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The Technology Assessment (TA) Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (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.
AHRQ's TA Program uses state-of-the-art methodologies for assessing the clinical utility of medical interventions. Technology assessments are based on a systematic review of the literature, along with appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods of synthesizing data from multiple studies.
This collection includes AHRQ reports from 1999 to the current time. Reports published prior to this by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research are available in the National Library of Medicine's archived AHCPR Technology Assessments.
Contents
2020
2018
Archived
- Actinic Keratoses
- Air-Fluidized Beds Used for Treatment of Pressure Ulcers in the Home Environment
- Applicability of the Evidence Regarding Intensive Glycemic Control and Self-Monitored Blood Glucose to Medicare Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- Assessment on Implantable Defibrillators and the Evidence for Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein: The State of the Evidence of On-Label and Off-Label Use
- Cardiac Catheterization in Freestanding Clinics
- Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
- Cognitive Outcomes After Cardiovascular Procedures in Older Adults: A Systematic Review
- Comparative Evaluation of Radiation Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: an Update
- A Comparison of the Cost-Effectiveness of Fecal Occult Blood Tests with Different Test Characteristics in the Context of Annual Screening in the Medicare Population
- Compendia for Coverage of Off-label Uses of Drugs and Biologics in an Anticancer Chemotherapeutic Regimen
- Consideration of Evidence on Antiemetic Drugs for Nausea and Vomiting Associated with Chemotherapy or Radiation Therapy in Adults
- Cost-Effectiveness of CT Colonography to Screen for Colorectal Cancer
- Cost-Effectiveness of DNA Stool Testing to Screen for Colorectal Cancer
- Decompression Therapy for the Treatment of Lumbosacral Pain
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Obesity in the Elderly
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Lymphedema
- ECG-Based Signal Analysis Technologies
- Effectiveness of Cochlear Implants in Adults with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
- Effectiveness of Portable Monitoring Devices for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Update of a Systematic Review
- Esophageal Doppler Ultrasound-Based Cardiac Output Monitoring for Real-Time Therapeutic Management of Hospitalized Patients: A Review
- Evaluation of the Evidence on Benefits and Harms of Pulmonary Artery Catheter Use in Critical Care Settings
- Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) or Other In Situ Hybridization (ISH) Testing of Uterine Cervical Cells to Predict Precancer and Cancer
- Genetic Tests for Cancer
- Health Risk Appraisal
- Home Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome
- Horizon Scan of Invasive Interventions for Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease and Systematic Review of Studies Comparing Stent Placement to Other Interventions
- Horizon Scan on Hip Replacement Surgery
- Horizon Scan: To What Extent Do Changes in Third-Party Payment Affect Clinical Trials and the Evidence Base?
- A Horizon Scan: Uses of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- The Impact of Pre-Transplant Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Renal Allograft Rejection
- Lifestyle Interventions for Four Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Breast Cancer, and Prostate Cancer
- Liver Transplantation for Patients with Hepatobiliary Malignancies Other than Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Long-Term Oxygen Therapy for Severe COPD
- Low Density Lipoprotein Subfractions: Systematic Review of Measurement Methods and Association with Cardiovascular Outcomes
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy For Brain Tumors
- Management of Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis
- Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy
- Measuring Quality of Life for Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Methodological Issues in Evaluation of Innovative Training Approaches to Stroke Rehabilitation
- Morbidity and Mortality Among Adult Living Donors Undergoing Right Hepatic Lobectomy for Adult Recipients
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Devices
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Technologies for Chronic Wound Care in the Home Setting
- Non-Invasive Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: Modeling Different Diagnostic Strategies
- Outcomes of Sipuleucel-T Therapy
- Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low Back Pain
- Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization and Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization
- Point of Care Testing of Hemoglobin A1c
- Positron Emission Testing for Six Cancers (Brain, Cervical, Small Cell Lung, Ovarian, Pancreatic And Testicular)
- Positron Emission Tomography for Nine Cancers (Bladder, Brain, Cervical, Kidney, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Small Cell Lung, Testicular)
- Positron Emission Tomography, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Computed Tomography, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and for the Diagnosis and Management of Alzheimer’s Dementia
- A Proposed Framework to Evaluate Home Tests for Use in the Management of Chronic Diseases
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD and Other Lung Diseases
- Quality, Regulation and Clinical Utility of Laboratory-developed Molecular Tests
- Randomized Trials of Secondary Prevention Programs in Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review
- The Relative Efficacy of Oral Cancer Therapy for Medicare Beneficiaries Versus Currently Covered Therapy: Part 1, Gefitinib and Erlotinib for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Remote Cardiac Monitoring: A Systematic Review
- Renal Denervation in the Medicare Population
- Report on the Evidence Regarding Off-Label Indications for Targeted Therapies used in Cancer Treatment
- Report on the Relative Efficacy of Oral Cancer Therapy for Medicare Beneficiaries Versus Currently Covered Therapy: Part 2, Imatinib for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (Gist)
- Report on the Relative Efficacy of Oral Cancer Therapy for Medicare Beneficiaries Versus Currently Covered Therapy: Part 3, Imatinib for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
- Report on the Relative Efficacy of Oral Cancer Therapy for Medicare Beneficiaries Versus Currently Covered Therapy: Part 4 Thalidomide for Multiple Myeloma
- Retinal Prostheses in the Medicare Population
- Reviews of Selected Pharmacogenetic Tests for Non-Cancer and Cancer Conditions
- The Role of Bone Growth Stimulating Devices and Orthobiologics in Healing Nonunion Fractures
- Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds
- Spinal Fusion for Treatment of Degenerative Disease Affecting the Lumbar Spine
- Systematic Review for Effectiveness of Hyaluronic Acid in the Treatment of Severe Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of the Knee
- Systematic Review of Decision Tools and Their Suitability for Patient-Centered Decisionmaking Regarding Electronic Cardiac Devices
- Systematic Review of ECG-based Signal Analysis Technologies for Evaluating Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
- A Systematic Review of Loss-of-Heterozygosity based Topographic Genotyping with PathfinderTG®
- Systematic Review of Positron Emission Tomography for Follow-up of Treated Thyroid Cancer
- 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
- Technology Assessment of Molecular Pathology Testing for the Estimation of Prognosis for Common Cancers
- Technology Assessment on Genetic Testing or Molecular Pathology Testing of Cancers with Unknown Primary Site to Determine Origin
- Thoracic Electrical Bioimpedance
- Treatments for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Update on Emerging Genetic Tests Currently Available for Clinical Use in Common Cancers
- Update on Horizon Scans of Genetic Tests Currently Available for Clinical Use in Cancers
- Update on Mapping the Landscape of Genetic Tests for Non-Cancer Diseases/Conditions
- Use of Bayesian Techniques in Randomized Clinical Trials: A CMS Case Study
- Use of Behavioral Therapies for Treatment of Medical Disorders: Part 1 – Impact on Management of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
- Use of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in the Medicare Population
- Use of Positron Emission Tomography and Other Neuroimaging Techniques in the Diagnosis and Management of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
- Usual Care in the Management of Chronic Wounds: A Review of the Recent Literature
- Vulnerable Plaques: A Brief Review of the Concept and Proposed Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment
- White Paper: Potential Conflict of Interest in the Production of Drug Compendia
- AHRQ Technology AssessmentsAHRQ Technology Assessments
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