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381. Primary Care–Relevant Interventions for Tobacco and Nicotine Use Prevention and Cessation in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2011 - Study Selection Two investigators independently reviewed titles, abstracts, and full- text articles using … and Cessation in Children and Adolescents 7926 Citations identified 7794 Literature database search … standards, and distributed the draft for peer review. … Additional Information: A draft version of this evidence report underwent external peer review from 3 … It did not undergo additional peer review after submission to JAMA. REFERENCES 1.

382. Archived: Breastfeeding: Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breastfeeding-counseling-2008
     October 15, 2008 - For a summary of the evidence systematically reviewed in making this recommendation, the full recommendation … Interventions The current literature does not allow assessment of the individual aspects of multicomponent … evidence review, community-based interventions to promote and support breastfeeding, such as direct peer-to-peer … Evidence-based Practice Center. 7  The review updates the USPSTF's 2003 evidence report 8  and includes literature … not address community-based interventions, such as media campaigns, worksite lactation programs, and peer-to-peer

383. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults, Children, and Adolescents: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/high-blood-pressure-adults-children-adolescents-screening-2003
     April 01, 2003 - Since that time the published literature on hypertension has expanded rapidly, necessitating new examination … Two authors reviewed abstracts (and if necessary full texts) of potentially relevant articles to determine … Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed the evidence regarding screening for hypertension. 5 … Four key questions guided our literature searches and synthesis of the evidence: Key Question No. … 1966 and January 2002 and used manual searches of relevant articles and personal libraries, as well as peer

384. Archived: Evidence Summary: Depression: Screening 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/depression-screening-2002
     May 07, 2002 - Cochrane depression, anxiety, and neurosis database; hand searches of bibliographies; and extensive peer … Study Selection: We reviewed randomized trials conducted in primary care settings that examined the … Two of the authors independently reviewed the titles and abstracts of the articles identified by the … literature searches and excluded ones on which they agreed that eligibility criteria were not met. … A critical review of the literature. Psychosomatics 2000;41:39-52. 32.

385. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Breastfeeding: Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary10/breastfeeding-counseling-2008
     October 15, 2008 - Furthermore, breastfeeding interventions with a component of lay support (such as peer support or peer … designation 6 , 7 and worksite lactation programs. 8 Some of the other interventions implemented include peer-to-peer … We also reviewed reference lists of a related systematic review 86 for additional studies. … Nonetheless, the RCTs reviewed in this report showed consistent findings. … A critical overview of the clinical literature. Diabetes Care 1994;17:13-9.

386. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Healthy Diet: Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care, January 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review41/diet-behavioral-counseling-primary-care-adults-2003
     January 15, 2003 - reviewing the bibliographies of included articles and querying experts in the field during an extensive peer … Senior investigators reviewed titles and abstracts to identify which full manuscripts to review and made … Other team members then reviewed individual articles and abstracted selected information into evidence … Staff of the funding agency contributed to the study design, reviewed draft and final manuscripts, and … retained 21 studies reported in 25 articles that met our eligibility criteria. 10-34 Across this body of literature

387. 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 - Fiellin and colleagues (2) similarly divide the literature on screening instruments for alcohol problems … We conducted separate searches in MEDLINE and PsycINFO from 1994 through April 2002 to identify any literature … 37 , 39  More details on these reviews are available elsewhere. 41 To identify relevant primary literature … Literature Review Investigators reviewed 4331 nonduplicative titles and abstracts. … 2001 99 United States Excluded health care setting: Brief physician intervention with and without peer

388. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Breastfeeding: Counseling, July 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/breastfeeding-counseling-2003
     July 01, 2003 - Two reviewers independently reviewed all abstracts and titles for inclusion. … initiation, short-term duration, and long-term duration according to timeframes commonly reported in the literature … reviews and controlled trials using criteria developed by the USPSTF. 15 Two reviewers independently reviewed … Full-text articles were reviewed to identify 22 RCTs, 19-40 8 non-RCTs, 41-48 and 5 systematic reviews … their assistance in reviewing articles, and Patty Davies, M.S., for her assistance in conducting the literature

389. Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care to Promote a Healthy Diet in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - reviewing the bibliographies of included articles and querying experts in the field during an extensive peer … Senior investigators reviewed titles and abstracts to identify which full manuscripts to review and made … Other team members then reviewed individual articles and abstracted selected information into evidence … Staff of the funding agency contributed to the study design, reviewed draft and final manuscripts, and … Results We identified a total of 129 abstracts for review from our literature searches.

