Sentences with phrase «lower quality of evidence»

The use of Reading Recovery «is based on evidence, but a lower quality of evidence than [the committee] are comfortable with».

Currently, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) suggests that people with diverticulitis eat a fiber - rich diet or take fiber supplements, but admits that the recommendation is based on a «very low quality of evidence.»

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If the evidence solidifies that sit - down jobs at typical offices are responsible for shortening and lowering the quality of our lives, workers will inevitably stand up to their employers and ask for solutions.

«NCT's own detailed review of home birth concluded that, although the quality of comparative evidence on the safety of home birth is poor, there is no evidence that for women with a low risk of complications the likelihood of a baby dying is any higher if they plan for a home birth compared with planning for a hospital birth.»

GRADE analysis of these outcomes indicated that the overall quality of evidence was low.

GRADE analysis for the outcome of visual acuity indicated that the overall quality of evidence was low.

We could pool heart rate data following injections for only two studies (n = 186); we considered this evidence to be of low quality due to insufficient data.

A review of good quality research on this subject found that if the twin that will be born first (i.e. is lowest in the womb) is head down there is no good evidence that caesarean section will be safer than a vaginal birth for the mother or babies.

An earlier systematic review from Cochrane states, ««In countries and areas where it is possible to establish a home birth service backed up by a modern hospital system, all low risk pregnant women should be offered the possibility of considering a planned home birth and should be informed about the quality of the available evidence to guide their choice.»

While the overall quality of the evidence was very low, fair - quality studies showed that opioid dose reduction was associated with improvements for outcomes such as pain, function, and quality of life.

A study published in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows that most clinical practice guidelines for interventional procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy, angioplasty) are based on lower - quality medical evidence and fail to disclose authors» conflicts of interest.

New evidence published in the Cochrane Library today shows that adding calorie labels to menus and next to food in restaurants, coffee shops and cafeterias, could reduce the calories that people consume, although the quality of evidence is low.

«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low - quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

At the moment we only have low to moderate quality evidence for the effects of yoga before six months as a type of exercise for helping people with chronic lower back pain.

Each recommendation received two grades, one for strength (strong, weak or insufficient), and another for the quality of evidence (high, moderate or low) that supported the specific recommendation.

While the research showed promise in using non-specialist health workers to improve mental health outcomes in developing countries, the authors note that more evidence is needed in this area as many studies were of low quality.

«Air quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the ATS,» said ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

The authors judged the quality of evidence for the primary outcomes of this review to be low.

While the quality of existing evidence is low, this could be a massive breakthrough in reproductive medicine when proven effective.

There is a growing body of evidence that a high - fat, low - carb diet offers disease - modifying and neuroprotective qualities that can aid in protecting the brain from stroke,

The report cautions that the quality of evidence is generally low due to methodological issues in the research, and emphasizes that therapies be administered only by those with sufficient training and experience.

Hey fam, intermittent fasting is totally awesome & a panacea, but the quality of evidence supporting this in humans is quite low (ie, non-existent).

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

There is no justification for punting on curricula: There is too much evidence that quality matters, and the cost of choosing quality is too low to do otherwise.

They are employing WGBH to create a 10 - 12 minute video that tells the story of the book, including both the disturbing effects of increased family income inequality on the quality of education provided to children from low - income families, and the evidence on strategies to improve educational opportunities for low - income children.

This evidence is consistent with a simple theory of teacher labor markets that predicts that lower quality teachers will be disproportionately found in schools with low ‐ achieving, poor and non-white students.

Evidence that the school has eliminated low ‐ track classes and, more generally, evidence of the steps the school has taken to increase the access of students to challenging curricular materials and high - quality instruction (e.g., letters sent to parents and regular outreach by teachers or counEvidence that the school has eliminated low ‐ track classes and, more generally, evidence of the steps the school has taken to increase the access of students to challenging curricular materials and high - quality instruction (e.g., letters sent to parents and regular outreach by teachers or counevidence of the steps the school has taken to increase the access of students to challenging curricular materials and high - quality instruction (e.g., letters sent to parents and regular outreach by teachers or counselors).

The results of this analysis again provide little evidence that low middle - school quality stems from differences in the school characteristics we can observe.

