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341. Hormones | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 20, 2011 - Home pregnancy tests are similar - they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.

342. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review 130 (pdf file)
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     January 29, 2014 - value of routine preoperative testing is very clinically meaningful, as well as extremely relevant to test … to the Introduction about how preoperative testing (like all routine testing) will find abnormal test … Peer Reviewer #8 Methods Page 14, lines 35-36: Test of equivalence does look at 95% CI. … Peer Reviewer #8 Results Also the authors noted that “However, in no scenario (specific test(s) used … The rest of their analyses focus on the predictive value of abnormal test results, which we did not

343. Comparative Effectiveness of Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - However, it is acknowledged that it is not a definitive test to either diagnose or rule out obstructive … In part, this is due to a lack of robust standardized criteria as to the test parameters measured and … KQ3: How does phased testing (screening tests or battery followed by full test) compare to full testing … The report will not assume that measurements from any test are interchangeable with measurements from … This approach is recommended for analyses in which neither test can be considered a reference (gold)

344. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Clinician (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2016 - Other point-of-care tests (such as the rapid strep test, multi-viral polymerase chain reaction [PCR … ��The combination of a rapid strep test with a clinical score (FeverPAIN or a scale based on the presence … tests to rapidly determine the likelihood that a patient has a specific infection (e.g., rapid strep test … of a throat swab sample, multi-viral PCR or an influenza-specific test of throat/nasopharyngeal secretions

345. Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - For diagnostic test accuracy, we included case control studies, designs in which tests were performed … on all participants, and designs in which participants were randomized to one test.

346. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2010 - However, it is acknowledged that it is not a definitive test to either diagnose or rule out obstructive … In part, this is due to a lack of robust standardized criteria as to the test parameters measured and … What is the correlation between the choice of initial diagnostic test to determine the diagnosis of … Objective (e.g., Multiple Sleep Latency Test, Maintenance of Wakefulness Test); only validated measures … This approach is recommended for analyses in which neither test can be considered a reference (gold)

347. Can screening among the general adult male population for elevated PCA3 (also known as DD3) gene expression, to identify those at risk for prostate cancer who may be candidates for prostate biopsy, reduce morbidity and mortality? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test or treatment

348. Disposition of Comments for PCA3 Testing for the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Even though this test is not invasive, it is a reasonable point that it does require manipulation; … In order to facilitate a comparison of a new test associated with managing patients with a potential … PR # 8 Results Your results do not necessarily support the FDA approved indication for this test. … the massage, this test may have acceptability concerns to patients. … PR # 12 Discussion/ Conclusions This test is clearly not a major improvement over PSA.

349. Hormones | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 29, 2016 - Home pregnancy tests are similar - they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.

350. Hormones | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 29, 2016 - Home pregnancy tests are similar - they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.

351. Developing and Testing a Tool for the Classification of Study Designs in Systematic Reviews of Interventions and Exposures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - evaluation; to develop instructions for application of the tool to intervention/exposure studies; and to test … A sample of 30 studies was used to test the tool.

352. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - An echocardiogram is a noninvasive test that provides an estimate of pulmonary artery pressures at rest … The test also helps to exclude valvular, primary myocardial, and congenital causes of elevated right-sided … (NT-proBNP) are two biological substances found in the blood that have been studied as a screening test … We will test for statistical heterogeneity by using graphical displays and test statistics (Q and I 2 … N-terminal brain natriuretic peptide as a diagnostic test in cirrhotic patients with pulmonary arterial

353. Microsoft Word - cognitive-decline-protocol-160322.docx (pdf file)
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     March 22, 2016 - Consequently, short-term studies may be inadequate to test effectiveness of interventions to prevent … biomarker protein levels in a patient’s blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), or decline in cognitive test … association between outcome measures examined in KQs 1 or 2 including (but not limited to) cognitive test … centered  outcomes: Incident AD Intermediate outcomes: Biomarker protein  level(s) Cognitive  test … For  KQ2:  To  test  the  efficacy,  comparative  effectiveness,  and  harms  of   interventions to  

354. Interventions To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Uncomplicated Acute Respiratory Tract Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Other point-of-care tests (such as the rapid strep test, multi-viral polymerase chain reaction [PCR] … The combination of a rapid strep test with a clinical score (FeverPAIN or a scale based on the presence … tests to rapidly determine the likelihood that a patient has a specific infection (e.g., rapid strep test … of a throat swab sample, multi-viral PCR or an influenza-specific test of throat/nasopharyngeal secretions

355. Effectiveness of Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - actually have cancer, suggesting that many of them could avoid biopsy if a non-invasive diagnostic test

356. Effectiveness of Early Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - However, estimates of the magnitude of differences in test sensitivities were not very precise. … When a new test is evaluated using a more sensitive reference test, the estimate of its sensitivity … This was a standardized test and is relatively accurate. … Of course culture alone is insufficient and needs to be combined with a test for toxins. … a less sensitive references test on the estimated differences in test sensitivities should be minimized

357. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Intermediate outcomes, such as measures of biomarkers and cognitive test performance, are included. … more spotty and so less persuasive; vitamin B12 and folic acid showed benefit in brief cognitive test … • Low-strength evidence shows no benefit on cognitive test performance of any fixed antihypertensive … • Low-strength evidence shows no benefit on brief cognitive test performance, executive/attention/ … Vitamin B12 and folic acid also showed benefit in brief cognitive test performance and memory, but not

358. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Intermediate outcomes, such as measures of biomarkers and cognitive test performance, are included. … more spotty and so less persuasive; vitamin B12 and folic acid showed benefit in brief cognitive test … • Low-strength evidence shows no benefit on cognitive test performance of any fixed antihypertensive … • Low-strength evidence shows no benefit on brief cognitive test performance, executive/attention/ … Vitamin B12 and folic acid also showed benefit in brief cognitive test performance and memory, but not

359. Effectiveness of Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities Appendices (pdf file)
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     May 23, 2005 - In the quantitative section, there is another test of robustness. … Evidence Tables Evidence Tables Diagnostic Test Characteristics No diagnostic test is perfect … Studies of diagnostic test performance compare test results on a group of patients, some of whom have … Each patient undergoes the experimental test as well as a second “gold standard” reference test to determine … test characteristics.

360. Troponin cardiac marker interpretation during renal function impairment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test