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921. Updating Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Current Efforts in AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - . 20 Assessment of Key Questions and Constituent Elements for an Update Because medical disciplines … The assessment process of the updating scope and corresponding modifications are depicted in Table 1. … Assessment of the Need to Update Comparative Effectiveness Reviews: Report of an Initial Rapid Program … Assessment (2005-2009). … Technology Assessment programme.

922. Liver-Cancer-Therapy Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 28, 2012 - in each of these systems varies but can include hepatic function, performance status, and tumor characteristics … In addition, the use of various disease classification systems and the inability to translate disease … :  Quality Assessment o Number of participants and flow of participants through steps of study … Okuda, CLIP, and BCLC staging systems in a single Italian centre. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

923. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among treatment … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Data extraction. … Quality assessment. … More information about our quality assessment methods is in the full report. … the diagnosis by a health care provider, evaluation by a health care provider, and objective diagnostic

924. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among treatment … medical therapies, whether outcomes assessment was blinded, and the device used. … Retrieval and manipulation of foreign objects in Yes Device Systems, Inc. the cardiovascular system … blinded outcome assessment. … of the MERCI and Penumbra Systems).

925. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual January 2013 Revision (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - AHRQ did not directly participate in the horizon scanning or assessment of leads or topics, and did … health systems and health administration professionals working in all sizes of health systems and settings … The expert with a potential conflict of interest and relatively lesser expertise, based on our assessment … , and systems of care delivery. … is the analysts’ assessment of comments for those topics with scores at or above the mean and median

926. Research Protocol: Care Interventions for PeopleWith Dementia (PWD) and Their Caregivers (pdf file)
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     February 22, 2019 - informal and formal caregivers, and the effect of interventions on outcomes for people or systems … duration and study followup, setting, risk of bias elements, and NIH stage model assessment. … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias and NIH Stage of Individual Studies Based on AHRQ guidance … bias by comparing reported results with those mentioned in the methods section and an assessment of … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

927. Systematic Review Update: Noninvasive Nonpharmacologic Treatment for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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     December 11, 2018 - initiatives to address gaps related to understanding the complexities of pain assessment and management … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies The predefined criteria used for … of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation), outlined in the AHRQ methods guide.16 The … When quantitative synthesis is not possible, sample size and assessment of variance within individual … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

928. PULMONARY with "Discussions" in Exec Summary (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - The “Lund Method” uses erythrocytes to facilitate physiologic assessment of pulmonary responses at … various levels of insurance. 9 Portable Warm Blood Perfusion Systems (Organ Care System and … the platform and provides donor-organ assessment information.69 In pilot trials, the harvested lung … Cost of the OCS Lung and XPS, a need to train staff to use the systems, and increased staffing requirements … Normothermic perfusion of donor lungs for preservation and assessment with the Organ Care System

929. hemorrhage-postpartum-protocol-140611 (pdf file)
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     June 11, 2014 - Treatment varies depending on the etiology, and clinicians need to know the optimal assessment methods … of the literature and will include eligible studies of all interventions—including systems-level approaches—for … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the quality of studies … Study limitations are derived from the quality assessment of the individual studies that addressed the … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

930. Hepatitis-C-Treatment-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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     September 22, 2011 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … We resolved disagreements through discussion. 4 Quality Assessment of Individual Studies We used … Preventive Services Task Force20 and the Newcastle- Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale21 (specific to cohort … : equal, reliable, and valid (including blinding of outcome assessment) • Adequacy of followup of cohorts … made to the systems and settings in which HCV care is received; the packaging and delivery of medications

931. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - of experts’ comments and assessment of potential impact, and we present summaries below. … Pancreas Device Systems,” to inform the sponsors of IDE studies of artificial pancreas device systems … Based on this input, our overall assessment is that this intervention is in the lower end of the high … While the FDA mandated risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) assessment is a step in the right … One health systems expert thought that the availability and amount of reimbursement for the Iluvien

932. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/insulin-blood-sugar-2010_research-protocol.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - of blood glucose (SMBG) by fingerstick replaced the assessment of glucose by urine dipstick to allow … an interaction between types of intensive insulin-delivery methods and blood glucose-monitoring systems … , adjustment to insulin therapy, definitions of hypoglycemia, definitions of diabetes, assessment of … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised … and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others with experience in making health

933. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/suicide-prevention_research-protocol.pdf
     December 23, 2015 - As pointed out by the Data and Surveillance Task Force of the NAASP (2014),7 the data systems used … care, the rapid expansion of electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient registries, and the … A formal assessment of bias, which focuses on the quality of the study in evaluating its intervention … Downloading and analyzing the data sources within each of these data systems will be out of the scope … ty=tp&tid =19 Department of Justice, BJS Healthcare Provider Records Adolescent Suicide Attempt

934. Treatments for Adults with Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     September 23, 2016 - lead to psychotic symptoms that are ruled out by appropriate use of diagnostic criteria and assessment … assessment process and will undergo the procedures described in the following sections. … Assessment procedure to ascertain sufficiency of evidence: All studies will undergo quality assessment … selected key outcome will undergo full assessment and synthesis as described in the following sections … and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others with experience in making health

935. Mrsa-Screening-2010 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … consumer organizations, and purchasers of health care. … Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal … Implementation of an industrial systems-engineering approach to reduce the incidence of methicillin-resistant … impact of targeted active surveillance for MRSA in patients and healthcare workers.

936. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - Although none made mention of sources of noise or bias in the imaging systems described, most studies … This Key Informant was referring to a quantitative assessment of treatment response related to standard … Systems are now available in a range of wide coverage designs. … Iterative reconstruction is available on new systems and also as an upgrade to many installed base systems … base systems.

937. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/tympanostomy-tubes_research-protocol.pdf
     November 16, 2015 - with recurrent AOM who have a normal ear examination at the time of assessment for tube candidacy.1 … Analytic Framework To guide the assessment of studies that examine the association between tympanostomy … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies – We will assess the methodological … Health technology assessment (Winchester, England). 2014 Jan;18(5):1-118. PMID: 24438691. 3. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

938. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/gestational-diabetes-screening-diagnosis_research-protocol.pdf
     December 16, 2011 - health care systems (see Data Abstraction below), and resource allocation. … eight items assessing sample selection, comparability of cohorts, and the assessment of outcomes. … We will extract data from graphs using the measurement tool of Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (Adobe Systems Inc … The development of the QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

939. Research White Paper Multinational Registries Addendum Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - -year basis, depending on risk assessment.25 Differences in the practice of medicine can be difficult … An assessment of the number of patients who would potentially meet the enrollment criteria for the … Case Report Forms CRFs are used to systematically collect information from health care providers, either … The assessment schedule must be consistent with the study aims, length of recall for the response options … discussed above, assessment of the regulatory, ethical, and legal environments in which a multinational

940. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hepatitis-c-screening_research-protocol.pdf
     October 20, 2011 - for HCV infection within the context of screening and risk assessment of the general population. 1,2 … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias … We will adapt criteria from the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) tool (systematic … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised … and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others with experience in making health