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141. Archived: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-june-2017
     June 20, 2017 - Ten of these trials were fair quality, and the remaining trial was good quality. … One trial reported quality-of-life measures and found no differences between intervention and placebo … Four trials were good quality and 6 were fair quality. … Ten trials were fair quality, and the remaining trial was good quality. … The use of measures of obesity in childhood for predicting obesity and the development of obesity-related

142. Benefits and Harms of Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Evidence Update (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2008 - and content experts, we chose a broad definition of PSA screening that included evolving prognostic measures … differential loss to follow-up or overall high loss to follow- up; use of equal, valid, and reliable outcome measure … Although abnormal screening results did not affect sum- mary measures of anxiety or health-related quality … However, in the initial screening round of an RCT, health-related quality-of-life measures were not neg … Other studies have used prostate-specific measures of harms in addition to generic mental health or quality-of

143. Archived: Skin Cancer: Counseling, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-counseling-2003
     October 06, 2003 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Other measures for preventing skin cancer include avoiding direct exposure to midday sun (between the … sunlight by staying indoors or in the shade or by wearing protective clothing is the most effective measure … educational interventions have demonstrated effectiveness for increasing the use of skin protection measures … sun exposure. 24 The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) concluded that sun-protective measures

144. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults, Children, and Adolescents: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/high-blood-pressure-adults-children-adolescents-screening-2003
     April 01, 2003 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … If performed correctly, it provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated with intra-arterial … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours rather … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA 1995;273(15):1211-8. 13. Birkett NJ. … Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory

145. Screening for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: US Preventive Services Task Force Final Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 17, 2023 - risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy may help improve equitable dissemination of preventive measures … Five fair-quality RCTs and 1 fair-quality nonrandomized study of interventions with a historical control … were included in the evalua- tion of harms.1,38,40-45 An additional home blood pressure measure- ment … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2023. AHRQ publication 22-05299-EF-1. 2. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. 17.

146. Archived: Final Research Plan: Child Maltreatment: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions-november-2018
     August 18, 2016 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … clinical interventions plus media campaigns vs. usual care) Outcomes KQ 1: Direct or proxy measures … outcomes listed for KQ 1 KQ 1: Outcomes not otherwise specified; studies without direct or proxy measures

147. Behavioral Counseling for Skin Cancer Prevention: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 20, 2018 - Each study was rated as good, fair, or poor quality. A good-quality study met all quality criteria. … criteria, age, sex, race/ethnicity), intervention details, length of follow-up, measure descriptions … The individual items and scales measuring sun pro- tection behaviors were variable across trials and … Quality: Study was poor quality. Design: Study did not use an included design. … However, a more expansive measure of skin awareness did appear to be a sig- nificant independent predictor

148. Z -5Hklbgepqpayfchveyf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2013 - smoking and nicotine dependence of a child or adolescent, reliability and validity of self- reported measures … Several studies did not report spe- cific measures but reported the number of children or ad- olescents … No studies used biochemical measures to confirm self-reported measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012. 2. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2003. 11.

149. Screening for Preeclampsia US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2017 - concludes with moderate certainty that screening for preeclampsia in pregnant women with blood pressure measure … Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be … Fourteen studies (n = 1888; 4 good quality and 10 fair quality) assessed the diagnostic accuracy of urine … Measures of anxiety over time did not change but were collected from less than half of the study participants … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017.

150. Archived: Preeclampsia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     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 … fetus is considered to be the most definitive method to minimize preeclamptic complications, but other measures … Several therapeutic agents are being investigated as preventive measures for preeclampsia. … in pregnant women has not been determined and is left to clinical discretion it is most efficient to measure

151. Procedure Manual Appendix XIV. Decision Framework to Assess and Guide the Need for Searches of Existing Decision Models | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - objective (for the purposes of the recommendation statement), the scenarios to be modeled, required outcome measures … Assessing the quality and completeness of existing models is beyond this scanning exercise.

152. Archived: Osteoporosis: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 17, 2002 - Because of limitations in the precision of testing, a minimum of 2 years may be needed to reliably measure … Several other radiologic methods that measure bone density at peripheral sites 2 (including sites in … difficulty in using test results to provide accurate information to the patients because techniques used to measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Research and Quality, 2002. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2002.

153. Emerging Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: A Summary of Systematic Reviews Conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2009 - Data Extraction: Study quality was evaluated by using USPSTF criteria and overall quality of evidence … Most studies use a hazard ratio (or other risk ratio) to measure how well a new risk factor predicts … Critical Appraisal and Quality of Evidence To assess the quality of each study, we used the USPSTF criteria … These studies provided measures of the incremental predictive value of CAC scoring for coronary events … Non-HDL cho- lesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

154. Final Research Plan: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 25, 2021 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … or skin cancer)   Outcomes KQs 1, 4: Morbidity associated with skin cancer, including quality … Non-skin location Risk reduction behaviors (e.g., skin self-examination, sun protective behaviors) or measures … of doctor-patient relationship quality Outcomes not stratified by skin cancer type (melanoma vs. nonmelanoma … skin cancers) Study design All KQs: Fair- and good-quality studies KQs 1, 2, 4: Randomized

155. ahrq12a_Summary_HBP.qxd (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - When a good quality, recent systematic review was available, we used it to summarize previous research … If performed correctly, it provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated with intra-arterial … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours rather … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA. 1995; 273(15):1211–1218. 13. Birkett NJ. … Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory

156. Archived: Preeclampsia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/preeclampsia-screening-april-2017
     April 25, 2017 - 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 … Fourteen studies (n=1888; 4 good quality and 10 fair quality) assessed the diagnostic accuracy of urine … Measures of anxiety over time did not change but were collected from less than half of the study participants … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. 5.

157. Recommendation: Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hypertensive-disorders-pregnancy-screening
     September 19, 2023 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy may help improve equitable dissemination of preventive measures … Five fair-quality RCTs and 1 fair-quality nonrandomized study of interventions with a historical control … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2023. AHRQ publication 22-05299-EF-1. 2. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. 17.

158. Screening for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2002 - Because of limitations in the precision of testing, a minimum of 2 years may be needed to reliably measure … Several other radiologic methods that measure bone density at peripheral sites2 (including sites in the … difficulty in using test results to provide accurate information to the patients because techniques used to measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2002. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2002.

159. Recommendation: Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Assessment With Nontraditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/cardiovascular-disease-screening-using-nontraditional-risk-assessment
     July 10, 2018 - CAC score is obtained by electron-beam or multidetector CT, which measure the calcium content in the … ABI, hsCRP level, or CAC scores are needed to measure the effect of adding nontraditional risk factors … Calibration measures the agreement between observed and predicted outcomes, discrimination measures the … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2018. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015.

160. Archived: Evidence Update: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2008 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 05, 2008 - However, a comparison of the performance characteristics of such measures with traditional single-threshold … Although abnormal screening results did not affect summary measures of anxiety or health-related quality … However, in the initial screening round of an RCT, health-related quality-of-life measures were not negatively … It was not clear whether the measures used were sensitive enough to detect changes in mental health related … Other studies have used prostate-specific measures of harms in addition to generic mental health or quality-of-life