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401. Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     May 06, 2022 - Does the effect vary between a priori subgroups defined by age, sex, 10-y cardiovascular risk, diagnosis … Does the effect vary between a priori subgroups defined by age, sex, 10-y cardiovascular risk, diagnosis … 18.3 years.55 The primary outcomes for most RCTs were compos- ite CVD events; these composites were defined … CVD Mortality | Cardiovascular deaths were inconsistently defined across the 11 primary prevention RCTs … Does the effect vary in specific a priori populations defined by age, sex, 10-year cardiovascular risk

402. Screening for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2002 - Osteoporosis has been defined as “a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural … multivariable models.26-33 These results could not be quantitatively combined because risk factors were defined … fracture are increasing age, low weight or body mass index, and nonuse of hormone replacement therapy (defined … criteria to determine how well individual studies were conducted (internal validity).22 The Task Force defined

403. Archived: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 31, 2013 - cessation, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that annual screening for lung cancer with LDCT in a defined … Patients with localized disease (defined as cancer limited to the lung without metastasis to other organs … High risk is defined as persons aged 55 to 74 years who have at least a 30 pack-year smoking history

404. Archived: Problem Drinking: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - occasional, light drinking (median: 4 drinks per month). 26 Binge drinking or daily risk drinking (usually defined … One drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5 fluid ounces (one jigger) … of "hazardous" drinking in asymptomatic persons, but successful intervention trials have generally defined

405. Archived: Evidence Update: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2008 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 05, 2008 - natural history, we excluded studies that predominantly involved patients with non–PSA-detected cancer (defined … comprising >80% of the study population), were too small to draw reliable conclusions about health outcomes (defined … an abnormal screening result but a benign biopsy specimen with 233 men who had a normal PSA level (defined

406. Evidence Summary: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 30, 2015 - Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA), defined … values ranged from 62 to 1657) reported the effect of supplementation on the rate of anemia (variably defined … a Iron deficiency was defined variably as serum ferritin <10 µg/L, 25 , 27 , 30 <15 µg/L, 24 or

407. Benefits and Harms of Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Evidence Update (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2008 - www.annals.org 5 August 2008 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 149 • Number 3 193 PSA-detected cancer (defined … �80% of the study population), were too small to draw reliable conclu- sions about health outcomes (defined … an abnormal screening result but a be- nign biopsy specimen with 233 men who had a normal PSA level (defined

408. 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 - In individuals at ongoing risk due to frequent “high risk” exposures as defined above, screening as … • Was the study population clearly specified and defined? … • Were the exposure measures (independent variables) clearly defined, valid, reliable, and implemented … • Were the outcome measures (dependent variables) clearly defined, valid, reliable, and implemented … • Were the outcome measures prespecified, clearly defined, valid, reliable, and assessed consistently

409. Recommendation: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 23, 2024 - Speech disorders are defined by difficulty with forming specific sounds or words correctly (articulation … Multiple studies have demonstrated a higher prevalence among boys than girls and among certain groups defined

410. Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 23, 2024 - Speech disorders are defined by difficulty with forming specific sounds or words correctly (articulation … Multiple studies have demonstrated a higher prevalence among boys than girls and among certain groups defined

411. Qd4Zm2Uk2Ldubpa9Yyfbrm (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - The net benefit is defined as benefit minus harm of the preventive service as implemented in a general

412. Archived: Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening-2002
     September 17, 2002 - Osteoporosis has been defined as "a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural … multivariable models. 26-33 These results could not be quantitatively combined because risk factors were defined … fracture are increasing age, low weight or body mass index, and nonuse of hormone replacement therapy (defined … criteria to determine how well individual studies were conducted (internal validity). 22 The Task Force defined

413. Screening for Carotid Artery Stenosis: An Update of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - A “clinically important degree of CAS” is defined as the percentage of stenosis that corresponds to a … treatment with carotid endarterectomy is that the med- ical management group in the RCTs was poorly defined … database of pa- tients undergoing carotid endarterectomy at Veterans Af- fairs medical centers had well-defined … If a higher-risk population with an actual preva- lence of 5% could be defined in whom the screening … Asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis defined by ultra- sound and the risk of subsequent stroke

414. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary19/high-blood-pressure-in-adults-screening-monitoring-october-2015
     December 22, 2014 - We found that OBPM variably predicted “true” hypertension, as defined by ABPM. … unnecessarily treated Initial screening by office-based methods variably predicted true hypertension, defined … * Defined as the threshold for pharmacologic treatment. Text Description . … 5 measurements Hansen et al, 2005 42 Takeda TM-2421 24 h Day: determined by diaries (defined … as 6:00 a.m. to midnight if diaries were inadequate) Night: determined by diaries (defined as midnight

415. Archived: Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Final Recommendation Statement Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Screening, 2004 March 08, 2004 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. gov…

416. Archived: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 23, 2014 - * ”Ever smoked” is defined as a person who has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in his or her … Importance Abdominal aortic aneurysms are typically defined … Burden of Disease Abdominal aortic aneurysms, defined

417. Procedure Manual Section 2. Topic Selection, Prioritization, and Updating | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 22, 2025 - The Topic Prioritization Workgroup discusses the evidence and, using the criteria defined above, makes

418. Health Equity Framework for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - When this framework is used, it is important to describe how the disadvantaged population was defined … These nuances can include interpretation of differential effect in populations defined by biology (e.g … ., persons with high-risk human papillomavirus [hrHPV] vaccination) as well as populations defined … generally at high risk of bias and therefore should only be included as an exception with a well-defined … a threshold to the credibility assessment, reporting only subgroup results that meet an a priori defined

419. Behavioral Interventions and Counseling to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect: A Systematic Review to Update the USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - the trial was limited by its being conducted in only 1 pediatric clinic setting serving a narrowly defined … results was limited by the enrollment of participants from only a single clinical site with a narrowly defined … Trials often lacked pre- defined identification of primary and secondary outcomes.

420. Preeclampsia Screening Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2017 - It is defined by hypertension after 20 weeks’ gestation and proteinuria or other evidence of multisystem … A pproximately 2% to 8% of pregnancies are affected by preeclampsia, defined by the development of hyperten … b Late preeclampsia is defined as preeclampsia that occurs later in pregnancy (34 weeks’ gestation or … d Preeclampsia defined as requiring delivery, with the exception of the Farina external validation, which … defined the outcome as the diagnosis of preeclampsia.