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81. Archived: Final Research Plan: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan97/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
    July 17, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … c Morbidity includes: physical adverse effects of treatment, quality of life measures, and other measures … advanced breast cancer and treatment-related morbidity (i.e., physical adverse effects of treatment, quality … of life measures, other measures of impairment). … Harms KQs 5, 6: False-positive findings; anxiety; adverse effects on quality of life; false-positive

82. Recommendation: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/adolescent-idiopathic-scoliosis-screening
    January 09, 2018 - Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine of unknown cause with a Cobb angle (a measure … The clinician repeats the visual inspection of the spine. 1 , 4 A scoliometer, which measures the angle … measures improved at 12 months in the intervention group compared with marginal improvements or unchanging … measures in the control group. … Scoliometer A noninvasive, handheld instrument used to measure the angle of trunk rotation.

83. Evidence Summary: Gynecological Conditions: Periodic Screening With the Pelvic Examination | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/gynecological-conditions-screening-with-the-pelvic-examination
    March 07, 2017 - At least 2 reviewers critically appraised included studies using the Newcastle Ottawa Scales 22 for … (95% CI) c Sensitivity Measures (95% CI) c Specificity Measures (95% CI) c PPV Measures … (95% CI) c NPV Measures (95% CI) c False-Positive Rate Measures (95% CI) c False-Negative … (95% CI) b Sensitivity Measure (95% CI) b Specificity Measure (95% CI) b … PPV Measure (95% CI) b NPV Measure (95% CI) b False-Positive Rate Measure (

84. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary13/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions-2013
    January 15, 2013 - Primary Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … All studies were rated fair-quality, rather than good-quality, because of specific methodological limitations … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2004. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012. … Intervention* Outcome Measure

85. Individualizing Cancer Screening in Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/individualizing-cancer-screening-older-adults
    October 01, 2017 - Measures of functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) need to be included in trials … Quality-adjusted life years estimated using preference-based measures are a prominent way for estimating … quality-adjusted survival. … are good measures in older adults will be explored in an upcoming companion report. … Outcomes Assessment in Cancer: Measures, Methods, and Applications.

86. Final Research Plan: Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/elevated-blood-lead-levels-in-childhood-and-pregnancy-screening
    October 13, 2016 - to chelation therapy (e.g., renal toxicity, sensitivity reactions) All other outcomes, including measures … blood lead levels KQ 2b: Observational studies assessing the accuracy of capillary sampling to measure … Studies rated good or fair quality Studies rated poor quality Clinical Setting All KQs: … reactions); adverse effects of nutritional supplements (e.g., nausea) All other outcomes, including measures … Studies rated good or fair quality Studies rated poor quality Clinical Setting All KQs:

87. Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary30/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
    July 07, 2015 - Similarly, measures of well-being of toddlers 65 and health-related quality of life of preschoolers … significant effect for a broader construct of literacy. 54 However, treatment did significantly improve a measure … Early language screening in city and Hackney: the concurrent validity of a measure designed for use with … Risk for poor performance on a language screening measure for bilingual preschoolers and kindergarteners … This includes 26 studies that were rated as poor quality.

88. Archived: Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary30/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
    July 07, 2015 - Similarly, measures of well-being of toddlers 65 and health-related quality of life of preschoolers … significant effect for a broader construct of literacy. 54 However, treatment did significantly improve a measure … Early language screening in city and Hackney: the concurrent validity of a measure designed for use with … Risk for poor performance on a language screening measure for bilingual preschoolers and kindergarteners … This includes 26 studies that were rated as poor quality.

89. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/healthy-lifestyle-and-physical-activity-for-cvd-prevention-adults-without-known-risk-factors-behavioral-counseling
    July 26, 2022 - Main Outcomes and Measures: CVD events, CVD risk factors, diet and physical activity measures, and harms … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two reviewers independently assessed the methodological quality … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … In: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, eds. … Quality: Study was of poor quality.

