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141. Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 12, 2013 - lung cancer (NSCLC) in three distinct patient populations: (1) patients with stage I NSCLC who are not surgical … Surgical resection of any type is not considered as a comparator for any of the Key Questions. … Conclusions Evidence on localized nonsurgical therapies for patients with stage I NSCLC who are not surgical

142. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - )  Although surgical resection is the preferred first-line treatment for HCC, approximately 80 … percent of patients are not surgical candidates because of advanced stage disease, inadequate hepatic … tolerate resection, tumors in unresectable locations, or medical co-morbidities resulting in poor surgical

143. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - Introduction Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy (“tonsillectomy”) represent more than 15 percent of all surgical … • Different surgical techniques had little effect on either outcomes or bleeding risk. … Do benefits and harms differ by surgical technique (e.g., cautery, coblation)? KQ5. … , and 1 prospective cohort study) comparing surgical techniques for tonsillectomy. … Most studies evaluated partial vs. total tonsillectomy using differing surgical techniques.

144. Transparency of Reporting Requirements Project: Management of Infertility | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 03, 2016 - including procedures (e.g., in vitro fertilization), fertility-enhancing drugs (e.g., clomiphene), and surgical … pay particular attention to whether conclusions change by intervention type (e.g., procedure, drug, surgical … Interventions Surgical excision of endometriotic implants, alternative surgical approaches to destruction … Interventions Surgical repair, ART (IVF and ICSI) with patient and donor oocytes Comparators Other … active interventions (including combinations of therapy such as surgical removal of hydrosalpinx followed

145. Treatments for Ankyloglossia and Ankyloglossia with Concomitant Lip-tie | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 04, 2015 - Structured Abstract Objectives We systematically reviewed the literature on surgical and nonsurgical … Furthermore, this literature is characterized by (1) a lack of details about the surgical procedure,

146. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2010 - Does early surgical repair compared to late surgical repair (i.e., nonoperative intervention followed … Which (if any) demographic and clinical factors account for potential differences in surgical outcomes … between patients who undergo early versus delayed surgical treatment? … Key Question 1: Early versus late surgical repair. … One study compared early surgical repair versus late surgical repair after failed nonoperative treatment

147. Colorectal-Surgery-Preparation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 26, 2013 - Because adverse events are commonly not well reported in surgical trials, including studies of OMBP … However, data collected in the colonoscopy setting may not be directly transferable to surgical settings … : it is likely that the surgical procedure itself interacts with the OMBP to affect at least some of … A statewide assessment of surgical site infection following colectomy: the role of oral antibiotics. … Surgical Site Infection: Prevention and Treatment of Surgical Site Infection.

148. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Prevention of Health Care–Associated Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 03, 2011 - Depending on the surgical procedure, a large proportion of infections may occur after discharge from … Infection rate and risk factor analysis in an orthopaedic ambulatory surgical center. … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. … Guideline for prevention of surgical site infection, 1999. … site infection terms Surgical wound infection[mh] OR surgical site infection*[tiab] OR postoperative

149. Venous-Ulcers-Treatment-Future Research (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - For patients with chronic venous leg ulcers, what are the benefits and harms of surgical procedures … Insufficient 3c What are the relative benefits and harms of different surgical interventions? … And More Invasive Surgical Treatments The only comparative evidence between surgical treatments is … Issues around selection bias are even more prominent when comparing surgical interventions to non-surgical … Patients and their providers may have strong opinions about surgical versus non-surgical interventions

150. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - Surgical in Table A seems inappropriate. … Of these four trials, only the CIGTS uses current medicines and surgical techniques. … once the adjustment was made for the incidence of cataract surgery in the surgical group. … More research on timing of surgical procedures relative to visual field changes is needed. … More research on timing of surgical procedures relative to visual field changes is needed.

151. Chronic Venous Ulcers: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Treatment Modalities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 05, 2012 - Surgical Interventions Most patients with venous ulcers have significant reflux on duplex scanning. … The current surgical practice is to eliminate documented reflux in patients with chronic venous ulcer … However, each underlying pathology has several surgical treatment options with no clear evidence about … Question 3 For patients with chronic venous leg ulcers, what are the benefits and harms of surgical … For KQ 3, we will include surgical interventions by type of venous reflux and obstruction (Table 3).

152. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2013 - Frequently, SBS arises from the surgical removal of diseased bowel portions. … The standard surgical treatment for GERD includes Nissen fundoplication. … option with shorter recovery time and less pain than current surgical options for achalasia. … Surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. … Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) surgical procedures. Policy number: CLPD-0335-007.

153. Disposition of Comments for CER 167 Renal Masses (pdf file)
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     February 24, 2016 - and non- surgical) as part of the ‘key questions’, and c) A similar analysis on utility of serum … For accuracy measures, only cases with surgical pathology were used. … The fact that surgical reduction of nephrons then sets a new baseline GFR, and where that GFR is, in … However benign or nondiagnostic biopsies do not necessarily proceed to surgical extirpation limiting … Furthermore, we could not pool the data in ROC curves given the lack of surgical pathology for most

154. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Management of Infertility (pdf file)
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     September 02, 2016 - including procedures (e.g., in vitro fertilization), fertility-enhancing drugs (e.g., clomiphene), and surgical … pay particular attention to whether conclusions change by intervention type (e.g., procedure, drug, surgical … • Interventions: o Surgical excision of endometriotic implants, alternative surgical approaches … • Interventions: o Surgical repair, ART (IVF and ICSI) with patient and donor oocytes • Comparators … do not donate semen • Outcomes (women): o Short-term adverse effects of treatments § OHSS § Surgical

155. skin-cancer-protocol-160810 (pdf file)
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     August 10, 2016 - excision without intraoperative evaluation of the margins, (2) surgical excision with intraoperative … Surgical management is used most commonly, and specific techniques include simple surgical excision … There is general agreement that surgical removal is the gold standard, but it is not clear how other … excision without intraoperative evaluation of the margins o Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) plus surgical … Surgical excision versus curettage plus cryosurgery in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma.

156. Renal-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 20, 2015 - Patients with surgical chronic kidney disease (defined as chronic kidney disease as a result of surgical … Demirjian, S., et al., Chronic Kidney Disease Due to Surgical Removal of Nephrons: Relative Rates of … -Surgical intervention vs. … It’s not a surgical treatment. … System Intuitive Surgical Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old.

157. | Effective Health Care
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     June 08, 2018 - The surgeon stands at the operating table and uses small surgical tools to remove the prostate. … The surgeon controls these surgical tools electronically from a workstation near the operating table.

158. Infantile-Hemangioma Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - Studies of Surgical Treatment Few comparative studies addressed surgical approaches. … In terms of surgical interventions, only laser has been adequately studied. … Surgical approaches. … Surgical harms included wound dehiscence. … Surgical Cryotherapy vs.

159. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     March 14, 2013 - Intervention(s): Frenotomy, Frenectomy, or Frenulotomy Comparator(s): Breastfeeding management without surgical … The costs of managing the condition involve a simple outpatient minor surgical procedure. … In unusual situations that preclude a simple office-based procedure a surgical day center is the venue … assess the degree of tongue tie in a standardized way, and the indications to treat using a simple surgical

160. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Open surgical treatment for achalasia generally requires at least five abdominal incisions to access … Frequently, SBS arises from the surgical removal of diseased bowel portions. … In this study, three patients had received surgical myotomy before undergoing POEM (2 laparoscopic … No complications occurred requiring intensive care, hospital stays longer than 5 days, surgical or … option with shorter recovery time and less pain than current surgical options for achalasia.