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301. Clinical Summary: Screening for Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     Screening Tests Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures the amount of prostate-specific

302. Screening for Food Insecurity: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2025 - screening varies across practice settings.28 Additionally, some health care systems use screening tools to measure … However, there was no impact on other quality-of-life mea- sures; physiologic measures of blood pressure … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.

303. Archived: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
     July 07, 2015 - Although the USPSTF found evidence that interventions improve some measures of speech and language for … individual screening tools across populations because individual studies used different tools and outcome measures … following: suboptimal rates of screening and low retention of trial subjects, reliance on indirect measures … speech and language outcomes. 9 The majority of the trials reported improvements in speech and language measures … found adequate evidence that treatment is associated with improvements in some speech and language measures

304. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) measures

305. Archived: Suicide Risk: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - access to potential instruments of suicide, and treatment of underlying conditions. 18 Although these measures … Effects on less specific outcome measures, such as feelings of hopelessness, 34 have been reported. … with suspected suicidal ideation, 41 , 42 but no reliable data on the long-term effectiveness of this measure … can best identify persons who require nonlethal quantities of prescription drugs, or whether these measures

306. Archived: Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 15, 2013 - real-world primary care practice; incorporate longer-term outcomes; encourage equal baseline and outcome measures … smoking and nicotine dependence of a child or adolescent, reliability and validity of self-reported measures … Several studies did not report specific measures but reported the number of children or adolescents who … No studies used biochemical measures to confirm self-reported measures.

307. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 04, 2021 - Assessment (KQ 3) specifies how best to identify patients in need of behavioral intervention and to measure … usual" intake of specific food items, both to identify individual candidates for intervention and to measure … Completion rates for followup and outside referral are important implementation process measures. … Refining a tool to measure cues to action in encouraging health-promoting behavior—the CHAQ.  … Lifestyle-specific outcome measures.

308. Research Gaps for Screening Breast Cancer: Evidence Gaps Research Taxonomy Table (pdf file)
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     is typically derived from RCTs of the targeted screening or preventive intervention that adequately measure

309. Procedure Manual Appendix V. Work Plan/Research Plan Template | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - If there are multiple measures of health outcome, is one (or more) most valid? … If there are multiple measures of health outcome, is one (or more) most relevant to practitioners and

310. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary34/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - identified by the screening results, interventions for those diagnosed with dyslipidemia, and outcome measures … and/or CHD-related events. 66 , 79-120 Thirty studies examined overweight or body fat composition measures … factor for dyslipidemia. 79-82 , 84-86 , 89-95 , 99 , 101-104 , 106-112 , 114 , 115 , 117 , 119 These measures … to show the magnitude of the effect of overweight on lipids, or the impact that incorporating weight measures

311. Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 12, 2019 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Depression status; depression symptoms; maternal, infant, and child health … all reported continuous measures of depressive symptoms, with mixed findings. … I2 = 39.0%; χ2 test for heterogeneity, P = .051 I2 = 66.3%; χ2 test for heterogeneity, P = .051 Weights … For example, 4 trials42,46-48 reported a measure of stress, but most did not show statistically or clinically … Expressive writing p13 BDI-II 13-28 5/57 (8.8) 9/56 (16.0)Blasio et al,63 2015 0.55 (0.20-1.53) Weights

312. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-dyslipidemia/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication-november-2016
     November 13, 2016 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Evidence Summary: Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication Novembe…

313. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 20, 2016 - facility) Outcomes KQs 1a, 4a: Alcohol use ( required ), self-report and/or biologic measures

314. Evidence Summary: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 24, 2022 - VEGF inhibitors were significantly associated with better vision-related function and quality-of-life measures … differences. 18 , 25 , 28 , 65 AREDS found no differences between antioxidants, zinc, both, or placebo in measures … Validity of a survey question as a measure of visual acuity impairment. … The effects of a lutein-based supplement on objective and subjective measures of retinal and visual function … In 1 trial, VEGF inhibitors were associated with better vision-related function and quality-of-life measures

315. Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for CVD Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     November 24, 2020 - of measure were disparate, and al- most all outcomes were self-reported. … sures of overall diet pattern would be a more valuable outcome; however, the field lacks a consistent measure … The Healthy Eating Index is a validated measure of overall diet quality that assesses alignment with … associated with all-cause, CVD, and cancer mortality.254 However, only 2 included studies reported this measure … Longitudinal accuracy of web-based self-reported weights: results from the Hopkins POWER Trial.

316. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 24, 2022 - Snellen eye chart34; and an Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) visual acuity chart, measure … differences.18,25,28,65 AREDS found no differ- ences between antioxidants, zinc, both, or placebo in measures … In 1 trial, VEGF inhibitors were associated with better vision-related function and quality-of-life measures … Validity of a survey question as a measure of visual acuity impairment. … The effects of a lutein-based supplement on objective and subjective measures of retinal and visual function

317. Archived: Final Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan11/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-and-genetic-testing-2013
     December 15, 2012 - KQs 2b and 3b: Genetic counseling versus none; before versus after measures.

318. Archived: Evidence Summary: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary8/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2014
     January 15, 2014 - conflicting results of AAA screening's influence on quality of life (QOL) and anxiety or depression measures … those who screened positive for AAA. 55 Four studies showed no clinically important decrease in QOL measures … Analyzed, n All-Cause Mortality AAA-Related Mortality Deaths, n (%) Risk Summary Measure … (95% CI) Deaths, n (%) Risk Summary Measure (95% CI) Ashton et al, 2002 30 and Thompson

319. Archived: Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Population-Based Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Evidence Synthesis: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/cost-effectiveness-analyses-of-population-based-screening-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-evidence-synthesis/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-february-2005
     February 15, 2005 - rate, analytic approach (trial-based vs non-trial-based), study perspective, data sources, utility measures … (if any), discount rate, cost measures, cost-effectiveness results, and sensitivity analyses. … Do effect measures capture preferences or utilities? … inclusion would alter policy implications about the cost-effectiveness of AAA screening, but valid measures … evidence to estimate effectiveness i) Not capturing important utilities or preferences in effect measures

320. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 15, 2009 - treatment alone, and neither found statistically significant differences between groups for suicidality measures … Screening for adolescent depression: a comparison of depression scales. … Screening for depression across the lifespan: a review of measures for use in primary care settings. … Measures have been taken to prevent knowledge of primary exposure influencing case ascertainment … recognition that knowledge of exposure status could have influenced the assessment of outcome The measure