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261. Template for Reports Developed (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2011 - colleagues 12 tested and compared the feasibility and performance of five different surveillance search techniques … Surveillance search techniques identified the need to update systematic reviews.

262. Executive summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 268: Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2023 - algorithms to assess Black and White patients separately (2 studies); and using different statistical techniques … algorithms or thresholds for different populations (2 studies); and modifying the statistical or analytic techniques

263. Disposition of Comments Report for Core Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for Diagnosis of Breast Lesions: An Update to the 2009 Report (pdf file)
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     September 10, 2014 - explicitly state that MRI was reserved for patients who could not be effectively imaged with other techniques … Therefore, diagnostic yield is a crucial aspect of any examination of the performance of various techniques … We have revised the report to address more explicitly the issues related to the choice of imaging techniques … The sensitivity of various biopsy techniques for these lesions is presented as the “upgrade” rate for … Again, if the intent was to guide practitioners towards more accurate and more tolerable biopsy techniques

264. Autism Spectrum Disorder — An Update | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - ABA is an umbrella term describing principles and techniques used to assess, treat, and prevent challenging … The principles and techniques of ABA existed for decades before being specifically applied to the study … similarity in the frequent use of high-intensity (many hours per week, one-on-one) instruction using ABA techniques … attempt to ameliorate symptoms such as anger or anxiety, often present in children with ASD, using techniques … literature; however, we anticipate that we will focus on well-established, validated outcome measures or techniques

265. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Results Of included studies, only a subset could be pooled statistically using meta-analytic techniques

266. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2012 - use of even further additional testing of new false positive findings detected by the supplemental techniques … Nuclear medicine techniques and/or breast MRI should not decide the treatment plan for calcifications … These techniques are not used this way – for good reason. … This continues to be a problem throughout the review as most of the advanced imaging techniques were … is an admirable one but it should be recognized that with minimally invasive image guided biopsy techniques

267. Calcineurin_Inhibitors_Protocol_FINAL_10-07-2014 (pdf file)
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     October 08, 2014 - chromatography (HPLC), fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA), enzyme-multiplied-immunoassay techniques … measurement of metabolites, but they can also be more expensive, time-consuming, labor- intensive techniques … In adult renal transplants, how do liquid chromatographic and mass spectrometric analytical techniques … In adult renal transplants, how do liquid chromatographic and mass spectrometric analytical techniques … These assay techniques will be compared to mass spectrometry, including liquid chromatography-tandem

268. Updating Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Current Efforts in AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - colleagues 12 tested and compared the feasibility and performance of five different surveillance search techniques … Surveillance search techniques identified the need to update systematic reviews.

269. Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2015 - RT techniques have evolved over the past 30 years; two-di- mensional images have been replaced with three-dimensional

270. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - including periprocedural medications, type of stent, use of distal protection devices, or other adjunct techniques

271. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     August 04, 2023 - traditional infection control approaches, including isolation precautions and hand hygiene, and newer techniques … apparent using traditional epidemiologic surveillance methods.8,12 Similarly, geospatial mapping techniques

272. Disposition of Comments for Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2013 - evidence to support its reputation of clinical superiority over conventionally fractionated conformal techniques … IMRT, 3DCRT, or arc therapy are all techniques used to deliver SBRT to patients. … However, we had two single- arm studies that included those techniques and have added them to the final … However, we had two single- arm studies that included those techniques and have added them to the final

273. Management of Insomnia Disorder in Adults: Current State of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2017 - effectiveness of most single behavioral interventions, such as sleep hygiene education, relaxation techniques … » Web-based CBT-I may be an option for individuals without access to a therapist trained in CBT-I techniques

274. breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217 (pdf file)
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     December 17, 2013 - 17, 2013 1 Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol Project Title: Imaging Techniques … Oncology (ASCO), and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), to guide the use of imaging techniques … Imaging bone metastases in breast cancer: techniques and recommendations for diagnosis.

275. S143 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - Other techniques such as weighting or modeling with the propensity score (or even widening the matching

276. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2021 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Effective Health Care Program Powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers …

277. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2013 - cancer growth at the site of origin) – Pulmonary quality of life (QOL) – AEs specific to radiotherapy techniques … (e.g., RFA, cryoablation, electrocautery) or to surgical techniques (laser or mechanical debridement … and AEs associated with the interventional or surgical techniques (including, but not limited to, pneumothorax … Although the body of evidence we included for the conformal radiotherapy techniques addressed in Key … Dosimetry tools and techniques for IMRT. Med Phys. 2011 Mar;38(3):1313-38. PMID: 21520843. 18.

278. Protocol: Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 08, 2014 - These techniques are minimally invasive and can be performed on an outpatient basis. … These techniques are utilized during the staging workup of patients with lung cancer (most often non-small … this technique only has planar capability (compared to tomographic capability of the other imaging techniques … If appropriate, we will meta-analyze the correlations using standard techniques and Knapp-Hartung standard

279. PICO Population(s): Breastfeeding infants 6 months or less with ankyloglossia Intervention(s): Frenotomy, Frenectomy, or Frenulotomy Comparator(s): Breastfeeding management without surgical intervention Outcomes(s): Successful exclusive… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - There are also variations in techniques used to perform the frenotomy.

280. Assisted Home Dialysis in the United States: New Interest in an Old Idea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 01, 2025 - Screening and supportive techniques for home dialysis in the treatment of renal failure.