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341. Comparative Effectiveness of Coronary Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Multivessel Disease: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data from Ten Randomized Trials (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - Selection of surgical or percutaneous coronary intervention provides differential longevity benefit … Propensity analysis of long-term survival after surgical or percutaneous revascularization in patients … Survival of patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease after surgical or percutaneous

342. #05 DEPRESSION (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/depression-horizon-scan-high-impact-1306.pdf
     October 01, 2014 - an impact on several parameters of the health care system: increasing costs of care by adding a surgical … Intervention: DBS is a surgical intervention in which a neurostimulator device delivers electrical … This is not only because DBS provides a new treatment modality in this patient population (surgical … Additionally, battery replacement is required every several years and involves a surgical procedure

343. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - distribution of antibiotics using postal carriers Nonbiological countermeasures (3 studies) • Distribution of surgical … of evidence that public distribution of nonbiological countermeasures, such as N-95 respirators or surgical … There is low strength of evidence that mass distribution of nonbiological countermeasures, such as surgical

344. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - patients underwent RYGB (n = 109) or LAGB (n = 109), and data suggested early effectiveness of these surgical … Inc., Irvine, CA) in patients with a BMI of 30 to 34 kg/m 2 and an associated comorbidity. 23 Surgical … T2DM in the home setting, use of bariatric surgery would shift some of these patients to inpatient surgical … Impact of different bariatric surgical procedures on insulin action and beta-cell function in type … SAGES 2009: duodenal exclusion shows promise as surgical alternative for nonobese patients with diabetes

345. Appendix A2: FDA status of medical devices for glaucoma screening (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/glaucoma_screening-apendices-11-5-10.pdf
     December 23, 2009 - SURGICAL IOP MONITOR SE 9/25/1986 BIO-RAD TIP & MEMBRANE ASSEMBLY SE 6/22/1993 BIO-RAD DIGILAB MODULAR … SURGICAL IOP MONITOR SE 11/28/1983 MILTEX GMBH MADER TONOMETERS; MILTEX TONOMETER Registered n/a MILTEX … ABBREVIATIONS Trabeculectomy As currently practiced, a trabeculectomy is a full thickness (the surgical

346. Appendix A2: FDA status of medical devices for glaucoma screening (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-screening-apendices-11-5-10.pdf
     December 23, 2009 - SURGICAL IOP MONITOR SE 9/25/1986 BIO-RAD TIP & MEMBRANE ASSEMBLY SE 6/22/1993 BIO-RAD DIGILAB MODULAR … SURGICAL IOP MONITOR SE 11/28/1983 MILTEX GMBH MADER TONOMETERS; MILTEX TONOMETER Registered n/a MILTEX … ABBREVIATIONS Trabeculectomy As currently practiced, a trabeculectomy is a full thickness (the surgical

347. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Trials Evaluating Treatment for Infertility (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2017 - manuscripts were not described in CT.gov: live birth,8,10 miscarriage,11 multiple births,11,12 and surgical

348. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - likely to develop HCC in the absence of cirrhosis and therefore more likely to be candidates for surgical … studies in non-surveillance settings were performed in patients who underwent transplantation, other surgical … criteria (reference standards) varied between trials from explanted liver examination to percutaneous or surgical … diagnose patients with disease, often reducing the need for costly medical services and invasive surgical … used to select, guide, and facilitate effective treatment, for example, by using image guidance for surgical

349. Diagnosis of Right Lower Quadrant Pain and Suspected Acute Appendicitis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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350. App-E-Surv-Report-3-Acute-Pain (xls file)
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     May 29, 2025 - Key Question 5: Post-operative pain (excluding inpatient management of pain following major surgical … TENS vs. placebo TENS A: TENS: Segmental and local stimulation with electrodes placed on both sides of surgical

351. App-E-Surv-Report-2-Acute-Pain (xls file)
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     May 29, 2025 - Key Question 5: Postoperative pain (excluding inpatient management of pain following major surgical procedures … TENS vs. placebo TENS A: TENS: Segmental and local stimulation with electrodes placed on both sides of surgical

352. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response_Active Surveillance Culturing of Clostridioides difficile and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, and Candida auris (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2024 - Both campuses implemented identical infection control procedures that included pre-surgical chlorhexidine … Over 4 years, no statistically significant difference was found in MRSA infections (including surgical … be especially true for MRSA, where multiple interventions that prevent infections (e.g., targeted surgical … Evaluation of MRSA surveillance nasal swabs for predicting MRSA infection in surgical intensive care … Staphylococcus aureus screening and decolonization prior to elective total joint arthroplasty reduce surgical

353. Technical Brief 13: Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - Thus, GEP testing of patients following surgical resection of stage II colon cancer has potential benefit … The clinical experts were from the disciplines of medical oncology, surgical oncology, laboratory medicine … The existing approaches generally use information that is routinely obtained from the surgical procedure … The impact of surgical technique was given some consideration, but could have further implications. … So, one could assume that the results of a GEP assay would not predict future events related to the surgical

354. Obesity (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 - 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 … However, morbidly obese patients who are at high surgical risk (e.g. unstable angina, acute congestive … super-obese to lose 5% to 10% of their excess body weight, which might also enable them to reduce surgical … Bariatric surgery in patients with BMIs of 50 kg/m2 or more can present high surgical risk and technical

355. Atrial-Fibrillation-Ablation Surveillance (pdf file)
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     May 16, 2013 - The other RCT14 compared catheter ablation and surgical ablation techniques. … In the other trial,14 comparing catheter ablation to surgical ablation, there was a greater AF termination … rate in favor of surgical ablation. … surgical ablation14 with greater AF termination rate in favor of surgical ablation NA None … Atrial  fibrillation  catheter  ablation   versus  surgical  ablation  treatment   (FAST

356. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Prevention in Adults of Infection With Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2024 - hospital-acquired infections and particularly procedure- and device-related infections, including surgical … catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), ventilator associated pneumonia/events (VAP/VAE), surgical … /procedural environment (operating rooms) • Decontamination of reusable medical equipment (surgical … prevent multidrug-resistant organisms and all- cause bloodstream infections in general medical and surgical … Selective digestive and oropharyngeal decontamination in medical and surgical ICU patients: individual

357. Therapies for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2020 - We found little additional evidence for within-treatment comparisons between other surgical or EBR approaches

358. Technical Brief Disposition of Comments Report for Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2012 - Information added noting that this is due to differences in surgical and adjuvant treatments for these … but unlikely, that GEP testing will be able to predict recurrence when the recurrence is related to surgical … that “one could assume that results of a GEP assay would not predict future events related to the surgical

359. Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/aggression_disposition-comments.pdf
     July 14, 2016 - by supporters for this topic, and is a key question for clinicians working in acute care medical, surgical … by supporters for this topic, and is a key question for clinicians working in acute care medical, surgical … by supporters for this topic, and is a key question for clinicians working in acute care medical, surgical

360. Use of Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguidenorris_060420101.pdf
     June 01, 2010 - A paucity of RCT evidence is common, particularly for many surgical and diagnostic procedures, and for … discontinuation of a drug, initiation of a drug associated with treatment of an adverse effect, or a surgical … disease identified 23 RCTs conducted from 1987 to 2002.19 At the beginning of the review, cardiothoracic surgical