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Oxygen therapy in acute care settings

November 24, 2016

| Carmen Moga, Dagmara Chojecki

This overview report provides a summary of the published information on the oxygen therapy issues studied in the past 10 years in the acute care settings. The report includes a summary of audit studies that aimed to address appropriate/inappropriate use of oxygen, and explores the safety and quality issues identified in the literature about oxygen prescription, administration,…

Hysteroscopic tubal sterilization (using the Essure® system) – An update

March 01, 2016

| Carmen Moga, Dagmara Chojecki

Alberta STE Report written under contract with the Alberta Health Technologies Decision Process (AHTDP). This rapid report has been produced in response to a request from Alberta Health to provide an update on the new published research evidence on the efficacy/effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of hysteroscopic tubal sterilization (HTS) using the Essure® system for permanent…

A principal component analysis is conducted for a case series quality appraisal checklist

August 22, 2015

| Bing Guo, Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall, Don Schopflocher

  Objective: Because of a lack of a control group, a case-series study is considered one of the weaker study designs from which to obtain evidence on treatment effectiveness. Under certain circumstances, however, this is the only available evidence to inform health-care decisions. This study's intent was to develop and validate a quality appraisal checklist specifically for…

Guideline for primary care management of headache in adults

August 15, 2015

| Werner J Becker, Ted Findlay, Carmen Moga, Ann Scott, Christa Harstall, Paul Taenzer

  Objective: To increase the use of evidence-informed approaches to diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of headache for patients in primary care. Note: This is an Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program related publication.

Practices for implementing effective public advisory groups of lay people or members of the general public

April 01, 2014

| Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

This report has been produced in response to a request from Alberta Health (AH). The objective was to perform a review of practices of engaging committees composed of lay people or members of the general public at international, national, provincial, and regional levels. The review attempts to address the following questions: What scientific evidence is available about committees…

Adapting low back pain guidelines within a multidisciplinary context: a process evaluation.

October 30, 2013

| Christa Harstall, Paul Taenzer, Nancy Zuck, Donna Angus, Carmen Moga, Ann Scott

  Rationale, Aims, and Objectives: The Alberta Ambassador Program (AAP) adapted seven clinical practice guidelines on low back pain (LBP) into a single guideline spanning the continuum of care from prevention and diagnosis through to treatment. The Ambassador adaptation process was evaluated to 1 Identify the major challenges encountered and successful strategies utilized;…

Development of a quality appraisal tool for case series studies using a modified Delphi technique

March 07, 2012

| Carmen Moga, Bing Guo, Don Schopflocher, Christa Harstall

This Methodology Paper summarizes the process, a modified Delphi approach, used to develop a specific checklist for the quality appraisal of case series studies. This work was supplemented with a review of other published checklists and an initial pilot test of the newly developed quality appraisal checklist. Researchers at the Institute of Health Economics with researchers from…

Creating a multidisciplinary low back pain guideline: anatomy of a guideline adaptation process.

August 30, 2011

| Christa Harstall, Paul Taenzer, Donna Angus, Carmen Moga, Ann Scott, Tara Schuller

  Rationale, Aims, and Objectives: A collaborative, multidisciplinary guideline adaptation process was developed to construct a single overarching, evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) for all primary care practitioners responsible for the management of low back pain (LBP) to curb the use of ineffective treatments and improve patient outcomes. Note: This is an…

Managing low back pain in the primary care setting: the know-do gap.

November 30, 2010

| Ann Scott, Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

  Objective: To ascertain knowledge gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic low back pain (LBP) in the primary care setting to prepare a scoping survey for identifying knowledge gaps in LBP management among Alberta's primary care practitioners, and to identify potential barriers to implementing a multidisciplinary LBP guideline. Note: This is an Alberta Ambassador…

Ambassador Program Guideline for the Evidence-Informed Primary Care Management of Low Back Pain - Background Document - June 2010

June 30, 2010

| Carmen Moga

This background document outlines the methods used to develop the Alberta Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the Evidence-Informed Primary Care Management of Low Back Pain, which was produced as part of the second phase of the Alberta Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Ambassador Program. Link to Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program

Making the AGREE tool more user-friendly: the feasibility of a user guide based on Boolean operators.

December 30, 2009

| Ann Scott, Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

  Rationale, aims and objectives: The Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) instrument is a generic tool for assessing guideline quality. This feasibility study aimed to reduce the ambiguity and subjectivity associated with AGREE item scoring, and to augment the tool's capacity to differentiate between good- and poor-quality guidelines. Note: This is an Alberta…

Using health technology assessment to identify research gaps: an unexploited resource for increasing the value of clinical research.

February 28, 2008

| Ann Scott, Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall, Jacques Magnan

  Abstract: Health technology assessments (HTAs) are an as yet unexploited source of comprehensive, systematically generated information that could be used by research funding agencies to formulate researchable questions that are relevant to decision-makers. We describe a process that was developed for distilling evidence gaps identified in HTAs into researchable questions…

Air Ambulance With Advanced Life Support

February 05, 2008

| Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

Air ambulance transportation with capabilities to provide advanced life support. The objective of this report is to present and synthesize the available published research evidence on the efficacy/effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of air ambulance transportation (helicopters) with on-board capabilities of advanced life support (ALS). The intent is to use this evidence to inform…

Creating clinically relevant knowledge from systematic reviews: the challenges of knowledge translation.

August 30, 2007

| Ann Scott, Carmen Moga, Pamela Barton, Saifee Rashiq, Don Schopflocher, Paul Taenzer, Christa Harstall

  Rationale and objective: A research translation strategy for chronic pain was developed that has significant potential to advance the usefulness of systematic reviews (SRs) in clinical practice. Note: This is an Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program related publication.

Using HTA to Identify Research Gaps

September 01, 2006

| Ann Scott, Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Initiative #24. Health technology assessments (HTAs) routinely identify questions or research ‘gaps’ that are not adequately addressed by the primary research. The unique situation of having an HTA unit housed within a provincial research funding organization provided an ideal setting for linking research…

Gastric Electrical Stimulation (EnterraTM Therapy system) for the Treatment of Gastroparesis

January 01, 2006

| Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Report #37. The aim of this paper is to present the current evidence on the efficacy/effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of gastric electrical stimulation (EnterraTM Therapy System) used for the treatment of patients with severe gastroparesis (GP). Information Specialist: Liz Dennett NOTE: In 2006 the Alberta Heritage…

Celecoxib for the Treatment of Pain in Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

May 01, 2005

| Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall, Zhiliu Tang

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Information Paper #24. The objective of this paper is to present the current evidence on the efficacy/effectiveness and safety of celeoxib (Celebrex®) for the treatment of pain in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Information Specialist: Seana Collins NOTE: In 2006 the Alberta Heritage Foundation…

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