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161. Final Research Plan: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 20, 2023 - Intimate Partner Violence   Include Exclude Populations Studies enrolling adolescents … similar to U.S. populations with services and interventions applicable to U.S. practice (i.e., countries … Caregiver Abuse of Older and Vulnerable Adults   Include Exclude Populations Studies … similar to U.S. populations with services and interventions applicable to U.S. practice (i.e., countries … Several comments were related to the difference in population eligibility criteria for the Analytic Frameworks

162. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - C General population Routine screening for HBV infection in the general population is not recommended … pregnant women at high risk of having acquired HBV infection. 34 Recent studies in urban and minority populations … A strategy of targeting high-risk populations for screening and immunizing those found to be seronegative … order to avoid vaccinating immune individuals or persons with chronic HBV infections. 54-56 In these populations … Hepatitis B prevalence in an unregistered prenatal population.

163. Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Using Spirometry: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2008 - patients and the health care system) associated with screening for COPD using spirometry are large even in populations … airflow obstruction in repre- sentative samples of a general U.S. population (2, 3). … Treatment No controlled studies have compared clinical out- comes between screened and nonscreened populations … Population R ecom m endation A dditional population inform ation R isk factors for C O PD include … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations

164. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Syphilis Infection in Pregnancy: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary94/syphilis-infection-in-pregnancy-screening-2009
     May 15, 2009 - We excluded studies in high-risk or special populations and studies in populations not generalizable … Considerations about whether a population would be comparable to a U.S. population include the general … health status of the population, the availability of prenatal care, and the availability of trained … We specifically excluded studies in populations with high HIV rates, because these studies are thought … syphilis in pregnancy and met our inclusion criteria; we did not find any new studies in U.S. populations

165. Screening for Dementia in Primary Care: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - systematic review of the literature regarding the benefits and the harms of screening primary care populations … Three studies in primary care populations aged 65 years and older compared the frequency of dementia … memory.34 Undiagnosed patients accounted for 50% to 66% of all cases of dementia in the primary care populations … widely accepted in the United States and will be used as the standard in this review.36 Third, the populations … Learning Test,55,56 and the 7-Minute Screen57,58 are promising but need further testing in primary care populations

166. Draft Research Plan: Breast Cancer: Medication to Reduce Risk | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/breast-cancer-medication-use-reduce-risk
     December 28, 2023 - Proposed Approach to Assessing Health Equity and Variation in Evidence Across Populations … Data on population characteristics will help us explore the degree to which the findings are broadly … representative of the U.S. population eligible for the breast cancer risk-reducing medications. … or prevention of other outcomes (e.g., breast cancer reoccurrence, treatment of osteoporosis) Populations

167. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - NIDDM is markedly increased in Native Americans and is also higher among black and Hispanic populations … various blood or urine tests have been examined for their ability to identify three distinct at-risk populations … Both the sensitivity and positive predictive value of screening tests will be highest in high-risk populations … Can islet cell antibodies predict IDDM in the general population? … Impaired glucose tolerance in the U.S. population.

168. 10th Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2020 - , as well as for specific segments of the U.S. population that may be disproportionately affected by … Associate Director for Prevention Health Scientist Administrator, Population Dynamics Branch National … While obesity affects the overall population, it disproportionately affects people from certain racial … Krist is a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University and … Adolph and Margaret Berger professor of medicine and population health and the director of the Center

169. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening-2004
     February 15, 2004 - Read the Full Recommendation Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … Recommendation Grade General, Asymptomatic Adult Population The USPSTF recommends against … routinely screening the general asymptomatic population for chronic hepatitis B virus infection. … Routine screening of the general population for HBV infection was not recommended ( D Recommendation … Evidence includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative populations

170. 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 - Included studies used credible reference standards, adequately described the study population, defined … In this study, nearly 80% of cases were identified while testing 50% of the population when using an … The applicability of this study to U.S. populations is also limited. … Does population screening for Chlamydia trachomatis raise anxiety among those tested? … Findings from a population based chlamydia screening study. BMC Public Health . 2006;6:106.

