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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/breast-cancer-imaging/research-protocol
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
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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
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January 20, 2011 - comparative effectiveness of exercise versus endovascular intervention for relieving claudication and of surgical
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ankyloglossia_disposition-comments.pdf
May 04, 2015 - I did find, however, that in the Abstract and
Executive Summary, there was the suggestion that surgical … following paragraph opens with “Nonetheless” and further
suggests the authors have a preference for surgical … In the treatment
section that follows there are two
distinct sections: one on surgical
intervention … Inclusion
criteria now incorporates all
surgical/procedures used to
describe frenulum division including … We agree that there is very little
description of the surgical process
available in the literature
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December 27, 2011 - circumferential margin (CRM) is an important factor in deciding the need for neoadjuvant treatment, extent of surgical
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January 01, 2007 - Surgical bladder repair
e. Pessary
9.
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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?
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cerebral-palsy-feeding_disposition-comments.pdf
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
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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
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January 01, 2020 - Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (2019)
Use of N95, Surgical … Intellectual equipoise and challenges: accruing patients with advanced cancer to a trial randomizing to surgical … Assessing the quality of surgical care for clinically localized prostate cancer: results from the CEASAR
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/rfviia.pptx
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
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/rfviia.pptx
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
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity-horizon-scan-high-impact-1306.pdf
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
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/abnormal-uterine-bleeding/research-protocol
November 21, 2011 - Medical interventions are generally considered first line treatment. 19 , 20 Surgical intervention is … The proposed review will not consider surgical interventions for abnormal uterine bleeding, as surgical … PICOTS Criteria
PICOTS Element
Description
1 Surgical interventions and procedures such as endometrial … treatment
Fertility
Time to conception
Additional interventions including concurrent and consecutive surgical … intervention (i.e., studies on prevalence, etiology, diagnosis will be excluded)
Studies that evaluate surgical
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January 01, 2021 - cancers, a high risk of cancer, or conditions such as primary ovarian insufficiency;
women experiencing surgical … cancer or high risk of cancer
• Conditions such as primary ovarian insufficiency
• Women experiencing surgical
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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.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/prostate-cancer_executive.pdf
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%.
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January 01, 2010 - This includes maternal hemorrhage, blod clots, bowel obstruction, surgical site infection, mental health
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January 29, 2015 - One report suggested there may not be any impact; however, it focused on surgical interventions and may
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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: