical tests when such a reference standard does not exist … The synthesis of diagnostic odds ratios is straightforward and follows standard meta-analysis methods … Options for summarizing medical test performance in the absence of a "gold standard." … Meta-analysis of test performance when there is a “gold standard.”

117. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Coronary angiography is the current standard of care for deciding need for PCI and for guiding stent … comparative effectiveness of using intravascular imaging techniques compared to angiography alone or other standard

118. Final_multivariate_v22_CLEAN_03-11-2013 (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2013 - Ratio of standard errors for log relative odds ratios from multivariate and univariate meta-analysis … Comparison of standard errors of the difference in the log summary odds ratios of two outcomes that … Compared with univariate analyses, multivariate analyses yielded smaller standard errors (ratio of standard … estimates (or standard errors of linear combinations of the summary estimates in general5,11). … Φ−1(⋅) being the inverse cumulative distribution function for the standard normal.

119. EPC Methods: An Exploration of Methods and Context for the Production of Rapid Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2015 - Dimensions of standard systematic reviews that may be altered in rapid products ......... 4 Table 2. … Second, can some rapid review methods be adapted to make standard systematic reviews more timely? … Studies that empirically compared the results of rapid products with standard systematic reviews were … Only one organization did not conduct standard systematic reviews or HTAs. … Within the EPC Program, the topic refinement process for standard systematic reviews involves a team

120. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 08, 2011 - o Is the reference standard likely to classify the target condition correctly? … o Did patients receive the same reference standard regardless of the index test result? … o Was the reference standard independent of the index test (i.e. the index test did not form part of … the reference standard)? … the reference standard?