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2241. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Transitions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      August 01, 2024 - 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 …

2242. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      December 01, 2019 - 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 …

2243. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Consumer (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2016 - Treating Localized Prostate Cancer A Review of the Research for Adults Is this information right for me? Yes, this information is right for you if: � Your doctor* said all tests show you have localized prostate cancer (the cancer has not spread outside the prostate gland). This information may not be helpful t…

2244. Digestible Carbohydrate Intake and Maternal-Infant Outcomes: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      January 31, 2025 - weight gain was similar across quintiles (from 0.35 kg/week to 0.37 kg/week).53 Data from a trial testing

2245. Future Research Needs for First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics for Children and Young Adults (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2012 - Integration of multiple-armed trials would allow testing of several hypotheses regarding agents.

2246. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2017 - throughout the report, including here, to help differentiate magnitude of effect from whether statistical testing … Exact data and statistical testing is available in text and tables of full report.

2247. Disposition of Comments Report for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (pdf file)
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      June 28, 2013 - not performed any more due to risk of PV stenosis), and each of these may or may not include formal testing … integrity of the isolation procedure, which, in turn can be performed by a variety of techniques (testing

2248. Fecal-Incontinence Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      November 30, 2014 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Project Title: Treatments for Fecal Incontinence I. Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review Fecal incontinence (FI) involves recurrent involuntary loss of fecal material.1,2 FI is defined by the frequency of episodes (such as daily or weekly e…

2249. X-Rays | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      May 18, 2011 - Research Protocol Archived May 18, 2011 Comparative Effectiveness of Fecal DNA Testing

2250. An analytical framework for quantifying components of variability in prescriber decisions (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2010 - Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing. Stata Journal 2003;3:1-31. 59. … Testing for the Need of IV Methods. … There is a large literature in economics on testing for whether an IV is necessary.

2251. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2012 - Links in the chain of indirect evidence include the performance of the screening test or testing strategy … We did not re-review the accuracy of HCV antibody testing, which the prior USPSTF review found to be … two-thirds of people with chronic HCV infection were born between 1945 and 1965, suggesting that testing … HCV antibody testing with subsequent polymerase chain reaction testing for circulating virus was found … Hepatitis C virus testing of persons born during 1945 to 1965: Recommendations from the Centers for

2252. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2010 - measures and statistical models, giving special attention to combining studies with rare events, and on testing … measures and statistical models, giving special attention to combining studies with rare events; and on testing … However, the degree of overlap is not a reliable substitute for formal testing. … confidence intervals is less than modest and a significant difference is suspected, we recommend formal testing … effectiveness when there is a large degree of overlap in confidence intervals, but we recommend formal testing

2253. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2010 - measures and statistical models, giving special attention to combining studies with rare events, and on testing … measures and statistical models, giving special attention to combining studies with rare events; and on testing … However, the degree of overlap is not a reliable substitute for formal testing. … confidence intervals is less than modest and a significant difference is suspected, we recommend formal testing … effectiveness when there is a large degree of overlap in confidence intervals, but we recommend formal testing

2254. Use of Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients Receiving Coronary Stents | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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      November 01, 2017 - /Non–ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Systematic Review ARCHIVED Sep 25, 2013 Testing

2255. antibiotics-respiratory-infection-protocol-140922 (pdf file)
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      September 22, 2014 - (e.g. measures of continued effectiveness over time), diagnostic resource use associated with POC testing … enough to be useful and whether the benefits are worth the added cost and resources required for testing

2256. Disposition of Comments for CER 158 Diagnosis of Gout (pdf file)
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      February 24, 2016 - Disposition of Comments for CER 158 Diagnosis of Gout Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report Research Review Title: Diagnosis of Gout Draft review available for public comment from November 4, 2014 to December 2, 2014. Research Review Citation: Newberry SJ, FitzGerald J, Maglione MA, O’…

2257. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2015 - at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom who evaluated the device estimated that Cytosponge testing … Cytosponge testing could be used in place of routine endoscopy for identifying and monitoring Barrett … of patients at increased risk of having Barrett’s esophagus, rather than true screening (universal testing … .”27 Acceptance and adoption: All experts anticipated moderate to wide acceptance of Cytosponge testing … There are some [minor] storage issues, training, result tracking, and facility issues…[Cytosponge testing

2258. Eye Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2259. Topic 0613 Tympanostomy Tubes NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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      November 03, 2014 - . – 12 years, being considered for tympanostomy tubes Intervention(s): Hearing testing Comparator(

2260. Evidence Summary-Comparative-Effectiveness-Review-213-Lower-Limb-Prostheses (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2018 - Standards for psychometric testing have changed over the years, so older instruments, evaluated by