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21. Untitled (pdf file)
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    July 06, 2015 - medical therapy when compared to standard medical therapy alone? … medical therapy when compared to standard medical therapy alone? … Trials compared the addition of ACE inhibitors or ARBs to standard medical therapy vs. standard medical … medical therapy when compared to standard medical therapy alone? … Trials compared the addition of ACE inhibitors or ARBs to standard medical therapy vs. standard medical

22. Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers Added to Standard Medical Therapy for Treating Stable Ischemic Heart Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2021 - Effectiveness of 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

23. Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a "Gold Standard" | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2021 - Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a "Gold Standard … Citation: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a "Gold Standard

24. Testing a Machine Learning Tool for Facilitating Living Systematic Reviews of Chronic Pain Treatments | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 01, 2021 - word-only searches optimized are associated with high sensitivity but reduced precision compared with standard … MEDLINE ® search strategies were developed for three previously conducted chronic pain reviews using standard … methods, combining National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and text words ("standard … In Stage 1, the optimized searches were less precise than the standard searches (i.e., identified more … living systematic reviews are associated with high sensitivity but reduced precision compared with standard

25. Diagnosis of Celiac Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Diagnostic tests used singly and in combination in various populations were compared against the reference standard … included if all participants underwent the index test and endoscopy with duodenal biopsy as the reference standard … Standard assessment tools were used to evaluate study risk of bias.

26. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    June 01, 2012 - Reference standard and verification procedure Inappropriate reference standard Errors of imperfect reference … (Risk: Low/High/Unclear) Domain 3: Reference Standard Is the reference standard likely to correctly … (Yes/No/Unclear) Did all patients receive a reference standard? … (Yes/No/Unclear) Did all patients receive the same reference standard? … NO: Not all relatives receive verification via the reference standard.

27. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    June 01, 2012 - Reference standard and verification procedure Inappropriate reference standard Errors of imperfect reference … (Risk: Low/High/Unclear) Domain 3: Reference Standard Is the reference standard likely to correctly … (Yes/No/Unclear) Did all patients receive a reference standard? … (Yes/No/Unclear) Did all patients receive the same reference standard? … NO: Not all relatives receive verification via the reference standard.

28. Treatment Strategies for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Agiltrac Standard Abbott Vascular FDA approved Profiler Standard Angiodynamics … Opti-Plast Standard Bard Peripheral Vascular FDA approved Dorado Standard Bard … Standard Cook, Inc. … FDA approved GPS Cath Standard Hotspur Technologies FDA approved IQ Cath Standard … FDA approved Pacific Xtreme Standard Invatec GmbH FDA approved Marauder Standard

29. Evidence Summary - Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - Second, is the need to establish an accepted reference gold standard for diagnosing malnutrition in … Technical Expert Panel (TEP), we recognized that there currently is no universally agreed upon 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. … Consensus regarding objective measures to define a gold standard for diagnosing malnutrition are critical

30. Disposition of Comments for CER 152 Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (pdf file)
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    June 30, 2015 - I am therefore not comfortable with the idea that GC be put forward as the gold standard. … GC has never been tested in a phase III trial of NAC so it is not the gold standard. … MVAC has been tested and therefore the gold standard. … standard lymph node dissection are in progress or have been completed. … standard regimens are needed.

31. Biomarkers for Assessing and Managing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Late-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Outcomes: • There is a lack of a generally accepted reference standard test for determining iron … To compare the test performance among medical tests, a common reference standard is needed. … The most effective first step would be to establish a common reference standard for iron deficiency … The ideal reference standard should be independent of the index tests and test-directed treatment to … Not rated (descriptive data) • There is a lack of generally accepted reference standard tests for

32. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 01, 2020 - Key Messages Intensive glycemic control is not more effective than standard control for preventing … Intensive glycemic control has higher rates of hypoglycemia than standard treatment. … intensive glycemic control (as defined by each individual study) does not prevent foot ulcers more than standard … Intensive glycemic control had higher rates of hypoglycemia than standard treatment. … Conclusions For prevention of complications, intensive glycemic control is more effective than standard

33. Disposition of Comments for CER 202 Effectiveness and Safety of Bronchial Thermoplasty in the Management of Asthma (pdf file)
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    December 14, 2017 - We note the improved quality of life (AQLQ) with BT and standard care compared to standard care alone … Evidence for change in rescue medication usage favored the BT and standard care over standard care … The strength of evidence for the BT and standard care vs. sham and standard care comparison was low … to standard care alone. … For the comparison of BT and standard care to bronchoscopy without thermoplasty (sham) and standard

34. Training Modules for the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Evidence on Diagnostic Tests (PPT; 2.4 MB) Meta-analysis of Test Performance When There Is a "Gold Standard … " (PPT; 2.5 MB) Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a "Gold Standard … Guide – Chapter | Jun 1, 2012 Chapter 8: Meta-Analysis of Test Performance When There Is a “Gold Standard … Jun 1, 2012 Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard

35. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    October 13, 2021 - Screening is currently considered standard of care throughout the USA. … Clear implications and description of the issues related to lack of standard descriptions. … and SGA as a semi-gold reference standard. … and SGA as a semi-gold standard for classifying malnutrition.” … and SGA as a semi- gold standard for classifying malnutrition.

36. Evaluating Practices and Developing Tools for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: Methods for the Joint Meta-Analysis of Multiple Tests (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Standard errors or posterior standard deviations of logit-transformed summary effects with alternative … 25 Table 9 shows the standard errors and the standard deviations of the posteriors of the summary … When all 30 studies are considered, differences in the standard errors or standard deviations between … Standard errors or posterior standard deviations of logit-transformed summary effects with alternative … *Standard deviation of the posterior.

37. Work Plan for Methods Research on (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2010 - Objective 4 Reference Standard Three members of the Steering Committee developed the reference standard … Accuracy of testers compared to reference standard. … Accuracy of testers compared to reference standard. … Accuracy of testers compared to reference standard. … Accuracy of testers compared to reference standard.

38. Patient-Monitoring-Systems-Appendix-C (xls file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Categorical outcome data of cardiorespiratory arrests for included studies investigating change in standard … Categorical outcome data of hospital mortality for included studies investigating change in standard … Continuous outcome data of hospital length of stay for included studies investigating change in standard … care) in comparison with standard care. … Standard RRT activation criterion used.

39. Biomarkers for Assessing and Managing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Late-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - The synthesis of data for Key Question 2 was complicated by the lack of generally accepted reference standard … of newer or classical markers of iron status, using a response to IV iron treatment as the reference standard … with classical markers (TSAT or ferritin) to predict a response to IV iron treatment (as the reference standard … there exists a high degree of heterogeneity in the test comparisons, definitions for the reference standard … There exist many definitions of a response to IV iron treatment as the reference standard for iron deficiency

40. Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - more advanced static support surfaces were associated with lower risk of pressure ulcers compared with standard … trials found use of a foam overlay associated with an increased risk of pressure ulcers compared with a standard … polarized light therapy; and intraoperative warming therapy for patients undergoing surgery) compared with standard … More advanced static support surfaces are more effective than standard mattresses for preventing ulcers