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421. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - Preventive Services Task Force* are Ned Calonge, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, USPSTF (Chief Medical Officer and … of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical … (Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA); Virginia A. … (Professor and Chairman, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical … Assessment of plasma total cholesterol as a test to detect elevated low density (beta) lipoprotein cholesterol

422. Archived: Evidence Summary: Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Preexposure Prophylaxis | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prevention-of-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-june-2019
     June 11, 2019 - Sensitivity analyses were also conducted using data from the FDA medical review of PrEP 7 on HIV incidence … Hospital of Cook County; Douglas Krakower, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical … AHRQ series paper 4: assessing harms when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the effective health-care … The Mantel-Haenszel method was used to calculate the heterogeneity ( I 2 ) test statistic. … 83% Asian: 5% vs 6% Black: 4% vs 4% Other race: 10% vs 8% 100 (plasma) c Fair Medical

423. Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - artery stenosis screening have been published; however, RCTs comparing carotid endar- terectomy to medical … Clinic © 2007 American College of Physicians 871 positive and false-negative rates of the screening test … , the possibility of adverse events from the test, the accuracy and potential for adverse events of any … subsequent confirmatory diagnostic tests, and the inevitable failure to follow through on the test or … If the test is falsely positive and the patient does not have confirmatory angiography, he or she may

424. Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 18, 2024 - All significance test- ing was 2-sided, and results were considered statistically signifi- cant if P … of θi = θj: Q16 = 32.79, P =.01 Heterogeneity: τ 2 = 0.09, I2 = 62.12%, H2 = 2.64 Test of θ = 0: t16 … of θi = θj: Q10 = 47.05, P <.001 Heterogeneity: τ 2 = 1.05, I2 = 87.78%, H2 = 8.19 Test of θ = 0: t10 … of θi = θj: Q27 = 123.53, P <.001 Heterogeneity: τ 2 = 0.46, I2 = 86.81%, H2 = 7.58 Test of θ = 0: … t27 = –4.05, P <.001 Test of group differences: Qb1 = 8.08, P <.001 Overall 12 6 6 6 12 12 12 12 12

425. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2007 - Assessment of plasma total cholesterol as a test to detect elevated low density (beta) lipoprotein cholesterol … Preventive Services Task Force* are Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, Chair, USPSTF (Chief Medical Officer and State … of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical … Marion, PhD, RN (Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA); Virginia … Medicine and Chief of Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical

426. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Improving the Health of Women Through Research (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/2015annlrpt%20(4)_0.pdf
     January 01, 2016 - Although a test can accurately identify a person’s thyroid stimulating hormone level, clinicians do … including studies to establish parameters for using quantitative ultrasound as a primary screening test … Screening results in many false-positive test results, and consequently this may result in serious and … to 65 years could have similar benefit with less frequent screening (every 5 years) if they added a test … , they have not been screened recently, or they did not have appropriate followup care for abnormal test

427. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Improving the Health of Women Through Research (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/2015annlrpt%20(4).pdf
     January 01, 2016 - Although a test can accurately identify a person’s thyroid stimulating hormone level, clinicians do … including studies to establish parameters for using quantitative ultrasound as a primary screening test … Screening results in many false-positive test results, and consequently this may result in serious and … to 65 years could have similar benefit with less frequent screening (every 5 years) if they added a test … , they have not been screened recently, or they did not have appropriate followup care for abnormal test

428. Final Research Plan: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening
     March 14, 2019 - * “Chronic HBV infection” is defined by a positive HBsAg test result. … ‡ “Isolated anti-HBc positive” is defined as positive anti-HBc test results but negative anti-HBs … and HBsAg test results and indicates prior HBV exposure. … HBV vaccination is recommended for patients with positive isolated anti-HBc test results who are from … § “Never exposed to HBV” is defined as negative anti-HBs, anti-HBc, and HBsAg test results.

429. Archived: Final Recommendation Statement: Intimate Partner Violence and Elderly Abuse: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/intimate-partner-violence-and-elderly-abuse-screening-2004
     March 08, 2004 - screening instruments (the Caregiver Abuse Screen [CASE] and the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test … False-positive test results, most common in low-risk populations, may compromise the clinician-patient … American Medical Association Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Child Sexual Abuse. … American Medical Association Policy Statement on Family and Intimate Partner Violence H-515.965. … Chicago: American Medical Association; 1992. 46.

