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121. Topic 0589 Cleaning and Monitoring of HAIs NSD SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2013 - settings, including routine versus outbreak conditions, as well as patients rooms versus common areas; techniques

122. Ced-Appendix-3 (xls file)
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     June 24, 2022 - Duke-M Data Apply data standardization techniques, quality checking tools, and steps for mitigating erroneous … Duke-M Bias/confounding Researchers will need to choose appropriate analytical techniques that seek to … that pre-specify the study population, exposure and outcomes, other key covariates, and the analytical techniques … impact of confounding and other biases on interpretation of RWE using appropriate design and statistical techniques … regulatory and HTA agencies ISPE_2020 Quality control Establish Quality Assurance and Quality Control techniques

123. Peripheral-Artery-Disease-Treatment Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 31, 2013 - With improvements in endovascular techniques and equipment, the use of balloon angioplasty, stenting … The introduction of hybrid revascularization techniques (endovascular and surgical revascularization … Evolution of revascularization techniques: Improvement in surgical and endovascular techniques has made … recent smaller trials have now demonstrated improved outcomes with revascularization with refined techniques … (balloon angioplasty, stenting, and atherectomy) and surgical revascularization techniques for outcomes

124. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review_Evaluation of Dietary Protein and Amino Acid Requirements: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     November 22, 2024 - This included updating the introduction to more thoroughly describe the techniques and methods used

125. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Management of Infertility (pdf file)
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     September 02, 2016 - azoospermia”[tiab] OR “oligospermia”[tiab] OR “sertoli cell-only syndrome”[tiab] #2 "Reproductive Techniques … Preimplantation Diagnosis”[MeSH] OR "Insemination"[Mesh] OR "Uterine Diseases/surgery"[Mesh] OR "Reproductive Techniques … Concept] OR “Crinone”[Supplementary Concept] OR “Ovidrel”[Supplementary Concept] OR “reproductive techniques

126. Liver-Cancer-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 28, 2012 - complete ablation of larger size tumors.23 Direct comparisons have been made for some of the local techniques … available to treat primary liver cancer.24-40 It is still not clear which techniques, either alone … comparative effectiveness reviews that rigorously and systematically address the best use of these techniques … Therefore, there is a need to clarify the optimal use of these techniques. … cancers OR carcinoma)) AND Unresectable OR nonresectable OR inoperable OR irresectable AND "Ablation Techniques

127. Using Deliberative Methods to Engage the Public: Facilitating a Deliberative Session (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - • Facilitation techniques • Managing the discussion • Group exercises • Managing participant

128. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol - Management of Infantile Epilepsies (pdf file)
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     October 25, 2022 - review and misses trials with older antiseizure medications as well as key literature on surgical techniques … AES suggests that a better term is “neuromodulation” which includes techniques like vagus nerve stimulation … which involves peripheral or cranial nerve stimulation in addition to brain stimulation techniques. … in children, because children are often not included in trials of epilepsy surgery techniques. … I think you will find hemispherectomy deaths occurring in 1980s and maybe early 90s, but with techniques

129. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2012 - Because a flawed study design may not be totally remedied through analytic techniques, this paper assumes … analytic dataset, and these same characteristics also predict outcome, then standard epidemiologic techniques … may not be able to account for them (although they might be amenable to instrumental variable techniques … Reducing bias in a propensity score matched-pair sample using greedy matching techniques. … Evaluating uses of data mining techniques in propensity score estimation: a simulation study.

130. Evidence Summary: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2019 - pulmonary rehabilitation during an episode of ECOPD.27, 28 Chest physiotherapy using airway clearance techniques … A Cochrane review published in 2012 found evidence that airway clearance techniques may reduce the … Airway clearance techniques for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

131. 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

132. 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.

133. 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

134. 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

135. 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.

136. 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

137. 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

138. 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

139. 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

140. Mindfulness meditation encompasses a range of meditation techniques that have been increasingly used to treat behavioral disorders, especially those associated with stress. Some of these were previously described in AHRQ Publication No.… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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