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381. Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care
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     June 08, 2018 - Home Consumers Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Archived: This summary is based on a report that is greater than 3 years old. Findings should not be considered current. Close-up image of a caucasian man with the quote: "If I had one piece of advice, it wou…

382. Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities: Update of a 2006 Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 28, 2010 - Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities: Update of a 2006 Review Timeline April 07, 2010 Topic Initiated June 28, 2010 Research Protocol Archived Comparative Effectiveness of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities – An Update of …

383. Deciding Whether To Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests With Decision Modeling | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2012 - Deciding Whether To Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests With Decision Modeling Timeline November 04, 2010 Topic Initiated June 01, 2012 Methods Guide – Chapter Chapter 10: Deciding Whether To Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests With D…

384. Screening for Hepatitis C | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 20, 2011 - Interventions: Screening for HCV (KQs 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and 3) HCV antibody test Confirmatory HCV RNA testing … Excluding people with HIV, transplant recipients, and patients with renal failure. b HCV antibody testing … with confirmatory HCV RNA testing as indicated. c Interventions that may affect vertical transmission

385. Challenges in and Principles for Conducting Systematic Reviews of Genetic Tests Used as Predictive Indicators | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2012 - Challenges in and Principles for Conducting Systematic Reviews of Genetic Tests Used as Predictive Indicators Timeline November 04, 2010 Topic Initiated June 01, 2012 Methods Guide – Chapter Chapter 11: Challenges in and Principles for Conducting Systematic…

386. 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.

387. Chapter 2. Developing the Topic and Structuring Systematic Reviews of Medical Tests: Utility of PICOTS, Analytic Frameworks, Decision Trees, and Other Frameworks | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 01, 2012 - Chapter 2. Developing the Topic and Structuring Systematic Reviews of Medical Tests: Utility of PICOTS, Analytic Frameworks, Decision Trees, and Other Frameworks Timeline November 04, 2010 Topic Initiated June 01, 2012 Methods Guide – Chapter Chapter 2. Deve…

388. 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

389. 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

390. Disposition of Comments for CER 172 Clostridium Difficile Diagnosis Prevention Treatment (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2016 - section to avoid suggesting that this is the preferred method for testing. … For example- the last paragraph of the testing section is important. … The communication offered suggestions for guidance on donor selection and screening, serum testing, … and stool testing. … The sections on diagnostic testing and treatment are especially helpful in clarifying such decisions

391. My nomination is about comparing outcomes of different glaucoma treatments, particularly canaloplasty to trabeculectomy and to medical therapy alone. | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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392. Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - occurred in unit that received the staff training vs. the control unit (4 vs. 5); no statistical testing … restraint on the unit who received the training vs. the control unit (84 vs. 228), no statistical testing … in unit that received the staff training than in control unit (28.2% vs. +7.7%), no statistical testing … data for medication protocols; all reported small numbers of events and performed no statistical testing … flunitrazepam, no statistical testing reported (3 vs. 3, p=NR).48 Drug-related adverse events 91

393. Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 10, 2013 - More research is needed to test interventions in other settings, such as those testing policy, environmental

394. Systematic Review of Calcineurin Inhibitors for Kidney Transplant | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 14, 2014 - monitoring protocols (i.e., variation in when clinical staff actually collect samples for laboratory testing … Internal validity and reporting adequacy: Were the testing results interpreted with positive or negative … Internal validity and reporting adequacy: Were criteria for determining a testing result as positive, … External validity and reporting adequacy: Did the testing performed in the study represent routine laboratory … testing in preanalytic, analytic and postanalytic aspects?

395. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     March 11, 2008 - Home » Get Involved » Nominated Topics » Topic Suggestion Description Topic Suggestion Description Date submitted: March 11, 2008 Download Topic Suggestion Disposition [PDF · 126.8 KB] 1. Your Nomination - Please briefly describe in your own words the question about …

396. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     June 19, 2008 - Home » Get Involved » Nominated Topics » Topic Suggestion Description Topic Suggestion Description Date submitted: June 19, 2008 Download Topic Suggestion Disposition [PDF · 109.4 KB] 1. Your Nomination - Please briefly describe in your own words the question about a…

397. Sleep-Apnea Surveillance (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - August 8, 2011 Surveillance Report: July, 2012 Key Findings: - The conclusions for KQ2 (phased testing … How does phased testing (screening tests or battery followed by full test) compare to full testing alone … testing when indicated, to diagnose sleep apnea, as only one study that met our inclusion criteria … This prospective quality C study did not fully analyze the phased testing, thus the sensitivity and … How does phased testing (screening tests or battery followed by full test) compare to full testing alone

398. Impact of Contacting Study Authors on Systematic Review Conclusions: Diagnostic Tests for Hepatic Fibrosis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 02, 2014 - Impact of Contacting Study Authors on Systematic Review Conclusions: Diagnostic Tests for Hepatic Fibrosis White Paper April 2, 2014 Web Version [NLM Site] Download Main Document PDF 505.2 KB People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in these files. For additional ass…

399. Efficacy and Safety of Screening for Postpartum Depression | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     March 09, 2012 - In addition, testing during the prenatal period is seeking either to identify current depression (which

400. Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 16, 2011 - Current Page Topic Timeline Dec. 15, 2011 Topic Initiated Dec. 16, 2011 Research Protocol Nov. 5, 2012 Systematic Review Mar. 4, 2013 Disposition of Comments Report Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Research Protocol Archived December 16, 2011 Download Main Document PDF 542.9 KB …