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241. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2009
     July 15, 2009 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2009. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 1996 [Archived].

242. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-2009
     December 15, 2009 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Screening Tests Standardization of film mammography has led to improved quality. … Refer patients to facilities certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), listed at … improved mammography quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2009. National Cancer Institute.

243. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Evidence for the Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2009 - Quality Appraisal We provided narrative descriptions of key method- ological deficiencies of included … studies that constrain the quality and generalizability of the evidence. … Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Re- search and Quality; 2004. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008.

244. Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
     January 23, 2024 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2023. AHRQ publication 23-05306-EF-1. 13. … QUADAS-2: a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Health Care Program.

245. Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes: An Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - Only stud- ies rated as good or fair quality were included. … Individual study quality ratings are provided in the Supplement (eTables 4-7). … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2010. 12. StataCorp. … Measuring health-related quality of life in persons with genital herpes.

246. Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2011 - Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot … outcomes, but confidence in the estimate is constrained by factors such as: the number, size, or quality

247. Archived: Final Research Plan: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/genital-herpes-screening-november-2016
     August 06, 2015 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Previous systematic reviews will be included if they are recent (published within 5 years), of good quality … If no recent, good-quality systematic reviews are identified, all eligible primary studies that address … However, for systematic reviews, only recent  (published within the past 5 years) reviews rated as good quality … If a recent good-quality systematic review is identified, relevant primary studies published since the

248. Archived: Final Research Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan105/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
     September 25, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … IGRA = interferon-γ release assay; KQ = key question; LTBI = latent tuberculosis infection; QOL = quality … For adults with latent tuberculosis infection, treatment may improve health outcomes, such as quality … disease or with documented increased risk for progression from LTBI to active TB disease) improves quality … with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)–recommended pharmacotherapy regimens improve quality

249. Folic Acid Supplementation for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 10, 2017 - Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be … A fair-quality RCT conducted in Hungary (1984-1992) assessed women (n = 5453) without a personal history … One fair-quality trial and 1 fair- quality cohort study did not find evidence of a statistically signifi … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2009.

250. Final Recommendation Statement: Breast Cancer: Medication Use to Reduce Risk | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/breast-cancer-medications-for-risk-reduction
     September 03, 2019 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Effectiveness of Risk Assessment Models The USPSTF reviewed evidence from 25 good- and fair-quality … Several models have been tested in large US populations in good-quality studies that reported only low … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019. 4. … Patient-reported symptoms and quality of life during treatment with tamoxifen or raloxifene for breast

251. Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2019 - The US Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) support the operations … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019. 3. … Baltimore, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 1996. 15. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2004. 16. U.S.

252. Final Recommendation Statement: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/autism-spectrum-disorder-in-young-children-screening
     February 16, 2016 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be … Among the behavioral interventions, those based on applied behavior analysis have the highest-quality … Studies were very small (most enrolled 20–40 children), and study quality was generally fair. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. 3.

253. Archived: Obesity: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … sleep apnea, venous thromboembolism, and osteoarthritis. 8 , 20 , 37 Finally, obesity can affect the quality

254. Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     September 21, 2021 - DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Independent data abstraction and study quality rating with dual review. … by study quality. … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2021. AHRQ publication 20- 05272-EF-1. 18. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. 109.

255. 3Srxnwxgcldkb Bpt2Cqwf (pdf file)
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     May 23, 2019 - Guideline Clearing- house (www.guideline.gov) and in print through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Screening and Treatment for Obesity in Adults,” available on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Evidence that the [service] is effective is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance … Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) grades the quality of the overall evidence for a service on a … Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland.

256. Recommendation: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/food-insecurity-screening
     March 11, 2025 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … However, there was no impact on other quality-of-life measures; physiologic measures of blood pressure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2025. AHRQ publication 24-05314-EF-1. 4. U.S. … Development of indicators to assess hunger. J Nutr . 1990;120(Suppl 11):1544-1548.

257. JAMA (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2020 - The US Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) support the operations … Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2020. AHRQ publication 19-05254-EF-1. 15.

258. Evidence Summary: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary29/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening
     November 15, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … QUADAS-2: a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Published 2010. Accessed October 11, 2022. … rating refers to quality of the systematic reviews, not the quality of individual trials included by

259. Ztmgupsekcuuupvpegum45 (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - Methods: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality com- missioned 2 systematic reviews on screening … Scope of Review The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality commissioned 2 systematic reviews (1, … This fair-quality study showed a decrease in the risk for all-cause mortality com- pared with no SVR … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012.

260. Procedure Manual Section 6. Methods for Arriving at a Recommendation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-6-methods-arriving-recommendation
     July 06, 2017 - To what extent are the existing studies of sufficient quality (i.e., what is the internal validity)? … The determination is based on a careful consideration of the studies that are judged as fair or good quality … one or more of the following factors: consistency of results, precision, applicability, and/or study quality … If the USPSTF does not find evidence of sufficient strength and quality to change its previous assessment … Benefits are often quantified in terms of lives extended, quality of life improved, or illness events