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141. Healthcare Delivery of Clinical Preventive Services for People with Disabilities (pdf file)
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     January 16, 2024 - We will include trials, observational studies, surveys, descriptive studies, and qualitative studies … We will exclude descriptive studies with no outcomes data or studies that include only data from one … Process for Selecting Studies. … , qualitative studies). … We will assess controlled trials and observational studies (e.g., cohort studies, case- control studies

142. Executive Summary: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 256_Effectiveness of Telehealth for Women's Preventive Services (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2022 - • Two studies demonstrated that telehealth was either better or worse than usual care for contraceptive … care or IPV services; the remaining 14 studies showed no differences in effectiveness … • No studies evaluated telehealth services for family planning or STI counseling. • Three studies indicated … Data on harms was extremely limited for IPV and not addressed in studies of contraceptive care. … States, and exclusion of studies published only as abstracts.

143. Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2023 - No studies reported harms or unexpected negative outcomes for provider-to-provider telehealth. … Methodological Weakness of Studies: Effectiveness and implementation studies frequently employed less … We included 166 studies reported in 179 publications. … Studies on the degree of uptake of provider-to-provider telehealth were limited to specific clinical … Ninety-seven studies (20 trials and 77 observational studies) evaluated the effectiveness of provider-to-provider

144. Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Results We identified a total of 68 unique studies. … Fifty studies reported harms of interventions for PPH management: 11 good quality and 39 poor. … However, these data come from a limited number of studies with a small number of participants. … Studies also reported need for reoperation after hysterectomy. … Therefore, comparing the severity of PPH and trajectory of care across studies is challenging.

145. Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Bone Disease: Effectiveness and Harms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2023 - Not all studies in all findings are available in PubMed. … Race and ethnicity were rarely reported in studies. … Most SBRT studies were in patients with spine MBD. … Thus, single arm studies, including case series and pre-post studies, were excluded. … A range of followup times was reported across studies.

146. Pressure-Ulcer-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - If such studies were not available, we included cross-sectional studies and intervention series studies … (6 studies). … (7 studies). … (5 studies). … 4 studies).

147. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements to Improve the Safety of Surgical Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - of Effectiveness Literature Searches for Studies of Effectiveness Description of Included Studies … Eligibility Criteria for Studies of Effectiveness We will search for original studies … studies with a comparison group, including pre-post studies Narrative reviews, scoping reviews, editorials … Description of Included Studies To efficiently describe eligible studies, the full … the findings of those studies.

148. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 232_Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients With Advanced Cancer (pdf file)
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     November 19, 2020 - many studies with <50% of cancer patients even though the number of cancer patients in those studies … Also, it is important to state that non- pharmacologic studies had open design while drug studies more … We included studies where patients acted as their own controls (i.e., - crossover studies). … Several of the respiratory intervention studies were crossover studies, as indicated in Table 5 (example … For these specific studies: we assume that the timeframe for the opioids was appropriate in these studies

149. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 18, 2024 - The hardest problem in our review was to determine how to analyze studies that used many of the same … The revision now notes which studies in a given section (e.g., the relaxation section) had used that … We added details to tables about the specific types of education given in the pertinent studies (e.g … (compared to inactive treatment), and we felt it was important to include those studies. … One commenter alerted us to several studies they felt we missed, and also several studies where we may

150. Digestible Carbohydrate Intake and Maternal-Infant Outcomes: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 01, 2024 - Prospective cohort studies Nested case-control studies Narrative reviews Systematic … studies Case-control studies All other study designs Geographic Location Locations … If older, seminal studies or studies cited in the prior guideline are needed for context we will provide … The standardized form will be pilot tested by all study team members using 10 studies. … Assessing Applicability of Medical Test Studies in Systematic Reviews.

151. PCA3 Testing for the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - case-control studies. … , diagnostic accuracy studies, or case-control studies. … Matched studies The highest quality studies for this purpose will be “matched” studies of PCA3 … these studies. … Unmatched studies Unmatched studies will be nonrandomized trials or other comparative studies that

152. Evidence Summary - Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 249: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2021 - We hand-searched the reference lists of relevant studies and searched for unpublished studies in ClinicalTrials.gov … We only included studies of hospitalized patients aged 18 years or older. … Results A total of 17 studies (6 SRs and 11 RCTs) met eligibility criteria for inclusion. … However, we identified no studies meeting these criteria. … Future studies need to clearly indicate any harms associated with treatment. Pub.

153. Management of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth (pdf file)
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     March 14, 2024 - We will limit the literature search to studies published after the year 2000 as older studies may not … studies) • In vitro studies • Nonoriginal studies (e.g. … published in English • Studies published after the year 2000 • Non-English language studies • … We will evaluate heterogeneity between studies using I2 indicator. … versus estimates derived from studies at low risk of bias or (2) when the majority of available studies

154. Antipsychotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Delirium | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2022 - For the treatment of delirium, we identified 19 RCTs and 25 observational studies. … We found no studies reporting inappropriate continuation of antipsychotic drugs, falls, or caregiver …   Comparator Studies N Finding SOE   Cognitive functioning Intervention   Comparator Studies N Finding … Not all studies in all findings are available in PubMed. … Many studies were underpowered, with short duration.

155. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - Additional studies were identified from reference lists and experts. … 11 studies were included in the synthesis. … 63 studies were included in the synthesis. … 51 studies were included in the synthesis. … • Most of the quantitative studies were at high risk of bias and the qualitative studies often lacked

156. Medical Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder—An Update (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2017 - Seven studies addressed variations of the gluten-free diet, but studies addressed different outcomes … The methodologic rigor of studies has increased substantially compared with those studies reported in … While seven studies addressed variations of the gluten-free diet, studies addressed different outcomes … We did not conduct a de novo search for such studies but re-examined the excluded studies from the … Harms reporting varied across studies; some studies amply described how harms were tracked, while others

157. Infantile-Hemangioma Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - and 19 retrospective cohort studies, 2 diagnostic accuracy studies (defined as studies that compared … to RCT studies only. … Six comparative studies addressed timolol (two RCTs and four cohort studies). … Studies of Surgical Treatment Few comparative studies addressed surgical approaches. … ≤5% of children in 6 studies.

158. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Telehealth (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2023 - Identifying gaps in telehealth research can inform future studies and outline areas that need to be … • Studies that clearly identify appropriate and clinically important outcomes. … • Robust studies of P-P telehealth. … • Future studies should evaluate effectiveness of telehealth interventions and should include studies … or observational studies to understand effectiveness and economic impact.

159. Screening and Treatment of Subclinical Hypothyroidism or Hyperthyroidism | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - English and non-English studies were eligible for inclusion. … Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies were used to determine the benefits of … screening, and RCTs, controlled trials, cohort studies, case-controlled studies, and observational studies … Since 2002, no studies have directly assessed the benefits or harms of screening. … and two studies finding no benefit to treatment.

160. Interventions for Feeding and Nutrition in Cerebral Palsy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Additional studies were identified from reference lists and technical experts. … Results Fifteen articles (comprising 13 unique studies) met our inclusion criteria. … These studies included 309 children. … but there is a clear need for rigorous, comparative studies. … All studies to date demonstrate significant weight gain with gastrostomy.