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181. Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Clinical Utility in Asthma Management (pdf file)
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     September 06, 2016 - However, the diagnosis remains clinical; there is no single gold standard diagnostic test. … Comparators KQ 1.a: Standard diagnostic testing of asthma made by healthcare providers based on history … SABA, methacholine challenge Sputum eosinophils; Peripheral blood eosinophils; peak flow) KQ 1.b: Standard … methacholine challenge); Sputum eosinophils; Peripheral blood eosinophils; peak flow) KQ 1.b: Standard … Meta-Analysis of Test Performance When There Is a "Gold Standard".

182. Comparative Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery and Nonsurgical Therapy in Adults With Metabolic Conditions and a Body Mass Index of 30.0 to 34.9 kg/m² | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - For each intervention evaluated within a trial, the sample size, mean outcome, and standard deviation … For those trials that do not report a followup standard deviation, we will impute one by assigning the … average standard deviation from other trials that report the standard deviation for the same outcome … If fewer than two trials with standard deviations are available, then we will impute the followup standard … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols.

183. Modeling to evaluate benefits and harms of new diagnostic tests compared to established diagnostic tests – uses and limitations (pdf file)
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     November 19, 2009 - By the time of their completion, clinical trials may not be applicable to current standard practice. … Errors made by the reference standard bias the usual estimators of sensitivity and specificity of the … Treating colonoscopy as an error-free reference standard likely overestimates the ability of the camera … Some issues in resolution of diagnostic tests using an imperfect gold standard. … Inferences for likelihood ratios in the absence of a "gold standard".

184. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - For maintenance medical treatment of 6 months to 1 year, PPIs taken at a standard dose (as suggested … prescribing information) were more effective than those taken at a lower dose (usually one-half of the standard … None of the studies used an acceptable standard or scale for defining severity. … intensified) use of PPIs are needed to better understand their efficacy compared to an established standard

185. PHS 398 (Rev. 9/04), Continuation Page (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - administrative dataset of 1999-2000 Medicaid and Medicare data using expert medical record review as the gold standard … As medical record validation was deemed the gold standard, this definition was used during the review … abstractors’/co-PI’s determination of validity (via medical record review) was considered the gold standard … Positive predictive value (PPV) was defined as the probability that the gold standard determined positivity

186. PHS 398 (Rev. 9/04), Continuation Page (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - administrative dataset of 1999-2000 Medicaid and Medicare data using expert medical record review as the gold standard … As medical record validation was deemed the gold standard, this definition was used during the review … abstractors’/co-PI’s determination of validity (via medical record review) was considered the gold standard … Positive predictive value (PPV) was defined as the probability that the gold standard determined positivity

187. Behavioral Programs for Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - This date was chosen because of changes to standard care (the comparator in most cases in this systematic … For the full-text review, two reviewers will independently assess eligibility using a standard form that … Food and Drug Administration. 46 For quality of life measures, we will use an MCSD of one-half standard … Comparators Usual (or routine) care or standard care . … This includes any intervention not described as usual or standard care to which a behavioral program

188. Disposition of Comments Report for Core Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for Diagnosis of Breast Lesions: An Update to the 2009 Report (pdf file)
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     September 10, 2014 - Core biopsy has become the standard method of diagnosis for non- palpable breast lesions in the US today … A more appropriate standard would be studies that enrolled 50 or more patients and followed for one … However, clinically, open biopsy is not the gold standard anymore. … It may be more accurate to state, "open biopsy continues to be considered the reference standard for … Clearly supports image guided biopsy for diagnosis as the standard of care, an important advance.

189. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2010 - It is not being used to refer to the “gold standard of care”. … Methods Clarify what the reference standard is. … No reference standard is 100% accurate. … The reference standard used in this report is much more accurate than most. … Current standard of care is that ADH be subject to open biopsy.

190. Topic 0549 Diagnosis and Management of Gout NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     June 24, 2014 - specifically, the nominator is interested in the diagnostic accuracy of clinical criteria alone versus standard … diagnosis of acute gouty arthropathy and synovial fluid analysis; dietary interventions Comparator(s): Standard

191. Protocol: Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 08, 2014 - 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? 19.

192. For patients being evaluated for coronary artery disease, what is the comparative effectiveness of strategies using intravascular diagnostic procedures compared to angiography alone or other strategies in deciding whether a procedure is… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - comparative effectiveness of using intravascular imaging techniques compared to angiography alone or other standard … Flow Reserve, Optical Coherence Tomography, Intravascular Ultrasound compared to angiography and other standard

193. Standardized Libraries of Harmonized Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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194. Vascular Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 17, 2011 - 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

195. Atherosclerosis | 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

196. Acute Migraine Treatment in Emergency Settings | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - "Standard care" for migraine has changed over time. … Prevention of relapse (KQs 2 and 6) Standard parenteral therapy (i.e., one of the interventions listed … Comparator In-ED treatment: Any agent used as standard care, placebo, or an active comparator … Prevention of relapse: Standard parenteral therapy (i.e., one of the interventions listed above) … Setting could affect standard of care.

197. App-E-Surv-Rept-1-Acute-Pain (xls file)
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     September 21, 2022 - Total treatment time 8 to 9 minutes, and standard treatment B: Standard treatment: Advice about activity … nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; NR = not reported; QoL = quality of life; RR = relative risk; SD = standard … scale; NSAID = nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; QOL = quality of life; RR = relative risk; SD = standard … applicable; NR = not reported; NRS = numeric rating scale; NSAID = nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; SD = standard

198. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 09, 2009 - Including studies with participants older than 12 years if the mean age plus standard deviation is ≤ … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols. VIII. … Peer Review (Standard Language) Approximately five experts in the field will be asked to peer review … Including studies with participants older than 12 years if the mean age plus standard deviation is ≤ … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols.

199. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Including studies with participants older than 12 years if the mean age plus standard deviation is ≤ … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols. VIII. … Peer Review (Standard Language) Approximately five experts in the field will be asked to peer review … Including studies with participants older than 12 years if the mean age plus standard deviation is ≤ … NOTE: The following protocol elements are standard procedures for all protocols.

200. Proposals for a Phased Evaluation of Medical Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 1969 - 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.