390. ahrq12a_Summary_HBP.qxd (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/BXkaHRFGjwUCoyANeMSuTz
     January 01, 2010 - Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed the evidence regarding screening for hypertension (5 … Four key questions guided our literature searches and synthesis of the evidence: • Key Question No. … 1966 and January 2002 and used manual searches of relevant articles and personal libraries, as well as peer … Data Extraction and Synthesis Two authors reviewed abstracts of potentially relevant articles to determine … Experts and USPSTF members reviewed our work for accuracy and completeness at meetings in 2001 and early

391. Effectiveness of Weight Management Interventions in Children: A Targeted Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - We did not examine non–peer- reviewed sources (gray literature) or non–English-language literature. … articles reviewed n = 369a Articles reviewed: pharmacologic interventions n = 47 Articles … The draft ev- idence synthesis was reviewed by 8 ex- ternal peer reviewers and was revised for the final … We did not search for data from non– peer-reviewed sources. … ing.mp. 28 social support.mp. 29 (peer adj2 support).mp.

392. Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1–5 Years: Update for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - searched Medline from 1950 to July 2009 and the Co- chrane Library through the third quarter of 2009, reviewed … Identified through Medline, Cochrane,a and other sourcesb: 3699 Full-text articles reviewed for … the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. b Other sources include reference lists, suggested by peer … However, we identified no relevant non–English- language studies in our literature searches. … Users’ guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B.

393. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - Inter- ventions ranged from a written self-guided booklet to a brief video and to a 30-minute 1:1 peer-counseling … University; n � 105; mean age, NR; women who frequently indoor tan IG1: 30-min appearance-focused peer-counseling … Skin cancer-related prevention and screening behaviors: a review of the literature. … (n = 358) Abstracts reviewed (n = 6132) Articles reviewed for key questions 1, 2, and 3 (n = 73) … Articles reviewed for key question 4 (n = 238) Articles reviewed for key question 5 (n = 71) Articles

394. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - We sup- plemented literature searches with outside source material from experts in the field and the … Abstracts reviewed (n = 3197) Total articles reviewed from searches and outside sources (n = 305) … Total articles reviewed from outside sources (n = 72) Articles reviewed for KQs 1–4 (n = 287) Articles … 0% male PC clinics Culturally tailored social cognitive theory and theory of gender and power; with peer … chlamydia (current) Culturally tailored social cognitive theory and theory of gender and power, with peer

395. Archived: Evidence Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening-2005
     July 05, 2005 - For interventions, we focused on studies of HAART. 14 , 15 We also reviewed studies on the effectiveness … Agency staff and USPSTF members participated in the initial design of the study and reviewed interim … Long-term effectiveness of a peer-based intervention to promote condom and contraceptive use among HIV-positive … We also reviewed harms from screening, work-up, and treatment. … Content experts who reviewed the draft report identified additional citations.

396. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Falls Prevention in Older Adults: Counseling and Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary24/falls-prevention-in-older-adults-counseling-and-preventive-medication-2012
     December 15, 2010 - The draft systematic review was reviewed by 8 external peer reviewers, then revised for the final version … However, the current body of literature is sensitive to changes as new trials are published. … Of the 266 articles reviewed for key question 1, 225 were excluded. … Of the 390 articles reviewed for key questions 2 and 4, 329 were excluded. … Of the 84 articles reviewed for key question 3, 35 were excluded.

397. Archived: Evidence Summary: Breast Cancer: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/breast-cancer-screening-2002
     September 03, 2002 - The analytic framework, literature … After extensive peer review, and detailed review of these trials’ associated publications, the reviewers … In recognition of this fact, cancer screening literature from the 1970s emphasizes that design standards … appropriate interpretation of query data that contradicts what has been published in multiauthored, peer-reviewed … Peer Review and Revisions Our review was begun early in 2000.

398. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary39/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2010
     January 15, 2010 - After 2 investigators reviewed 2786 abstracts and 369 articles against inclusion/exclusion criteria, … We did not examine non-peer-reviewed sources (gray literature) or non-English-language literature. … The draft evidence synthesis was reviewed by 8 external peer reviewers and was revised for the final … We did not search for data from non-peer-reviewed sources. … (peer adj2 support).mp.

399. Primary Care Interventions to Promote Breastfeeding: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - systematic review, conducted by the Tufts-New England Medical Center Evidence- based Practice Center, of literature … Interventions The current literature does not allow assessment of the individual aspects of multicomponent … evidence review, community-based interventions to promote and support breastfeeding, such as direct peer-to-peer … The review updates the USPSTF’s 2003 evi- dence report (8) and includes literature published between … not address community-based interventions, such as media campaigns, worksite lactation programs, and peer-to-peer

400. Primary Care–Relevant Interventions to Prevent Falling in Older Adults: A Systematic Evidence Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2010 - The draft systematic review was reviewed by 8 external peer reviewers, then revised for the final ver … However, the current body of literature is sensitive to changes as new trials are published. … Articles reviewed for KQ 1 (n = 266) Articles excluded for KQ 1 (n = 225) Relevance: 97 Setting: … from searches and outside sources (n = 638) Abstracts reviewed from searches (n = 3423) Articles … reviewed from searches (n = 420) Articles reviewed from outside sources (n = 218) Articles included