430. Screening for Bladder Cancer in Adults - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2004 - School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD) Ned Calonge, MD, MPH (Acting Chief Medical … Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical … MSPH (Professor and Chairman, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical

431. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Issues Final Recommendation Statement on Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes Infection (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/genital-herpes-screening-final-rec-bulletin.pdf
     February 14, 2023 - statement and corresponding evidence summary have been published online in the Journal of the American Medical … He is the medical director of MU Healthcare Family Medicine–Callaway Physicians. … He is also the medical director for a local nursing home and the county ambulance district. Dr. … Barry is director of the Informed Medical Decisions Program in the Health Decision Sciences Center at … He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinician at Massachusetts General

432. Screening for Skin Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 26, 2016 - cause; its potential harms, including any harms resulting from associated diagnostic follow-up; its test … Copyright 2016 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. … cause; its potential harms, including any harms resulting from as- sociated diagnostic follow-up; its test … 100% and a specificity of 98% for the diagnosis of melanoma.12 Since then, 2 additional studies on the test … Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York (Siu).

433. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary34/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - Evidence-based Practice Center, Department of Medicine. 3 Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular & Medical … Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary , 29th ed. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company; 2000. … Study uses a credible reference standard, performed regardless of test results. … Reference standard interpreted independently of screening test. … Administration of reliable screening test.

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     May 23, 2019 - Test performance is summarized elsewhere (41). … None reported using electronic medical record support. … Alexandria, VA: International Medical Services; 1996:567-82. 35. … The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): a review of recent research. … In 2 clinics, random assignment was based on odd/even medical record numbers.

435. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - the high burden of suffering in this age group and the lack of evidence of differences in mammogram test … A review 17 of the current clinical trial data, published and unpublished, summarized screening test … of the combined screening may have been a result of CBE. 53-56 The Canadian NBSS 2 was designed to test … A private breast imaging practice: medical audit of 25,788 screening and 1,077 diagnostic examinations … Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association.

436. Archived: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - Neck auscultation is an imperfect screening test for carotid stenosis. … and spares patients the risks of conventional angiography, it is unlikely to be a useful screening test … Medical treatment for stroke prevention. Ann Intern Med . 1994;121:41–53. [ PubMed ] 5. … The CASANOVA Study Group Carotid surgery versus medical therapy in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. … Current medical and surgical therapy for cerebrovascular disease.

437. Evidence Summary: Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/screening-for-prediabetes-and-type-2-diabetes
     August 24, 2021 - : hemoglobin A 1c (HbA 1c ) concentration, fasting plasma glucose level, or oral glucose tolerance test … person-years; P < .02) at 2.3 years 73 but no difference between groups for sprains or fractures needing medical … routine care for CVD prevention would not have included treatments now considered to be current standard medical … routine care for CVD prevention would not have included treatments now considered to be current standard medical … Classification and diagnosis of diabetes: standards of medical care in diabetes—2020.

438. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Fourth Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/annlrpt2014%20(6).pdf
     November 01, 2014 - preventive services can include adverse effects of the service itself, as well as the harms of inaccurate test … He was the chief medical information officer at University of Missouri Health Care during the decade-long … Peters Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, and has served as deputy commissioner of the New York State … Baumann is an experienced researcher and consultant, and has spoken at medical conferences across the … Kemper is a board-certified pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at Duke University Medical School

439. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Fourth Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/annlrpt2014%20(9).pdf
     November 01, 2014 - preventive services can include adverse effects of the service itself, as well as the harms of inaccurate test … He was the chief medical information officer at University of Missouri Health Care during the decade-long … Peters Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, and has served as deputy commissioner of the New York State … Baumann is an experienced researcher and consultant, and has spoken at medical conferences across the … Kemper is a board-certified pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at Duke University Medical School

440. Archived: Evidence Summary: Alcohol Misuse: Screening and Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/alcohol-misuse-screening-and-counseling-2004
     April 06, 2004 - among primary care populations. 2 , 45 , 46  Test performance is summarized elsewhere. 41 Validated … Alexandria, VA: International Medical Services; 1996:567-82. 35. … The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): a review of recent research. … The feasibility of behavioral risk reduction in primary medical care. … In 2 clinics, random assignment was based on odd/even medical record numbers.