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381. Kravitz_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - percent of the outpatients made requests for physician action. o Requests were made for:  Laboratory testing

382. EHC Research Protocol: Management of Colonic Diverticulitis (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - adverse consequences of CT imaging (related to false positive tests that may lead to further invasive testing … sigmoidoscopy and barium enema • Limited colonoscopy (e.g., left-sided) • Virtual colonoscopy • Stool guaiac testing

383. breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217 (pdf file)
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     December 17, 2013 - breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217   Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Published online: December 17, 2013 1 Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol Project Title: Imaging Techniques for Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer I. Background and Objectives for th…

384. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2009 - Layout 1 Background Breast cancer is the second most common malignancy of women, with over 180,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. Survival rates depend on the stage of disease at diagnosis. Women diagnosed with early stages of breast cancer have a 5-year survival rate near 100 percent. However, …

385. Comparative Effectiveness of Second Generation Antidepressants in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Adult Depression—An Update to a 2007 Report. (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - #4 General Acknowledgement of this design issue and commentary on whether the studies in fact were testing … what they asserted to be testing might be helpful See above. … although it would have been interesting to see more discussion regarding whether the studies were in fact testing … what they claimed to be testing (superiority, non-inferiority or equivalence).

386. Blood-Based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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387. Blood-based Tests for Multiple Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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388. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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389. Postpartum Care for Women Up to One Year After Pregnancy (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2022 - (e.g., unplanned readmissions, emergency room visits)* o Adherence to condition-specific screening/testing … (e.g., blood pressure monitoring, glucose tolerance testing) or treatment* o Transition to primary … utilization (e.g., readmissions, emergency room visits)* o Adherence to condition-specific screening/testing … (e.g., blood pressure monitoring, glucose tolerance testing) or treatment* o Transition to primary

390. Disposition of Comments for Screening of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - practice guidelines and innovative payment incentives that reward positive processes (e.g., MRSA testing … that future reviews of MRSA screening should distinguish between screening technologies (and their testing … , despite the lack of robust controls in the majority of studies evaluated, implementation of MRSA testing … The entire intervention (testing + use and follow-up of results) needs to occur with a quick turnaround … This may have a disastrous effect by discouraging institutions from testing high-risk populations for

391. S5 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - One option is a specialized surveillance system – max- imized sequential probability ratio testing – … using one type of pharmaceutical rather than another, al- though such methods remain in development and testing

392. Development of a Primary Care Guie for Implementing Evidence-Based Screening and Counseling for Unhealthy Alcohol Use With Epic-Based Electronic Health Record Tools: A Pilot Dissemination Project (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2018 - step-by-step screening and counseling clinic protocols, and recorded relevant details about development and testing … Science of Improvement: Testing Changes. 2018.

393. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 19, 2023 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol Project Title: Diagnosis and Treatment of Tethered Spinal Cord I. Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review Tethered spinal cord is most commonly caused by spinal dysraphism, including my…

394. Machine Learning Tools To (Semi-)Automate Evidence Synthesis: A Rapid Review and Evidence Map, Version 2 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2025 - Testing a filtering strategy for systematic reviews: evaluating work savings and recall. … Testing the risk of bias tool showed low reliability between individual reviewers and across consensus … Testing a Machine Learning Tool for Facilitating Living Systematic Reviews of Chronic Pain Treatments … MSR7 Superdeduper: Testing New AI- Powered System for Deduplicating References in Literature Reviews

395. Methods-Guide-Chapter-Prioritization-And-Selection-Of-Harms-For-Inclusion-In-Systematic-Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - 18 EPC reports that addressed a range of intervention types (e.g., medical, surgical, diagnostic testing … consider inclusion of over-diagnosis and overtreatment, as well as other harms related to diagnostic testing … inclusion of intermediate measures of harm such as over-diagnosis or overtreatment as a result of testing … Such outcomes may help identify important negative downstream effects of testing that are otherwise … Surgery: laparoscopic or open appendectomy Testing: ionizing radiation from CT scans Contrast

396. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - crisis standards of care • Development of evidence-based “reverse triage” classification system • Pilot testing … by policymakers • Public health/business partnership for mass dispensing • Development and pilot testing

397. Interventions to Improve Care of Bereaved Persons (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis

398. The Role of Immunotherapy and the Management of Asthma: Systematic Review (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/asthma-immunotherapy_research-protocol.pdf
     September 14, 2016 - o Patients with diagnosis of asthma and positive allergy testing based on allergen specific IgE sensitization … , 2016 7 Intermediate outcomes (KQ1 and KQ3) o Immunologic parameters § Allergy skin testing … c) Allergen challenge testing: research tool in which allergen is introduced into the airways in a controlled

399. Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening and Treatment of Post–Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression: A Systematic Review. Evidence Summary. (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening and Treatment of Post–Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression: A Systematic Review. Evidence Summary. Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 200 Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening and Treatment of Post–Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression: A Systematic Review Evidence Summary Objective…

400. AHRQ Slide Template 2009 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - The important thing to note is that extraction tables change after pilot testing to suit the perceptions