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1. U.S. Preventive Services | Grade Definitions
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   July 01, 2012 - definitions based on a change in methods in May 2007 and again in July 2012, when it updated the definition … After July 2012 What the Grades Mean and Suggestions for Practice The USPSTF updated its definition … This new definition applies to USPSTF recommendations voted on after July 2012. … Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice A The USPSTF recommends … Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice A The USPSTF recommends

2. Grade Definitions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   October 01, 2018 - grade definitions based on a change in methods in May 2007 and again in July 2012, when it updated the definition … Definitions After July 2012 What the Grades Mean and Suggestions for Practice The USPSTF updated its definition … This new definition applies to USPSTF recommendations voted on after July 2012. … Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice A The USPSTF recommends the service. … Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice A The USPSTF recommends the service.

3. Procedure Manual Appendix VI. Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   July 01, 2017 - Presented below are a set of minimal criteria for each study design and a general definition of three … Validity of conclusions Recency and relevance (especially important for systematic reviews) Definition … followup Measurements: equal, reliable, and valid (includes masking of outcome assessment) Clear definition … adjustment for potential confounders for cohort studies or intention-to-treat analysis for RCTs Definition … reasonable manner Spectrum of patients included in study Sample size Reliable screening test Definition

4. Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2021 - for definition of high risk. To whom does this recommendation apply? … for definition of high risk. What’s new?

5. Archived: Evidence Summary: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   May 13, 2004 - Data Abstraction Information on the number and characteristics of participants, definition of amblyopia … Clear Definition of Interventions? Important Outcomes Considered? … Clear definition of interventions. Important outcomes considered. … Definition of ratings based on above criteria: Rating Definition Good: Meets all criteria … Psychophysicists suggested a more useful definition of amblyopia as "a developmental anomaly involving

6. Primary Care Interventions for Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2020 - Definition of tobacco use: Tobacco use refers to any tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars

7. Procedure Manual Section 7. Formulation of Task Force Recommendations | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   June 21, 2025 - How to Interpret Task Force Recommendation Grades Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice … change in methods and/or analytic framework since the last recommendation statement; 2) a change in the definition … of a grade (i.e. change in C grade definition); 3) evidence has increased or decreased and results in

8. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach - Table 2 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   November 01, 2013 - processes between the individual and primary groups that provide social identity, support, and role definition

9. Final Research Plan: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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   July 24, 2025 - Clarified the working definition of refractive error for this review. … Included a definition of pathologic myopia.

10. Procedure Manual Appendix XII. Summary of Evidence Table for Evidence Reviews | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 01, 2017 - with the assessed grade (high, moderate, low, or insufficient), followed by language from the grade's definition … EPC Strength of Evidence Grades and Definitions Grade Definition High We are very confident

11. Procedure Manual Section 2. Topic Selection, Prioritization, and Updating | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 22, 2025 - preventive medication, counseling about healthful behaviors) The preventive service should meet the definition … situation that is the object of its concern, the Task Force has adopted the Institute of Medicine's definition … This definition acknowledges the importance of the patient-clinician relationship as facilitated and

12. Current Processes: Refining Evidence-based Recommendation Development - Table 3 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 01, 2007 - Preventive Services Task Force Reviews a Category of Topic Definition Example New

13. Screening for Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2021 - (See below for definition of pack-year.) What’s new?

14. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 15, 2009 - following items from the studies included for the key question: identification of case patients, case definition … participants, comorbid conditions, sun exposures, demographics of case patients and control participants, definition … loss to follow-up, measurements (equality, reliability, and validity of outcome measurements), clear definition … this does not differ greatly from the 1996 analysis that had more participants and a slightly broader definition … thinner than in those who did not perform skin self-examination (0.77 mm vs. 0.95 mm); however, the definition

15. Screening for Skin Cancer: An Update of the Evidence (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2009 - following items from the studies included for the key question: identification of case patients, case definition … conditions, sun exposures, demographic characteristics of case patients and control participants, definition … to follow-up, measurements (equality, reliability, and validity of out­ come measurements), clear definition … this does not differ greatly from the 1996 analysis that had more participants and a slightly broader definition … thinner than in those who did not perform skin self-examination (0.77 mm vs. 0.95 mm); however, the definition

16. Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Younger than Age 5 Years: An Update of the Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, 1999–2003 (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2004 - than Age 5 Years Data Abstraction Information on the number and characteristics of participants, definition … • Clear definition of interventions. • Important outcomes considered. … Definition of ratings based on above criteria: Good: Meets all criteria: comparable groups are assembled … This clinical definition is restricted to 1 kind of visual loss, which is recognition acuity for high … Psychophysicists suggested a more useful definition of amblyopia as “a developmental anomaly involving

17. Final Research Plan: High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 30, 2022 - Include Exclude Condition definition Studies identifying children with higher BMI, using measures … adding text to clarify that a BMI exceeding the 85th percentile for age and sex serves as an acceptable definition

18. Procedure Manual Appendix XIII. Template for Scoping the “Decision Problem” to Address Through Decision Modeling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 01, 2017 - PICOTS Table Category Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria Condition definition  

19. Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2019 - Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 1 www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm December 2019 What does the USPSTF recommend? B Grade For men aged 65 to 75 years who have ever …

20. Archived: Alcohol Misuse: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 15, 2013 - The definition and rationale of a given recommended limit of alcohol consumption may vary to some degree … crash is 2.20 compared with no alcohol intake; at 4 to 5 drinks consumed (a rough proxy for the NIAAA definition … This new definition applies to USPSTF recommendations voted on after July 2012. … Grade Definition Suggestions for Practice A The USPSTF recommends the service. … NIAAA council approves definition of binge drinking. NIAAA Newsletter . 2004;3:3.