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161. Archived: Evidence Summary: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary3/chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening-september-2014
     September 23, 2014 - Study Selection: English-language trials and observational studies about screening effectiveness, test … specificity of 97% or greater for diagnosing gonorrhea and chlamydia, regardless of specimen type or test … Medical records of women suspected of having PID on the basis of their questionnaire responses were reviewed … Studies have also reported similar test characteristics for nurse- and patient-collected rectal swabs … They also thank AHRQ Medical Officer Karen Lee, MD, MPH, and the U.S.

162. Archived: Evidence Summary: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary17/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-and-genetic-testing-2013
     December 15, 2013 - Dallas, TX: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; 2006. 127. … B: 2 mo after test C: 1 y after test HADS, SF-36 - Decrease (B, C vs. … B: 1 mo after test C: 1 y after test STAI, IES - NS - NA Foster et al, 2007 … B: 1 y after test C: 2 y after test IES Increase (B vs. … B: 6 wk after test C: 18 mo after test HADS, IES - NS NS NA van Dijk et al

163. Archived: Folic Acid/Folate Prophylaxis to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Ultrasound examination is used both as a screening test and as a follow-up test after positive MSAFP … In the international, multicenter British Medical Research Council (MRC) trial, involving nearly 1,200 … Medical Research Council Working Party on Amniocentesis. … Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. … Prevention of neural tube defects: results of the Medical Research Council Vitamin Study.

164. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 01, 2002 - Older men and men with other significant medical problems who have a life expectancy of fewer than 10 … Determining test characteristics of any screening test for prostate cancer is difficult because clinicians … have been developed, primarily to improve the specificity of the test (i.e., to reduce false positives … The American Medical Association.     … American Medical Association. Report 9 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A‐00).

165. Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 24, 2021 - diabetes include measurement of fasting plasma glucose or HbA1c level or an oral glucose tolerance test … The optimal screening interval for adults with an initial normal glucose test result is uncertain. … be detected by measuring fast- ing plasma glucose or HbA1c level, or with an oral glucose tolerance test … , they are more convenient than using a fasting plasma glucose level or an oral glucose tolerance test … The oral glucose tolerance test is done in the morning in a fasting state; blood glucose concentration

166. Anxiety Screening: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2023 - original studies and systematic reviews of screening or treatment compared with control conditions and test … Education JAMA | US Preventive Services Task Force | EVIDENCE REPORT (Reprinted) E1 © 2023 American Medical … Where possible, quantitative syntheses of test accuracy and anxiety treatment studies were conducted … Review: Anxiety Screening E2 JAMA Published online June 20, 2023 (Reprinted) jama.com © 2023 American Medical … Review: Anxiety Screening E4 JAMA Published online June 20, 2023 (Reprinted) jama.com © 2023 American Medical

167. Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 23, 2024 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Screening test accuracy, speech and language outcomes, school performance … 32 Fair Holzinger et al, 24 2021 Austria Prospective cohort (n = 2044 a ) Pediatric medical … ; FPST, Fluharty Preschool Screening Test; GFTA, Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation; GLS, General Language … Screen; HAT, Henja Articulation Test; HELST, Hackney Early Language Screening Test; HKCAT, Hong Kong … reference measure varied Criteria for screening failure was not always indicated Low Children seen in medical

168. Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2021 - NAATs can test for infection at urogenital and extragenital sites,including urine, endocervical, vaginal … NAAT indicates nucleic acid amplification test; STI, sexually transmitted infection; USPSTF, US Preventive … screen patients whose sexual history reveals new or persistent risk factors since the last negative test … all NAATs and specimen types.19,32 No studies of psychosocial harms, such as anxiety, related to test … it recom- mends that all pregnant women be tested for chlamydia early in pregnancy, with a repeat test

169. Clinical Summary: Screening for HIV Infection (pdf file)
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     indeterminate (or if acute HIV infection or recent exposure is suspected or reported), an HIV-1 nucleic acid test … is recommended to differentiate acute HIV-1 infection from a false-positive test result. … Repeat screening is also reasonable for persons who live or receive medical care in a high-prevalence

170. Screening for HIV Infection: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2019 - is recom- mended to differentiate acute HIV-1 infection from a false- positive test result.8,9 Antigen … Pregnant women presenting in labor with unknown HIV status should be screened with a rapid HIV test … is recommended to differentiate acute HIV-1 infection from a false-positive test result. … Patients should receive an explanation of HIV infection and the meaning of positive and negative test … risk factors and in women living or receiv- ing care in high-incidence settings who had a negative test

171. Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2008 - test, 6.4% or greater (6–8). … Standards of medical care in diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2007;30 Suppl 1:S4-41. … DeWitt, MD (Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH); Allen J. … Marion, PhD, RN (Medical College of Georgia, Au- gusta, GA); Virginia A. … Yawn, MD, MSPH, MSc (Olmsted Medical Center, Rochester, MN).

172. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2016
     March 01, 2016 - Screening Tests A visual acuity test (such as the Snellen eye chart) is the usual method for screening … test for refractive error), the Amsler grid (a test of central vision to detect AMD), genetic testing … Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York); Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Co-Vice … García, MD, MPH (Pima County Department of Health, Tucson, Arizona); Matthew Gillman, MD, SM (Harvard Medical … Comprehensive Adult Medical Eye Evaluation Preferred Practice Pattern(®) Guidelines.

173. Recommendation: Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 04, 2018 - Research Laboratory [VDRL] test or rapid plasma reagin [RPR] test), followed by a confirmatory “treponemal … ” antibody detection test (ie, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test or Treponema pallidum … particle agglutination test). … If the test results are discordant, a second treponemal test is performed. … Barry, MD (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts); Aaron B.

174. Recommendation: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 14, 2023 - may be as low as 75% and as low as 50% for the HerpeSelect test for predicting true seropositivity. … Studies assessing screening test accuracy and predictive value in primary care settings in the US that … Barry, MD (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts); Wanda K. … MD, MPH (New York University, New York, New York); Lori Pbert, PhD (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical … Published by JAMA®—Journal of the American Medical Association under arrangement with the Agency for

175. Evidence Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
     September 05, 2017 - AHRQ series paper 5: grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency … Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature . Chicago, IL: AMA Press; 2002:121-140. … focusing eye Ocular alignment test Simultaneous red reflex test (Bruckner test) Equal … d Cover-uncover test; Kays picture test and HOTV test; noncycloplegic autorefraction. … or stereopsis test (or both).

176. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Folic Acid to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary25/folic-acid-to-prevent-neural-tube-defects-preventive-medication-2009
     May 15, 2009 - pregnancy outcomes of 130,142 women in 3 provinces in China who were asked during their premarital medical … Investigators obtained 170 cases by monitoring amniocentesis programs, perinatal centers, all medical … practitioners providing care to pregnant women, medical records from hospitals with delivery or newborn … Källén and Olausson, 2002 16 Cohort study of 5331 infants registered in the Swedish Medical Birth Registry … Källén, 2004 28 Retrospective cohort study of 576,873 women registered in the Swedish Medical Birth

177. Archived: Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) is the initial screening test for anti-HCV antibodies. … The RIBA has 100 percent sensitivity when compared with EIA, but is a more expensive test. … presence of anti-HCV antibodies but does not discriminate between persistent and resolved infection, medical … (Acting Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO); Paul … (Professor of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical

178. Archived: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/cervical-cancer-screening-2012
     March 15, 2012 - Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York); Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD (University … Wilt, MD, MPH (University of Minnesota Department of Medicine and Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical … Sanford Schwartz, MD, MBA (University of Pennsylvania Medical School and the Wharton School, Philadelphia … Five-year experience of human papillomavirus DNA and Papanicolaou test cotesting. … The effect of hysterectomy on the risk of an abnormal screening Papanicolaou test result.

179. Screening Children for Family Violence: A Review of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2004 - American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs. … • Study uses a credible reference standard, performed regardless of test results? … • Reference standard interpreted independently of screening test? … • Administration of reliable screening test? … reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test

180. Evidence Summary: Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening
     May 02, 2023 - If screening test results for LTBI are positive, a medical and social history, symptom assessment, physical … TB blood test in diagnosing active TB: a prospective Bayesian analysis. … ); QFT-Plus, QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (fourth-generation test); T-SPOT. … TB and QFT-GIT Low for QFT-Plus Lack of direct test for LTBI requires extrapolation of test characteristics … analysis enrolled employees in a US hospital, individuals meeting ATS criteria referred to a US military medical