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241. Schedule of Visits and Use of Telemedicine for Routine Antenatal Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 01, 2022 - Search strategies include filters to remove nonhuman studies and articles that are not primary studies … for the quantitative studies. … Qualitative studies (KQ 3) Eligible qualitative studies will be extracted in Google sheets (to allow … Qualitative studies (KQ 3) For qualitative studies, we will assess risk to rigor using the Critical … They may help to identify particular studies or databases to search for studies to be included in the

242. Systematic Review of Breastfeeding Programs and Policies, Breastfeeding Uptake, and Maternal Health Outcomes in Developed Countries | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - For studies assessing the effectiveness of BFHI, we will include studies evaluating full and partial … exclusion of studies are designed to identify studies that can answer the Key Questions (KQs) and are … KQ 2: RCTs; CCTs; cohort studies d ; case-control studies; systematic reviews KQs 1, 2: All … "[MeSH] OR "Cohort Studies"[MeSH] OR "Epidemiologic Studies"[MeSH] OR "Cross-Sectional Studies"[MeSH] … OR "Organizational Case Studies"[MeSH] OR "Cross-Over Studies"[MeSH] OR "Follow-Up Studies"[MeSH] OR

243. Appendicitis Executive (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - ) Studies from reviews (297 studies) Full-text articles included – duplicates removed (925 studies) … KQ1 903 studies KQ2 76 studies KQ3 83 studies Excluded (4,261 studies): Abstract only (364) Appendicitis-specific … Among pregnant women, CT (5 studies), MRI (10 studies), and US (10 studies) had similar specificity … Seven studies (5 studies of US, 2 of MRI, 1 of CT, and 1 of clinical symptoms and signs, some studies … studies.

244. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 241_Physical Activity and the Health of Wheelchair Users: A Systematic Review in Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, and Spinal Cord Injury (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2021 - • No studies reported long-term cardiovascular or metabolic disease health outcomes. … • Adverse effects of the interventions were inadequately reported in many studies. … trials, 15 quasiexperimental nonrandomized trials, and 7 cohort studies. … many studies. … No studies reported long-term cardiovascular or metabolic disease health outcomes.

245. Safety of Vaccines Used for Routine Immunization of Adults (Including Pregnant Women) and Children | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - What adverse events (AEs) are collected in clinical studies (phases I–IV) and in observational studies … What AEs are reported in clinical studies (phases I–IV) and in observational studies containing a control … Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review The following publication types / studies … in the United States Non–English-language studies Studies not reporting or mentioning AEs The … Criteria for Inclusion/ Exclusion of Studies in the Review We will include studies that compare AEs

246. Comparative Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Postacute Rehabilitation for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2020 - studies that primarily enroll individuals with mild TBI. … Limiting included studies to those published in English is not ideal; however, studies conducted in English … Searching from primary studies will begin with a precise search to identify relevant studies efficiently … / (5008) 26 exp case control studies/ (504256) 27 exp cohort studies/ (1093654) 28 Case control.tw … adj (study or studies)).tw. (31303) 32 (observational adj (study or studies)).tw. (26024) 33 Longitudinal.tw

247. Interventions to Improve Care of Bereaved Persons (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Most studies on interventions to treat bereaved individuals, however, are small pilot studies.29 There … comparing two or more intervention cohorts, controlled post-only studies, and case-control studies … comparing two intervention cohorts, controlled post-only studies, and case-control studies. … Studies), QUADAS 2 (Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies), and RoB … studies that can strengthen evidence statements through confirmation of results in strong studies.

248. Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - For KQ 1a we will also include derivation, validation, and cohort studies. … For KQ 1c and 2b we will also include cohort studies with comparators. … For all KQs we will exclude uncontrolled observational studies, case control studies, case series, and … We will not exclude studies rated as being poor in quality a priori, but poor-quality studies will be … if discrepancies between studies are present.

