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201. ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INCLUDED STUDIES (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/assessing-the-risk-of-bias_draft-report.pdf
     June 02, 2011 - Assessment of the accuracy of diagnostic tests: the cross-sectional study. … These tools are continuing inter-rater reliability tests. … Genetic and prognostic marker tests, has some unique attributes. … prognostic tests are not addressed in this document. … Empirical evidence of design-related bias in studies of diagnostic tests.

202. Executive Summary: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2024 - • Studies evaluating neuropsychological tests of executive functioning (e.g., Continuous Performance … for parental ratings, teacher ratings, teen/child self-reports, clinician tools, neuropsychological tests … Studies evaluating neuropsychological tests of executive functioning (e.g., Continuous Performance Test

203. Topic 0552 Low Back Pain NSD FINAL SJ (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2013 - Strategies include testing (e.g., imaging tests), decision tools, identifying risk factors for chronicity … Intervention(s): Procedures to diagnose and treat low back pain, including: testing (e.g., imaging tests

204. Kidney-Disease-Medicine Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - adverse health consequences, its long asymptomatic phase, the availability of potential screening tests … Harms •Screening or monitoring: false-positive diagnosis or progression, anxiety, unnecessary tests, … - Yield of one-time screening tests based on actual association with persistent CKD. … positive tests; psychological effects of labeling asymptomatic individuals as diseased; medication … positive tests (for progression); medication adverse effects; increased medical visits; increased

205. Cardiac Troponins Used as Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests in Patients With Kidney Disease | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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206. Depression-Postpartum-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - This allows an approach that compares total tests or false-positive results as a measure of “cost” or … Strength-of-evidence domains for test characteristics of screening tests for postpartum depression … Strength-of-evidence domains for test characteristics of screening tests for postpartum depression … Strength-of-evidence domains for test characteristics of screening tests for postpartum depression … -based study of two self-administered tests (BDI, EPDS) and two clinician- administered tests (HSRD-

207. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - and patients, clinical strategies such as delayed prescribing or use of point- of-care diagnostic tests … Any point-of-care tests that are available and used in primary care settings for diagnostic purposes … Point-of-Care Tests. … Rapid viral tests included one that was multiviral, and the rest were specific for influenza. … When reported, diagnostic accuracy was consistent for rapid viral and strep tests.

208. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - We agree that heterogeneity was substantial; however, this is expected in reviews of diagnostic tests … We added Table 24 with post-test probability for various imaging tests in populations with different … This represents an enormous undertaking - a huge number of studies of different tests and conducted … In fact, in clinical practice, a patient may have multiple diagnostic tests, with additional value … In addition, some diagnostics tests are synergistic.

209. Hepatitis-C-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - What is the comparative effectiveness and comparative diagnostic accuracy of various tests and strategies … We also included studies that reported the diagnostic accuracy of noninvasive tests for evaluating … A number of indices based on panels of blood tests were associated with an AUROC of 0.75 to 0.86 for … Evidence clearly supports that HCV antibody tests are accurate for identifying HCV infection, but that … Diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic plots. BMJ. 1994;309(6948):188.

210. Chronic-Kidney-Disease-Anemia-2011 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - What are the adverse effects or harms associated with the treatments guided by tests of iron status? … Not rated (descriptive data) • There is a lack of generally accepted reference standard tests for … Low • Two short-term RCTs (4 and 6 months) showed a reduction in the number of iron status tests and … Typically, the assessment of diagnostic tests follows the Fryback approach,47 progressing from the … , blinded interpretation of test results, and independence of the index and reference standard tests

211. Arthritis-Knee-Physical-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - • Population Same as KQ1 • Interventions Tests and measurements (intermediate outcomes of … physical therapy): o Muscle performance or strength tests: – Manual muscle test – Hand-held … For KQ 2, we will include the studies of tests and measures in adults with knee OA. … Studies that validated tests and measures in populations with other diseases. 6. … Studies that reported absolute values of the diagnostic tests in adults with knee OA. 7.

212. breast-cancer-imaging-protocol-131217 (pdf file)
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     December 17, 2013 - $115 for ultrasound to $1114 for PET-CT,9, 10 increasing the need to determine whether more expensive tests … and bone, in addition to obtaining medical histories, physical examinations, and relevant laboratory tests … For example, are patients aware that the accuracy of these imaging tests varies? 3. … Do any themes, such as cost, accuracy of tests, or discomfort, inconvenience, often arise when metastatic … Do patients generally know how much they will have to pay out of pocket for imaging tests?

213. Siminoff_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - a specific set of facts, namely the patient's reported signs and symptoms and accrued objective  tests …    Medical  history  Physical exam  Laboratory  tests • Patient’s  approach o Application … Percentage Confidant confirmed symptom  appraisal 56.0% Confidants advocated getting more information/tests

214. Impact of Contacting Study Authors on Systematic Review Conclusions: Diagnostic Tests for Hepatic Fibrosis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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215. Decision-Analytic Modeling to Evaluate Benefits and Harms of Medical Tests – Uses and Limitations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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216. Project Name: (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/sleep-apnea_disposition-comments.pdf
     October 25, 2011 - We have added a future research recommendation for studies that evaluate the appropriate tests based … A more accurate statement is "If screening tests are found to be sufficiently predictive..." … Tests" We have changed all the “Wakefulness tests” titles to “Objective sleepiness and wakefulness … tests” 4 Page 52 line 7 "The range of differences between the two interventions was large (-1.0 … results of initial tests) with full testing (overnight PSG) alone.

217. The series of articles beginning with this issue of the Journal form the most up-to-date version of the Guide for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2009 - • Present benefits and harms for different treatments and tests in a consistent way so that decisionmakers … Balance of Benefits and Harms CERs aim to present benefits and harms for different treatments and tests … also identified future research that is needed, including methodologies for the assessment of medical tests … address issues such as when and how to use modeling, how to assess the quality of studies of medical tests … outcomes on decisions to use a medical test, and the assessment of studies of genetic and prognostic tests

218. Disposition of Comments Report for Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Women (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2012 - Peer Reviewer 2 General Added value is important for screening tests and risk factors, but may not be … Does this mean that these tests should not be performed in the clinical environment? … Noninvasive tests may be equally predictive or even better predictive of events during follow-up. … Noninvasive tests may be equally predictive or even better predictive of events during follow-up. … The comparative cost of these tests is outside the scope of our report.

219. Breast-Biopsy-Update Executive (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - We did not use a search filter for studies of diagnostic tests to increase search sensitivity.10, 11 … Reference standard tests also differed across studies: 26 used open biopsy on all included patients; … In general, differences among tests were relatively small: for example, differences in sensitivity … This allowed us to assess the comparative performance of tests (when using the same type of imaging … Grading a body of evidence on diagnostic tests. In: Chang SMM, D. B. Smetana, G. W. Umscheid, C.

220. AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program: Synthesizing evidence to improve health care practice and delivery (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2022 - ◆ Clinical areas (e.g., treatments for depression, management of opioid overdose) ◆ Diagnostic tests