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1. Procedure Manual Appendix VI. Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   July 01, 2017 - Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies Share to Facebook … of systematic reviews are continuously evolving, the USPSTF allows the EPC to use newer methods of assessing … Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies . U.S.

2. Procedure Manual Section 6. Methods for Arriving at a Recommendation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-6-methods-arriving-recommendation
   July 06, 2017 - Share to Email Print Table of Contents  6.1 Overview 6.2 Assessing … Secondary, and Composite Outcomes 6.4 Determining the Adequacy for Benefits and Harms Linkages 6.5 Assessing … Magnitude of Benefit 6.6 Assessing Magnitude of Harm 6.7 Assessing Certainty of Evidence for the Entire … The Task Force's steps to arrive at a recommendation include: Assessing the adequacy of evidence at the … Assessing the adequacy of evidence at the linkage level.

3. Draft Research Plan: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/vision-screening-children-ages-6-months-5-years
   April 24, 2025 - Proposed Approach to Assessing Variation in Evidence Across Populations … reflex test, pupillary reflex test, cover-uncover test, cross cover test, red reflex test) Studies assessing … amblyogenic risk factors, or refractive error (e.g., white reflex test) KQs 2, 3: Studies exclusively assessing

4. Draft Research Plan: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Falls and Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/vitamin-d-calcium-combined-supplementation-primary-prevention-falls-fractures-communitydwelling-adults
   January 12, 2023 - Proposed Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations … approach developed for USPSTF reviews described by Whitlock et al, 1 which involves identifying and assessing … allow for the evaluation of the independent contribution of vitamin D, calcium, or both (e.g., studies assessing

5. Final Research Plan: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Falls and Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/vitamin-d-calcium-combined-supplementation-primary-prevention-falls-fractures-communitydwelling-adults
   April 06, 2023 - Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations … Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviews described by Whitlock et al, 1 which involves identifying and assessing … allow for the evaluation of the independent contribution of vitamin D, calcium, or both (e.g., studies assessing

6. Final Research Plan: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/food-insecurity-screening
   July 28, 2022 - For consideration of variation by population and intervention characteristics, see the “Approach to Assessing … Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations … The USPSTF added a section, “Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations

7. Procedure Manual Section 4. Evidence Review Development | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   June 22, 2025 - Assessment of Individual Studies 4.3 Data Abstraction 4.4 Data Synthesis 4.5 Other Issues in Assessing … settings would be judged to have poor external validity and would not be admissible evidence. 4.2.1 Assessing … individual studies within research designs, the Task Force has developed design-specific criteria for assessing … The EPC may supplement these with the use of newer methods of assessing quality of individual studies … general population) and who are not subject to the special study procedures. 4.2.2.3 Setting When assessing

8. Let's Talk About It: Medicines to Help Prevent Breast Cancer Discussion Guide for Healthcare Providers and Patients | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics/lets-talk-about-it-discussion-guides/lets-talk-about-it-medicines-help-prevent-breast-cancer-discussion-guide-healthcare-providers-and-patients
   June 06, 2025 - The second page provides additional information on assessing patient risk and more detailed data on benefits

9. Procedure Manual | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
   www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual
   December 01, 2015 - Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies VII. … Criteria for Assessing External Validity (Generalizability) of Individual Studies VIII.

10. Procedure Manual Appendix IV. Roles and Responsibilities of USPSTF Members Serving as a Topic Lead | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-iv-roles-and-responsibilities-uspstf-members-serving-topic-lead
    July 01, 2017 - Assessing the evidence on each key question as convincing, adequate, or inadequate. … Assessing the certainty of evidence and magnitude of net benefit across all key questions.

11. Archived: Evidence Summary: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/genital-herpes-screening-november-2016
    December 20, 2016 - For KQ3 (harms of screening),we included trials, systematic reviews, and observational studies assessing … For studies assessing the harms of antiviral medications in pregnant women (KQ6b), multi-institution … We included 11 good- or fair-quality studies (n = 7129; range, 61-3290) assessing the accuracy of 1 or … In the RCT assessing valacyclovir (n = 63), valacyclovir treatment significantly reduced subclinical … Characteristics and Results of Randomized Clinical Trials Assessing Antiviral Medications in Adults (

12. Procedure Manual Appendix VII. Criteria for Assessing External Validity (Generalizability) of Individual Studies | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-vii-criteria-assessing-external-validity-generalizability-individual-studies
    July 01, 2017 - Criteria for Assessing External Validity (Generalizability) of Individual Studies Share to … Criteria for Assessing External Validity (Generalizability) of Individual Studies . U.S.

13. Draft Research Plan: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/breastfeeding-interventions
    March 10, 2022 - consideration of variation by population and intervention characteristics, see the “Proposed Approach to Assessing … Proposed Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Heterogeneity

14. Final Research Plan: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions
    July 14, 2022 - For consideration of variation by population and intervention characteristics, see the “Approach to Assessing … Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations

15. Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
    January 23, 2024 - Three studies assessing parent-reported tools for expressive language skills found consistently high … For studies assessing the benefits and harms of interventions (KQ4, KQ5, and KQ6), those enrolling children … For KQ2, studies assessing the accuracy of a screening instrument against a diagnosis reference standard … Across the 3 trained examiner tools for assessing articulation, the median sensitivity was only 66% ( … RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials.

16. Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes: An Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2016 - genital herpes; studies evaluating accuracy and harms of serologic screening tests for HSV-2; RCTs assessing … For studies assessing benefits or harms of preventive medica- tions in asymptomatic populations (KQ4 … For studies assessing the harms of antiviral medications in pregnant women (KQ6b), multi-institution … We included 11 good- or fair-quality studies (n = 7129; range, 61-3290) assessing the accuracy of 1 or … In the RCT assessing valacyclovir (n = 63), valacyclovir treatment significantly reduced subclinical

17. Evidence Summary: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
    June 24, 2025 - Of these, 1 RCT (n = 239) assessing the benefit of multiple perinatal home visits found a significant … RCTs assessing brief counseling or advocacy interventions specific to IPV found no difference between … For studies assessing the harms of screening (KQ3) or interventions (KQ5), such as labeling, stigma, … Five RCTs (7 articles; n = 1413) assessing interventions for IPV reported on harms; all are included … Similar to the previous update for this topic, we found no studies directly assessing the benefit or

18. From Topic Nomination to Clinical Practice: Making a Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/from-topic-nomination-to-clinical-practice-resources-overview.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-4-evidence-review-development Assessing … the Evidence Using the EPC’s Draft Evidence Review, the Task Force follows its methods for assessing … procedure-manual-section-6-methods-arriving-recommendation Determining the Recommendation • After assessing … Notes It takes about 18 months for the EPC and Task Force to complete gathering, analyzing, and assessing … Research Plan 4 Review Evidence and Develop Draft Recommendation Conducting the Evidence Review Assessing

19. Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults (pdf file)
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    One- to 3-item screening instruments have the best accuracy for assessing unhealthy alcohol use in adults

20. Draft Research Plan: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/cognitive-impairment-older-adults
    March 06, 2025 - Proposed Approach to Assessing Variation in Evidence Across Populations … computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography) Instruments not aimed at assessing