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141. Folic Acid Supplementation to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2023 - prevention of neural tube defect–affected pregnancies; methodological quality was dually and independently assessed … Of these, 3 studies (n = 990 372) assessed the effect of folic acid supplementation on neural tube defects … For harms, 9 studies were eligible; 1 randomized clinical trial (n = 431) assessed variations in twin

142. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-for-abnormal-blood-glucose-and-type-2-diabetes-october-2015
     October 26, 2015 - Threshold for Behavioral Interventions Many studies assessed intensive behavioral interventions for … The evidence review assessed the benefits and harms of aspirin use and intensive versus standard control … The USPSTF identified 8 studies published since the prior review that assessed the effects of pharmacologic … Estimate of Magnitude of Net Benefit The USPSTF assessed the overall benefit of screening for IFG,

143. Procedure Manual Section 6. Methods for Arriving at a Recommendation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 06, 2017 - admissible evidence has been gathered and the internal and external validity of individual studies has been assessed … For example, if an RCT of screening is not available, evidence may be assessed related to the accuracy … benefit, in situations where the evidence is adequate or convincing for harm, the magnitude of harm is assessed … Net benefit, as used by the Task Force, is often assessed as substantial in those situations in which

144. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Hepatitis C: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review49/hepatitis-c-screening-2013
     November 15, 2012 - Study Selection:  Randomized trials and cohort, case–control, and cross-sectional studies that assessed … screened upon application of a particular screening strategy, divided by the total number of patients assessed … We assessed the overall strength of each body of evidence as “high,” “moderate,” “low,” or “insufficient … Intervention series: 88,587 Screening: poor Liver biopsies: fair Screening: unable to assess (assessed

145. Screening for Major Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2016 - Extraction: Data were abstracted by 1 investigator and checked by another; 2 investigators independently assessed … Benefits, Yield, and Harms of Screening We found no trials that directly assessed the bene- fits or … al, 2001 (21) Fair 290 All age-eligible children per municipal census in urban Spain recruited and assessed … ClinicalTrials.gov: 563 HSRProj: 149 WHO ICTRP: 193 Records excluded (n = 9638) Full-text articles assessed … trial; analyses not powered to find statistically significant differences between groups; no trials assessed

146. Archived: Evidence Summary: Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 08, 2016 - Extraction: Data were abstracted by 1 investigator and checked by another; 2 investigators independently assessed … USPSTF and others for additional criteria for diagnostic accuracy studies, 2 investigators independently assessed … Benefits, Yield, and Harms of Screening We found no trials that directly assessed the benefits or harms … 2001 21 Fair 290 All age-eligible children per municipal census in urban Spain recruited and assessed … trial; analyses not powered to find statistically significant differences between groups; no trials assessed

147. Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2025 - • Multidomain: interventions that assessed and addressed other so- cial needs in addition to food insecurity … Quality 1 Population 1 Study aim 0 Follow-up 0 Intervention 0 Publication type 413 Full-text articles assessed … � Rivera et al,56 2023 Poor 13 Pre-post Adults aged 35-75 y with hypertension No � Intervention assessed … and Children); CG, control group; FS, food security; IG, intervention group; KQ, key question; multi, assessed … Fourth, the included studies assessed for social risk factors but rarely de- scribed how or whether social

148. Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     March 19, 2024 - DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Two reviewers assessed titles/abstracts, full-text articles, and study … The strength of evidence was assessed as high, moderate, low, or insufficient using methods developed … Child Maltreatment 43 Articles (25 RCTs) included 6576 Citations screened 189 Full-text articles assessed … signifi- cant differences between study groups.23,45,49 School Performance and Attendance | Three RCTs assessed … varied school performance measures (repeating a grade, test scores, academically focused behavior) assessed

149. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: A Targeted Evidence Update for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - KQ3: One fair-quality pre-post study (n=1,097) assessed factors associated with a stressful syphilis … KQ3: Harms of screening No studies directly assessed the harms of screening for syphilis. … • Was the outcome assessed without knowledge of the candidate predictors (i.e., blinded)? … • Were predictors assessed blinded for each other? … • Was the exposure(s) assessed more than once over time?

150. Evidence Summary: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/cervical-cancer-screening
     August 21, 2018 - Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two investigators independently assessed the quality of included … a Assessed using criteria from the US Preventive Services Task Force. 46 b All time points are maximum … a Assessed using criteria from the US Preventive Services Task Force. 46 b This table reports detection … a Assessed using criteria from the US Preventive Services Task Force. 46 b With the exception of … a Study quality assessed using criteria from the US Preventive Services Task Force. 46 Return to

151. JAMA JATS (pdf file)
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     August 21, 2018 - Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two investigators independently assessed the quality of included … of title and abstract 2972 Citations screened after exclusion of duplicates 164 Full-text articles assessed … Screening; POBASCAM, Population Based Screening Study Amsterdam; RCT, randomized clinical trial. a Assessed … Technologies for Cervical Cancer Screening; POBASCAM, Population Based Screening Study Amsterdam. a Assessed … a Study quality assessed using criteria from the US Preventive Services Task Force.46 ClinicalReview

152. Evidence Summary: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication
     August 23, 2022 - cholesterol [LDL-C] level vs fixed-dose strategies, or higher- vs lower-intensity statin therapy that assessed … Two investigators independently assessed the quality of each study as good, fair, or poor using predefined … Statistical heterogeneity was assessed using the I 2 statistic. 6 When statistical heterogeneity was … The aggregate internal validity (quality) of the body of evidence was assessed for each key question … the  JAMA  Supplement). 10-32 Twenty-two randomized trials (N = 95,768, reported in 61 publications) assessed

153. Recommendation: Depression and Suicide Risk in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 20, 2023 - 000) on accuracy of screening tests for detecting depression. 1 , 58 The existing systematic reviews assessed … 0.81 [95% CI, 0.70-0.89]; I 2 = 99.2%), with a cutoff score of 5. 1 , 58 Three studies (n = 1801) assessed … pharmacotherapy in adults of all ages and perinatal persons. 1 , 58 Two existing systematic reviews assessed … study (2 weeks’ follow-up) among primary care patients (n = 443) who screened positive for depression assessed … One large trial (n = 18,882) assessed 2 suicide prevention interventions among adults with an elevated

154. Screening for HIV Infection in Asymptomatic, Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 11, 2019 - relevant articles, studies, and systematic reviews; suggestions from reviewers) 361 Full-text articles assessed … Two independent investigators assessed the quality of each study as good, fair, or poor using predefined … For all KQs, the overall strength of the body of evidence was assessed as high, moderate, low, or insufficient … reporting bias.10 The applicability of the findings to US primary care populations and settings was also assessed … Results Two reviewers independently assessed 4882 unique citations and 348 full-text articles for inclusion

155. Recommendation: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 11, 2025 - Multiple social risk factors are often assessed via multidomain tools (eg, Well Child Care, Evaluation … Screening Tests and Risk Assessment Ten fair-quality studies with a total of 123,886 participants assessed … Eight studies only administered the reference standard and then assessed agreement between item subsets

156. Using Nontraditional Risk Factors in Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2009 - Number 7 477 some Framingham risk factors; however, no studies cal- culated a Framingham risk score, assessed … predictive value beyond Framingham risk scoring, or assessed whether ho- mocysteine levels contribute … after adjustment for some Framing- ham risk factors, but no studies calculated a Framingham risk score, assessed … predictive value beyond Framingham risk scoring, or assessed whether lipoprotein(a) contributes to reclassification

157. Final Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 24, 2017 - including women who have a previous diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer but have completed treatment, are assessed

158. Archived: Evidence Update: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2008 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 05, 2008 - We assessed the quality of RCTs and cohort studies on the following items: initial assembly and maintenance … The authors assessed both studies as having a high risk for bias because of the methodological problems … reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test assessed … reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test assessed

159. Benefits and Harms of Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Evidence Update (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2008 - We assessed the quality of RCTs and cohort studies on the following items: initial assembly and maintenance … The authors assessed both studies as having a high risk for bias because of the methodological problems … reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test assessed … reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test assessed

160. Archived: Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening-october-2018
     October 23, 2018 - Most studies assessed a tool designed to identify persons experiencing IPV within the past year; however … , 4 studies reported on the accuracy of 5 tools for identifying current (ongoing) abuse, 1 assessed the … accuracy of detecting lifetime abuse, and 1 assessed the accuracy of a tool for predicting future (within … Most screening tools were assessed by only 1 study.