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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/reports-congress/second-annual-report-congress-high-priority-evidence-gaps-clinical-preventive-services
December 01, 2014 - identify evidence gaps that prevent it from making recommendations for specific populations or age groups … Evidence Gaps Relating to Specific Populations and Age Groups That Deserve Further Research:
Screening
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/reports-congress/sixth-annual-report-congress-high-priority-evidence-gaps-clinical-preventive-services
December 01, 2017 - identified evidence gaps that prevent it from making recommendations for specific populations or age groups … identify evidence gaps that prevent it from making recommendations for specific populations or age groups
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary1/sexually-transmitted-infections-behavioral-counseling-september-2014
September 22, 2014 - interventions compared with 5% to 24% in the intervention groups. … 2% to 63% compared with 5% to 68% in the control groups. … Minus (−) sign denotes results that consistently showed no differences between groups. … Minus (−) sign denotes results that consistently showed no differences between groups. … (intervention groups 1 and 3) vs. information-based approach (intervention groups 2 and 4), and high
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October 01, 2011 - Clinical trials were included if control groups received
minimal interventions. … not overlap with low-intensity intervention
groups. … not controlled for in anal-
yses; or outcomes were measured unequally between
groups. … Difference between intervention and control groups in weight change at 12 to 18 months. … Follow-up in control groups was often
greater than 10% lower than in orlistat groups (72, 74, 79,
82)
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lung-cancer-screening-1996
January 01, 1996 - Accuracy of Screening Tests
Effectiveness of Early Detection
Recommendations of Other Groups … medical care. 22 In each study, lung cancer mortality did not differ between experimental and control groups … Although early-stage, resectable tumors were more common and 5-year survival significantly higher in groups … 24 The investigators found no substantial difference in the number or causes of death between study groups … 25
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Recommendations of Other Groups
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July 11, 2005 - Clinical Considerations
Discussion
Future Research
Recommendations of Other Groups … No differences were seen between the groups in their percentage of body fat or visceral adipose tissue … Changes in mean BMI-z scores were not different between groups ( p < 0.09). 33
A fair-quality RCT … 36
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Recommendations of Other Groups … Both groups recommend identifying familial risk factors and possible health complications associated
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April 01, 2015 - not
receive supplementation, breaking
randomization and leading to
baseline differences between the
groups … The authors
found the following significant results
for the iron-supplemented versus
no-iron groups, … Differences between groups were
small and ranged from 0.6 to 0.7 on
mental development and 0.2 to 0.7 … risk for IDA used the Griffiths scale to
measure psychomotor development.23
Although scores in both groups … In addition, hemoglobin results were
reported in 8 studies,24–30,32 with
small differences between groups
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December 11, 2012 - Discussion
Copyright and Source Information
Figure: Smoking Outcomes for Intervention Groups … Compared with Control Groups
Appendix Figure 1. … compared with control groups. … compared with the control groups. … control groups after completing the interventions, none was statistically significant.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/breast-and-ovarian-cancer-brca-testing-screening-2005
September 15, 2005 - 26% ( BRCA1 ) and 10% ( BRCA2 ). 5-8 Specific BRCA mutations are clustered among certain ethnic groups … Individuals from families or ethnic groups with known mutations can be tested specifically for them. … Prevalence values were chosen such that when they were summed across the 3 risk groups, the total fell … groups. 24 , 42 , 99 , 102 For BRCA2 penetrance, data are available only for the high-risk group … Maintenance of comparable groups (includes attrition, crossovers, adherence, and contamination).
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
November 13, 2018 - those in control groups after 6 to 12 months (32 trials and 37 analysis groups [n = 15,974]; weighted … and from 25.6 at baseline to 21.6 in the control groups. … , compared with 29% to 82% in the control groups. … Effectiveness of the AUDIT-C as a screening test for alcohol misuse in three race/ethnic groups. … No. (% of Intervention Groups)
Studies
Participants
Intervention Groups
Single Session
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
September 05, 2017 - size requirements based on the ability to detect a change of at least 0.1 logMAR between treatment groups … Does the effectiveness of screening in children aged 6 months to 5 years vary among different age groups … They found no significant differences between treatment groups with regard to being happy, cooperative … Accuracy did not clearly differ for preschool children in different age groups. … c Eyeglasses were prescribed for all who needed them (all groups).
