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401. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2017 - last decade after increasing steadily for 3 decades, obesity rates continue to increase in certain populations … Clinical Considerations Patient Population Under Consideration This recommendation applies to children … Obesity rates continue to increase in some racial/ethnic minority populations. … charts, such as those developed by the CDC, which are based on US-specific, population-based norms for … This limits the applicability of the results to a general pediatric population with obesity.

402. 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 - For example, the Mul- ticentre Aneurysm Screening Study (3) was a population- based RCT of screening … Frequently, studies are conducted in highly selected populations under special conditions. … The Task Force must consider differences between the general primary care population and the populations … , the generalizability of treatment effectiveness estimates based on RCTs con- ducted in selected populations … includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative primary care populations

403. Recommendation: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 15, 2020 - Recommendation in  JAMA  (FREE) Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … Other high-prevalence populations include persons who inject drugs; men who have sex with men; persons … Practice Considerations Patient Population … The estimated prevalence of HBV infection in the general US population is 0.3% to 0.5%, 8 , 9 , 11 , … Clinicians should therefore consider the populations they serve when making screening decisions.

404. Archived: Chlamydial Infection (Including Ocular Prophylaxis in Newborns): Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - In prospective studies of screening in low-risk populations, risk scores based on age, other risk factors … The benefits of early detection are limited by high rates of reinfection or treatment failure in some populations … sensitivity and specificity further evaluations of new commercial test kits are needed in asymptomatic populations … Clinicians may wish to consult local public health authorities for guidance in identifying high-risk populations … Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in cervical smears from pregnant population.

405. Evidence Summary: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     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;

406. Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 18, 2023 - The long-term benefits of lipid screening and subsequent treatment in this population are uncertain. … Nonstatin-drug trials showed statistically significant lowering of lipid levels in FH populations, but … associated with secondary dyslipidemia were excluded, as were populations with an established family … Dyslipidemia is common in contemporary pediatric populations in the US, with a prevalence of 19.2% for … Population: Study was not conducted in an average-risk population.

407. Recommendation: Oral Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 15, 2013 - I Clinician Summary Expand All Population Asymptomatic adults aged 18 … HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer is evolving and could have important implications for identifying high-risk populations … African Americans and men, more research is warranted about the risks and benefits of screening in these populations … significant risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer, the benefits of screening for HPV and selection of populations … evidence was available on whether screening reduces morbidity or mortality in general or high-risk U.S. populations

408. Archived: Chlamydial Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 15, 2007 - Population Non-Pregnant Women Pregnant Women Men 24 years and younger 25 years and older … In low prevalence populations, however, a positive test is more likely to be a false positive than a … Prevalence of chlamydial infection varies widely among patient populations. … Among men and women, increased prevalence rates are also found in incarcerated populations, military … studies were performed under optimal conditions and that most studies did not include large screening populations

409. PII: S0749-3797(01)00255-0 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2001 - Providers appear to have achieved high levels of lipid screening based on population-based patient survey … The absolute risk reduction with drug therapy depends on the underlying risk in the person or population … The populations in these studies appear similar to those found in primary care practice. … Cholesterol lowering in the elderly population: Coordinating Committee of the National Choles- terol … estimation for primary prevention: validation of a new Sheffield Table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population

410. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2007 - disease (CHD) events in adulthood, and early identification and lipid-lowering intervention in certain populations … Treatment of childhood dyslipidemia has been shown to be effective in lowering lipid levels in select populations … In this population of children with familial monogenic dyslipidemias (familial hypercholesterolemia … Population studies data book.vol I. The prevalence study. … Evidence includes consistent results from well-designed, well-conducted studies in representative populations

411. Archived: Screening for HIV in Adolescents and Adults: Evidence Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 20, 2012 - Extraction and Quality Assessment One investigator abstracted details about the study design, patient population … the yield of repeated HIV screening, which probably depends on the incidence of new infections in a population … and risk of myocardial infarction in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy: a population-based … The population includes nonpregnant adolescents and adults who are asymptomatic for HIV and screened … A total of 820 full-text articles were excluded for the following reasons: wrong population (111), wrong

412. Archived: Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 09, 2014 - Read the Full Recommendation Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … B Clinician Summary Expand All Population Asymptomatic pregnant women … This approach may help to identify a patient population with an absolute risk for preeclampsia of at … Further research in populations that bear the highest disease burden for preeclampsia, including African … The USPSTF also added language to the Table to clarify the populations at risk.

413. Recommendation: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 24, 2019 - Recommendation in  JAMA  (FREE) Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … urine of a person without signs or symptoms of a urinary tract infection. 1 Among the general adult population … When direct evidence is limited, absent, or restricted to select populations or clinical scenarios, the … that directly evaluated the benefits of screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in the general adult population … For pregnant and nonpregnant populations, research is needed to better understand the microbiology of

414. ahrq37a_LungCancer_Sum.qxd (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2004 - computerized tomography (CT) for lung cancer screening and focuses on the outcomes of screening in populations … , as well as in high-risk populations, and included observational studies and clinical trials. … For the purposes of this review, high-risk populations include those who currently or have ever smoked … and low-risk populations include those who have never smoked. … The only data evaluating screening among women and including control populations come from 4 Japanese

415. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 04, 2021 - in the General Population . … in the General Population . … Sick individuals and sick populations.  Int J Epidemiol  1985;14(1):32-38. Hollis JF. … in the General Population . … in the General Population .

416. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 15, 2006 - , and comparisons of a single screening technique across different populations are lacking. … populations 45-51 met inclusion criteria ( Table 2 ). … , and comparisons of a single screening technique across different populations are lacking. … Validation of an early language milestone scale in a high-risk population. … Plaster: predicting communication impairments in a NICU followup population...

417. Procedure Manual Section 5. Modeling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 05, 2017 - The purpose of either of these is to estimate the population impact of a given preventive service. … apply evidence from the systematic review alone to estimate the number of persons in a hypothetical population … When necessary, a decision model can link natural history, population characteristics, and screening … consider the potential for enhancing benefit through extending the preventive service to unstudied populations … the desired approach (e.g., type of model, one model or comparative models), scenarios to be modeled, populations

418. Archived: Drug Use, Illicit: Primary Care Interventions for Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 11, 2014 - Read the Full Recommendation Download  JAMA  PDF Recommendation Summary Population … I Clinician Summary Expand All   Population Children and … Research should continue to study diverse populations and the effects of interventions on children and … It is simple to score and has good sensitivity and specificity across a range of populations and settings … Although the interventions substantially varied in their intensity, components, populations, and sample

419. Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 11, 2019 - Clinical Considerations Patient Population Under Consideration This recommendation applies to persons … Clinical Summary: Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection Population Recommendation … When developed and validated, risk assessment instruments should include those populations most at risk … Trials or demonstration projects of PrEP in US populations of het- erosexual persons, persons who inject … drugs, and transgender women and men are needed to better quantify effectiveness in those populations

420. Screening for HIV: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2019 - and Prevention (CDC) as those known to have a 1% or greater prevalence of infection among the patient population … possible, clinicians should consider the prevalence of HIV infection or the risk characteristics of the population … In 2 good-quality studies, HIV screening of populations with a 1% prevalence rate was found to be cost-effective … One study (25) found that screening populations with even lower prevalence rates is also cost-effective … A population-based case-control study. Arch Intern Med. 1994;154:1129-37. [PMID: 7910452] 13.