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301. Evidence Summary: Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
     October 23, 2018 - Data were not pooled, primarily because of heterogeneity of populations, interventions, and outcomes. … The enrolled population had a relatively high prevalence of elder maltreatment based on CTS violence … Screening and interventions for this population are likely to be different than those for IPV, given … First, the scope focused on asymptomatic populations without signs or symptoms of abuse. … Population: Study was not conducted in an included population.

302. Archived: Screening for HIV in Pregnant Women: Evidence Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/screening-for-hiv-in-pregnant-women-evidence-summary/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening-2013
     November 15, 2012 - Extraction and Quality Assessment One investigator abstracted details on the study design, patient population … Rapid versus standard testing for prenatal HIV screening in a predominantly Hispanic population. … The population includes pregnant women who are asymptomatic for HIV and screened in settings generalizable … † Percentage of study population. Return to Table of Contents Appendix Figure. … A total of 344 full-text articles were excluded for the following reasons: wrong population (69), wrong

303. Archived: Screening for Depression in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/depression-in-adults-screening
     January 26, 2016 - Among general adult populations, prevalence rates vary by sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, marital … The optimum interval for screening for depression is also unknown; more evidence for all populations … Services Task Force, which makes evidence-based recommendations on preventive services for community populations … which focused on the direct evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for depression in adult populations … that the evidence was sufficient to establish the benefits of treatment of depression in general adult populations

304. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnancy: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/GcmKgXjw6uLFMcACGmv_tL
     May 01, 2009 - PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population All Pregnant Women Recommendation … Prevalence is higher in southern U.S. and in metropolitan areas and in Hispanic and African American populations

305. AHRQ Seeks Nominations of New Members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/announcements/ahrq-seeks-nominations-new-members-us-preventive-services-task-force-0
     March 15, 2025 - diversity of perspectives, AHRQ particularly encourages nominations of women, members of underrepresented populations

306. Archived: Final Research Plan: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan16/screening-for-abnormal-blood-glucose-and-type-2-diabetes-october-2015
     August 15, 2013 - depicts the analytic framework, which outlines the evidence areas covered in the review, including the population … On the left side of the framework, the population includes nonpregnant adults who are asymptomatic for … Category Include Exclude Populations KQs 1, 2: Asymptomatic, nonpregnant adults … clarification on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, analytic framework, and key questions related to populations

307. U.S. Preventive Services | Grade Definitions
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/apps/gradedef.jsp
     July 01, 2012 - Despite these revisions, the essence of the C recommendation has remained consistent: at the population … consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations … as benefit minus harm of the preventive service as implemented in a general, primary care population … Evidence includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative populations

308. Grade Definitions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/grade-definitions
     October 01, 2018 - Despite these revisions, the essence of the C recommendation has remained consistent: at the population … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations … is defined as benefit minus harm of the preventive service as implemented in a general, primary care population … Evidence includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative populations

309. Use of Decision Models in the Development of Evidence-Based Clinical Preventive Services Recommendations | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/use-decision-models-development-evidence-based-clinical-preventive-services-recommendations
     May 01, 2019 - observational studies; assessing whether benefits outweigh harms and, if so, by how much and in which populations … ages and other risk factors needed to specify when to begin and stop offering the service and in which populations … services for which there is either direct evidence of benefit in clinical trials, at least for some populations … Considerations The USPSTF expects its models to conform to recommended best practices. 6 ,  7 ,  18-24  The population … benefit is defined as benefit minus harm of the preventive service as implemented in a general primary care population

310. Screening and Routine for Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/g-b8KbTXYe2vnW2zJKGoPU
     April 01, 2015 - We excluded studies conducted in resource-poor populations, including nutritionally deficient populations … Details about the study design, patient population, setting, screening method, interventions, analysis … due to the limited number of studies for each Key Question and differences among studies in design, population … enrolled was similar to the population of the United States, particularly in terms of rates of malnutrition … Also excluded were studies of iron supplementation that enrolled children aged ,6 months47–50; this population

311. Archived: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women: Screening and Supplementation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-pregnant-women-screening-and-supplementation-september-2015
     September 07, 2015 - Higher doses (60 to 100 mg of elemental iron per day) are sometimes prescribed in populations at increased … A few comments requested more information on which populations are at increased risk for iron deficiency … anemia and to which population the recommendation applies. … Some comments also requested separate analyses of certain high-risk populations. … Serum Ferritin Concentrations for the Assessment of Iron Status and Iron Deficiency in Populations.