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary35/lung-cancer-screening-2004
May 15, 2004 - All studies were reviewed, but only studies with control groups were rated in quality since these would … However, these studies did not have control groups, making mortality evaluation difficult. … The mortality rate was 2.7/1,000 person-years in both the chest x-ray and dual-screening groups. … Maintenance of comparable groups (includes attrition, crossovers, adherence, contamination). … Levels of followup: differential loss between groups; overall loss to followup.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary48/suicide-risk-screening-2004
May 15, 2004 - Patients with borderline personality disorder are at increased risk for deliberate self-harm, with groups … Randomized Controlled Trials
All 30 RCTs that met our inclusion criteria 27 involved high-risk groups … In an intention-to-treat analysis at a 12-month followup, the groups did not differ significantly in … A more feasible means of decreasing suicide may be to focus on the high-risk groups, such as depressed … (suicide completers and attempters) and 2 matched control groups to evaluate medication use at time
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review11/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-in-adults-screening-2008
July 15, 2008 - Screening other groups of adults has not been shown to improve outcomes. … evidence continues to support screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women, but not in other groups … improves clinical outcomes in men and nonpregnant women, the USPSTF recommended against screening these groups … during follow-up, the time to symptoms consistent with a urinary tract infection was similar in both groups … during pregnancy (multiple different antibiotics and durations) vs. no treatment
Intervention groups
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December 01, 2014 - Other risk groups that have
been included in counseling studies are adults with current
STIs or other … However, these
groups were poorly represented in available studies. … groups (19% [high-
intensity] and 22% [low-intensity]). … groups were suc-
cessful in reducing STI incidence in both groups and
seemed to use the same interventionists … for both treatment
groups.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/reports-congress/first-annual-report-congress-high-priority-evidence-gaps-clinical-preventive-services
December 01, 2011 - identify evidence gaps that prevent it from making recommendations that target specific populations or age groups … the USPSTF highlights the following key areas: Evidence gaps relating to specific populations and age groups
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May 01, 2004 - Observational studies with control groups
and controlled trials evaluating disease-specific
mortality … The mortality rate was
2.7/1,000 person-years in both the chest x-ray and
dual-screening groups. … : Randomization/ Maintenance of Outcomes Assessment:
Study Allocation Concealment Comparable Groups … • Maintenance of comparable groups (includes attrition, crossovers, adherence, contamination). … • Levels of follow-up: differential loss between groups; overall loss to follow-up.
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July 01, 2007 - For other groups, both randomized, con-
trolled studies and nonrandomized, prospective, controlled studies … Sexually active girls in
both groups were offered the opportunity to receive fol-
low-up in 1 year. … Given the
differences in initial screening rates between the groups
(93.4% of the intervention group … The intervention and control groups differed signifi-
cantly in terms of age, education, and entrance … Both groups were about 35% African Ameri-
can.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/ovarian-cancer-screening
February 13, 2018 - Trials were rated poor quality if attrition was greater than 40% or differed between groups by 20% or … screening adherence was high, follow-up rates were variable but balanced, and contamination across groups … Survival with ovarian cancer did not differ significantly between study groups. 21
Harms of Screening … Excluding cases with high mortality could heighten differences between the CA-125 ROCA and control groups … b No evidence of a difference in incidence of ovarian cancer between the study groups.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan16/screening-for-abnormal-blood-glucose-and-type-2-diabetes-october-2015
August 15, 2013 - There is an initial branch in the framework that splits patients into high-risk or average-risk groups … patients into diabetes and prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) groups … Arrows lead from each of these groups to clinical health outcomes.