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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-200-comments-post-acs.pdf
November 14, 2017 - Since there are 2 versions of the PHQ, use of the "PHQ"
is ambiguous and confusing. … and treatment strategies as well
the scope of the review and the key questions within the
analytical … TEP #6 Methods 4) The statistical analysis including assessment of study
quality and strength of evidence … and the
implications of this bias. … fact that PHQ (-2/-9) that has become
dominant in actual clinical practice at many health
systems.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mrsa-screening-2010_executive.pdf
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.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/breast-cancer-imaging_disposition-comments.pdf
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.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/vte-prophyalaxis_executive.pdf
May 01, 2013 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers, and
others in making informed choices
among … Assessment of Methodological Quality of
Individual Studies
We conducted the risk of bias assessment … in efficacy and safety outcome assessment
methods. … Their assessment of the indirect evidence
regarding bioaccumulation and increased anti-Xa levels
are … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the
assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised
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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
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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
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/multinational-registries-guide-3rd-ed-addendum-white-paper.pdf
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
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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
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/type-2-diabetes-medications-2007_executive.pdf
January 01, 2007 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers, and
others in making informed choices
among treatment … and functional status
4
5
because of a limited number of studies and differences
in the questionnaires … In the absence of compelling evidence from long-term
trials that include assessment of cardiovascular … Given the limitations of the analysis, the
effects of rosiglitazone on cardiovascular mortality and
myocardial … compared with other oral diabetes medications.
5 DREAM (Diabetes REduction Assessment with ramipril
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/antipsychotic-medicine-cardiovascular-elderly_research.pdf
February 01, 2009 - The DEcIDE network assists health care providers, patients, and policymakers
seeking unbiased information … The older patient: the ongoing
challenge of efficacy and tolerability. … The
efficacy, safety, and tolerability of
antipsychotics in the elderly. … Antipsychotics and the risk of sudden
cardiac death. … Antipsychotics and
the risk of sudden cardiac death.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/measuring-blood-pressure_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2012 - intervention on the right of the
line of identity, and the plot showing net change clinic
BP is set … scientific meetings of professional societies”
The assessment of the diagnostic accuracy or the risk … and drug administration
website for measurement systems with a particular product code. … of disease,
BP goals and the role of antihypertensive therapy. … of
the types and validation of such monitors.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/transcript_deliberativemethodswebinar.pdf
April 19, 2012 - She is also an
associate member of the Department of Political Science and
a member of the Centre … and the analysis of the determinants of
health-policy decision making. … political systems, and so
deliberative procedures should try to compensate for that
in some way … in healthcare
quality, access, financing, comparative-effectiveness
research and consumer engagement … And then, secondly, and as importantly, to obtain public
input on the topic of the use of evidence
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/crohns-disease_executive.pdf
February 01, 2014 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers, and
others in making informed choices
among … their
assessment in RCTs and poor control for confounding in
nonrandomized studies. … In children, the evidence was insufficient to
permit assessment of the consistency of medication
efficacy … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the
assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised … Longitudinal
assessment of growth, mineral metabolism, and bone mass
in pediatric Crohn’s disease.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/angina-heart-attack-treatments_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2014 - A discrepancy in describing the
association of DAPT with and without PPI and CV outcomes and
the association … of the report and in Table 7. … of the
RCTs and observational studies are consistent and
the findings from the meta-analysis of the … the
data and the areas of need for future research. … AHRQ evidence reports are often translated into
other documents (e.g., Consumer summary,
Clinician
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/antidepressants-2007_executive.pdf
January 01, 2007 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers, and
others in making informed choices
among treatment … efficacy and effectiveness of fluoxetine, paroxetine, and
sertraline for the treatment of dysthymia. … Methods of adverse events assessment in efficacy trials
differed greatly. … Determining whether assessment methods were
unbiased and adequate was often difficult. … Paroxetine and venlafaxine had the
highest incidence of this problem, and fluoxetine
the lowest incidence
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cystic-fibrosis-hgh_appendixes.pdf
January 01, 2009 - D-3
Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL): Assessment of the overall well-being of a patient. … Toronto Lung Transplant Program and
either were accepted to the program or
died during assessment … Strength of evidence for outcomes evaluated in Key Question 2
Quality assessment
Summary of findings … Strength of evidence for outcomes evaluated in Key Question 4
Quality assessment
Summary of findings … The six-minute
walk test: a guide to assessment for lung
transplantation.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/vitamin-d-calcium_executive.pdf
September 01, 2014 - The assessment of the literature on vitamin D and
all-cause mortality in the original report was based … An assessment
of the association between serum 25(OH)D and incident
hypertension in 1,211 participants … Of
the RCTs identified for the current report that met
the criteria for inclusion in an assessment … , and
six reported participating in the Vitamin D External
Quality Assessment Scheme. … in the assessment of dose-response, as well as the
RCTs included in the original report and plotted
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/asthma-immunotherapy-2010_executive.pdf
January 01, 2010 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers,
and others in making informed
choices among … of allergies and asthma
in the adult and pediatric populations and then finalized the
protocol. … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment
We created standardized forms for data extraction to
maximize … Not all of the studies reported safety data and the lack
of a consistent reporting system and grading … systems for reporting pertinent primary outcomes, such
as symptoms or medication use.
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/renal-function_executive.pdf
August 01, 2014 - The object is to help
consumers, health care providers,
and others in making informed
choices among … We used the Downs and Black quality assessment
tool to assess the quality of all included studies.27 … Thus, our assessment
of the prevalence of elevated baseline troponin may be
incomplete (KQ 4.1). … ACS using global risk assessment
criteria in their reports, as the interpretation of troponin
post-testing … The feasibility of creating a checklist for the
assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetes-update-2015_disposition-comments.pdf
January 01, 2015 - We definitely appreciate the concern that
outcomes assessment should be standardized
for all of the … outcomes to emphasize
the importance weight plays when choosing
diabetes medications for the consumer … This is discussed in
the Methods under risk of bias assessment, and
the quality of the observational … quality assessment tools. … We agree
that better quality assessment tools have been
developed since then.