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161. Physicians’ Roles in Preventing Dental Caries in Preschool Children: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2004 - Physicians’ Roles in Preventing Dental Caries in Preschool Children: A Summary of the Evidence Introduction Issues of oral health in children revolve principally around dental caries. In the United States, dental caries is the most common chronic childhood disease,1 and its treatment is the most prevalent unmet need…

162. JAMA (pdf file)
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     November 22, 2023 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

163. Screening for Depression - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2002 - Homer, MD, MPH (Executive Director, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA

164. Archived: Family Violence: Screening and Interventions, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - screening protocols significantly improves the detection of abuse as a cause of trauma, 54 and similar measures … health examination, but recommended that physicians be alert for indicators of abuse and institute measures

165. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Counseling, 2012 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary45/skin-cancer-counseling-2012
     May 15, 2012 - measures of sun exposure; or total, which are cumulative estimates of sun exposure. … Most studies used crude measures of indoor tanning exposure. … Only 1 of 6 negative studies adjusted for both skin phenotype and some measure of sun exposure 90 . … Both of these studies, however, used only a crude dichotomous measure of sunscreen use. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research; February 2011.

166. 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
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     April 06, 2023 - Analytic Framework * Measures … KQ 1: Morphometric vertebral fractures; BMD; laboratory or functional measures of bone or muscle strength … or quality; fall efficacy measures; and basic activities of daily living. … addition of intermediate health outcomes such as bone mineral density, muscle function, and laboratory measures

167. Final Recommendation Statement: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 20, 2018 - However, most individual measures were not statistically significant, and it was difficult to determine

168. Draft Research Plan: Healthy Diet, Physical Activity, and/or Weight Loss to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 18, 2023 - What is the added value of measures of central adiposity in assessing the health risks associated with … Population Adults age 18 years or older selected based on higher BMI (≥25 kg/m 2 ) or other adiposity measures … waist-to-hip circumference ratio Incidence or prevalence of the following cardiometabolic conditions and measures … : Diabetes mellitus Hypertension Dyslipidemia Cardiorespiratory fitness measures KQ 3: … anxiety, and body image concerns Exercise-induced injury Self-reported weight Continuous measures

169. Archived: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 15, 2008 - that both pharmacologic therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation improve respiratory-related health status measures … , but the relationship of these measures to clinically meaningful functional outcomes is not well established … randomized, controlled trials of treatment found small improvements in exacerbations, health status measures

170. PII: S0749-3797(01)00266-5 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2001 - accurately on nonfasting venous or capillary blood samples, but LDL-C requires fasting samples for accurate measure

171. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services: 13th Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - high dropout rates among participants, biased assessment of outcomes, or heterogeneity in outcome measures

172. Final Research Plan: Hypertension in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 04, 2018 - ABPM) Blood pressure measurement with wrist and finger monitors, forearm cuffs, or ankle and toe measures … negative predictive values KQ 4: Harms of screening (e.g., labeling, absenteeism, quality of life measures

173. Recommendation: Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Primary Care-Based Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 26, 2020 - Most of the general prevention trials found no group-to-group differences on mental health symptom scales

174. Recommendation: Hypertension in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 27, 2021 - Screen: Measure blood pressure with an office blood pressure measurement. … Ways to measure blood pressure outside of the clinical setting include: Ambulatory blood pressure … Home blood pressure monitoring: patients measure their own blood pressure at home with an automated … Several comments requested clarification about specific techniques to accurately measure blood pressure … Some comments expressed concern about the burden and barriers patients may experience trying to measure

175. Behavioral Counseling for Skin Cancer Prevention: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 20, 2018 - Results were qualitatively summarized but not pooled because of heterogeneity of measures. … country, in- clusion criteria, age, sex, race/ethnicity), intervention details, length of follow-up, measure … The individual items and scales measuring sun pro- tection behaviors were variable across trials and … Measures were heterogeneous enough to preclude pooling of results. … However, a more expansive measure of skin awareness did appear to be a sig- nificant independent predictor

176. Final Research Plan: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 26, 2019 - Disseminated intravascular coagulation Mental health diagnoses or symptoms Maternal mortality Measures

177. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Women and Elderly Adults: Intimate Partner Violence and Elderly Abuse: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - Study design, patient populations and settings, methods of assessment or intervention, and outcome measures … Cronbach's alpha = 0.80), and its results correlated with the previously validated 19-item Conflict Tactics Scales … descriptions of individual elder abuse programs, but none included comparison groups or health outcome measures … There are many gaps in the evidence. 73 Definitions and measures of abuse, neglect, severity, and chronicity … These outcomes should include not only measures of reduced violence, but also improved quality of life

178. Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Roger Chou, MD; Tracy Dana, MLS; Ian Blazina, MPH; Monica Daeges, BA; Christina Bougatsos, MPH; and Thomas L. Jeanne, MD, MPH Background: Dys…

179. Recommendation: Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 12, 2019 - Measures of depression symptoms are useful in predicting future perinatal depression, although more data … difference was not statistically significant. 2 Thirteen trials reported continuous symptom score measures … compared with control groups. 2 Trials reported other maternal or child outcomes; however, outcome measures

180. Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2025 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Food insecurity; dietary, physiologic, quality of life, health outcomes; sensitivity … However, there was no ap- parent impact on other quality-of-life measures; physiologic mea- sures of … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.