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261. Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 1-3: Screening, Monitoring, and Treatment (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - Targeting subgroups at risk for worsening CKD severity will increase monitoring yield, though GFR testing … This data indicated annual urinary microalbumin testing in about 30 percent of diabetics and 4 percent … Direct glomerular filtration rate meaurement The abstract of the draft CER states that "GFR testing … This data indicated annual urinary microalbumin testing in about 30 percent of diabetics and 4 percent … The abstract of the draft CER states that "GFR testing is already common in usual care".

262. CER 174 Executive Summary: Imaging for the Pretreatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2016 - Both reported the use of “standard staging,” which is a combination of multiple testing procedures

263. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - be clearer that diagnostic thinking refers to clinical decisionmaking (e.g., subsequent diagnostic testing … regarding choice of diagnostic tests to use in surveillance may depend on factors other than diagnostic testing … For each stage of care, appropriate testing and treatment are outlined. … Key Questions 2 and 3 focus on followup testing (evaluation of a previously identified nodule or staging … This standard helps imaging facilities conduct quality testing and monitoring of X-ray equipment used

264. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     October 20, 2011 - Confirmatory HCV RNA testing as indicated 2. … b HCV antibody testing with confirmatory HCV RNA testing as indicated.

265. Hypertension-Pulmonary-Arterial Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     January 30, 2013 - class assessment, and pulmonary hemodynamics.10 Select biomarkers may even be superior to traditional testing … Given the imperfect accuracy of echocardiography alone in establishing a diagnosis of PAH, biomarker testing … but also provides the opportunity to assess what treatments may be appropriate through vasodilator testing … What are the comparative validity, reliability, and feasibility of echocardiography and biomarker testing … we will abstract information on study design; patient characteristics; medical settings; details of testing

266. Disposition of Comments Report for Procalcitonin-Guides Antibiotic Therapy (pdf file)
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     October 05, 2012 - One issue that only comes up later in the discussion is the degree to which the use of PCT testing … We may speculate that PCT testing is equivalent to other algorithms for guiding treatment decisions … but testing this idea requires finding studies that make comparisons of procalcitonin- guided therapy … Agree with the statements about the importance of the analytic approach to PCT testing that is, yet … a short paragraph that follows, I would provide brief descriptive text about the categories of PCT testing

267. ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INCLUDED STUDIES (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2011 - out recommended approaches to assessment of risk of bias in five steps: protocol development, pilot testing … The tool has not undergone extensive validity or reliability testing. … consensus exercise with experts to select items for inclusion, and they also conducted reliability testing … No formal reliability testing has been undertaken and the tool is interpretated as a summed score across … of Observational Studies of Intervention or Exposures: Development, Validation, and Reliability Testing

268. March 3rd Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - current best practice healthcare AI Code of Conduct ► A proposed methodology for Code implementation, testing … ► Guidance for algorithm development, testing, and updating? … , and adversarial testing in the context of healthcare. … Learning Practice (GMLP): accepted practices in AI/ML algorithm design, development, training, and testing … Reflects the Intended Use of the Device Focus is Placed on the Performance of the Human-AI Team Testing

269. McCormack-notes-151008 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - in that role. 10 I wanted to mention with respect  to IPDAS, the element   related to user testing … researchers and the clinical community can learn from patients to involvethem in iterative rounds of user testing

270. Appendix: Test Performance Metrics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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271. Febrile-Infants-Diagnosis-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - In only one study evaluating the Rochester criteria in neonates the testing in the neonatal age group … Unnecessary testing may have had the unexpected consequence of the parents viewing the infant as more … With the advent of rapid testing for viral pathogens, many clinicians now have the ability to quickly … Harms associated with testing or management strategies have been poorly reported. … Future studies should focus on identifying the risks associated with testing and management strategies

272. Liver-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - Effective Health Care Program 2 often occurs in the setting of surveillance or in the use of periodic testing … imaging on intermediate outcomes related to clinical decisionmaking (e.g., subsequent diagnostic testing

273. Hepatic-Fibrosis White-Paper (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2014 - Genetic Testing & Molecular Biomarkers. 2012 Jun;16(6):531-5. PMID: 22352690. 24.

274. Proposals for a Phased Evaluation of Medical Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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275. Llewellyn-Thomas (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Elicitation as Scientific Field: Research Issues in the  Design of PtDAs • Implicit  Approaches — Testing … Assumptions • Explicit Approaches — Complex Questions Slide  33: Implicit Approaches – Testing Assumptions

276. Heart-Failure-Natriuretic-Peptide Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - Testing for BNP and NT- proBNP in the diagnosis and prognosis of heart failure. … N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide testing improves the management of patients with suspected … Relative value of amino-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide testing and radiographic standards … Usefulness of aminoterminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide testing for the diagnostic and prognostic … Early diagnosis of congestive heart failure: Clinical utility of B-type natriuretic peptide testing

277. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - The systematic review found very little evidence testing particular interventions for specific types … Again, experimental designs are likely the best approach to testing hypothesized relationships, yet … The approach might be implemented with trials testing the standard evidence- based treatment, exercise … The systematic review found very little evidence testing particular interventions for specific types … Again, experimental designs are likely the best approach to testing hypothesized relationships, yet

278. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Prevention in Adults of Infection With Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2024 - those centering around the patient microbiome (including decolonization but not MDRO surveillance testing … MHS II (2013) chapter 7 included barrier isolation precautions while adding routine surveillance testing … the topic of our review (such as hand hygiene practices, antimicrobial stewardship, surveillance testing … The rationale for surveillance testing is to identify patients colonized with a given MDRO in order … Surveillance MRSA nares testing varied slightly between hospitals during the study period, with both

279. Systematic Review of Prognostic Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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280. Defining an Optimal Format for Presenting Research Needs (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - according to whether they address effectiveness of interventions, safety of interventions, role of testing … or alendronate 2006 Med Decis Making 16984069 Cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies for HER2 testing … and decision-analytical modelling 2005 Health Technol Assess 16948891 The cost-effectiveness of testing … 1988 Med Decis Making 2646176 Full threshold versus quantification of defects for visual field testing … in suspected multiple sclerosis 1990 Med Decis Making 2115175 Value-of-information analysis of testing