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201. Total Worker Health® (TWH) (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2016 - , and pre-post studies. … We included 24 studies described in 33 publications.10,11,20-50 Of the 24 included studies, 15 studies … Most studies had high overall attrition (ranging from 14% to 45%); many studies had differential attrition … The 15 KQ 2 studies were quite different; few studies of TWH interventions assessed the same outcomes … Overall attrition was high in several studies; most studies performed a complete-case analysis; participants

202. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/medical-test-reviews-applicability.ppt
     June 01, 2012 - Assessing applicability of medical test studies in systematic reviews. … for Inclusion Search for Studies Extract Data From Studies Analyze and Synthesize Studies Assess … Studies are not specific to the key questions Studies may not reflect the subgroups or comparisons identified … Excluding studies with older technologies and presenting results of included studies by slice thickness … of test used in practice and in studies How and by whom tests are conducted in practice and in studies

203. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Assessing applicability of medical test studies in systematic reviews. … for Inclusion Search for Studies Extract Data From Studies Analyze and Synthesize Studies Assess … Studies are not specific to the key questions Studies may not reflect the subgroups or comparisons identified … Excluding studies with older technologies and presenting results of included studies by slice thickness … of test used in practice and in studies How and by whom tests are conducted in practice and in studies

204. Microsoft Word - Comp Eff 10.doc (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - studies). … year (2 studies). … all eight studies. … ), headache (21 studies), dizziness (18 studies), fatigue (10 studies), upper respiratory infection … (6 studies), and nausea (6 studies).

205. Cad-Women-Diagnosis Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - of these studies were applicable to KQ 3,16-18 and one was applicable to KQ 2.19 Of the 94 studies … Of these 94 studies, 78 studies included sufficient data to estimate the sensitivity and specificity … , two studies of CMR, and four studies of SPECT that reported these predictors … 2) ECHO (6 studies), (3) SPECT (3 studies), (4) CMR (2 studies), and (5) coronary CTA (4 studies) … noncomparative studies.

206. Work Plan for Methods Research on (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2010 - Five of six testers agreed on two studies, four agreed on six studies, three agreed on two studies, … studies, and cohort studies). … Five of six testers agreed on two studies, four agreed on six studies, three agreed on two studies, … the studies. … studies.

207. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Maternal and Child Health: An Update (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Studies in the original report deemed eligible for pooling with newly identified studies were included … Risk of bias among observational studies was assessed using questions relevant for prospective studies … Prospective observational studies and biomarker studies reported inconsistent associations between … Among studies reporting on the same outcomes, results were often inconsistent across studies. … Studies that labeled themselves as studies of DHA alone often included some amount of EPA as well as

208. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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209. Disposition of Comments for Evidence Report 224 Omega-3 Fatty Acids (pdf file)
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     October 12, 2016 - (Comments pertain to the maternal studies more than the child studies.) … Studies of n-3 FA alone were included as were studies of n-3s plus n-6s. … The list of studies is comprehensive and doesn't include studies that should have been excluded. … to the studies we could include. … studies.

210. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - Decision To Combine Studies The decision to combine studies to produce an overall estimate should depend … Clinical and methodological diversity among studies always exists even if a group of studies meet all … When the sizes of the included studies are small, it would take a substantial number of studies to … Combining studies of mixed designs. … excluding such studies. 7.

211. Chronic-Cough Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - Overall, we included 121 studies represented by these 115 publications: 78 studies were relevant to … Nineteen studies in KQ 1 (23%) and 3 studies in KQ 2 (6%) included children. … Seven studies were RCTs, and the remaining 71 were observational studies. … Thirty-three of the 48 studies were parallel-group RCTs, and 12 were randomized crossover studies. … studies of 59 individual agents.

212. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_conductingquantitativesynthesis.pdf
     October 01, 2010 - Decision To Combine Studies The decision to combine studies to produce an overall estimate should depend … Clinical and methodological diversity among studies always exists even if a group of studies meet all … When the sizes of the included studies are small, it would take a substantial number of studies to … Combining studies of mixed designs. … excluding such studies. 7.

213. Peripheral-Artery-Disease-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - Quality Assessment of Individual Studies We evaluated the quality of individual studies by using the … Six studies (four RCTs, two observational studies) reported variations in the treatment effectiveness … Subgroups reported included age (three studies), symptom class (three studies), renal failure (two studies … ), arterial outflow/runoff (two studies), anatomic factors (two studies), type of vein graft (two studies … IC-CLI-Obs (3 studies, 563,935 patients) IC-CLI-RCT (2 studies, 130 patients) Inconclusive evidence

214. 8 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2008 - Observational Studies Observational studies are almost always necessary to assess harms adequately … Other observational studies. … Two studies found that industry- funded studies tended to report more favorable outcomes than did studies … types of studies. … Review Studies meet certain study design definitions (e.g., cohort and case-control studies) Studies

215. 8 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2008 - Observational Studies Observational studies are almost always necessary to assess harms adequately … Other observational studies. … Two studies found that industry- funded studies tended to report more favorable outcomes than did studies … types of studies. … Review Studies meet certain study design definitions (e.g., cohort and case-control studies) Studies

216. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2011 - The two studies of cardiovascular mortality did not have consistent findings, and the two studies of … Overall, the studies were clinically heterogeneous, small, and of quality B (three studies) or C (two … studies). … Treatments • Only 3 of the 190 studies of treatments reported clinical outcomes; comparative studies … Only 3 of 7 studies found increased number of hours of CPAP use; only 1 of 3 studies found persistent

217. Omega−3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/fatty-acids-cardiovascular-disease_executive.pdf
     August 01, 2016 - Observational Studies, Intake Seven studies evaluated total n-3 FA intake. … studies), CHD death (3 of 7 studies), MI (1 of 2 studies), incident CHF (1 of 5 studies), and AFib … (1 of 3 studies). … ), CVD (3 studies), MACE (2 studies), hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke (2 studies each), AFib (1 study … total stroke (2 studies each), MACE (2 studies), all-cause death (2 studies), or AFib, SCD, incident

218. Plasma-Cell-Dyscrasias-Sflc-Assay Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - epidemiologic studies—STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE … two quality A studies, a low rating involves quality B or quality C studies, and an insufficient rating … Few studies were designed a priori as studies of diagnostic- test performance with an adequately powered … The eight reviewed studies of patients with MM were mostly retrospective cohort studies, and only three … or of cohort studies in this area.

219. Coronary-Artery-Stenting Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - Little disagreement exists across studies. … Underlying studies may report conflicting results. … The majority of the patients in these studies were men, and the reviewed studies specifically excluded … We were not able to conduct meaningful subgroup analyses stratifying older versus newer studies (studies … studies.

220. Antipsychotics-Adults Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - The studies included 121 RCTs, 2 nRCTs, and 2 retrospective cohort studies. … Overall, 113 studies examined schizophrenia or schizophrenia-related psychoses, 11 studies examined … Placebo-controlled studies or studies comparing an FGA versus another FGA, or an SGA versus another … there were few studies. … Almost half the studies involved hospitalized patients (inpatient treatment) (62 of 125 studies) or