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421. Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews - Avoiding Bias in Selecting Studies (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-bias_methods.pdf
     February 01, 2013 - For 12 example, in a review of surgical and pharmaceutical interventions, studies on surgical … biasing a review that excludes small studies to find evidence on drugs but insufficient evidence on surgical

422. Executive Summary_Blood-Based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cell-free-dna-executive-summary.pdf
     May 01, 2025 - Executive Summary_Blood-Based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review Systematic Review Blood-Based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review Executive Summary Main Points • No completed studies show if blood-based, multicancer screening tests help people co…

423. Disposition of Comments for Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2013 - It is also, by design, not confounded by the surgical technique as all patients had the same intervention … ; it was the postclosure healing that was compared between AF and AP not the surgical procedure itself … Post surgical patients were not included as they no longer had an ulcer to be healed. … Reviewer: 3 Results Surgical treatment (pages 71+): Comprehensive, well done. … These were mainly respiratory or surgical ITU patients, ventilated and all with nosocomial ulcers

424. Horizon Scanning_Rapid Cost Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Reports (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Degenerative Disc Disease The American Association of Neurological Surgeons estimates about 200,000 surgical … Assuming about 5% of surgical procedures are cervical disc replacement surgeries, about 10,000 cervical … If 1,017 patients at high risk for surgical complications undergo transfemoral TAVI rather than open … touch surfaces in critical care units, with about 70,000 adult intensive care beds (cardiac, medical/surgical … procedure that uses a natural orifice in the patient as an entry point for surgical instruments, with

425. Layout 1 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-cancer-medications_executive.pdf
     September 01, 2009 - placebo-controlled trials, although noninvasive breast cancer was significantly reduced in the NSABP P-1 (National Surgical

426. Wireless-Motility-Capsule Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/wireless-motility-capsule_executive.pdf
     May 01, 2013 - ) and delay or total failure to pass (requiring serial x rays to document passage or endoscopic or surgical … gastric-emptying-delay testing guides physicians in their recommendations for nutrition, medication, and surgical … Testing can explain why a patient fails basic therapy and can help identify or exclude patients as surgical … Evidence of Hirschsprung’s disease is an indication for surgical segmental resection.

427. Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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428. Diagnosis of Celiac Disease: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2016 - It is usually asymptomatic but may cause small-bowel obstruction or require surgical removal (especially

429. Evidence-based Practice Center Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prostate-cancer-surveillance_research-protocol.pdf
     May 19, 2011 - However, both surgical and radiation treatments result in significant short- and long-term adverse

430. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Telehealth (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2023 - limited prior evidence but rapid expansion during the pandemic (e.g., primary care and pre- and post-surgical

431. Surveillance Report: CER 30: Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management for Hip Fracture (pdf file)
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     July 08, 2015 - produce prima facie evidence that a conclusion was out of date, such as the withdrawal of a drug or surgical … Interventions: Interventions directly related to surgical/nonsurgical treatment of the hip fracture … neuromuscular blockade with sugammadex versus usual care on bleeding risk in a randomized study of surgical … Surgical wound infection (2 RCTs, n = 110) •! … Surgical wound infection (2 RCTs, n = 110) •!

432. White Paper Commentary: The Evidence Base for Telehealth: Reassurance in the Face of Rapid Expansion During the COVID-19 Pandemic (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2020 - with limited prior evidence but rapid expansion during a pandemic (e.g., primary care and pre and post surgical

433. Standardized Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/white-paper-lung-cancer.pdf
     August 01, 2021 - Events of Interest Toxicity: Major Complications Other Complications Major complications Surgical

434. Er r or Rate Reduction Regarding Lower Limb Prosthesis (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prosthesis_research-protocol.pdf
     March 16, 2017 - description of rehabilitation, physical therapy, training • Periamputation surgery information, including surgical … Rehabilitation setting (e.g., physical therapy clinic, in-home) • Exclude exclusively post-acute (post-surgical

435. 8 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_chou_assessing_harms_when_comparing.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - For example, surgical procedures and medical devices often become widely disseminated with few or no … For example, studies reporting harms from surgical or other invasive interventions often consist of … Quality of complication reporting in the surgical literature.

436. Renal-Artery-Stenosis Surveillance (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - medical interventions, cohort studies of RAS natural history, and prospective or large retrospective surgical … produce prima facie evidence that a conclusion was out of date, such as the withdrawal of a drug or surgical … Distal stent retrieval or deployment: 1 (0.3%) vs. 0 (-) Balloon rupture: 1 (0.3%) vs. 0 (-) Need for surgical

437. Research White Paper - Assessing the Predictive Validity of Strength of Evidence Grades: A Meta-Epidemiological Study (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - exacerbations 6,257 RR: 0.87 (0.76 to 0.99) Chin et al., 201314 Infraclavicular block and adequate surgical … agonist+inhaled corticosteroid and mortality 7,518 OR: 0.78 (0.64 to 0.94) Nelson et al., 201237 Surgical … Non surgical therapy for anal fissure. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;2(2):CD003431.

438. 8 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
     November 01, 2008 - For example, surgical procedures and medical devices often become widely disseminated with few or no … For example, studies reporting harms from surgical or other invasive interventions often consist of … Quality of complication reporting in the surgical literature.

439. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs-iv-nursing-staff-shortages.pdf
     October 01, 2024 - associated with fewer hospital-acquired pressure injuries, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, surgical

440. head-neck-cancer-update-140204 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/head-neck-cancer-update_research-protocol.pdf
     February 04, 2014 - Curative surgical resection, when feasible without significant functional morbidity, is generally recommended … Depending on the expected post-surgical functional morbidity, non-surgical management with CRT may become