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221. Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Any screening or diagnostic test, including one-step, two-step, or other approach Comparators: Any reference … standard Outcomes: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, … Comparators Any reference standard will be eligible as a comparator KQ1. … standard, glucose threshold for GDM, type of treatment, and outcomes, including adverse events. … "reproducibility of results"/ 37. reference values/ 38. reference standards/ 39. or/24-38 40. and

222. Healthcare Industry Waste and Lifecycle Assessment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - life cycle assessments, life cycle assessments do not need to meet ISO (International Organization for Standardization … ) 14040 standards but need to describe a goal, scope, and boundaries; assessment can describe partials … Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization; 2006. Accessed on August 23, 2023. … Zurich, Switzeland: International Standards Organization. 2006. … HERO Health and Environmental Research Online ISO International Organization for Standardization

223. Assessing Applicability (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - CONSORT = Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials How Individual Studies Consider Applicability When … Increased use of CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) diagrams help to increase transparency … That Limit Applicability Features That Should Be Extracted Into Evidence Tables Settings in which standards … If a study is conducted in a country or region where standards of care differ markedly from the setting … survival Median followup at 1 year Single, large, tertiary care hospital An efficacy trial; limited standardization

224. Disposition of Comments for Use of Natriuretic Peptide Measurement in the Management of Heart Failure (pdf file)
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     November 20, 2013 - standard of overall global assessment on the patient’s record” For KQ-2 ( See ES page 22) “Both BNP … The statistical Methods used in the review were according to the most current standards, minimizing … standard. … As the reference standard is really key in determining the accuracy of a test, and differences in reference … The heterogeneity of the reference standards used is addressed in the discussion and we agree with the

225. Mental-Illness-Adults-Prisons Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Standardization of Assessment Tools and Patient-Ori- ented Outcome Reporting Investigators used different … More standardization, including the use of validated assessment instruments, is needed. … Standards for Health Services in Jails.

226. Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2024 - Developing standards for transparent reporting of methods and the many decisions that influence spending

227. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2025 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - For some data elements, standardization was not possible, and our data abstraction was guided by what

228. Disposition of Comments for CER 152 Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (pdf file)
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     June 30, 2015 - Disposition of Comments for CER 152 Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report Research Review Title: Treatment of Nonmetastatic Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Draft review available for public comment from November 20, 2014 to Decembe…

229. Dyspnea DEcIDE (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Additional knowledge gaps include standards for clinical dyspnea care, assessment in the cognitively … gaps include the lack of consensus on how dyspnea should be characterized for quality measurement, standards … Brief communication: National quality-of-care standards in home-based primary care. … Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position

230. Design and Implementation of N-of-1 Trials: A User’s Guide | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2019 - Undoubtedly, new approaches to n-of-1 trials will develop and the standards of practice will change or … As new research methods, standards, and statistical tools develop, this User’s Guide will need to be

231. Pressure-Ulcer-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Standards of care for pressure ulcer treatment are typically guided by clinical practice guidelines … suggested in the AHRQ “Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews”8 and the standards … Future studies with larger sample sizes, more rigorous adherence to methodological standards for clinical … trials or observational studies, longer followup periods, standardization of comparators, and more … Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews.

232. • Measurement and outcomes need consensus definitions • State Medicaid programs need robust HEDIS and NCQA measures for all severe and persistent mental health conditions. • Consensus definitions would help answer questions such as “Does… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - We need to have better standardization of what outcomes to look at to facilitate comparisons across organizations

233. Disposition of Comments for CER 172 Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis Prevention Treatment (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2016 - A consensus reference standard would be problematically heterogeneous and make analysis difficult … We have added to the text to ensure that the reference standard we used is clear and why the results … We have added more discussion about how the reference standard used strongly influences the results … Conceivably a reference standard could use positive and negative controls, although that was not done … Also, the explanation of reference standards seemed much clearer earlier in he report.

234. ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INCLUDED STUDIES (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2011 - As with other AHRQ methodological guidance, our intent is to present standards that can be applied … Although new standards on reporting seek to improve reporting of study design and conduct, 15-19 … Finding what works in health care: standards for systematic reviews. … Hence, reports of construct validity need to be interpreted in light of the tool used as the reference … standard for comparisons.

235. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2024 Update of the Evidence Base for the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - For some data elements, standardization was not possible, and our data abstraction was guided by what

236. 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 - bar than recommendations for the meta-analysis community, which may want to set pragmatic minimum standards

237. Executive Summary_Systematic Review_Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - Executive Summary_Systematic Review_Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidence Base Systematic Review Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 2022 Update of the PTSD-Repository Evidenc…

238. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 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 …

239. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2010 - Polysomnography Task Force, American Sleep Disorders Association Standards of Practice Committee. … Portable recording in the assessment of obstructive sleep apnea: ASDA standards of practice. … obstructive sleep apnea: a review by the Medical Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Task Force of the Standards

240. Peripheral-Artery-Disease-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 31, 2013 - To aid in both reproducibility and standardization of data collection, researchers will receive data