312. Archived: Evidence Summary: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
     June 15, 2016 - Study Selection: English-language studies conducted in asymptomatic populations at general risk of CRC … By pooling 26 studies (n = 3,414,108) in screening populations or generally asymptomatic persons, 37 … Population: study was not conducted in an average-risk population. … The pooled event rate from 26 studies in screening populations or generally asymptomatic persons was … Limited evidence in true average-risk screening populations.

313. USPSTF Analytic Framework for Child and Adolescent Health Topics | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/methods-and-processes/uspstf-analytic-framework-child-and-adolescent-health-topics
     October 01, 2017 - The population that is the focus of the evidence for a specific preventive service appears at the left-hand … Actions, such as screening (for example, identifying low- and high-risk populations, or recording normal … and abnormal test results) and treatment, appear as arrows linking the population to an outcome. … Each arrow is a linkage in the logical chain of evidence that connects the left side (population) and

314. Archived: Falls Prevention in Older Adults: Counseling and Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/falls-prevention-in-older-adults-counseling-and-preventive-medication-2012
     May 15, 2012 - The heterogeneity of the populations and interventions in the studies led to substantial challenges in … adults who were vitamin D–deficient, and the effect of vitamin D supplementation was greater in these populations … The benefit was greater in high-risk populations (pooled RR, 0.84 [CI, 0.78 to 0.91]) than in low-risk … populations 1 , 2 . … Most studied populations were deemed high-risk on the basis of several factors, including history of

315. Recommendation: Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-depression-suicide-risk-children-adolescents
     October 11, 2022 - Recommendation in  JAMA  (FREE) Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … Practice Considerations Patient Population … More research is needed on screening and treatment in populations defined by sex, race and ethnicity, … Treatment studies are needed in populations with screen-detected suicide risk, in all age groups. … More research is needed in these populations.

316. Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/m_E9nFrmxuS5-surqVHK2u
     November 13, 2018 - Across all populations (68 studies [n = 36 528]), counseling interventions were associated with a decrease … years), general adult populations (≈18 years or older), older adults (≈65 years or older), and pregnant … Population: Study was not conducted in an included population. … Other adult populations (young adults, older adults, pregnant women) had results in similar ranges. … Older trials were also primarily conducted among general adult populations in primary care settings,

317. JAMA (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/UaT8AVUSVQwSduNs8TA-_e
     June 09, 2020 - POPULATION This recommendation statement applies to adults 18 years or older, including pregnant and … This statement applies to settings and populations for which services for accurate diagnosis, effective … to determine the net ben- efit, see the USPSTF Procedure Manual.8 Practice Considerations Patient Population … One study of the PRO risk assessment–based tool (in a population in which 7% met diagnostic criteria … study of risk factors for incident drug use in adults: findings from a representative sample of the US population

318. Fan-Qvpdgnjh8Krdf4Smmv (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/FaN-QvpDgnJh8KrdF4smmv
     May 01, 2013 - Studies are needed to evaluate the effects of vitamin D supplementation on diverse populations. … prevention studies are done in this popula- tion and it is difficult to extrapolate results to nonwhite populations … of Preventive Medication Sixteen randomized, controlled trials with consider- able heterogeneity in populations … It is uncertain if this adverse effect occurs in vitamin D–deficient populations. … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations

319. Sarah Wiehe, M.D., M.P.H. | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/current-members/sarah-wiehe-md-mph
     January 01, 2024 - Wiehe’s research focuses on addressing health equity outcomes among vulnerable populations, including

320. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: Clinical Summary of USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/kZ5Hr-xprxjFFqjXQ7eyVN
     PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population All sexually active adolescents … Current STIs or have had an STI within the past year • Multiple sexual partners In communities or populations