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461. 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…

462. 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.

463. 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

464. AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program Synthesizing evidence to improve health care practice and delivery (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2020 - AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program Synthesizing evidence to improve health care practice and delivery 1 EPC Program Methods for Systematic Reviews What is the Evidence-based Practice Center Program? The vision for AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program is that all health care decisions are…

465. Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive, Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 18, 2018 - Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive, Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence Research Report October 18, 2018 Web Version [NLM Site] Download Main Document PDF 4.6 MB Related Files Download Tool [PDF · 4.2 MB] These items are availabl…

466. 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

467. 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

468. Troponin cardiac marker interpretation during renal function impairment | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 17, 2008 - Home » Get Involved » Nominated Topics » Topic Suggestion Description Topic Suggestion Description Date submitted: June 17, 2008 Download Topic Suggestion Disposition [PDF · 149 KB] Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health car…

469. 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

470. 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’…

471. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     December 27, 2011 - Home » Get Involved » Nominated Topics » Topic Suggestion Description Topic Suggestion Description Date submitted: December 27, 2011 Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test or treatment that this program should consid…

472. Appendixes A-H: Telehealth for Women (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Pilot study of a multilevel mobile health app for substance use, sexual risk behaviors, and testing … Developing a mHealth intervention to promote uptake of HIV testing among African communities in the … Large multi-centre pilot randomized controlled trial testing a low- cost, tailored, self-help smoking … Variations in testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections across gender identity among … Does internet-accessed STI (e-STI) testing increase testing uptake for chlamydia and other STIs among

473. 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

474. 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(

475. 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

476. Screening and Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - , evaluate potential benefits and harms of conventional screening (24 weeks and beyond) and early testing … The amount of work was massive and serves to highlight the difficulties in evaluating screening and testing … While the report in and of itself will not solve the problem regarding the optimum screening and testing … diagnosis of GDM automatically categorizes her as 'high risk' thus increasing the need for additional testing … This encourages over-testing, increased medical costs, more stress for both physicians and patients,

477. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - choose between equal (“fixed”) and random effects a priori, and not on the basis of heterogeneity testing … A seminal paper in the British Medical Journal popularized a method for testing for funnel plot asymmetry … methodological discussion in the Cochrane Collaboration, where the discussants agreed on technical aspects of testing … measuring the effectiveness of interventions, the safety of interventions, or the accuracy of medical testing

478. Proposals for a Phased Evaluation of Medical Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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479. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     December 27, 2011 - Home » Get Involved » Nominated Topics » Topic Suggestion Description Topic Suggestion Description Date submitted: December 27, 2011 Download Topic Suggestion Disposition [PDF · 54.6 KB] Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a healt…

480. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Testing algorithms have changed with the development of the serum FLC assays, introducing variation