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241. breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-cancer-imaging_research-protocol.pdf
     December 17, 2013 - The impact of breast MRI on surgical decision-making: are patients at risk for mastectomy? … Trends in mastectomy rates at the Mayo Clinic Rochester: effect of surgical year and preoperative magnetic … Accuracy and surgical impact of magnetic resonance imaging in breast cancer staging: systematic review

242. Disposition of Comments Report for Interventions for Feeding and Nutrition in Cerebral Palsy (pdf file)
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     March 20, 2013 - reviewer #4 Discussion/conclusion The ethical implications of conducting comparative studies of surgical … Peer reviewer #6 Discussion/ Conclusion The implications of the findings for the behavioral and surgical … The conclusions for surgical procedures can be used to inform policy and/or practice decisions. … Glossary: line 24- 26 Fundoplication/Nissen Fundoplication: first sentence might be clearer if it read: Surgical … The considerations for behavioral and surgical interventions and desired outcomes Thank you for your

243. S16 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - therapy for an individual patient and one involving policy decisions regarding implementation of a surgical … Trials of surgical procedures, as with studies of other com- plex interventions that depend highly on … 4% reduction in risk, respec- tively); cohort studies indicate that this is a result both of higher surgical … better performing centers and feed back data to promote best practices regarding perioperative care and surgical … Surgical risk higher in women and elderly. Which settings are most likely to have good outcomes?

244. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2006 - Revascularization by surgical reconstruction is generally used only for patients with complicated renal … without stent and various medical regimens, and indirect comparisons between angioplasty with stent, surgical … Four surgical cohorts analyzed at least 100 patients who received angioplasty mostly after 1993 and reported … comparative studies, all 25 angioplasty studies, all 4 medical studies, 2 natural history studies, and 2 surgical … nonrandomized prospective or retrospective studies compared angioplasty (with or without stent) or surgical

245. Refining Key Questions: Interactive Case Study Quiz
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     May 01, 2010 - stay, operating room time Intermediate/surrogate: hematoma expansion, blood loss/chest tube output, surgical … Postoperative bleeding that is refractory to surgical re-exploration or conventional hemostatic therapy … fair applicability for the population targeted—infant patients with congenital heart defects requiring surgical … pageaction=displayproduct&productID=450 Management of abdominal aortic aneurysm (with and without surgical … intervention) Pediatric cardiac surgery Vascular surgeries (not related to abdominal aortic aneurysm) Surgical

246. Refining Key Questions: Interactive Case Study Quiz
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     May 01, 2010 - stay, operating room time Intermediate/surrogate: hematoma expansion, blood loss/chest tube output, surgical … Postoperative bleeding that is refractory to surgical re-exploration or conventional hemostatic therapy … fair applicability for the population targeted—infant patients with congenital heart defects requiring surgical … pageaction=displayproduct&productID=450 Management of abdominal aortic aneurysm (with and without surgical … intervention) Pediatric cardiac surgery Vascular surgeries (not related to abdominal aortic aneurysm) Surgical

247. Obesity (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - Only one surgical treatment (gastric bypass surgery) has definitively demonstrated long-term efficacy … However, some patients who are super-morbidly obese are ineligible for surgery because of surgical … health care processes because the procedure can be performed in existing endoscopy or outpatient surgical … Morbidities that put patients at high surgical risk such as unstable angina and acute congestive heart … Bariatric surgery in patients with BMIs of 50 kg/m2 or more can present high surgical risk and technical

248. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/rotator-cuff-tear_disposition-comments.pdf
     October 05, 2010 - give us substantive answers, not an uncommon problem in the medical literature in general and the surgical … pitfalls of nonoperative treatment (1-4,8), the early treatment of cuff tears (5), and the benefits of surgical … Bassett RW, and Cofield RH: Acute tears of the rotator cuff: Timing of surgical repair. Clin. … Wolfgang, G.L.: Surgical Repairs of Tears of the Rotator Cuff of the Shoulder.

249. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2008 - localized prostate cancer Treatment option Treatment description Radical retropubic or perineal Complete surgical … Androgen deprivation therapy Oral or injection medications or surgical removal of testicles to lower … Laparoscopic radical Video-assisted, minimally invasive surgical method to remove the prostate. prostatectomy … Surgeon RP volume was not associated with RP-related mortality and positive surgical margins. … Need for surgical repairs is 0.5% to 1%.

250. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0262_05-11-2007.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - Surgical bladder repair e. Pessary 9.

