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321. Procedure Manual Section 3. Topic Work Plan Development | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 05, 2021 - Primary preventive measures are those provided to persons in a clinical setting to prevent the onset … the prevention of colorectal cancer, counseling for a healthful diet), whereas secondary preventive measures … symptoms, functional levels, and conditions that patients can feel or experience and are defined by measures … They are pathologic, physiological, psychological, social, or behavioral measures and other study endpoints … These are not direct measures of health but are indicators of positive or negative effects on the larger

322. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Women and Elderly Adults: Intimate Partner Violence and Elderly Abuse: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - Study design, patient populations and settings, methods of assessment or intervention, and outcome measures … Cronbach's alpha = 0.80), and its results correlated with the previously validated 19-item Conflict Tactics Scales … descriptions of individual elder abuse programs, but none included comparison groups or health outcome measures … There are many gaps in the evidence. 73 Definitions and measures of abuse, neglect, severity, and chronicity … These outcomes should include not only measures of reduced violence, but also improved quality of life

323. Archived: Evidence Summary: Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents (Hypertension): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 15, 2013 - Should school nurses measure blood pressure? Public Health . 1990;104(3):191-4. Michaud PA. … 6: Blood pressure Left ventricular hypertrophy (defined using left ventricular mass index and/or measures … such as diurnal variations or nocturnal blood pressure dipping Arterial wall dysfunction, including measures … of arterial stiffness, pulse wave velocity, or augmentation index Metabolic measures, eg, measures of … sphygmomanometer measured at least 4 wk apart Initial screening results compared with subsequent measures

324. Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     November 30, 2020 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Quality of life and function, other health and social outcomes, test accuracy … Eligible outcomes for KQs on the ben- efit of screening and treatment (KQ1 and KQ4) include measures … points of improvement on a 0-100 scale) on the Inner Effective- ness of Aural Rehabilitation scale (a measure … Questionnaire and the Geriatric Depression Scale (−0.28 points and −0.80 points, respectively).43 No out- come measure … Self-reported hearing handicap and audiometric measures in older adults.

325. 167fleming.indd (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2005 - To reduce potential harms for untreated patients, both EMGT and CNTGS used sensitive measures of visual … loss was associated with signifi cant decreases in self- reported visual function and general health measures

326. Benefits and Harms of Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Evidence Update (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2008 - and content experts, we chose a broad definition of PSA screening that included evolving prognostic measures … However, a comparison of the per- formance characteristics of such measures with traditional single-threshold … differential loss to follow-up or overall high loss to follow- up; use of equal, valid, and reliable outcome measure … Although abnormal screening results did not affect sum- mary measures of anxiety or health-related quality … However, in the initial screening round of an RCT, health-related quality-of-life measures were not neg

327. Draft Recommendation: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 25, 2024 - screening varies across practice settings. 32 Additionally, some healthcare systems use screening tools to measure … However, there was no impact on other quality of life measures; physiologic measures of blood pressure … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.

328. Draft Recommendation: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 25, 2024 - screening varies across practice settings. 32 Additionally, some healthcare systems use screening tools to measure … However, there was no impact on other quality of life measures; physiologic measures of blood pressure … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.

329. Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     June 19, 2012 - Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation SCREENING FOR AND MANAGEMENT OF OBESITY IN ADULTS CLINICAL SUMMARY OF U.S. PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population Adults aged 18 years or older Recommendation Screen for obesity. Pat…

330. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Final Recommendation Statement Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 January 01, 1996 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They s…

331. Archived: Evidence Summary: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 26, 2014 - bias and whether the distribution of the effect sizes was symmetrical with respect to the precision measure … early trial, the Risk Factor Intervention Trial (508 participants), found a reduction in a composite measure … Findings of benefit on self-reported QOL measures were mixed. … Although 3 combined lifestyle counseling interventions seemed to improve selected QOL measures 45 , … However, sparse reporting of both CVD events and self-reported measures of depression symptoms or QOL

332. Cancer Older Adults (pdf file)
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     September 28, 2012 - Measures of func- tional status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) need to be included in trials … Preference-based HRQL measures use a conven- tional scale, with dead (the lack of health status)=0.00 … Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) estimated using preference-based measures are a prominent method … are good measures in older adults can be found in a companion article (Feeny DH, Eckstrom EN, Whitlock … Outcomes Assessment in Cancer: Measures, Methods, and Applications.

333. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 24, 2020 - of measure were disparate, and almost all outcomes were self-reported. … would be a more valuable outcome; however, the field lacks a consistent measure of overall optimal diet … 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.

334. Draft Recommendation: Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 16, 2021 - a 2-hour postload glucose level of 140 to 199 mg/dL are consistent with prediabetes. 7 HbA1c is a measure … Both fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c levels are simpler to measure than performing an oral glucose tolerance … 21 , 36-38 did not find clinically significant differences between screening and control groups in measures … Effect of screening for type 2 diabetes on population-level self-rated health outcomes and measures of

335. Draft Recommendation: Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 16, 2021 - a 2-hour postload glucose level of 140 to 199 mg/dL are consistent with prediabetes. 7 HbA1c is a measure … Both fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c levels are simpler to measure than performing an oral glucose tolerance … 21 , 36-38 did not find clinically significant differences between screening and control groups in measures … Effect of screening for type 2 diabetes on population-level self-rated health outcomes and measures of

336. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure (pdf file)
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     October 13, 2015 - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure USPSTF Bulletin An independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure Task Force finds evid…

337. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure (pdf file)
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     October 13, 2015 - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure USPSTF Bulletin An independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Screening Adults for High Blood Pressure Task Force finds evid…

338. Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation to Prevent Fractures (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2013 - A measure of weight in the metric system.

339. Research Gaps for Screening Breast Cancer: Evidence Gaps Research Taxonomy Table (pdf file)
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     April 09, 2024 - is typically derived from RCTs of the targeted screening or preventive intervention that adequately measure

340. Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care to Promote a Healthy Diet - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - strength of this evidence, however, is limited by reliance on self-reported diet outcomes, limited use of measures … Although community-based studies have evaluated measures to reduce dietary fat intake in children, no … schools) or have used physiologic outcomes such as cholesterol or weight rather than more comprehensive measures … Studies that assessed only physiologic measures (eg, lipid levels, weight, or body mass index [BMI]) … can provide a reasonably accurate picture of usual dietary patterns, with correlations with criterion measures