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421. Archived: Final Research Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan105/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
     September 25, 2014 - with low risk for TB and without known exposure to TB; studies on screening reliability must include measures

422. Final Research Plan: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-adults-with-high-risk-of-cvd
     September 13, 2018 - myocardial infarction, or heart failure) Cardiovascular and all-cause mortality Quality of life measures

423. Screening to Prevent Osteoporotic Fractures: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 26, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Incident fractures and related morbidity and mortality, diagnostic and predictive … 80 Ineligible or no comparator 186 Ineligible or no outcome 3 Could not obtain full text 19 Bone measure … Thirty-five studies reported other measures of diagnostic ac- curacy (ie, sensitivity, specificity), … Both suggest no advantage to repeated bone measure- ment testing (at 8 years86 and 3.7 years87 apart) … Although results from studies of accuracy of bone measure- ment tests or clinical risk assessments for

424. Screening and Treatment for Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 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 … risk factor for dyslipidemia.79-82, 84-86, 89-95, 99, 101-104, 106-112, 114, 115, 117, 119 These measures … show the magnitude of the effect of overweight on lipids, or the impact that incorporating weight measures

425. Vision Screening in Children Aged 6Months to 5 Years: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     September 05, 2017 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Visual acuity, amblyopia, school performance, functioning, quality of life … To provide a consistent metric for visual acuity outcome measures, results were converted to loga­ rithm … of the minimal angle of resolution (logMAR) measurements using established conversion charts.31 Measures … visual acuity are generally reported as Snellen (eg, 20/20, 20/25, 20/30, 20/40, 20/50) or logMAR scales … Improving the reliability of visual acuity measures in young children.

426. Screening for Major Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2016 - Screening for adolescent depression: a comparison of depression scales. … tifying psychosocial dysfunction in school-age children: the Pediatric Symptom Checklist as a self-report measure … depression inventory”[TIAB] OR “depression inventories”[TIAB] OR “depression scale”[TIAB] OR “depression scales … ”[TIAB] OR “depression rating scale”[TIAB] OR “depression rating scales”[TIAB] OR “self report rating … scale”[TIAB] OR “self report rating scales”[TIAB] OR “mood and feelings questionnaire”[TIAB] OR “mood

427. Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Roger Chou, MD; Tracy Dana, MLS; Ian Blazina, MPH; Monica Daeges, BA; Christina Bougatsos, MPH; and Thomas L. Jeanne, MD, MPH Background: Dys…

428. Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Accuracy of Screening Tests In 2003, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI is an acceptable measure

429. Screening for Skin Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2022 - shave sites as having poor cosmetic outcomes.25 A fair-quality US-based study (n = 187) used various scales … Scores in both the screened and unscreened groups were within the normal range on all measures, indicating

430. Screening for Dementia - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - There are 2 scales of function commonly used in research on dementia: a 70-point Alzheimer’s Disease … However, the evidence of the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on functional measures, such as instrumental … that examined only the 4 highest quality RCTs found a small (approximately 3%) difference in cognitive scales

431. Evidence Summary: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions
     April 11, 2025 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Child and maternal health outcomes, prevalence, and duration of any and … 1 101 of the 90 included trials (N = 49,597) reported the effects of an intervention on at least 1 measure … = 0.0%). 24 , 33 , 56 , 59 , 71 , 77 , 99 , 108 In the subset of trials that reported continuous measures … “problems” between those in the intervention vs usual care groups in 22 studies that reported these measures

432. Archived: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/diabetes-mellitus-type-2-in-adults-screening-2008
     June 15, 2008 - Data are limited, however, and studies vary in outcome measures, characteristics of the screened and … The researchers found that the former group had worse psychological measures, although the negative effects

433. Archived: Final Research Plan: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/ResearchPlanFinal/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
     January 23, 2014 - screening must include a comparison with angiography; studies on reliability of screening must include measures

434. Archived: Final Research Plan: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan36/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
     January 23, 2014 - screening must include a comparison with angiography; studies on reliability of screening must include measures

435. Archived: Skin Cancer: Counseling, 2012 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-counseling-2012
     May 15, 2012 - However, most individual measures were statistically insignificant, and overall it was difficult to determine … However, these four studies used only crude measures of sunscreen use and did not adjust for sun exposure

436. Ovxmtapc8Tcpqzvrkeyhyd (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - In all areas related to child mal- treatment, more data are needed on how best to measure outcomes related … with the draft recommendation; several other comments noted the limitations of using CPS reports as a measure … The USPSTF recognizes the limita- tions of the evidence on child maltreatment measures and outcomes and

437. Benefits and Harms of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Programs for High Risk Populations (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - We briefly describe how each model computes this measure. … Composite measures of the number of screenings per lung cancer averted and per life-year gained are … number of screenings and lung cancer deaths averted but represents a noticeable tradeoff between the measures

438. Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening
     January 14, 2025 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Hip, clinical vertebral, major osteoporotic, and total fractures; mortality … fracture) 4 Articles from 4 unique cohorts 41 , 63 , 91 , 100 (18,145) Inconsistent calibration measures

439. Tagauj5Qoarfv3M8Fapbon (pdf file)
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     June 03, 2019 - originally conducted, the Swedish trials had impor- tant flaws related to measurement of the primary outcome measure … ters (for example, geographic areas, month or year of birth) was likely to result in bias and whether measures … , autopsies, registries), and use of independent blinded review of the cause of death are important measures … Results of intermediate measures from a population-based, randomized trial of mammo- graphic screening … The epidemiology of mass breast cancer screening—a plea for a valid measure of benefit.

440. A and B Recommendations | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics/uspstf-a-and-b-recommendations
     April 01, 2025 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print A & B Recommendations A listing of all the Recommendations with a grade of either A or B. A and B grade recommendations are services that the Task Force most highly recommends implementi…