251. Obesity (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/10_obesity_potential_high_impact_2012-12-11.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - Only one surgical treatment (gastric bypass surgery) has definitively demonstrated long-term efficacy … However, some patients who are super-morbidly obese are ineligible for surgery because of surgical … pharmacotherapies might be lower than the cost of undergoing bariatric surgery or other antiobesity surgical … super-morbidly obese who might otherwise benefit from bariatric surgery are ineligible because of surgical … are morbidly obese lose 10% of their excess body weight before bariatric surgery to help reduce surgical

252. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/atrial-fibrillation-ablation_disposition-comments.pdf
     October 01, 2010 - Methods Example #5 – Missing Data: No study compares RFA to an open surgical procedure (limited or otherwise … We think it is necessary to use studies comparing surgical procedure with medications; this will offer … The increased risks/complications involved with a surgical approach are also important to review. … HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: … HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation:

253. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual January 2013 Revision (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - Questions considered about surgical procedures ...................................................... … Questions considered about surgical procedures 1. … Is this a new and different clinical indication for an existing surgical procedure? … Is this a surgical procedure that requires use of procedure-specific tools or devices in development? … Is this a professional medical society meeting announcement on a novel surgical approach?

254. Functional-Limitations-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1306 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - Reported costs for the device are about $115,000, which includes the device and the surgical procedure … The majority of experts thought that an alternative therapy to surgical intervention would decrease … An expert with a research perspective indicated that the elimination of surgical intervention would … The estimated cost of the device and surgical procedure is approximately $115,000.90 One expert with … These skin issues can get infected and often require surgical intervention.”113 Health disparities

255. Abnormal-Uterine-Bleeding Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 21, 2011 - Medical interventions are generally considered first line treatment. 19, 20 Surgical intervention … The proposed review will not consider surgical interventions for abnormal uterine bleeding, as surgical … Fertility  Time to conception  Additional interventions including concurrent and consecutive surgical … primary care settings including general gynecology. 1 Surgical … intervention (i.e., studies on prevalence, etiology, diagnosis will be excluded)  Studies that evaluate surgical

256. Data Points 17: Trends in Bariatric Surgery: Trends in bariatric surgery in Medicare beneficiaries (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Research has shown surgical treat- ments to be more effective for weight loss than nonsurgical strategies … Pharmacological and surgical treat- ment of obesity. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 103. … Early mortality among Medicare beneficia- ries undergoing bariatric surgical procedures. … The impact of age and Medicare status on bariatric surgical outcomes.

257. Rapid Response_Linking Dental Services to Treatment Outcomes for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Rapid Response Review (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2024 - The studies that met inclusion criteria mostly included non-surgical periodontal treatment (NSPT) except … Effect of Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy on Renal Function in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients with … Effects of Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy on Serum Inflammatory Factor High-Sensitive C- Reactive … The Clinical Response and Systemic Effects of Non- Surgical Periodontal Therapy in End-Stage Renal … Wrong outcomes Lee 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.1902/j op.2013.130015 Surgical treatment for patients

258. Atrial-Fibrillation Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - In addition to pharmacological and direct-current cardioversion, a number of surgical interventions … One such procedure is the surgical Maze procedure, which appears to confer some benefit to selected … • Surgical Maze versus standard of care (mitral valve surgery) – Based on seven RCTs (one good … We also explored the use of surgical Maze or PVI at the time of cardiac surgery. … HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation:

259. S81 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - How- ever, nearly three-quarters of the PSIs are related to surgical and obstetrical complications and … only one—complications of anesthesia—targets ADEs.4 The focus on indicators for surgical complications … comprehensive ICD-9-CM code set fa- cilitates the identification of both the population at risk for surgical … cases: where there was no nonhemorrhagic anemia and either an induced coagulopathy or a complication of surgical … 95 0.65 11.6 9.73 0.0000 Length of stay �8 d 0.30 19 48 81 0.65 4.3 3.91 0.0001 †Complications of surgical

260. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Interventions to Prevent Nonventilator Hospital-acquired Pneumonia (NV-HAP) for Inpatients (pdf file)
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     August 05, 2024 - monthly.12 In addition, NV-HAP is one of the outcomes included in the quality measure, Death Rate among Surgical … Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Measures Inventory Tool: Death Rate among Surgical Inpatients … Association between perioperative chlorhexidine oral care and postoperative pneumonia in non- cardiac surgical