249. CER 210: Disposition of Comments for Breastfeeding Programs and Policies, Breastfeeding Uptake, and Maternal Health Outcomes in Developed Countries (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Some studies do show a difference. … I think this is because the results section often refers to studies as "the studies in the United Kingdom … The magnitude varies across studies. … “of these 128 studies” without prior mention of the number 128 We have clarified the number of studies … It is unclear why these studies have been excluded, but these are studies on “changes in health service

250. Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2019 - Case series, pre-post studies, case reports a Will Consider higher thresholds from older studies … only to identify eligible studies for this review. … We will not exclude studies rated as being poor in quality a priori, but poor-quality studies will be … if discrepancies between studies are present. … (e.g. at least six to ten studies for continuous variables and four studies for categorical variables

251. Telehealth for Women (pdf file)
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     June 21, 2021 - studies, including prospective and retrospective cohort studies and before-after studies (i.e., natural … experiments) o Qualitative studies that evaluate preferences, barriers/facilitators o Studies … We will also exclude modeling studies or studies that use synthetic data. … We will not exclude studies rated high risk of bias a priori, but high risk of bias studies will be … studies may not be comparative.

252. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - this group of retrospective studies. … ; 19 studies reported no cerebrovascular events. … Atrioesophageal fistula was reported in 26 studies: 5 studies reported 1 case each, with event rates … Studies on identifying the patients who are most likely to benefit from RFA and studies on different … of studies Number of Comparisons Study type studies by quality1 patients Good Fair Poor Radiofrequency

253. Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication (pdf file)
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     December 26, 2022 - Studies of VA programs were included. … Studies of eICU were included. … Reported outcomes, including costs, varied widely across studies. … Many studies did not report costs of implementation. … Reported outcomes, including harms, varied widely across studies.

254. Research Protocol: Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases (pdf file)
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     October 10, 2019 - SRS treatment arms • Studies based exclusively on pre-1990 data Comparators • Studies comparing … We decided to exclude non-English studies, as non-English language studies may not contribute substantially … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies: All included studies will be assessed … Regardless of whether studies can be combined in a meta-analysis for a key question, all studies meeting … Where analyses indicate systematic differences across studies, we will stratify studies and present

255. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2021 - or SRS treatment arms Studies based exclusively on pre-1990 data Comparators Studies … We decided to exclude non-English studies, as non-English language studies may not contribute substantially … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies: All included studies will be assessed … Regardless of whether studies can be combined in a meta-analysis for a key question, all studies meeting … Where analyses indicate systematic differences across studies, we will stratify studies and present data

256. Comparative Effectiveness of Terbutaline Pump for the Prevention of Preterm Birth | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review Studies published in the English language … Prospective and retrospective cohort studies Case-control studies (prospective studies only … Animal studies will be excluded. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies The quality of included studies will be … in such studies.

257. Systematic Review of Breastfeeding Programs and Policies, Breastfeeding Uptake, and Maternal Health Outcomes in Developed Countries (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - For studies assessing the effectiveness of BFHI, we will include studies evaluating full and partial … exclusion of studies are designed to identify studies that can answer the Key Questions (KQs) and are … studies”[MeSH] OR (prospective*[All Fields] AND cohort[All Fields] AND (study[All Fields] OR studies … "[MeSH] OR "Cohort Studies"[MeSH] OR "Epidemiologic Studies"[MeSH] OR "Cross-Sectional Studies"[MeSH … ] OR "Organizational Case Studies"[MeSH] OR "Cross-Over Studies"[MeSH] OR "Follow-Up Studies"[MeSH]

258. Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Retrospective studies will be considered if there are insufficient prospective studies and they are at … stress testing with each other Studies of serial assessment of one test Studies with ≤20 patients … Retrospective studies will be considered if there are insufficient prospective studies and they are at … Studies of predictive accuracy will be considered if there are inadequate comparative studies and if … from poorer quality studies.

259. Comparative Effectiveness Reiew 243_Prehospital Airway Management: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - of the conclusions were supported by high strength of evidence (SOE); thus, future, more rigorous studies … We identified and synthesized studies published between January 1, 1990 and September 8, 2020. … We included studies that compared two types of airways or compared variations of one type of airway … ), BVM to ETI (Key Question 2, 22 studies), SGA to ETI (Key Question 3, 41 studies), or compared variations … of one of the three airway approaches (Key Question 4, 51 studies).

260. Whole-Body Vibration Therapy for Osteoporosis (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Animal studies. 2. … Type of vibration platforms used in studies Type of Vibration Platform Number of Studies Country of … were systematically collected in all studies; most studies relied on self-report for harms. … Outcomes in vibration studies Bone Mineral Density (N Studies/ RCTs) Bone Mineral Content … (N Studies/ RCTs) Fracture (N Studies/ RCTs) Quality of Life (N Studies/ RCTs) Reported