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141. Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease (pdf file)
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     January 15, 2015 - 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 … Studies using standard of care as a comparator will be excluded if components for standard of care are

142. Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions fo Hip Fracture (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2011 - Strength of Evidence From the CER The Evidence-based Practice Center GRADE approach, based on the standard … Measuring Pain in Clinical Studies (1) A patient’s self-report of pain is the standard for evaluating … in Pain Intensity, VAS, cm* (95% CI) Strength of Evidence Skin Traction (preoperative) Pillow and standard … Acupressure and the Jacobson relaxation technique may contribute to pain reduction over that from standard … Pain Intensity, VAS, cm* (95% CI) Strength of Evidence Acupressure (preoperative) Sham control and standard

143. Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions fo Hip Fracture (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2011 - Strength of Evidence From the CER The Evidence-based Practice Center GRADE approach, based on the standard … Measuring Pain in Clinical Studies (1) A patient’s self-report of pain is the standard for evaluating … in Pain Intensity, VAS, cm* (95% CI) Strength of Evidence Skin Traction (preoperative) Pillow and standard … Acupressure and the Jacobson relaxation technique may contribute to pain reduction over that from standard … Pain Intensity, VAS, cm* (95% CI) Strength of Evidence Acupressure (preoperative) Sham control and standard

144. Venous-Ulcers-Treatment-Future Research (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - The current standard clinical approach to therapy includes aggressive compression of the lower limb … The added benefit of these therapies to standard care with compression and debridement also remains … • Timing: The healing rate should be assessed at 4 weeks, and 12 weeks is accepted as a standard … • Timing: Twelve weeks is accepted as a standard for evaluating wound healing. … • Most studies were limited by study design, study size, standard definitions, standard outcome measures

145. PULMONARY with "Discussions" in Exec Summary (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 - slow disease progression in patients who continue to have acute exacerbations despite receiving standard … Standard methods of donor organ preservation expose the organ to sustained periods of ischemia and … Prophylactic azithromycin, if used, would be added to standard COPD treatment and would not 4 … Although the cost of azithromycin therapy would be added to standard treatment costs, its low cost … Furthermore, the potential exists for altering the standard practices for lung transplantation, in

146. Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 28, 2010 - Had the patients already failed standard pain treatment? If so, what kind? … Or were patients in the process of obtaining standard treatment for pain? 3. … Should “interdisciplinary” be the standard (versus multi)? Why, why not? 11. … therapy*, in process of obtaining standard therapy, not reported) Comparison population … (duration of pain, failed standard therapy*, in process of obtaining standard therapy, not reported

147. Coronary Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 29, 2016 - Research Needs for Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers Added to Standard … Effectiveness of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers Added to Standard

148. 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

149. Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - This review will focus on evidence from randomized controlled trials as the gold standard design for … what are the benefits and harms of systemic corticosteroids and antibiotics compared with placebo or standard … care KQ 2: Placebo or standard care KQ3: Placebo, standard care or active individual intervention … Interventions to prevent future COPD exacerbations Comparators KQ 1: Placebo or standard … care KQ 2: Placebo or standard care KQ 3: Placebo, standard care or active individual intervention

150. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 263: Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - Sulfate Regimens o Shorter-duration magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) regimens (<24 hour), compared with standard … tendon reflexes, a sign of magnesium toxicity (low SoE)  Loading dose only regimens, compared with standard … morbidities with different durations of MgSO4 regimens o Lower-dose MgSO4 regimens, compared with standard … We assessed the risk of bias and evaluated the SoE using standard methods. … effects of MgSO4 regimens: Twenty-one RCTs compared shorter- duration (<24 hour) MgSO4 regimens with standard

151. Multidisciplinary Postacute Rehabilitation for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - treatment program resulted in greater productivity, but not improved community integration, than the standard … However, group differences no longer existed at 6 months post-treatment because the standard rehabilitation

152. Research Review Title: Infection Prevention and Control for the Emergency Medical Services and 911 Workforce (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2022 - Precautions Page 22 under Standard Precautions: Are you differentiating between licensed vs. certified … It would however be incorrect to imply that the evidence base supporting the need for standard and … Also, much of the evidence base that informs standard and transmission-based precautions is older than … I do however agree that good hygiene and standard precautions are effective. … Make them all standard text that is no different for consistency.

153. Retention Strategies for Medications for Addiction Treatment in Adults With Opioid Use Disorder: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2020 - Consistent with the rapid review standard practice, we used existing SRs to define the categories of … Because retention is associated with improved outcomes, future OUD research should develop standard … vs Standard care intervention (SCI): Routine program, evidenced-based adaptive treatment model … vs Standard care intervention (SCI): Routine program, evidenced-based adaptive treatment model … medical management; ODC= opioid drug counseling; SD= standard deviation C-1

154. Interventions to Improve Care of Bereaved Persons | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2023 - an alternative intervention KQ4: Usual care or an alternative intervention KQ1: No reference standard … or method to detect the impact of screening KQ2: No reference standard to determine the accuracy of … Reference standard: The domain will evaluate whether the reference standard, its conduct, or its interpretation … the condition (e.g., a gold standard may not exist) and whether the reference standard results were … The assessment will take into account whether the interval between the tool and the reference standard

155. Interventions To Improve Care of Bereaved Persons | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2025 - None of the identified studies used the reference standard of the newly established clinical diagnosis … Disorders (DSM) or International Classification of Diseases (ICD) grief disorder diagnoses as the reference standard

156. Technical Brief: Multidisciplinary Pain Programs for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Had the patients already failed standard pain treatment? If so, what kind? … Or were patients in the process of obtaining standard treatment for pain? … AAPM) Should “interdisciplinary” be the standard (versus multi)? Why, why not? … therapy*, in process of obtaining standard therapy, not reported) Comparison population (duration … of pain, failed standard therapy*, in process of obtaining standard therapy, not reported) Clinical

157. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Patient Monitoring Systems To Prevent Failure To Rescue (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2024 - Three categories of interventions were identified: implementing a new standard of care for patient monitoring … Intervention • Implementation of a new standard of care for general hospital ward patient monitoring … Finally, the studies on continuous monitoring often use “standard intermittent monitoring (every 4 or … We grouped telemetry studies in the grouping of “change in the standard of care.” … Standard Patient safety/harm search string for all PSPs topics [mh “patient safety”] OR “patient

158. Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2022 - using different reference standards to validate tools and suggested that use of a single reference standard … Finally, defining malnutrition requires the validation of measurement tools against a gold standard. … modalities to quantify and evalute body composition (i.e., muscle and adipose tissues) as the gold standard … and SGA as a semi-gold standard for classifying malnutrition. … Development of an accepted gold standard for defining malnutrition is key to supporting future clinical

159. Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - The reference standard must not have been defined by either imaging test being assessed. … If appropriate, we will meta-analyze the correlations using standard techniques and Knapp-Hartung standard … standard was unknowable until after the tests were read)? … Were the people determining the reference standard unaware of the diagnostic test results? … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome?

160. Data Points #15: Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - ER testing is considered standard of care for women with early invasive cancer. … At present, groups such as NCCN consider HER2 testing a standard of care for women with early invasive … Therefore, treatment guidelines do not include PR tests, despite their being considered standard care