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341. Assessing the Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - , specifically assessing the quality of individual studies. … Introduction • Not all studies are created equal ► Limitations based on methodological features ► Studies … Perform Assessment of Risk of Bias of Individual Studies 4. … For some studies, all outcomes may have the same sources of bias; for other studies, the sources of bias … Perform Assessment of Risk of Bias of Individual Studies (I) Stage 3.

342. Glasgow Coma Scale for Field Triage of Trauma: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - For Key Question 4 (reliability and ease of use), we also included cross-sectional studies and studies … studies in ClinicalTrials.gov. … SMS, Difference in AUROC (95% CI) Number of Studies I2 Low risk of bias studies 0.046 (0.038 … There were few head- to-head studies, studies had methodological limitations, and studies on ease of … We also restricted study inclusion to studies published in 1995 or later, with most studies conducted

343. Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - The reader will not remember that of 18540 retrieved studies, only 93 studies met the criterion for … Especially as the ACA is implemented - implantation studies and studies that connect policy and patient … These are not all EOL studies. … Also called implementation studies. … text on page 34 paragraph refers to 22 studies, and the cited Evidence Table 3 has an n of 25 studies

344. Mental-Illness-Heart Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Quality Assessment of Individual Studies We evaluated the quality of individual studies using the key … Most studies (n=19) were rated fair quality, with 9 studies rated good quality and 4 poor quality. … abstracted: KQ 1 studies: 32 KQ 2 studies: 7 KQ 3 studies: 15 KQ 4 studies: 3 Figure B. … Insufficient SOE No studies Insufficient SOE No studies Insufficient SOE No studies Insufficient … studies) Insufficient information RCTs or quasi-experimental studies with broad inclusion criteria

345. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - Following full-text review, we extracted data from all included studies. … Seven of the quantitative studies and 24 of the qualitative studies were conducted in countries other … Studies that examined harms found more evidence of no harm than evidence of harm. … Studies that examined more than one outcome are included separately for each outcome. … Rigorous studies that focus on perverse incentives and unintended consequences are needed.

346. The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     September 19, 2014 - We also hand-searched the reference lists of relevant studies and searched for unpublished studies in … studies on discontinuation of opioid therapy, for which we included studies of any duration. … , case-control studies, and cross-sectional studies were rated using criteria from the U.S. … Studies on different methods for initiating and titrating opioids (three studies), decreasing doses … studies) and specificities of 0.88 and 0.16 (two studies) (SOE: insufficient).

347. 04-E029-1 Summary (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - Studies must have had a sample size of at least 1000 patients. … Key Question 3: Three types of studies were included. … Retrospective studies could be graded either B or C. … consistency of data across studies, the applicability of the studies to the U.S. population of men with … Faced with a lack of studies comparing AS to immediate active treatment, we elected to evaluate studies

348. Long-Term-Care-Adults Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Setting This review includes studies from the United States and international studies from these economically … To capture studies most relevant to the current delivery of LTC in the United States, we limited studies … The peer- reviewed journal articles included 22 cross-sectional studies and 15 longitudinal studies … Few studies used an admission cohort. … • The number of longitudinal studies was limited • More studies that trace change in status over time

349. Tinnitus Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review Included studies had to be randomized controlled … with true control groups (e.g., cohort studies, case-control studies) All KQs: Original research studies … No studies were found to address this KQ. KQ2. … All of the studies were RCTs. … No studies were found to address this KQ.

350. Medication-Therapy-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2014 - We conducted quality checks to ensure that the searches identified known studies (i.e., studies identified … Assessment of Risk of Bias of Individual Studies To assess the risk of bias of individual studies, we … were cohort studies. … No meta- analyses included more than five studies; as a result, we did not examine included studies … The 44 studies included 21 trials and 4 nonrandomized controlled studies.

351. Asthma-Provider-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Studies lacking a comparison. … studies, controlled pre-post studies, historically controlled studies, cohort studies, case-control … studies, and cross- sectional studies. … and pre-post studies. … Information only No studies. SOE insufficient. No studies. SOE insufficient.

352. Medical Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder—An Updaterum Disorder--An Update (pdf file)
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     May 26, 2017 - The studies identified are appropriate and the analysis of the studies follows recommended guidelines … as we did not complete a de novo search for such studies but used information about studies excluded … Manufacturer-funded studies also tend to have larger sample sizes than many academic studies. … The studies do not combine children from these studies, as was noted in the review. … studies to consider SOE.

353. Hip-Fracture-Pain Clinician (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2011 - Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions Systemic Analgesics and Multimodal Approaches: Studies … Reviewed studies were limited to those of patients 50 years of age and older. … For systemic analgesics and several other modalities, studies are too limited to permit conclusions … Low: ��� There are very few studies, or existing studies are flawed. … Intervention Number of Studies Timing Used in Studies Systemic Analgesia 3 Pre- and postoperative

354. Glaucoma-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Evidence From Primary Studies. … glaucoma screening studies. … Evidence From Primary Studies. … Evidence From Primary Studies. … Evidence From Primary Studies.

355. Angina-Heart-Attack-Treatments Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Quality Assessment of Individual Studies We evaluated the quality of individual studies by using the … passed full-text screening 301 articles abstracteda: KQ 1: 87 studies (187 articles) KQ 2: 33 studies … The discrepancy between the omeprazole studies and the observational studies of any PPI makes it difficult … given the quality and SOE of the studies reviewed. … Some studies included both early invasive and early conservative treatment approaches, and some studies

356. Colorectal-Surgery-Preparation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 26, 2013 - o Single-group studies (i.e., cohort studies where all patients are managed with a Assuming that at … o For all KQs, we will exclude primary research studies in emergency settings, including studies where … (e.g., observational studies not adjusting for any confounders, studies using historical controls, … Main analyses will include all relevant studies (e.g. studies of colon and rectum surgeries, and those … We do not plan to use rigid counts of studies as standards of evaluation (e.g., four of five studies

357. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 08, 2011 - , observational studies, and case series. … pressure ulcer, because we feel that the results of these studies have greater generalizability. … A record of excluded studies with reasons for exclusion will be maintained. … We will not exclude studies rated poor in quality a priori, but poor-quality studies will be considered … discrepancies between studies are present.

358. Depression-Postpartum-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - The relationship of studies to the review questions is as follows: 18 studies relevant to KQ 1, 15 studies … relevant to 7 KQ 2, 2 studies relevant to KQ 3, 5 studies relevant to KQ 4, 1 study relevant … Discussion Findings in Light of Other Studies Our review focused on studies published subsequent to … Thus, we assessed the applicability of the included studies.14 Many included studies recruited populations … studies focus on a single instrument.

359. Disposition of Comments Report for The Patient-Centered Medical Home (pdf file)
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     July 03, 2012 - studies were included. … However, please note that on our initial screening of studies, we did not identify any eligible studies … Nonetheless, the studies cited in this review are more than 80% adult-only studies done since 2000. … Simply aggregating studies designed specifically for children with studies for older adults has little … The lack of evidence from large-scale studies is largely due to a lack of funding for these studies,

360. Nppv-Respiratory-Failure Executive (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - ) abstracted:a KQ 1: 51 articles (49 studies) KQ 2: 13 articles (12 studies) KQ 3: 12 articles (12 studies … Forty-three studies reported mortality, 39 studies reported intubation rates, 7 studies reported myocardial … the ICU setting in 23 studies. … effectiveness studies. … effectiveness studies.