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101. Imaging Tests to Check for Kidney Stones in the Emergency Department | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2020 - If the emergency doctor thinks you might have a kidney stone, several tests may be done. … Blood Tests : To check the health of your kidneys and for signs of a kidney or blood infection. … Imaging Tests : To check for kidney stones in your urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, and bladder). … Imaging tests may include a CT scan or an ultrasound. … Imaging Tests To Check for Kidney Stones Two imaging tests to check for kidney stones are a CT scan

102. Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up providers. | PSNet
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     September 23, 2020 - Classic Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests … Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up … reviewed nearly 700 discharge summaries from two academic centers and found that only 16% of pending tests … were mentioned and that only 13% of discharge summaries listed all pending tests. … Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up

103. Understanding and Reducing Overuse of Potentially Harmful Screening Tests (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - Understanding and Reducing Overuse of Potentially Harmful Screening Tests … right people, at the right time Understanding and Reducing Overuse of Potentially Harmful Screening Tests … While many screening tests are beneficial, some do more harm than good. … How do patients think about screening tests and their potential harms? 2. … More awareness of the potential harms of screening tests is needed.

104. Improving Management of Test Results that Return After Hospital Discharge | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - These errors occur because pending tests are often not communicated to the followup provider, and systems … A copy of the pending tests can be printed and given to patients for outpatient appointments. … Evaluate the impact of this tool on accuracy of documenting pending tests in discharge summaries.  … Providers were surveyed on how to identify the responsible provider to manage pending tests. … Surveys indicated that inpatient providers believe that the “tests with pending results” field on the

105. Tests Pending at Discharge Survey | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Tests Pending at Discharge Survey This is a questionnaire designed to be completed by physicians … Survey Document Tests Pending at Discharge Survey (Persons using assistive technology

106. Choosing the Important Outcomes for a Systematic Review of a Medical Test | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

107. Meta-analysis of Test Performance Evidence When There is a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

108. Introduction to the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

109. Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a Gold Standard | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

110. Assessing Applicability of Medical Test Studies in Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

111. Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

112. Chapter 10: Deciding Whether To Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests With Decision Modeling | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Reports Chapter 10: Deciding Whether To Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests … Therefore, test performance is typically not sufficient for assessing the usefulness of medical tests … Medical tests exert most of their effects in an indirect way. … detected by the more sensitive tests may not have the same treatment response. … Evaluating new screening tests for breast cancer. BMJ 2006; 332(7543):678-679.

113. Evaluating Practices and Developing Tools for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: Methods for the Joint Meta-Analysis of Multiple Tests (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - two tests. … We use M to denote the number of tests. … The Case of Two Tests Consider a meta-analysis of two tests (indexed by m ) and data from K studies … The Case of Three or More Tests One can extend the models to M > 2 tests that have been applied in … Humerus and tests. Med Decis Making.

114. Deciding Whether to Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests with Decision Modeling | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 01, 2013 - Deciding Whether to Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests with Decision Modeling Presentation … faculty instructing investigators and clinicians interested in systematic review methods for medical tests

115. Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Introduction Medical tests are indispensable for clinicians in that they provide information that goes … , clinical examinations, imaging tests, questionnaires, pathology, and measures of health status (e.g … Cochrane Methods Working Group on Systematic Review of Screening and Diagnostic Tests. … Empirical evidence of design-related bias in studies of diagnostic tests. … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/methods-guidance-tests-bias/methods  

116. Chapter 6: Assessing Applicability of Medical Test Studies in Systematic Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Abstract Use of medical tests should be guided by research evidence about the accuracy and utility … of those tests in clinical care settings. … Rapidly Evolving Tests A third challenge, especially relevant to medical tests, is that, even more … than treatments, tests often change rapidly, in degree (enhancements in existing technologies), type … How and by whom tests are conducted in practice and in studies.

117. Chapter 3: Choosing the Important Outcomes for a Systematic Review of a Medical Test | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2019 - tests, and prognostic tests, although prognostic tests are also discussed in Chapter 11. … It is likely that the direct health effects of screening tests are less than in tests used for diagnosis … and prognosis: screening tests are generally designed to be less invasive than tests used to make diagnoses … Example of a Diagnostic Test We differentiate diagnostic tests from screening tests largely by the … effects than tests used for other purposes.

118. Chapter 8: Meta-Analysis of Test Performance When There Is a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - or suggestive thresholds, such as imaging or histological tests. … Table 8–1 lists commonly used methods for meta-analysis of medical tests. … Proposals for a phased evaluation of medical tests. Med Decis Making 2009; 29(5):E13-E21. … Empirical evidence of design-related bias in studies of diagnostic tests. … Exploring sources of heterogeneity in systematic reviews of diagnostic tests.

119. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Introduction With the growing number, complexity, and cost of medical tests, which tests can reliably … The second tenet is that medical tests (and therefore assessments of those tests) are about improving … tests are among the most commonly employed. … The PICOTS typology as applied to interventions and medical tests. … and prognostic tests, respectively.

120. Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Assess the concordance of difference tests instead of test accuracy. … Tests With Correlated Results Within the Strata of the Disease When the two tests are correlated conditional … Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods. … The effect of conditional dependence on the evaluation of diagnostic tests. … Meta-analysis of diagnostic tests with imperfect reference standards.