90. Final Research Plan: Healthy Diet, Physical Activity, and/or Weight Loss to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/behavioral-counseling-interventions-promote-healthy-diet-physical-activity-weight-loss-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-adults
    November 02, 2023 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … behavior Outcomes KQ 1: Health outcomes: All-cause and CVD mortality CVD events Quality … of life, well-being, and stress measures KQ 2: Intermediate outcomes, including continuous measures … Studies published in English Studies only published in languages other than English Study quality … among adults with and without existing CVD risk factors, including high BMI or other adiposity measures

91. Screening and Routine for Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2015 - After 3 to 12 months, Bayley Scales of Infant Development scores were not significantly different in … development.26,28 One trial of children potentially at higher risk for IDA used the Griffiths scale to measure … .22,25,30 Two fair-quality studies (Table 3) found statistically significant changes in iron status measures … but no differences between groups in measures of weight or height after 9 and 18 months.22,25 A poor-quality … The Bayley-III cognitive and language scales: how do scores relate to the Bayley II?

92. Recommendation: Hypertension in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hypertension-in-adults-screening
    April 27, 2021 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Screen: Measure blood pressure with an office blood pressure measurement. … Ways to measure blood pressure outside of the clinical setting include: Ambulatory blood pressure … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2021. AHRQ publication 20-05265-EF-1. 9.

93. Final Research Plan: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
    June 09, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … expressive language, receptive language, phonology, vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatics) KQ 1, 5: Measures … or achievement (e.g., reading comprehension), behavior competence, socioemotional functioning, and quality … of life KQ 2: Measures of screening test accuracy (e.g., sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative … Rating Studies rated fair or good quality Studies rated poor quality Language of published

94. JAMA (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2021 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Morbidity or mortality, measures of health-related quality of life. … Included outcomes were mortality, morbidity related to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, measures … Quality: Study was poor quality. … Reasonably consistent, reasonably precise for mental health/HRQoL Risk of bias higher for anxiety outcome measures … of the trials found differences in anxiety or postnatal depression between study groups; different measures

95. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/c-reactive-protein-as-a-risk-factor-for-coronary-heart-disease-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors
    July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

96. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/c-reactive-protein-as-a-risk-factor-for-coronary-heart-disease-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors-2009
    July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

97. Recommendation: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/osteoporosis-screening
    June 26, 2018 - Central DXA measures BMD at the hip and lumbar spine. … by the USPSTF used central DXA to determine eligibility for study enrollment. 4 , 6 Peripheral DXA measures … predicting fracture risk as DXA, while avoiding the risk of radiation exposure; however, it does not measure … Central DXA uses radiation to measure BMD at central bone sites (hip and lumbar spine), which is the … National Committee for Quality Assurance.

98. Archived: Final Research Plan: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan95/syphilis-infection-in-nonpregnant-adults-and-adolescents-june-2016
    September 18, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … including HIV transmission; other relevant clinical outcomes; rates of infection and other similar measures … of infection KQ 2: Detection of infection KQ 3: Diagnostic accuracy (i.e., measures of … the test's sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and other related measures … clinics, emergency departments, and STI clinics)   Study designs All KQs: Good-quality

99. 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 - , found no significant effect on mean drinks per week, the only outcome measure it reported. 60  Four … Burton et al., 1995 88 United States Poor quality: Single alcohol outcome measure not clearly defined … Logsdon et al., 1989 91 United States Poor quality: Use of single alcohol outcome measure without … Persson and Magnusson, 1989 92 Sweden Poor quality: Alcohol consumption measures reported for intervention … The measures used to determine eligibility for the study and to measure outcomes (Substance Use Screening

100. Archived: Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents (Hypertension): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening-october-2013
     October 15, 2013 - Comparative accuracy studies that examine the different types of devices to measure blood pressure, such … Prospective and retrospective cohort studies that include blood pressure measures and other cardiovascular … Studies that elucidate the association among childhood hypertension, adult hypertension, and surrogate measures … Studies of treatment during childhood should include an assessment of medication harms, measures of long-term … As a result, intermediate measures of target end-organ injury, including physical alterations to the