Results

Total Results: 2,244 records

Showing results for "standard".

161. Use of a Clinical Pathway To Facilitate the Translation and Utilization of AHRQ EPC Report Findings (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/clinical-pathway-methods-report.pdf
     December 01, 2018 - AHRQ EPC report on the Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile in our standard … We found that the AHRQ EPC Report served as an evidence standard and was particularly valuable given … In this respect, the EPC report served as an evidence standard. … Our center has developed standard approaches to searching for pathways (Appendix A). … Instead we present a table listing the guidelines and how they are rated on each standard.

162. Effectiveness of Screening and Treatment of C. difficile Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/c-diff-infections/research-protocol
     December 01, 2019 - Standard antibiotics treatments: metronidazole, rifampicin, rifaxamin, vancomycin. … Timing: Diagnostic testing: time to test Antibiotic and non-standard treatments: variable, generally … Non-standard treatments from international settings will be included. … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols. … Peer Review (Standard Languate) Approximately five experts in the field will be asked to peer review

163. Chapter 6: Assessing Applicability of Medical Test Studies in Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/methods-guidance-tests-applicability/methods
     December 01, 2019 - Comparator Use of gold standard vs. “alloy” standard in studies. … Gold standard not applied. Correlational data only. … Cardiac CT compared with stress treadmill without use of angiography as a gold standard. … Exclude a priori if no gold standard. … Failure to test “normals,” or subset, with gold standard. Precision of estimates not provided.

164. Standardized Library of Depression Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/library-depression/white-paper
     August 01, 2020 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

165. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/whitepaper3-lijmer02262010-2.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - The results of the test under evaluation are compared to those from a reference standard in order to … or when the new test is thought to be better than the current reference standard. … Strategies exist to deal with cases in which the reference standard result is missing in some patients … or when information can be used to build a substitute or proxy for the reference standard, but when … Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods.

166. PROPOSALS FOR A PHASED EVALUATION OF (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/medical-tests-proposals_research.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - The results of the test under evaluation are compared to those from a reference standard in order to … or when the new test is thought to be better than the current reference standard. … Strategies exist to deal with cases in which the reference standard result is missing in some patients … or when information can be used to build a substitute or proxy for the reference standard, but when … Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods.

167. Chapter 7: Grading a Body of Evidence on Diagnostic Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/methods-guidance-tests-grading/methods
     December 01, 2019 - Challenges: Diagnostic test evidence is challenging to grade because standard tools for grading evidence … One common challenge is that standard tools for assessing the quality of a body of evidence associated … It is possible that the accuracy of a test is better than the reference standard because of an imperfect … reference standard. … It is reasonable to consider either a more flexible qualitative approach to grading or the standard ordinal

168. Disposition of Comments for Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-screening_disposition-comments.pdf
     April 01, 2012 - The approach to reviewing the identified potentially eligible studies is standard and appears to have … Standard definitions should be used that do not rely on the terminology used in the manuscript. … Once again – the problem of no gold standard / reference standard can lead to biased results. … This was corrected and reference standard was defined based on 5 criteria (IOP, visual field, optic … Data was reported in the abstract for standard commercially available parameters using the standard

169. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2024 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/ptsd-pharm-non-pharm-treatment-update/research
     March 01, 2025 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

170. Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/lumbar-spondylolisthesis/white-paper
     March 01, 2021 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

171. Effectiveness of Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/c-diff-infections/research
     December 01, 2019 - Review Methods Standard Evidence-based Practice Center methods were employed. … For standard treatment, no antimicrobial is clearly superior for the initial cure of CDI.

172. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the Pediatric Population | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/stem-cell-children/research
     December 01, 2019 - Objectives Assess comparative benefits and harms of hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) versus standard … therapy (both low strength) Conclusions Evidence demonstrating benefit or harm of HSCT versus standard

173. Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Clinical Utility in Asthma Management | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/asthma-nitric-oxide/research-protocol
     June 01, 2021 - However, the diagnosis remains clinical; there is no single gold standard diagnostic test. … Comparators KQ 1a: Standard diagnostic testing of asthma made by healthcare providers based on history … SABA, methacholine challenge Sputum eosinophils; Peripheral blood eosinophils; peak flow) KQ 1b: Standard … qualitative research, in vivo, in vitro, and animal studies Subgroups Robustness of "gold standard … Meta-Analysis of Test Performance When There Is a "Gold Standard".

174. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 259: Partial Breast Irradiation for Breast Cancer (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-259-partial-breast-irradiation-executive-summary.pdf
     January 01, 2023 - leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide.1 Breast conserving therapy has been widely adopted as standard … Compared with standard fractionation WBI, accelerated PBI was associated with lower transportation costs … participated in clinical trials that led to the adoption of breast-conserving surgery and WBI as a standard … Partial Breast Irradiation Is the Preferred Standard of Care for a Majority of Women With Early-Stage

175. Effectiveness of Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/c-diff-infections_disposition-comments.pdf
     March 01, 2012 - It would be standard practice to spell out Clostridium the first time Clostridium difficile is used. … The designs of the studies have the probiotic administered concurrently with the standard antibiotic … REVISED TEXT; Cytotoxicity testing is not a perfectly accurate gold standard. … Weren’t there some papers that overlapped categories (e.g. comparing standard and non-standard treatments … Subjects received the probiotic along with a standard antibiotic.

176. Machine Learning Tools To (Semi-)Automate Evidence Synthesis: A Rapid Review and Evidence Map | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/machine-learning-tools/white-paper
     December 01, 2024 - We included 56 studies, which evaluated the performance of tools primarily relative to standard human … screening tools (22 studies) had a median recall of 93 percent (range 1–100%) with human screening as the standard

177. Effectiveness of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone in the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis — Research Protocol Document | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/cystic-fibrosis-hgh/research-protocol
     December 01, 2019 - Height and weight z-scores (also called standard deviation scores or SDS) provide a relationship with … deviation or z-scores, height velocity, absolute values of weight, weight percentile, weight standard … deviation or z-scores, weight velocity, and weight for height standard deviation score. … Standard deviations (SDs) of the change scores will be calculated from the SD of the baseline values … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols. VIII.

178. Interventions to Improve Care of Bereaved Persons (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/bereaved-persons-protocol.pdf
     June 01, 2023 - or method to detect the impact of screening KQ2: No reference standard to determine the accuracy … • Reference standard: The domain will evaluate whether the reference standard, its conduct, or its … interpretation may have introduced bias, taking into account the quality of the reference standard … in correctly classifying the condition (e.g., a gold standard may not exist) and whether the reference … standard results were interpreted without knowledge of the results of the index test approach or tool

179. Disposition of Comments for CER 172 Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis Prevention Treatment (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/c-difficile-update_disposition-comments.pdf
     March 29, 2016 - Thank you for this comment; we attempted to present the bulleted results in a standard fashion in … and not a consensus standard that included clinical information. … A consensus reference standard would be problematically heterogeneous and make analysis difficult … We have added more discussion about how the reference standard used strongly influences the results … Commentator & Affiliation Section Comment Response Peer Reviewer #6 Discussion For the standard

180. Disposition of Comments for CER 166 Calcineurin Inhibitors (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/calcineurin-inhibitor_disposition-comments.pdf
     March 15, 2016 - PhD, on behalf of the AACC General Comments The traditional RCT is not necessarily the gold standard … We have included additional text in the Discussion section stating that studies including a standard … compared to standard dose tacrolimus. … confined solely to studies comparing standard-to reduced-dose CsA regimens. 5. … We also discuss trial heterogeneity, and note the lack of literature comparing tacrolimus standard