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221. Calcineurin Inhibitors for Kidney Transplant | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - English-language studies of adult renal transplants were included. … Most studies examined CsA, although tacrolimus is used more widely. … Eleven studies assessed analytical performance measures. … Eighty-eight studies examined regimens that limited or avoided CNI exposure. … These studies were heterogeneous and were not combined for meta-analysis.

222. Home-Based Primary Care Interventions Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - studies. … only) Pre/post studies with or without a comparison group Descriptive studies Case series … studies were not missed. … We will not exclude studies rated as being poor in quality a priori , but poor quality studies will … Variability in the studies or studies with unique attributes may limit the ability to generalize the

223. Tonsillectomy for Recurrent Infection and Obstructive Sleep Disordered Breathing | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2020 - Most studies appeared to be case series, narrative reviews, imaging or basic science studies, or studies … studies) studies evaluating the benefits or harms of tonsillectomy (tonsillectomy, adenotonsillectomy … studies is warranted). 25 Eligible studies must also report one or more outcomes of interest and include … (RCTs, cohort studies with comparison groups, nonrandomized trials, case-control studies) (KQ1-6) … the studies, independently of the studies' relative effect sizes.

224. Testing of CYP2C19 Variants and Platelet Reactivity for Guiding Antiplatelet Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Study designs—for all Key Questions Studies of analytic validity (for single laboratory studies or … studies Case–control studies N>10 subjects (per arm, if there are ≥2 arms) Additional criteria … of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) checklist. 37,38 For intervention studies (e.g., studies of testing … We do not plan to use rigid counts of studies as standards of evaluation (e.g., four of five studies … to patient populations of interest. 34,35 We will evaluate studies (or subgroups of studies) of elderly

225. Diagnosis and Management of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children (pdf file)
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     August 15, 2023 - Studies of psychological and/or pharmacological treatments of OCD. … • Qualitative studies • Case reports and case series, • Unpublished studies, including conference … studies, including conference abstracts (but include studies with reported results in the ClinicalTrials.gov … studies or systematic reviews. … They may help to identify particular studies or databases to search for studies to be included in the

226. Telehealth for Women’s Preventive Services | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2023 - No studies evaluated telehealth services for family planning or STI counseling. … Three studies indicated the COVID-19 pandemic increased telehealth utilization. … Telehealth interventions were intended to replace usual care in 14 studies and supplement care in 2 studies … Delivery modes included telephone (5 studies), online modules (5 studies), and mobile applications (1 … study), and was unclear or undefined in five studies.

227. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2023 - Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review Studies will be included in the review based … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Risk of bias of eligible studies by … GSM, we prioritized local/vaginal estrogen studies and limited systemic estrogen studies to those … to reasonably replace individual studies. … Given the high volume of initially eligible studies, this requirement allowed us to focus on studies

228. Renal Artery Stenosis Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - The large majority of the evaluated studies were single-group studies (without a comparison intervention … studies. … exp Case-Control Studies/ (case adj20 control).tw. … exp Longitudinal Studies/ longitudinal.tw. exp Cohort Studies/ cohort.tw. … exp Research Design/ exp Evaluation Studies/ exp Prospective Studies/ exp Comparative Study/

229. Autism-Adolescents Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - , the poor quality of the studies and the lack of replication of the intervention studies mean that … paper17 reported 2 separate studies) … A number of studies of SRIs were identified but with limited consistency across studies as a whole. … effective studies of treatments. … studies were small.

230. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Random-effects models were used to compute summary estimates of effect where several similar studies … Results Sixty studies involving 7,096 patients evaluated biomarker tests, echocardiography, or both … Symptom status of study populations consisted of asymptomatic (3 studies; 481 patients), symptomatic … (41 studies; 4,394 patients), mixed (8 studies; 1,186 patients), and symptoms not described (8 studies … Ninety-nine studies involving 8,655 patients evaluated biomarker tests, echocardiography, or both to

231. No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings: A Rapid Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2020 - VHP/Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide Respiratory viruses: No studies identified. … Solid Copper Surfaces Respiratory viruses: No studies identified. … Steam, Ozone, Chlorine Dioxide No studies identified for respiratory viruses or CDI. … For VHP, although five noncontrolled studies found an association with lower CDI, studies had important … Also, studies directly assessing efficacy for respiratory viruses are vital.

