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2161. Disposition of Comments Report for Antinuclear Antibody, Rheumatoid Factor, and Cyclic-Citrullinated Peptide Tests for Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complaints in Children (pdf file)
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      March 07, 2012 - The correct treatment? The tests themselves are relatively inexpensive. … excluded those that clearly do not meet our inclusion criteria (literature reviews, case series, treatment

2162. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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      February 13, 2012 - Nuclear medicine techniques and/or breast MRI should not decide the treatment plan for calcifications … including computer technologies utilized in interpretation, the outlook for quality evaluation and treatment

2163. Throat Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2164. For the elderly taking cardiovasculare medications, what are the comparative risks and benefits of commonly used herbal supplements. | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2165. COPD is common and respiratory failure due to COPD is an increasingly common disorder. Use of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) for patients with respiratory failure due to exacerbatons of COPD. Several trials and… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2166. For the disabled and elderly with multiple comorbidities, what is the comparative effectiveness of physician housecalls on outcomes and total cost? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2167. Diagnosis and Management Pressure Ulcer The questions we would like answered by this evidence review are the following: 1. How can we identify patients at risk for pressure ulcers in the hospital or long-term care setting and what is the… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2168. What is the comparative renal of differnt contrast media used in radiographic imaging ? What is the comparative efficacy of different therapies in preventing contrast induced nephropathy? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2169. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review 133 Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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      May 27, 2014 - This is a term that refers to the burden or stress experienced by patients undergoing treatment. … The reason it may be relevant is that studies have yet to define effective treatment for patients with … We did not find evidence to confirm or refute whether treatments are more or less efficacious for many … analysis was used, methods of handling missing data, reliability and validity of outcome measures, and treatment … likely to be effective than a "home visit" program in which every patient gets the same, standard treatment

2170. For patients with insomnia, how do commonly used medications compare for effectiveness and harms, including addictive potential. | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2171. How can patients who have chronic diseases better prepare for critical illness and the end of life? Will a decision aid, using individualized estimates of outcomes, help shared decision making about advance care planning? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2172. Environmental Monitoring in Healthcare to Ensure Adequacy of Housekeeping Cleaning and Reduce the Spread of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2173. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2019 - What is the effect of allied health professional delegation of therapy to allied health assistants on … Effectiveness of Practices To Increase Timeliness of Providing Targeted Therapy for Inpatients with … bed-days could account for up to 30.7% of total costs and cause cancellations of elective operations, treatment … Outcomes included length of stay, time to consultation/treatment, mortality, patient satisfaction, and … multidisciplinary audio conferencing, multidisciplinary video conferencing may reduce the average length of treatment

2174. Diphtheria | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2175. Heart Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2176. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2177. Premature Ovarian Failure | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2178. Hemochromatosis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2179. What are the comparative diagnostic accuracy, diagnostic thinking, therapeutic, and patient outcome efficacy of non-invasive tests for the risk stratification of patients with coronary artery disease? | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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2180. 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 - patient management decisions, including decisions for further testing, and administration or choice of treatment … As in meta-analyses of treatment effects, the latter approach can result in biased estimates (in some … complexities introduced by simultaneous consideration of multiple diagnostic tests that are not apparent in treatments … Modeling between-trial variance structure in mixed treatment comparisons. Biostatistics.