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221. Screening for Carotid Artery Stenosis: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/6XMRch-R3m4UMVoBMcv43f
     December 01, 2007 - It is difficult to determine what effect current standard med- ical therapy would have on overall benefit

222. Archived: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-february-2005
     February 15, 2005 - maximal aortic diameter. 16 , 17 The natural history of clinically apparent AAAs of 5.5 cm or more is difficult

223. Archived: Rh(D) Incompatibility: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/rhd-incompatibility-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - technologist error. 36 Flow cytometry is also highly sensitive and specific, but it is technically difficult

224. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: USPSTF Recommendations Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/PdBbRgWKPMbHfeQeHkM242
     February 01, 2010 - If same-day access to a primary care physician is difficult in some parts of this country, not to mention

225. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2002
     December 01, 2002 - Determining test characteristics of any screening test for prostate cancer is difficult because clinicians

226. Archived: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
     January 15, 2011 - Screening of younger children may be difficult and often yields false-positive results because of the

227. Testimony for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Hearing (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/tfcongresstestimony%20(3).pdf
     November 30, 2016 - clinicians: “When treating patients, doctors and other healthcare providers often are faced with difficult

228. Archived: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/aspirin-to-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-and-cancer-april-2016
     April 11, 2016 - The complexity of risk factors, medication use, and concomitant illness make it difficult to assess the … Several comments found the tables difficult to interpret or asked to include additional age and risk

229. Screening for Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: USPSTF Final Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/94EGaPfA7-rqrR_xhaA2Yc
     June 11, 2018 - such as “Because the questions on partner violence were asked, I feel my home life has become (less difficult … … more difficult).”

230. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-february-2005
     February 15, 2005 - As is true in screening for other diseases, the influence of competing causes of death makes it difficult … Screening trials are even more difficult than we thought they were [Editorial].

231. Overdiagnosis in Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/KT7vaWK_JSDNNvEmUAjN8d
     May 01, 2018 - The exact measures being reported can be difficult to glean from a publication.10 Related to the issue … It is difficult to know whether a new set of results supersedes or supplements an older set of results … It is also difficult to identify changes in model assumptions between uses of the model to assess overdiagnosis

232. Archived: Evidence Summary: Harms of Screening for Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-harms-of-screening-for-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
     January 11, 2016 - overdiagnosis, anxiety, pain, and radiation exposure may cause harm, their effects on individual women are difficult … Although overdiagnosis is an important outcome of screening, it is difficult to evaluate in individual … overdiagnosis, anxiety, pain, and radiation exposure may cause harm, their effects on individual women are difficult

233. Overdiagnosis in Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Home/GetFile/1/16812/prostate-models-overdiagnosis/pdf
     May 01, 2018 - The exact measures being reported can be difficult to glean from a publication.10 Related to the issue … It is difficult to know whether a new set of results supersedes or supplements an older set of results … It is also difficult to identify changes in model assumptions between uses of the model to assess overdiagnosis

234. Archived: Gonorrhea (Including Ocular Prophylaxis in Newborns): Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/gonorrhea-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - presence of vaginal flora. 31 In clinical settings where handling and storage of culture medium is difficult

235. Archived: Gonorrhea (Including Ocular Prophylaxis in Newborns): Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/gonorrhea-screening-including-ocular-prophylaxis-newborns-1996
     January 01, 1996 - presence of vaginal flora. 31 In clinical settings where handling and storage of culture medium is difficult

236. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/p8bwnFstpfy9KoDSJhT7m5
     February 01, 2005 - maximal aortic diameter.16,17 The natural history of clinically apparent AAAs of 5.5 cm or more is difficult

237. Archived: Osteoporosis: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/osteoporosis-screening-2002
     September 17, 2002 - The exact risk factors that should trigger screening in this age group are difficult to specify based

238. Draft Recommendation: Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-recommendation/latent-tuberculosis-infection-adults
     November 22, 2022 - The precise prevalence rate of LTBI in the United States is difficult to determine; however, estimated

239. Recommendation: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/genital-herpes-serologic-screening
     February 14, 2023 - The precise prevalence of asymptomatic HSV-2 infection in the US is difficult to determine because prevalence

240. Archived: Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents (Hypertension): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening-october-2013
     October 15, 2013 - This limited evidence base makes it difficult to quantify the true significance and consequences of a