171. Archived: Evidence Summary: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary8/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2014
     January 15, 2014 - randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) and large cohort studies (≥1000 participants) of asymptomatic adult populations … AAA deaths in women occurred in women aged 80 years and older. 34 Screening for AAA in High-Risk Populations … All studies were conducted in mostly white populations. … USPSTF's fair- or good-quality criteria. 23 In addition, the benefits realized in the trials with populations … A further meta-analysis of population-based screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

172. Archived: Alcohol Misuse: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/alcohol-misuse-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions-in-primary-care-2013
     May 15, 2013 - good sensitivity and specificity for detecting the full spectrum of alcohol misuse across multiple populations … Burden of Disease Alcohol misuse is a common issue across U.S. primary care populations … to good-quality systematic reviews compared different screening test characteristics in primary care populations … No specific information was available for the adolescent population. … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations

173. Modeling Study: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-modeling-study18/colorectal-cancer-screening
     May 18, 2021 - Findings by Race and Sex Compared with the total population, model-estimated life expectancy among … Efficient strategies were robust to assumptions about population risk of colorectal cancer. … Findings from this analysis for the total population are also largely consistent with MISCAN analyses … Risk of perforation after colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy: a population-based study. … Prevalence of advanced, precancerous colorectal neoplasms in black and white populations: a systematic

174. Screening for and Treatment of Suicide Risk Relevant to Primary Care: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - (or similar populations) of any age. … These results are generalizable only to high-risk populations. … Even in high-risk populations, suicide is compara- tively rare. … Do the harms vary by population characteristics*? … Do the harms vary by population characteristics*?

175. Recommendation: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 10, 2022 - Recommendation in  JAMA  (FREE) Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … Screening Tests Although the USPSTF does not recommend routine screening for COPD in the general population … in adults with fairly symptomatic moderate COPD, which may not be generalizable to an asymptomatic population … Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population … Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population

176. Recommendation: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening
     July 18, 2023 - these laboratory values is unknown. 1 Current Practice Lipid screening practices in US pediatric populations … and correspond to approximately the 95th percentile of population-based cohorts. … Two fair-quality plant sterol supplement trials (n = 82) in FH populations showed statistically significant … Two small, fair-quality supplement intervention trials (n = 74) examining flaxseed and fish oil in populations … Dyslipidemia The USPSTF reviewed 7 fair- to good-quality short-term supplement trials (n = 288) in populations

177. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Evidence for the Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2009 - We excluded studies in high-risk or special populations and studies in populations not general- izable … Considerations about whether a population would be comparable to a U.S. population in- clude the general … We specifically excluded studies in populations with high HIV rates, because these studies are thought … We found 1 study in a non-U.S. population (9) that provided information on the benefits of screening … for syph- ilis in pregnancy and met our inclusion criteria; we did not find any new studies in U.S. populations

178. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2021 - in 2000 and 2001 to 11.9 cases per 100 000 population in 2019. … testing processes can improve workflow and efficiency or for smaller laboratories serving higher-risk populations … No studies directly addressed ef- fective screening intervals in the included populations. … The USPSTF clarified factors driving disparities in syphilis prevalence among certain populations in … • Optimal screening intervals for all high-risk populations. • Effectiveness of rapid POC testing in

179. Screening for Skin Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2009 - CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS Patient Population Under Consideration This recommendation applies to the … adult general population without a history of premalignant or malignant lesions. … with an unscreened population with respect to appropriate health outcomes. … College of Preventive Medicine rec­ ommends that total cutaneous examinations be performed, targeting populations … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations

180. Evidence Summary: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-and-genetic-testing
     August 20, 2019 - , 2013, to March 6, 2019, for updates; January 1, 1994, to March 6, 2019, for new key questions and populations … (January 1, 2013, to March 6, 2019, for updates; January 1, 1994, to March 6, 2019, for new KQs and populations … not been directly addressed by current research that focuses on specific issues in highly selected populations … b Uses the same population in more than 1 study. … High for general populations Risk-reducing surgery 10 Observational studies of mastectomy;