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101. Evidence Summary: Gynecological Conditions: Periodic Screening With the Pelvic Examination | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/gynecological-conditions-screening-with-the-pelvic-examination
     March 07, 2017 - At least 2 reviewers critically appraised included studies using the Newcastle Ottawa Scales 22 for … (95% CI) c Sensitivity Measures (95% CI) c Specificity Measures (95% CI) c PPV Measures … (95% CI) c NPV Measures (95% CI) c False-Positive Rate Measures (95% CI) c False-Negative … (95% CI) b Sensitivity Measure (95% CI) b Specificity Measure (95% CI) b … PPV Measure (95% CI) b NPV Measure (95% CI) b False-Positive Rate Measure (

102. Final Recommendation Statement: Risk Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease With Nontraditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/announcements/final-recommendation-statement-risk-assessment-cardiovascular-disease-nontraditional-risk-factors
     July 10, 2018 - evidence on whether additional methods of risk assessment provide more information than traditional measures

103. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Issues Two Final Recommendation Statements Related to Risk Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/cvd-nontraditional-risk-pad-joint-bulletin.pdf
     July 10, 2018 - found insufficient evidence on whether additional methods provide more information than traditional measures … These recommendation statements focus on whether additional tests to measure risk can help identify

104. Final Research Plan: Impaired Visual Acuity in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/impaired-visual-acuity-adults-october-2022
     June 04, 2020 - vision-related quality of life; functional capacity, including ability to drive and driving outcomes; other measures … specificity, positive and negative predictive values, areas under the receiver operating curve, and other measures

105. Final Research Plan: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/impaired-visual-acuity-screening-older-adults
     June 04, 2020 - vision-related quality of life; functional capacity, including ability to drive and driving outcomes; other measures … specificity, positive and negative predictive values, areas under the receiver operating curve, and other measures

106. Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/reconsidering-approach-prevention-recommendations-older-adults
     February 01, 2014 - Studies that evaluate the efficacy of these multifactorial interventions often measure more than 1 type … These measures offer important and relevant considerations for setting goals of care, but they are not … Many outcomes are continuous or ordinal measures, designed to be sensitive across a continuum, that are … of the potential differences in benefits and harms, patient preferences, and reported health status measures … ," because of the diversity in domains and measures used to identify patients at risk for falls.

107. Recommendation: High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening
     November 10, 2020 - defined as a blood pressure measurement above 140/90 mm Hg. 1 , 9 Screening Tests Best practice is to measure … Various measures of association were reported across studies. … ratios ranged from 1.45 to 3.60, and hazard ratios (HRs) ranged from 2.8 to 3.2. 1 Predictive accuracy measures … increased left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness. 1 , 5 As a result, intermediate measures … The associations among childhood hypertension, adulthood hypertension, and surrogate measures of cardiovascular

108. Archived: High Blood Pressure in Adults, Children, and Adolescents: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/high-blood-pressure-adults-children-adolescents-screening-2003
     April 01, 2003 - There are some data to suggest that ambulatory blood pressure measurement (that provides a measure of … When performed correctly, sphygmomanometry provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours as opposed … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA 1995;273:1211–8. 13. McAlister FA, Straus SE.

109. Archived: Final Research Plan: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/osteoporosis-screening-june-2018
     November 05, 2015 - measurement tests, or both (e.g., sensitivity, specificity, reliability) Fracture risk prediction (measures … rashes) KQ 1: Nonvalidated fractures and their related morbidity and mortality Bone density measures

110. Draft Research Plan: Impaired Visual Acuity and Glaucoma in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/impaired-visual-acuity-glaucoma-in-adults-screening
     February 13, 2020 - vision-related quality of life; functional capacity, including ability to drive and driving outcomes; other measures … specificity; positive and negative predictive values, areas under the receiver operating curve; and other measures … e.g., eye irritation, corneal abrasion, infection, anterior synechiae, or cataracts) KQs 4, 5: Measures

111. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/healthy-lifestyle-and-physical-activity-for-cvd-prevention-adults-without-known-risk-factors-behavioral-counseling
     July 26, 2022 - Main Outcomes and Measures: CVD events, CVD risk factors, diet and physical activity measures, and harms … The specific behavioral outcomes, measures, and units of measurement were highly variable across the … Sixteen trials (n = 5867) reported measures of sedentary behavior, independent of physical activity. … 29 , 33 , 34 , 39-41 , 46 , 50 , 62 , 82 , 89 , 102 , 116 , 119 , 130 , 136 The measures and results … First, few studies were included that reported measures of intermediate cardiometabolic outcomes, and

112. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(03)00122-3 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - When performed correctly, sphygmomanometry provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours as opposed … www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/jncintro.htm studies found that ambulatory blood pressure measure … clinical cardiovascular outcome than clinic-based approach- es.15–17 Another review found blood pressure measure … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA 1995;273:1211–8. 13. McAlister FA, Straus SE.

113. Final Research Plan: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan153/ovarian-cancer-screening
     March 03, 2016 - Study quality Good and fair quality, according to USPSTF criteria and supplemental quality measures … Poor quality, according to USPSTF criteria and supplemental quality measures Language English

114. Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2018 - Central DXA measures BMD at the hip and lumbar spine. … reviewed by the USPSTF used central DXA to determine eli- gibility for study enrollment.4,6 Peripheral DXA measures … predicting fracture risk as DXA, while avoiding the risk of radiation exposure; however, it does not measure … an increased risk of fractures, although their clinical use in identifying men who need further bone measure … Central DXA uses radiation to measure BMD at central bone sites (hip and lumbar spine), which is the

115. Draft Research Plan: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/speech-language-delay-disorders-children-age-5-years-younger-screening
     January 20, 2022 - e.g., expressive language, receptive language, phonology, vocabulary, syntax, pragmatics) KQ 1, 5: Measures … reading comprehension), behavior competence, socioemotional functioning, and quality of life KQ 2: Measures

116. JAMA (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2021 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Morbidity or mortality, measures of health-related quality of life. … Included outcomes were mortality, morbidity related to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, measures … Reasonably consistent, reasonably precise for mental health/HRQoL Risk of bias higher for anxiety outcome measures … of the trials found differences in anxiety or postnatal depression between study groups; different measures

117. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/c-reactive-protein-as-a-risk-factor-for-coronary-heart-disease-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors
     July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

118. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/c-reactive-protein-as-a-risk-factor-for-coronary-heart-disease-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors-2009
     July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

119. Screening for Obesity and Intervention for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2017 - Task Force.17 We chose BMI z score as the preferred outcome because it was the only widely available measure … When pooling any weight measure, standardized mean differences in change between groups were used. … From From Mean Difference Through End of Baseline, Baseline, in Change From 12 moSource Treatment) Measure … Youth in these trials had baseline mean weights of 215 and 244 lb in the 2 studies reporting baseline … Fasting plasma glucose was the only insulin or glucose measure with sufficient data to pool.

120. Archived: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2010
     January 15, 2010 - 1995. 1 Detection Previously, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI was an acceptable measure … Screening Tests In 2005, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI was an acceptable measure for … children and adolescents, because it is feasible and reliable and because it tracks with adult obesity measures … having a BMI at ≥95th percentile for age and gender. 12 , 13 BMI-for-age percentile is not a direct measure … Limited evidence suggests that reductions in insulin-resistance measures are possible with moderate-