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381. Obesity (pdf file)
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     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

382. 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?

383. 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

384. Key Questions 1. Does routine preoperative testing compared to no testing or alternative testing strategies improve outcomes (such as surgical complications, other morbidity, and mortality) among patients undergoing elective surgery? 2.… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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385. 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.

386. 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

387. 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

388. Evaluation and Treatment of Tinnitus: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 22, 2012 - The range of interventions therefore can include, but is not limited to, medical/surgical treatments, … Medical/surgical treatments Pharmacological Treatment No drug has been approved by the U.S. … (nonpulsatile) tinnitus, what is the comparative effectiveness (and/or potential harms) of medical/surgical … Self-reported loudness Quality of life Adverse effects Worsening of tinnitus Sedation Surgical … Exposure 1) Ascertainment of exposure a) secure record (eg surgical records) * b) structured interview

389. Assessing Applicability (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - countries that do not employ routine mammography screening as in the United States Studies of open surgical … Thus, when evaluating studies comparing complication rates between surgical repair and other therapies … Setting Comments Smith et al.24 Heart failure population Mean age: 65 years NYHA class II or III: 83% Surgical … In the intervention column, the type of surgical procedure is described. … Population-based surveys, pharmacoepidemiologic studies, and large case series or registries of devices or surgical

390. 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:

391. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     October 01, 2013 - When are surgical techniques used to control uterine bleeding?

392. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     February 27, 2012 - With a lack of randomized data, the 2007 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert Consensus Statement on catheter and surgical

393. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     October 31, 2013 - What are the effects of pharmacotherapy and surgical treatment options for LUTS secondary to BPH, on … The aforementioned pharmacotherapy and surgical treatments should be compared in order to provide patients

394. Masks-Surveillance-2-Appendix-Table-A-2 (xls file)
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     March 01, 2020 - household with secondary infection of family member Primary case or family members wore mask (N95, surgical

395. Masks-Appendix-Table-B-2-Surveillance-Report (xls file)
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     March 01, 2020 - household with secondary infection of family member Primary case or family members wore mask (N95, surgical

396. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - opioid users who underwent elective surgery assessed the effect of having a usual provider on post-surgical … 17 systematic reviews; of these, 1 review of observational studies of the ERAS protocol for post-surgical … the review of reviews; of these, 1 review of observational studies of the ERAS protocol for post-surgical … It evaluated the ERAS protocol in persons with post-surgical pain but identified no randomized trials

397. Systematic Review on Treatments for Acute Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2022 - trigeminal neuralgia) (KQ 4) • Postoperative pain (excluding inpatient management of pain following major surgical … Five trials6,7,9-11 addressed acute (non-dental) postoperative pain and two5,8 addressed acute post-surgical … Both trials of acute post-surgical dental pain evaluated opioids plus acetaminophen or an NSAID versus … Opioid therapy was associated with decreased or similar effectiveness for pain versus an NSAID for surgical … procedures) KQ6: Dental pain (surgical and nonsurgical) KQ7: Kidney stones (including inpatient

398. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     May 18, 2021 - Antibiotics, Pain relievers (NSAIDs), Antidepressants, 5-alpha reductase inhibitor, Onabotulinumtoxin A) Surgical

399. Prehospital Airway Management: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 19, 2020 - simplest approaches are part of general first aid while the most complex involve the use of drugs and surgical … intubation (rapid sequence intubation [RSI] or delayed sequence intubation [DSI]), and percutaneous or surgical … video laryngoscopy with or without RSI or DSI Nasotracheal intubation Percutaneous devices Surgical

400. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
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     December 05, 2013 - When these therapies fail to achieve relief, surgical treatments may be proposed, such as arthroplasty … According to some experts, increased training and time required for more complicated surgical procedures … However, these costs could be offset by improved surgical outcomes, reduced complications, shorter … Health care delivery infrastructure and patient management: Offering Mobi-C at surgical centers would … Additionally, surgical procedures are expected require more time, increasing demands on surgical suites