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441. Evidence Summary: Depression and Suicide Risk in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/screening-depression-suicide-risk-adults
     June 20, 2023 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Depression outcomes; suicidal ideation, attempts, and deaths; sensitivity … For continuous outcomes, change from baseline in each group was the measure for analysis. … Chiefly, only 4 studies examined screening in older adults, and only 1 used a depression measure specifically … Incorporating PROMIS symptom measures into primary care practice—a randomized clinical trial. … comparing effects of various antidepressant classes on the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) as a measure

442. Evidence Summary: Healthy Weight and Weight Gain In Pregnancy: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/healthy-weight-and-weight-gain-during-pregnancy-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     May 25, 2021 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Gestational weight–related outcomes; maternal and infant morbidity and mortality … was generally not observed, sensitivity analysis was not conducted using the difference in follow-up weights … If necessary, mean weight change was calculated based on reported baseline and follow-up weights; when … 67 , 69-71 , 73 , 77 , 79 , 80 , 82 Gestational hypertension was defined as persistent or repeated measures … Mixed effects reported for rates of depression and anxiety as measured by various, validated symptom scales

443. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-february-2005
     February 15, 2005 - , participants with AAAs 3.0 cm or greater showed small but significant decreases in 1-month survey measures … aneurysm-screening program in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. 43 No differences were found in general health measures … terms risk assessment , predictive value of tests , attitude to health , psychiatric status rating scales

444. 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

445. 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

446. Archived: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors-2009
     October 15, 2009 - The 5 studies rated as fair quality were primarily limited by their use of proxy measures to control … Predictive value of noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis for incident myocardial infarction: the Rotterdam

447. Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/h-w99jVsodSL33kV2h2_qW
     April 17, 2018 - Effectiveness of Preventive Measures The USPSTF reviewed the evidence from 62 trials on the use of multifactorial … living, or independent activities of daily living showed no benefit, but these studies used different scales … Potential Harms of Preventive Measures Evidence on harms was reported in a subset of trials reporting … A pilot study to explore the predictive validity of 4 measures of falls risk in frail elderly patients

448. Screening for Unhealthy Drug Use: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/R3y9LSud52CGL8mG4wvxoT
     June 09, 2020 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Sensitivity, specificity, drug use and other health, social, and legal outcomes … Drug use severity was analyzed as a standardized mean difference, given heterogeneity in measurement scales … Outcomes: No measure of drug use reported (KQs 1, 3, 4, 5); no measure related to sensitivity and specificity … Only 3 trials reported on a measure of global function or well-being with no clear effect. … Drug use during pregnancy: validating the Drug Abuse Screening Test against physiological measures.

449. Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Lm94jySKCYrG3zsUP8Jd8E
     February 16, 2016 - 18 and 24 months with later screening or case-finding on educational, behavioral, functional, and IQ measures … children) re- ported that these interventions improved cognitive scores by 11 to 16 points (Mullen Scales … Twelve RCTs of play- or in- teraction-based interventions reported significant improvements in some measures

450. Vision Screening in Children Aged 6Months to 5 Years: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Jwn6dWRHvK3C9oJCV6hLKc
     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.

451. Evidence Summary: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening
     September 14, 2021 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Complications of infection; infection transmission or acquisition; diagnostic … STIs including HIV, and using different screening intervals) for chlamydia and gonorrhea that reported measures … For KQ3, studies of diagnostic accuracy that included measures of discrimination of testing at various

452. Benefits and Harms of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Programs for High Risk Populations (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/RkeQEwKRWULreuWecXG8S-
     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

453. 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

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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

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     October 01, 2015 - Serum ferritin, which is often used to measure iron status, may have limited use during pregnancy because … identification and correction of iron deficiency anemia plays an important role and whether current measures

456. 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

457. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/6hyj7-3s6Qxs-brqhxPVxD
     June 06, 2017 - of benefits and harms in CISNETmodeling when lifetime number of colonoscopies is used as the proxy measure … and amore efficient balance between life-years gained and lifetime number of colonoscopies (a proxy measure … find­ ings depend on the perspective taken: if lifetime number of colo­ noscopies is used as the proxy measure … burden of screen­ ing, it is efficient; if cathartic bowel preparations are considered as the proxy measure

458. Ocular Prophylaxis of Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/nfq4s8fZc4JZeprE8FnQYW
     August 01, 2010 - for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2010. 3 Introduction In the absence of preventive measures

459. Screening for Hepatitis B Infection in Pregnant Women: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/pFEM-gRfk6-Qj7grXkZQzC
     February 11, 2019 - factors are present in only 35% to 65% of HBV-positive pregnant women Treatment: Effective preventive measures

460. Recommendation: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-screening
     April 18, 2023 - 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