National Guideline Clearinghouse | AHRQ Evidence Reports

National Guideline Clearinghouse | AHRQ Evidence Reports

April 22, 2013

Evidence Reports

The following provides a list of Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) reports starting with the most recent. These reports are used for informing and developing coverage decisions, quality measures, educational materials and tools, guidelines, and research agendas. For more information on EPCs including a list of archived reports, visit the AHRQs Web site.
210.   Screening and Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
209.   Closing Multigene Panels in Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment
208.   Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science Series

• The Patient-centered Medical Home
• Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities
• Bundled Payment: Effects on Health Care Spending and Quality
• Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy
• Medication Adherence Interventions: Comparative Effectiveness
• Quality Improvement Measurement of Outcomes for People With Disabilities
• Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness

207.   Allocation of Scarce Resources During Mass Casualty Events
206.   Enabling Patient-Centered Care through Health Information Technology (Health IT)
205.   Diagnosis and Management of Febrile Infants (0–3 Months)
204.   An Evidence Review of Active Surveillance in Men With Localized Prostate Cancer
203.   Enabling Health Care Decisionmaking Through Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management
202.   Transition of Care for Acute Stroke and Myocardial Infarction Patients: From Hospitalization to Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Secondary Prevention
201.   Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology (Health IT)
200.   Safety of Probiotics Used to Reduce Risk and Prevent or Treat Disease
199.   Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review
198.   Management of Acute Otitis Media: Update
197.   Alcohol Consumption and Cancer Risk: Understanding Possible Causal Mechanisms for Breast and Colorectal Cancers
196.   Assessment of Thiopurine Methyltransferase Activity in Patients Prescribed Azathioprine or Other Thiopurine-based Drugs: Addendum—Updating the Report and Reanalysis
195.   Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Preterm Infants
194.   Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Back Pain II
193.   Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline
192.   Lactose Intolerance and Health
191.   Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights
190.   Enhancing Use and Quality of Colorectal Cancer Screening
189.   Exercise-induced Bronchoconstriction and Asthma
188.   Impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications
187.   Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women
186.   Family History and Improving Health
185.   Diagnosis and Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS)
184.   Treatment of Common Hip Fractures
183.   Vitamin D and Calcium: Systematic Review of Health Outcomes
181.   Outcomes of Community Health Worker Interventions
180.   Outcomes of Genetic Testing in Adults with a History of Venous Thromboembolism
179.   Clinical Utility of Cancer Family History Collection in Primary Care
177.   Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Back Pain Utilization
175.   Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved
174.   Management of Chronic Hepatitis B
173.   Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
172.   HER2 Testing to Manage Patients with Breast or Other Solid Tumors
170.   Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs in Children and Adolescents
169.   Bariatric Surgery in Women of Reproductive Age: Special Concerns for Pregnancy
168.   Outcomes of Maternal Weight Gain
167.   Effectiveness of Assisted Reproductive Technology
166.   Diabetes Education for Children With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Families
165.   Hydroxyurea for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease
164.   Utility of Monitoring Mycophenolic Acid in Solid Organ Transplant Patients
163.   Carbohydrate and Lipid Disorders and Relevant Considerations in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
162.   Therapeutic Management, Delivery, and Postpartum Risk Assessment and Screening in Gestational Diabetes
160.   Impact of Gene Expression Profiling Tests on Breast Cancer Outcomes
132.   Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
43.   Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices

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Evidence Technical Reviews

The following provides a list of Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) technical reviews starting with the most recent. For a list of archived reports, visit the Archived Technical Reviews on AHRQ's Web site.
17.   Nutritional Research Series

• Volume 1: Application of Systematic Review Methodology to the Field of Nutrition
• Volume 2: Issues and Challenges in Conducting Systematic Reviews to Support Development of Nutrient Reference Values: Workshop Summary
• Volume 3: Reporting of Systematic Reviews of Micronutrients and Health: A Critical Appraisal
• Volume 4: Effects of Eicosapentanoic Acid and Docosahexanoic Acid on Mortality Across Diverse Settings: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials and Prospective Cohorts
• Volume 5: Comparison of Translational Patterns in Two Nutrient–Disease Associations

9.   Closing the Quality Gap:

• Volume 1: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies
• Volume 2: Diabetes Mellitus Care
• Volume 3: Hypertension Care
• Volume 4: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior
• Volume 5: Asthma Care
• Volume 6: Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Volume 7: Care Coordination

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Technology Assessment Reports

The technology assessment program at AHRQ provides technology assessments for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These technology assessments are used by CMS to inform its national coverage decisions for the Medicare program as well as provide information to Medicare carriers. For a list of archived reports from 1990-2007, visit the AHRQ Web site . The AHRQ Web site also provides a list of Technology Assessments In Progress .
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2012

• The Impact of Pre-Transplant Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Renal Allograft Rejection
• Management of Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis***
• Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients With Diabetic Retinopathy
• Systematic Review of ECG-based Signal Analysis Technologies for Evaluating Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Update on Mapping the Landscape of Genetic Tests for Non-Cancer Diseases/Conditions

2011

• Effectiveness of Cochlear Implants in Adults with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
• Health Risk Appraisal
• Lifestyle Interventions for Four Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Breast Cancer, and Prostate Cancer
• Outcomes of Sipuleucel-T Therapy
• Update on Horizon Scans of Genetic Tests Currently Available for Clinical Use in Cancers

2010

• Bone Morphogenetic Protein: the State of the Evidence of On-Label and Off-Label Use
• Consideration of Evidence on Antiemetic Drugs for Nausea and Vomiting Associated with Chemotherapy or Radiation Therapy in Adults
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Lymphedema
• ECG-based Signal Analysis Technologies
• Genetic Tests for Non-cancer Diseases/Conditions: a Horizon Scan
• Quality, Regulation and Clinical Utility of Laboratory-developed Tests
• Comparative Evaluation of Radiation Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: an update
• Report on the Evidence Regarding Off-Label Indications for Targeted Therapies used in Cancer Treatment
• A Systematic Review of Loss-of-Heterozygosity Based Topographic Genotyping with PathfinderTG®***
• Systematic Reviews on Selected Pharmacogenetic Tests for Cancer Treatment: CYP2D6 for Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer, KRAS for anti-EGFR antibodies in Colorectal Cancer, and BCR-ABL1 for Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

2009

• Cost-effectiveness of CT Colonography to Screen for Colorectal Cancer
• Horizon Scan: To What Extent Do Changes in Third-party Payment Affect Clinical Trials and the Evidence Base?
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Devices
• Reviews of Selected Pharmacogenetic Tests for Non-Cancer and Cancer Conditions
• Use of Bayesian Techniques in Randomized Clinical Trials: A CMS Case Study
• White Paper: Potential Conflict of Interest in the Production of Drug Compendia

2008

• Cost-effectives of CT Colonography to Screen for Colorectal Cancer
• Home Testing in Management of Chronic Diseases
• Horizon Scan of Invasive Interventions for Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease and Systematic Review of Studies Comparing Stent Placement to Other Interventions
• Horizon Scan: Lipoprotein Subfractions for Identifying Patients at Increased Risks for Cardiovascular Diseases
• Methodological Issues in Evaluation of Innovative Training Approaches to Stroke Rehabilitation
• Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Post-Discharge Care in Heart Failure
• Positron Emission Tomography for Nine Cancers (Bladder, Brain, Cervical, Kidney, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Small Cell Lung, Testicular)