Since ESSA requires states to adopt evidence - based interventions for the lowest performing bottom 5 percent of schools, and school diversity is a research - supported strategy linked to improved student outcomes, (when appropriate) states could use this mandate as an opportunity to invest in these schools by turning them into high - quality racially and socioeconomically diverse magnets.

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high - quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low - income, minority students.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

Overall, as a group, teachers received lower scores on the Attention to Individual or Subgroups of Learners rubric than on the Focus and Quality of Evidence rubric, possibly indicating that attending to individual students» thinking and understanding is a skill that needs time to develop and is not prevalent in novice teachers.

Schools can be evaluated using multiple sources of evidence that includes limited, low - stakes testing, school quality reviews, and samples of ongoing student work (Neill, 2010).

Nevertheless, Committee members found the evidence on the impact of high - quality pre-K and third - grade reading so compelling that members recommended making difficult choices to prioritize these areas even at the potential expense of other K - 12 funding priorities, such as lowering class sizes, investing in teacher professional development, and improving classroom technology, that have not been shown to correlate as strongly with improved student outcomes, particularly for high - need students.

Based on data from a post-student teaching survey, we find consistently strong evidence of large effects of being assigned to high versus low index placements, particularly in terms of teacher candidates» perceptions of the quality of instruction of their cooperating teachers and the quantity and quality of the coaching that they received.

If at first you are taken in by the low - slung style, the more conventional (than previously) but entirely functional dash presentation and the clear evidence of further quality upgrading, you'll soon learn to also appreciate the Civic's people and luggage - carrying abilities as well.

Low Cost Rates with High Quality Results with Islamic Banking Masters The growing number of students in need for professional writing services is evidence of the level of difficulty in Islamic Banking writing.

There is limited and weak evidence to suggest that it may have a role to play in reducing anxiety in dogs over the medium to longer term but the available evidence is of low quality and / or high risk of bias, with confounding variables providing alternative explanations for the findings.

It seems logical that it might help the kidneys to feed lower amounts of higher quality protein throughout life but there really isn't much evidence to support a beneficial effect except in dogs who actually have kidney insufficiency.

Publishers want to see evidence that their games will sell well in China before they part with the cash for a high quality localisation, but at the same time if there are fewer titles localised at the moment then it means that there is a lower supply of games to entice gamers to buy a PlayStation 4.

The more a tribunal delegates the review of the evidence and argument, the more the tribunal risks lowering the quality of its ultimate decision.

Picture quality is absolutely superb - blacks are very black (especially if we set Local Dimming to low), while there was no noticeable evidence of any poor light distribution (the LEDs are along the bottom of the panel).

The quality of evidence for language development, cognitive development and social and emotional well - being was low.

For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.

With a relatively larger (albeit still inadequate) body of literature, UCLA / Lovaas — based intervention and EIBI variant studies have revealed positive shifts in language, adaptive, cognitive, and educational outcomes, but our confidence (strength of evidence) in that effect is low because of the need for additional, confirmatory research, a lack of high - quality RCTs, and no studies that have directly compared effects of promising manualized treatment approaches.

The generation differences show evidence of the stake in the older (G1 — G2) and younger (G2 — G3) generation relationships in which parents report lower negative relationship quality than children.

However, when stratified by quality of studies, the Cochrane review found no statistically significant evidence in methodologically robust RCTs that exercise was more effective than psychological or pharmacological therapies.46 Nevertheless, we still found that depressive symptoms are associated with lower PA levels in individuals at high risk of CVD, which highlights the importance of screening and optimising conventional depression management48 to reduce depressive symptoms, which could help lower CVD risk.3 4

There is growing evidence of deficiencies in the quality of health care for children, including low rates of preventive services, 1 persistent disparities in health status, 2 and lack of a usual source of care among ethnic and racial minorities and children in low - income families.3

Despite evidence of the positive impact of high - quality early childhood education for all children, it remains out of reach for most low - and moderate - income families.15 The average price of center - based care in the United States accounts for nearly 30 percent of the median family income, and only 10 percent of child care programs are considered high quality.16 Publicly funded programs — such as Head Start, Early Head Start, child care, and state pre-K programs — are primarily targeted at low - income families, but limited funding for these programs severely hinders access.17 This lack of access to high - quality early childhood education perpetuates the achievement gap, evidenced by the fact that only 48 percent of low - income children are ready for kindergarten, compared with 75 percent of moderate - or high - income children.18

For the most part the evidence is of low quality.