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1741. Scars | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1742. Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1743. Disposition of Comments: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 238 Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting (pdf file)
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      March 22, 2021 - scrutinizes research on a range of health issues, with particular focus on which prevention strategies and treatments

1744. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      February 23, 2012 - interdisciplinary process to raise the likelihood of the delivery of best practices for preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic … will include: representativeness of the cohort, selection of a nonexposed cohort, ascertainment of treatment … Other sources of bias would include imbalances in baseline measures, source of funding, stopping treatment … Unequal treatment : confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. … Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare.

1745. Disposition of Comments for CER 158 Diagnosis of Gout (pdf file)
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      February 24, 2016 - Current specificities may be adequate for an impression that can justify treatment of an acute attack … (with continued observation) but not for committing an individual to lifetime treatment with urate … Long term management of gout patients with urate lowering therapy and their monitoring is currently … We typically assess the evidence for the efficacy and safety of treatments. … with urate-lowering therapy in this group is obviously inappropriate.

1746. Towards a Framework for Communicating Confidence in Methodological Recommendations for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2013 - meta-analysis of intervention studies, naïve pooling (where one first combines proportions of events within treatments … , and then calculates differences between treatments) yields a summary treatment effect estimate that … The same resource levels apply to meta-analyses of mixed treatment comparisons (network meta-analyses … Comparing univariate versus multivariate meta-analysis for estimating marginal treatment effects also … The arcsine difference as a measure of treatment effect in meta-analysis with zero cells.

1747. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review 128 Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery (pdf file)
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      April 30, 2014 - However, valid estimates of treatment effects are ideally obtained from randomized trials. … First, this report did not examine the main treatment effects of oral or parenteral antibiotics (we … versus not were not within the scope of the review (unless patients also received alternative OMBP treatments … This does not induce any bias in estimates of the treatment effects obtained from comparisons reported … J Clin Epidemiol. 64(2): 163-71) which allows the reader to more easily determine which treatment has

1748. App-F1-Surv-Report-1-Nonopioid-Pharmacol-Chronic-Pain (xls file)
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      May 29, 2025 - NR 167 4.54 SD 2.24 NR NR 172 4.73 SD 2.26 NR NR 167 -1.93 NR NR NR NR 172 -1.76 NR NR NR NR 167 172 Treatment … NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 167 7.2 NR NR NR NR 172 5.26 NR NR NR NR 167 172 Treatment … NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 167 1.56 NR NR NR NR 172 2.02 NR NR NR NR 167 172 Treatment … NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 167 3.17 NR NR NR NR 172 3.73 NR NR NR NR 167 172 Treatment … NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 167 -1.96 NR NR NR NR 172 -2 NR NR NR NR 167 172 Treatment

1749. Cancer-Pancreas Executive (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2014 - object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among treatment … Effectiveness Reviews, the program supports systematic appraisals of existing scientific evidence regarding treatments … – Test performance (sensitivity, specificity, under-, overstaging) • Intermediate outcomes – Therapeutic … Advances in diagnosis, treatment and palliation of pancreatic carcinoma: 1990-2010. … Pancreatic cancer treatment (PDQ). Health professional version.

1750. Research Protocol: Improving Cultural Competence To Reduce Health Disparities for Priority Populations (pdf file)
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      July 09, 2014 - Studies specifically addressing treatment harms may also include retrospective and case series designs … Additional items may be necessary to evaluate potential risk- of-bias associated with treatment definition … and implementation (treatment fidelity). … Observational literature examining treatment benefits will be used for subgroups not covered by published … Observational literature examining treatment benefits will be used for subgroups not covered by published

1751. Disposition of Comments for Use of Natriuretic Peptide Measurement in the Management of Heart Failure (pdf file)
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      November 20, 2013 - versus non-BNP-guided therapies. … If the treatment is effective the groups can be combined, but the treatment variable should then be … Here treatments are studied on their independent predictive effect and not on their therapeutic or … It is found in the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic sections. … RCT for BNP-guided therapy.

1752. Emerging MRI Technologies for Imaging Musculoskeletal Disorders under Loading Stress (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2011 - of the test could have been evaluated (for example predictive accuracy for assessing response to treatment … implications of false results can still be anticipated: for example, for diagnostic use of the test treatments … and increased costs when none is necessary (for false positive results); and no administration of treatment … when treatment is needed. … (as well as an excess of unnecessary treatment-related adverse effects).

1753. Rapid Evidence Product: Misuse of ADHD Prescription Stimulants in Adults (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2025 - moreover, adolescents who reported prescription stimulant misuse (and who had no history of stimulant therapy … Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 2022: Admissions to and Discharges from Substance Use Treatment Services … Per multivariate regression analysis, there was no significant effect of prescribed stimulant therapy … Adolescents who reported PSM with no history of stimulant therapy for ADHD at baseline had > 2.5 … Findings—Misuse Patterns Findings— Consequences Risk of Bias Data source: National Disease and Therapeutic

1754. Cer-250-Cannabis-2025-Surv-Rep-Update-Tables-E1-4 (xls file)
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      January 01, 2025 - Intervention C Intervention C, Dose Received (Mean) Intervention D Intervention D, Dose Received (Mean) Treatment … Previous treatment with weak opioid: 42 vs. 38 Previous treatment with strong opioid: 19 vs. 11 96 71 … NA NA NA NA NA NA NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Unclear Unclear NA NA Treatments … NA NA NA NA NA NA NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Unclear Unclear NA NA Treatments … NA NA NA NA NA NA NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Unclear Unclear NA NA Treatments

1755. Statistical Design and Analytic Considerations for N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 4) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1756. Web Interactive Presentation of EPC Reports: A Foray Into Interactive Reports | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1757. For pregnant women, or women recieving preconception care, with depression what are the comparative harms or benefits for both fetus/infant and the mother of continuing treatment with anti-depressants? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1758. In patients with dementia, what is the effectiveness of psychological treatment (i.e., non-pharmacological; e.g., cognitive or behavioral therapy for individuals with dementia; environmental and behavioral interventions to address… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1759. Fraenkel (pdf file)
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      May 29, 2025 - Slide 29: Presentation of outcome data for all treatment  options Six boxes containing 100 icons of

1760. Title (pdf file)
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      March 31, 2010 - distinction between prevention (often called "intervention" in the childhood obesity research field) and treatment … This review will focus on prevention; it will not review the targeted treatment of overweight or obese … non-overweight children from becoming overweight or obese, while the primary objective of obesity treatment … □ Studies that aim at weight loss (obesity treatment) will be excluded. … Thomson Medstat Research Brief: Childhood Obesity: Costs, Treatment Patterns, Disparities in Care