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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/chronic-cough_executive.pdf
March 01, 2014 - For studies of diagnostic tests (KQ 1), we used the
QUality Assessment tool for Diagnostic Accuracy … support the responsiveness of recording
devices, cough-related questionnaires, and tussigenic
challenge tests … For the purposes of this report, we
consider tussigenic challenge tests and exhaled nitric oxide
tests … The
lack of validated reference tests and the diverse number
of instruments used among treatment evaluations
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/transparency-tympanostomy_research.pdf
June 01, 2017 - Visual continuous performance test
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised-Normative … Update
Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement, Standard Battery
Paradise 2001 11309632 Auditory … Visual Continuous Performance Test
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests … Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement
ISRCTN35793977 Behavioral assessment
Economic impact
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/making-healthcare-safer-IV.pdf
August 04, 2023 - EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review
1
Evidence-based Practice Center Rapid Response Protocol
Project Title: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Active Infection
Surveillance of Clostridioides difficile and Multi-Drug
Resistant Organisms: Methic…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/chronic-urinary-retention_research-protocol.pdf
November 19, 2012 - Commonly performed tests include:
• urinalysis (UA)
• urine culture
• measures of renal function … • retrograde cystourethrography
While testing is commonly performed, there is no standard set of tests
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/crosscutting-horizon-scan-high-impact-1312.pdf
December 01, 2013 - AHRQ is interested in innovations in drugs and biologics, medical devices, screening and
diagnostic tests … to identification of new (and new uses of existing) pharmaceuticals, medical
devices, diagnostic tests … conditions can be diagnosed without performing a physical examination, imaging
studies, or laboratory tests … include the narrow stretchers
with thin mattresses that patients lie on while awaiting admission or tests … departments only have the younger patients
that are less complicated, need less medical services/tests
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pdf/epc-child-adolesc-mental-health-grand-rounds.pptx
May 22, 2025 - studies
Parental ratings
Teacher rating scales
Teen/child self-reports
Clinician tools
Neuropsychological tests … Ratings
AUCs 0.65-0.84
(poor to good)
<- Sensitivity ->
<- Specificity ->
13
KQ1
Performance of Other Tests … 14
Neuropsychological Tests
AUCs 0.59-0.93
(failed to excellent)
EEG Measures
AUCs 0.63-1.00
(poor … Studies evaluating neuropsychological tests of executive functioning (e.g., Continuous Performance Test
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-213-lower-limb-protheses-evidence-summary.pdf
September 01, 2018 - Evidence Summary-Comparative-Effectiveness-Review-213-Lower-Limb-Prostheses
Comparative Effectiveness Review
Number 213
Lower Limb Prostheses: Measurement Instruments,
Comparison of Component Effects by Subgroups, and
Long-Term Outcomes
Evidence Summary
Introduction
Background
An estimated 1.9 million people…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/renal-function_research-protocol.pdf
June 13, 2013 - Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
Published online: June 13, 2013 1
Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol
Project Title: Troponin Cardiac Marker Interpretation During Renal Function
Impairment
I. Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review
Troponin is a protein compl…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-252-infantile-epilepsies-disposition-comments.pdf
October 25, 2022 - Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol - Management of Infantile Epilepsies
Comparative Effectiveness Review Disposition of Comments Report
Research Review Title: Management of Infantile Epilepsies
Draft report available for public comment from July 23, 2021, to September 6, …
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/improving-utility-evidence-synthesis-white-paper.pdf
April 01, 2021 - recommendation against screening asymptomatic patients with sickle cell disease with
pulmonary function tests … Accuracy or
Effectiveness/harms
No other known effective
tests or interventions
Effectiveness review … What is the “best”
approach among several
alternative tests,
strategies, or interventions
considering … speech and language delays or
disorders in young children,
required determining whether
screening tests … standardize accurate
diagnosis of C diff in oncology
patients, in an effort to reduce
false positive tests
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/evidence-summary-cer-200-post-acs-depression.pdf
November 01, 2017 - Results
KQ 1: Diagnostic Accuracy of Depression Screening
Tests in Post-ACS Patients
We identified
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/echocardiography_research.pdf
May 01, 2014 - However, evidence indicates that
physicians of various specialties tend to
increase their use of tests … to geographic variations in
use of echocardiography.6 Among patients
who receive echocardiography tests … necessary in this situa-
tion.25 In addition, calculations of standard errors and standard statisti-
cal tests
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cancer-quality-indicator-testing_research.pdf
April 01, 2010 - rigorously developed through a systematic review and expert
panel process, met criteria in these pilot tests
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-usability-testing.pdf
November 01, 2018 - Development and Usability Testing of EPC Evidence Review Dissemination Summaries for Health Systems Decisionmakers
Methods Research Report
Development and Usability Testing of EPC Evidence Review
Dissemination Summaries for Health Systems
Decisionmakers
Methods Research Report
Deve…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/grades-predictive-values/abstract
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/prostate-cancer-test/research
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/prostate-cancer-test/research-protocol
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/mrsa-screening-2010_research-protocol.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Source: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
Published Online: October 24, 2011
Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol
Project Title: Comparative Effectiveness of Screening for Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Amendment Date(s) if applicable: October 24, 2011
(Amendme…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-report-translation-c-diff-treatment-clinical-pathway.pdf
November 01, 2019 - logic expression, as previously noted the CDS Authoring Tool
does not yet directly support ordering of tests … NA Handling of positive tests and negative
symptoms needs to be done.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/antiplatelet-treatment/research-protocol