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221. Executive Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 260: Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Outcomes (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - Parameters for Predicting Surgical Outcomes for Gastric Cancer Patients: Simple Is Better Than Complex … Missing effect of glutamine supplementation on the surgical outcome after pancreaticoduodenectomy for … Effects of lipid emulsions in parenteral nutrition of esophageal cancer surgical patients receiving … The immunomodulating enteral nutrition in malnourished surgical patients - a prospective, randomized … Perioperative immunonutrition in surgical cancer patients: a summary of a decade of research.

222. Executive Summary - Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Outcomes: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 260 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - Parameters for Predicting Surgical Outcomes for Gastric Cancer Patients: Simple Is Better Than Complex … Missing effect of glutamine supplementation on the surgical outcome after pancreaticoduodenectomy for … Effects of lipid emulsions in parenteral nutrition of esophageal cancer surgical patients receiving … The immunomodulating enteral nutrition in malnourished surgical patients - a prospective, randomized … Perioperative immunonutrition in surgical cancer patients: a summary of a decade of research.

223. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 05, 2011 - Technical Brief Research Review Disposition of Comments Report Research Review Title: Maternal-Fetal Surgical … Maternal-Fetal Surgical Procedures. Technical Brief No. 5. … Therefore, we have changed the term to either operations or surgical procedures throughout the document … Second, it suggests that the surgical training in OBGYN in Europe is more surgical than in the United … In fact, FETENDO was the failed endoscopic surgical approach used in the RCT conducted in the United

224. Local Therapies for Unresectable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 20, 2012 - Patients with class B or C cirrhosis with concomitant HCC are not surgical candidates and are offered … serves as a numerical scale for adult liver transplant candidates. 12 Current Treatments Although surgical … resection is the preferred first-line treatment of HCC, approximately 80 percent of patients are not surgical … tolerate resection, tumors in unresectable locations, or medical comorbidities that result in a high surgical … The body of evidence, however, often includes a few patients who are candidates for surgical resection

225. Management of Acute Diverticulitis Topic Nomination Disposition (pdf file)
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     August 13, 2018 - Surgical approaches have also evolved from Hartmann’s procedure to primary anastomosis with protective … Key Question 4: What are the benefits and harms of interventional versus surgical management of recurrent … Questions and PICOTS KQ1: Antibiotics KQ2: Diagnostic imaging KQ3: Follow-up colonoscopy KQ4: Surgical … interventions 5 KQ1: Antibiotics KQ2: Diagnostic imaging KQ3: Follow-up colonoscopy KQ4: Surgical … Surgical treatment of acute diverticulitis. A retrospective multicentre study.

226. Health-Careassociated-Infections Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - surgical centers, long-term care facilities, and freestanding dialysis centers, and which kinds of … Effect of optimized antibiotic prophylaxis on the incidence of surgical site infection. … Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections. Am J Surg. 2005 Jul;190(1):9-15. … Perioperative surgical care bundle reduces pancreaticoduodenectomy wound infections. … Measuring compliance with surgical antibiotic protocols: an intervention.

227. renal-update-2015-150115 (pdf file)
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     January 15, 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

228. Liver-Cancer-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 28, 2012 - Patients with class B or C cirrhosis with concomitant HCC are not surgical candidates and are offered … resection is the preferred first-line treatment of HCC, approximately 80 percent of patients are not surgical … tolerate resection, tumors in unresectable locations, or medical comorbidities that result in a high surgical … The body of evidence, however, often includes a few patients who are candidates for surgical resection … Surgical resection versus percutaneous thermal ablation for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma: a

229. Topic 0589 Cleaning and Monitoring of HAIs NSD SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2013 - Population(s): Patients in hospitals or long term care settings outpatient settings, free standing surgical … Population(s): Surfaces in hospital or long term care settings, outpatient settings, free standing surgical

230. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2017 - dichotomous outcome in the usability- the report will be useful as a resource for comparisons of surgical … This review addresses a clinically important topic since tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgical … The text now reads “In studies comparing surgical techniques for tonsillectomy, commonly used “hot” … and non- surgical approaches; thus, this is an important comparison and clinically valid. … non-surgical therapeutic interventions.

231. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Of the topics identified that have received expert comments, two programs, one surgical procedure, … In utero surgical correction of myelomeningocele involves a highly specialized multidisciplinary team … intervention to repair myelomeningocele, citing in utero surgical repair’s potential for reducing … All experts agreed this surgical intervention would significantly improve patient health outcomes, … intervention, when compared with current surgical management, and concerns over potential adverse

232. Treatments for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin - Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - with these cancers.7 There are many potential management strategies for BCC and SCC, including surgical … Surgical excision without intraoperative evaluation of the margins B. … Surgical excision with intraoperative evaluation of the margins Mohs micrographically controlled surgery … Pain after treatment was most commonly encountered for surgical interventions (21.5%) and for PDT ( … Infections at the treatment site were described in 5.5 percent of lesions with surgical treatments

233. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review 128 Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery (pdf file)
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     April 30, 2014 - site infection, as was documented by dedicated surgical investigators of the 1930s and 1940. … In my perspective, the manuscript is a re-iteration of evidence that has been present in the surgical … Do we know why they were excluded (e.g. non-surgical studies)? … Many things have changed in perioperative care and surgical technique over such a long period. … We will also disseminate our findings as an article in a surgical peer-reviewed journal.

234. Management of Uterine Fibroids | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 29, 2016 - conversations in gynecology and primary care and is the most common cause for consideration of gynecologic surgical … Question 2 must be randomized trials evaluating the benefits or harms of a medical, procedural, or surgical … Lasersonics Tissue Morcellator Set Heraeus Surgical Inc. … System Intuitive Surgical MyoSure Hysteroscopic Tissue Removal System (Hysteroscopic) Hologic … search strategy Search # Terms Results Notes: “Drug therapy”[mh] includes hormone therapy; “Surgical

235. Tonsillectomy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     February 10, 2016 - The  entities  together  represent   more  than  15%  of  all  surgical  procedures  in  children  under …  in  rates  continues  despite  improved  evidence  about   indications.5     Table  1  outlines  surgical … Commonly  used  surgical  techniques  or  tools  for  tonsillectomy     Surgical  Technique  or  Tool … Do  benefits  and  harms  differ  by  surgical  technique  (e.g.,  cautery,  coblation)?       … Ear,  nose,  and  throat  surgical   devices  include  a  variety  of  devices  for  surgical  procedures

236. uterine-fibroids-protocol-160301 (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2016 - a review to randomized clinical comparisons of effectiveness, including medical management versus surgical …  Exclusion  of  Studies  in  the  Review   This review will include studies evaluating medical and surgical … Question 2 must be randomized trials evaluating the benefits or harms of a medical, procedural, or surgical … Lasersonics  Tissue  Morcellator  Set   Heraeus  Surgical  Inc.   …  System   Intuitive  Surgical   MyoSure  Hysteroscopic  Tissue  Removal  System  (Hysteroscopic)   Hologic

237. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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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.

238. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2010 - Disposition of Comments Report Research Review Title: Comparative Effectiveness of Core-Needle and Open Surgical … Comparative Effectiveness of Core-Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions … We are assuming that the open surgical biopsies are 100% accurate. … Methods I am not sure anyone would agree these days that open surgical biopsy is the “gold standard” … We performed meta-regressions and found that studies that used open surgical biopsy on all patients

239. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2012 - 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. … AND (impairment*[tiab] OR impaired[tiab] OR problem*[tiab] OR deficit*[tiab])) 90,519 #2 ("Surgical … antireflux[tiab] OR "Gastroesophageal Reflux/surgery"[Mesh] OR (reflux[tiab] AND (surgery[tiab] OR surgical

240. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2011 - What is the effect of preoperative screening for sleep apnea on surgical outcomes? … What is the effect of preoperative screening for sleep apnea on surgical outcomes? … Of 12 studies (1 quality A, 11 quality C) comparing surgical modalities with CPAP, only two were RCTs … • Rigorously conducted head-to-head comparisons of surgical interventions versus CPAP are needed to … • Conclusion: The strength of evidence is insufficient to determine the relative merits of surgical