232. Use of Natriuretic Peptide Measurement in the Management of Heart Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Results In emergency settings, BNP (51 studies) and NT-proBNP (39 studies) had high sensitivity and … Similar results were shown in primary care settings for BNP (12 studies) and NT-proBNP (20 studies). … The majority of studies assessing prognosis (183 studies) showed associations between BNP and NT-proBNP … Most of these were early-phase predictor-finding studies rather than model-validation or impact studies … Incremental predictive value was assessed in decompensated acute HF (7 studies) and chronic HF (15 studies

233. Breastfeeding Programs and Policies, Breastfeeding Uptake, and Maternal Health Outcomes in Developed Countries | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2019 - For studies of breastfeeding programs and policies, trials, systematic reviews, and observational studies … For studies related to breastfeeding and maternal health, we included systematic reviews, case-control … studies, and cohort studies. … We included 128 studies (137 publications) and 10 systematic reviews. … Low SOE (k=4 studies; 1,532 women) supports the conclusion that health care education or training of

234. Preventing Complications and Treating Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2020 - Longer term pharmacologic studies and studies of nonpharmacologic approaches for pain management, perceived … evaluated the risk of bias of the reviews and studies, and graded the strength of evidence (SOE) for … Results We included 62 studies (30 studies from an existing systematic review and 32 newly identified … studies reported in 37 articles) for prevention of DPN complications and 131 studies (58 studies from … studies from ClinicalTrials.gov) for treatment of DPN symptoms.

235. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - for Inclusion Search for Studies Extract Data from Studies Analyze and Synthesize Studies Assess … However, medical test performance studies are typically cohort studies (observational studies) rather … How to apply criteria: Criteria developed for laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … For example, criteria developed to evaluate laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … well-reported studies.

236. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - for Inclusion Search for Studies Extract Data from Studies Analyze and Synthesize Studies Assess … However, medical test performance studies are typically cohort studies (observational studies) rather … How to apply criteria: Criteria developed for laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … For example, criteria developed to evaluate laboratory studies may not be appropriate for studies of … well-reported studies.

237. Executive Summary - Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Outcomes: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 260 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - with few studies conducted within the U.S. setting … • Among studies included in our Key Questions, few (4%, n=8) studies reported a formal evaluation of … Few studies were conducted within the U.S. setting. … Among studies with a high volume of literature, which predominately included studies in dietary supplements … Among eight low- or medium-risk-of-bias studies in nutrition support prior to cancer treatment, studies

238. Disposition of Comments_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 256: Effectiveness of Telehealth for Women's Preventive Services (pdf file)
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     June 16, 2022 - No studies met inclusion criteria. … No new studies were identified for inclusion. … Included/excluded studies appear complete Thank you. … care but the studies themselves had low SOE. … It seems the studies presented in the SR are largely efficacy studies with some cohort studies on preference

239. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Sepsis Prediction, Recognition, and Intervention | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2023 - Eligibility Criteria for Studies of Effectiveness We will search for original studies … and observational studies with a comparison group, including pre-post studies Narrative reviews, scoping … criteria, or standard appraisal of studies. … ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. … Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies . U.S.

240. Amended Protocol: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2021 - studies. … We will exclude descriptive studies with no outcomes data or studies that include only data from one … We will also exclude modeling studies or studies that use synthetic data. … including trial and observational studies, including prospective and retrospective cohort studies … We will not exclude studies rated high risk of bias a priori, but high risk of bias studies will be