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361. Serum Free Light Chain Analysis for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Plasma Cell Dyscrasias: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - remission, relapse, and assessment of tumor burden)? … remission, relapse, and assessment of tumor burden)? … remission, relapse, and assessment of tumor burden)? … remission, relapse, and assessment of tumor burden)? … remission, relapse, and assessment of tumor burden)?

362. Management of Primary Headache During Pregnancy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 12, 2019 - review protocol timing, justification of excluded studies, study funding sources, and assessment of … For each SoE assessment, we will consider the number of studies, their study designs, the study limitations … Assessment of Parenteral Pharmacotherapies. … The acute treatment of migraine in adults: the american headache society evidence assessment of migraine … and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others with experience in making health care

363. Engaging-Caregivers-Appendix-B (xls file)
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     January 08, 2024 - able to complete a baseline assessment prior to the adolescent's discharge; (5) Reliable access to a … baseline assessment (i.e., alcohol or other drug use in the past 90 days). … without patient suffering, and result in demonstration of respect for the patient’s dignity and feelings … Confusion Assessment Method in the ICU tool; (4) Patients who had a Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale … needs assessment, followed by connection to appropriate resources; 3) Communication preference assessment

364. S16 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - assessment of outcomes) help ensure the “internal validity” of a study, they can reduce its rele- vance … Health plans and insurers: Should we pay for follow-up assessment of bone density for women on treatment … for individual patients or health systems (Table 3). … Control Rate* RRR (%) Strokes Prevented† Control Rate* RRI (%) Bleeds Caused† WHS Healthy female healthcare … workers 39,876 (54.6) 10 1.3 17 0.2 0.5 40 0.2 HOT Men and women with hypertension 8,883 (62.3) 4

365. PULMONARY with "Discussions" in Exec Summary (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - Results and Discussion of Comments Six experts, with clinical, research, or health systems backgrounds … Results and Discussion of Comments Six experts, with clinical, research, or health systems backgrounds … .51,52 The monitor controls the platform and provides donor-organ assessment information.52 In pilot … Results and Discussion of Comments Six experts, with clinical, research, or health systems backgrounds … Normothermic perfusion of donor lungs for preservation and assessment with the Organ Care System

366. EPC Methods: An Exploration of Methods and Context for the Production of Rapid Reviews (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2015 - The target audience varied and included: hospitals, hospital management, health systems, health systems … However, health systems tended to dominate and few programs responded to requests from individuals not … Only one of the five products involved quality assessment and grading the quality of evidence. … None of the six products involved quality assessment or grading the quality of evidence. … How important are comprehensive literature searches and the assessment of trial quality in systematic

367. Treatment of Insomnia Disorder | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 03, 2014 - Other guidelines do target primary care audiences, such as recommendations on the assessment and management … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies Risk of bias of eligible systematic … of participants and personnel, blinding of outcome assessment, incomplete outcome data (i.e., was incomplete … Evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and management of sleep disorders in older persons. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

368. Adverse Effects of First-line Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 07, 2018 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies— The assessment of risk of bias for included … intervention) and methodologic (based on risk of bias assessment) variables. … , and reporting bias of the evidence body. … How to Use the AGS 2015 Beers Criteria – A Guide for Patients, Clinicians, Health Systems, and Payors … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

369. Horizon-Scan Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - administration professionals working in all sizes of health systems and settings (urban, rural, and … 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 … are relative to the assessment of the other topics in that priority area at a particular point in

370. Cad-Women-Diagnosis Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among … , abstract screening, data abstraction and management, assessment of methodological quality of individual … core elements described in the Methods Guide5 and from QUADAS,8 a tool for the quality assessment … Appendix D of the full report summarizes our assessment of the quality and applicability for each included … The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included

371. Self-Measured Blood Pressure: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - The VA medical system also contains electronic medical and administrative data systems, which reduces … care systems. … In the absence of clinical data to support a CEA, sensitivity analyses should also include an assessment … Thus, for an accurate assessment of BP, home, clinic, and ambulatory BP measurements must all be integrated … • Represent high costs to consumers, patients, health care systems or payers; due to common use,

372. Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (pdf file)
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     January 30, 2023 - symptoms and signs evaluated, assessment tools used, and the demographics and settings of the study … will review each risk of bias assessment. … Assessment of vaginal atrophy: a review. … Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation GSM Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause … , practicing clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care

373. Fecal-Incontinence Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     November 30, 2014 - Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies The risk of bias of eligible studies … If the risk of bias assessment tool is similar to our approach, we will separately assess risk of bias … mentioned in the methods section, and an assessment of the grey literature (such as ClinicalTrials.gov … Prospective comparison of faecal incontinence grading systems. Gut 1999; Jan;44(1):77-80. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

374. Pressure Ulcer Treatment Strategies: A Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 08, 2011 - 0 to 17 percent in the home-care setting. 1,2 Various systems have been used to assess the severity … of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), and the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database. … Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies Predefined criteria will be used to assess … of trial populations, interventions, and outcomes assessment. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

375. Protocol: Imaging for Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     December 08, 2014 - both systems.9 Pretreatment Planning At diagnosis, the majority of SCLC patients already have extensive … bias (see the section Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies above). … interval, or if meta-analysis was not performed, by an assessment of the precision of the individual … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others … Was the healthcare provider blinded to the groups to which the patients were assigned? 15.

376. ADHD-Update-protocol-160818 (pdf file)
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     August 18, 2016 - treatment, duration of treatment, previous symptoms and comorbid conditions, and family and health … care provider preferences. … The use of EEG-based systems to support the diagnosis of ADHD will also be evaluated. … Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosed and Medicated Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

377. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     December 15, 2010 - In turn, we hope that this synthesis will result in health care providers and consumers making more … This will be considered in the assessment of heterogeneity and applicability. … , blinding of outcome assessors, assessment of the purity/dose/stability of a dietary supplement and … the effects and routes of excretion of the metabolites of the drug.37 Risk-of-bias assessment categories … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

378. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     May 02, 2011 - The assessment of treatment response and remission by using the SFLC assay or the κ/λ ratio appears … among patients with diagnosed disease, and assessment of prognosis. … Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence, Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 47 (Prepared … Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

379. Tympanostomy Tubes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 18, 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 quality … Health technology assessment (Winchester, England). 2014 Jan;18(5):1-118. PMID: 24438691. … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others

380. Use of Natriuretic Peptide Measurement in the Management of Heart Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 20, 2011 - care systems particularly since it is a chronic condition of older persons and requires substantial resources … See Appendix B for a copy of the quality assessment tools. E. … basis for applicability assessment in this review will be the populations studied and the settings of … The development of QUADAS: A tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included … clinicians, relevant professional and consumer organizations, purchasers of health care, and others