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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-06/understanding-how-USPSTF-works_TF101_Updated-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
January 2025
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between the US…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-01/understanding-how-uspstf-works-tf101-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
January 2025
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between the US…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-06/understanding-how-uspstf-works-tf101-updated_2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
January 2025
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between the US…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening-2002
September 17, 2002 - Sources: MEDLINE® (1966 to May 2001), HealthSTAR (1975 to May 2001), and Cochrane databases; reference lists … searches of MEDLINE® (1966 to May 2001), HealthSTAR (1975 to May 2001), and Cochrane databases; reference lists … Table 1 lists risk factors that were statistically significant predictors for fractures in multivariable … Fractures (SOF) 92 , 94-96
Community-dwelling white women from four areas in the U.S. recruited from lists … Epidemiologie de L'Osteoporos (EPIDOS) 97-100
Women from five cities in France recruited from voting lists
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/treatment-evidence-summary/gestational-diabetes-mellitus-screening-january-2014
May 28, 2013 - to May 2012, gray literature, Web sites of relevant organizations, trial registries, and reference lists … We evaluated the reference lists of relevant reviews and included studies. … 598 potentially relevant studies. 30 additional studies were found by hand searching the reference lists
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/zxXWqacXvfKPyQB9LCrZjX
August 01, 2008 - We
also provide readers ancillary material about selected trials, including
registered protocols, lists … of other ongoing and published relevant trials,
lists of relevant published systematic reviews, and
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan15/depression-in-children-and-adolescents-screening
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Final Research Plan
Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening
September 15, 2013
Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. T…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-2-topic-selection-prioritization-and-updating
June 22, 2025 - Procedure Manual Section 2. Topic Selection, Prioritization, and Updating
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The Task Force has a large library of current topics and frequently receives nominations for new top…
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January 01, 2022 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
February 2023
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/understanding-how%20the%20tf-works-2022-update_0.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Understanding How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Works
Understanding How the
U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force (USPSTF)
Works
USPSTF 101
February 2023
Goals
• Improve understanding of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF or Task Force)
• Explain the connection between…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-03/uspstf-who-we-are-how-we-work-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - USPSTF: Who We Are & How We Work
USPSTF: Who We Are & How We WorkUSPSTF: Who We Are & How We Work
Table of Contents
About the Task Force ......................................................... 1
Our Approach: Evidence-Based, Objective, and Transparent ... 2
How We Develop Recommendations .....................…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary2/dental-caries-in-children-from-birth-through-age-5-years-screening-2014
June 15, 2013 - Methods: Searching Medline and the Cochrane Library (through March 2013) and reference lists, we included … Library Database (through the first quarter of 2013) for relevant articles, and reviewed reference lists … (b) Identified from reference lists, hand searching, suggested by experts, and so forth. … Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and other sources, including reference lists
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics/information-for-consumers
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Browse Information for Consumers
Getting the best health care means making smart decisions about preventive services. Preventive services, such as screening tests, counseling service…
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-dyslipidemia/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication-november-2016
November 13, 2016 - Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and MEDLINE through May 2016, and reference lists … Reviews (through May 2016), Ovid MEDLINE (2008 through May 2016) ( Appendix Table 1 ), and reference lists
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary24/drug-use-illicit-primary-care-interventions-for-children-and-adolescents-march-2014
March 11, 2014 - Controlled Trials through 4 June 2013; MEDLINE through 31 August 2013; and manual searches of reference lists … We examined the reference lists of 6 relevant published reviews and meta-analyses (7–12), as well as … the reference lists of included studies.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/syphilis-infection-in-nonpregnant-adults-and-adolescents-june-2016
June 07, 2016 - January 2004 to October 2015 for relevant studies and systematic reviews and manually reviewed reference lists … Other sources include systematic reviews, relevant studies, and reference lists. … citations identified by searching MEDLINE, the Cochrane databases, and other sources including reference lists
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary8/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2014
January 15, 2014 - Registry of Controlled Trials (January 2004 through January 2013), clinical trial registries, reference lists … We also reviewed reference lists of relevant systematic reviews and meta-analyses. … An additional 128 citations were identified from outside sources, such as reference lists and suggestions
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/article/prostate-cancer-screening-2008
August 05, 2008 - identified in PubMed and the Cochrane Library (search dates, January 2002 to July 2007), reference lists … through a search of the Cochrane Library, recommendations of experts, and a hand search of reference lists … Study Selection
Two reviewers independently reviewed the title lists, abstracts, and full articles
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary23/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-young-children-screening
March 30, 2015 - Methods: We searched Medline and Cochrane databases (1996–August 2014), as well as reference lists of … focused on systematic reviews and key studies of treatments for IDA, we also searched the reference lists … b Other sources include previous reports, reference lists of relevant articles, and systematic reviews
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/NhXnjZM5ubvygH5GrqDZHC
August 01, 2008 - identified in PubMed and
the Cochrane Library (search dates, January 2002 to July 2007),
reference lists … through a search of
the Cochrane Library, recommendations of experts, and a
hand search of reference lists … Study Selection
Two reviewers independently reviewed the title lists,
abstracts, and full articles by