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201. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings, 2023-2024 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care ............... … Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care 10a. … o The TEP recognized that surgical report cards by themselves cannot produce improvements in patient … the use of report cards and outcomes measurements in surgical care. … Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care 10a.

202. Hemorrhage-Postpartum Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Surgical Interventions The effectiveness of surgical interventions varied. … Combined Approaches Three studies examined a combination of medical and surgical interventions for … In the two studies that compared medical and surgical approaches, hospital readmission and repeat surgical … Ligation Surgical injury Insufficient High study limitations and imprecision in 2 studies. … Procedures and surgical interventions also differed across studies.

203. Management of Infantile Hemangioma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 21, 2016 - evidence regarding the efficacy, comparative effectiveness, and adverse effects of pharmacological and surgical … Surgical interventions such as resection, laser ablation, and radiofrequency ablation may be used as

204. Renal Artery Stenosis Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 20, 2015 - Revascularization by surgical reconstruction is generally used only for patients with complicated renal … In addition, to better capture real-world scenarios for when open surgical options are chosen for patients … For example, surgical studies that included patients whose small aortic aneurysms were repaired at the … Retrospective surgical studies are included because of the expected sparseness of prospective surgical … An analysis comparing open surgical and endovascular treatment of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis

205. Cancer-Pancreas Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2013 - diagnosis, approximately 80 to 85 percent of cases are unresectable (i.e., too advanced to permit surgical … Most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage, precluding surgical resection.1 For localized disease … These criteria continue to evolve, as surgical techniques advance and more tumors are deemed resectable … In this context, the only gold standard is surgical findings. … least experience Diagnostic accuracy as determined by surgical findings and/or clinical followup

206. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     May 31, 2021 - animal and nonrandomized studies show great potential for these treatments as an option to current surgical

207. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (Amended) (pdf file)
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     July 02, 2020 - What is the effectiveness of respirators (e.g., N95) versus facemasks (surgical) versus cloth masks … nonviral infection; nonrespiratory infection Intervention/exposure: • Include: N95 respirators, surgical … Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks against influenza: A systematic review and meta-analysis

208. Chronic-urinary-retention-protocol (pdf file)
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     November 19, 2012 - Table 1 lists the various surgical and nonsurgical treatments for CUR. … Treatments for chronic urinary retention Intervention Catheterization Surgical interventions … effect that resolves when drug treatment is stopped or reduced • CUR attributable to a medical or surgical … Chronic Urinary Retention Treatment Final Health Outcomes ·∙ Catheterization ·∙ AUR ·∙ Surgical … scores ·∙ Mean ch anges in urinary ·∙ Hospitalizations or symptom or QoL scores (KQ 2) surgical

209. Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation for Major Joint Replacement Surgery | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 14, 2020 - numbers of TKAs and THAs have correspondingly increased, 8 and they are now the most common inpatient surgical … Subquestion b: Do the effects, comparative effects, harms, and vary by surgical factors, such as surgical … Exclude: Surgical or hospital process-improvement interventions (e.g., early mobilizations, enhanced … factors: Surgical procedure Perioperative protocols (e.g., enhanced recovery after surgery) Type … factors (e.g., surgical procedure or protocol, type of implant), and hospital type for all KQs.

210. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     March 11, 2013 - radiofrequency denervation, IDET/PIRFT) What are the comparative benefits and harms of surgery (and different surgical … interventions) vs. non-surgical management for non-radicular low back pain, radicular low back pain,

211. Bariatric Surgery and Nonsurgical Therapy in Adults With Metabolic Conditions and a Body Mass Index of 30.0 to 34.9 kg/m² | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 05, 2013 - Two were trials comparing different procedures, three were trials of surgical versus nonsurgical interventions … Evidence on comparative effectiveness of surgical procedures is insufficient.

212. Treatments for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 08, 2017 - For BCCs, surgical interventions and radiation were associated with lower recurrence rates than interventions … Based on sparse evidence, surgical and radiation treatments have lower recurrence rates than other modalities

213. Topic 0614 Tonsillectomy NSD FINAL CC (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - pressure (CPAP) or no intervention Outcome(s): Improvement in sleep, improved quality of life (QoL), or surgical … submit-a-suggestion-for-research/how-are-research- topics-chosen/.) § Tonsillectomy is the third most common ambulatory surgical

214. Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 06, 2011 - Pressure ulcer prevention Promoting a culture of safety Universal protocol/preoperative checklist (surgical … as a general strategy (not just for specific indications) Simulator-based training prevention of surgical … items left inside patient (surgical safety) Medication administration Human factors – as a general … Patient death or serious injury associated with prolonged fluoroscopy with cumulative dose Death among surgical

215. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 09, 2011 - Pressure ulcer prevention  Promoting a culture of safety  Universal protocol/preoperative checklist (surgical … general strategy (not just for specific indications)  Simulator-based training  prevention of surgical … items left inside patient (surgical safety)  Medication administration  Human factors – as a … death or serious injury associated with prolonged fluoroscopy with cumulative dose  Death among surgical

216. Comparative Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Therapies for the Management of Crohn’s Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2010 - In fact, up to 60% of patients will require at least one surgical resection over their lifetime. 1,7 … Burrill Crohn’s initial description of this disease suggested that it could be cured with wide surgical … Because of the recent high quality meta-analysis focused on treatment options after surgical resection … Surgical management of upper gastrointestinal and small bowel Crohn's disease. … Practice parameters for the surgical management of Crohn's disease.

217. Obesity (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - However, morbidly obese patients who are at high surgical risk (e.g., unstable angina, acute heart … ReShape Medical submits PMA application to FDA for non-surgical weight loss device. [internet]. … Medical and surgical management of obesity including anorexiants. Policy number: 379. … Surgical management of morbid obesity. Policy #: 053. [internet]. … Bariatric surgery: surgical treatment for severe obesity. Policy number: CLPD-0423-012.

218. Feeding and Nutrition Interventions in Cerebral Palsy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 12, 2012 - balance, micronutrient scores) Improved swallowing (including feeding efficiency score) Need for surgical … addressing CP and feeding difficulties, we will use six key databases including studies related to surgical … We anticipate that participants in studies of surgical interventions likely have more severe feeding … We define significant reflux as reflux requiring surgical or medical intervention. … antireflux[tiab] OR "Gastroesophageal Reflux/surgery"[Mesh] OR (reflux[tiab] AND (surgery[tiab] OR surgical

219. Renal-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2016 - Surgical removal (either radical or partial nephrectomy) is the gold standard for the treatment of … bGrade III: Requiring surgical, endoscopic or radiological intervention. 1. … The majority of nondiagnostic biopsies were found to correspond with malignant surgical pathology … bGrade III: Requiring surgical, endoscopic or radiological intervention. 1. … Second, a standardized definition of surgical competence or expertise is needed.

220. Atrial-Fibrillation-Addendum-140619 (pdf file)
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     June 19, 2014 - • The two comparisons (1) “Surgical Maze vs. … Surgery Alone or in Combination with AADs or Catheter Ablation” were combined in a new category called “Surgical … tions Symptoms/ Control of AF Symptoms Mixed Embolic Events Including Stroke) Events Surgical