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201. Screening for Hypertension in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     November 10, 2020 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Sensitivity, specificity, and measures of association between childhood and … blood pressure measure- ments, 1 to 2 weeks apart.23 Study characteristics are described in eTable 1 … abnormal childhood and adulthood blood pressure (Table 2).17,18,24-27,30 Studies reported dif- ferent measures … Body of evidence limitations: moderate Reporting bias: not detected Low for diagnostic test accuracy measures … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

202. Procedure Manual Appendix VIII. Standardization of Outcome Tables | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - Outcome measures (harms and benefits): Deaths (where relevant). … Quality-adjusted life years (when possible). Adverse events/states.

203. Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2006 - 42 months of age who had expressive, receptive, or phonological impairments. 25 Only one outcome measure … Kizer, MD, MPH (President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington, DC); Michael L. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 2006. … Screening effectiveness of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory Expressive and Receptive Language Scales … Early language screening in City and Hackney: The concurrent validity of a measure designed for use

204. Archived: Evidence Summary: Glaucoma: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 07, 2005 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … To reduce potential harms for untreated patients, both EMGT and CNTGS used sensitive measures of visual … loss was associated with significant decreases in self-reported visual function and general health measures … Influence of glaucomatous visual field loss on health-related quality of life. … Visual function and quality of life among patients with glaucoma.

205. Archived: Evidence Summary: Glaucoma: Screening, 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 07, 2005 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … To reduce potential harms for untreated patients, both EMGT and CNTGS used sensitive measures of visual … loss was associated with significant decreases in self-reported visual function and general health measures … Influence of glaucomatous visual field loss on health-related quality of life. … Visual function and quality of life among patients with glaucoma.

206. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2017 - and 34 were fair quality. … 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 pla­ cebo … Four trials were good quality and 6 were fair quality. … The use of measures of obesity in childhood for predicting obesity and the development of obesity-related

207. Interventions to Prevent Illicit and Nonmedical Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     December 17, 2018 - Quality: Study was poor quality. Non–English-language: Publication not in English. … Nineteen trials reported a continuous measure, most com- monly the number of times illicit drugs were … Dichotomous measures were selected over continuous measures, 1-month time frames were selected over lon … trials.26,28,56 Most general prevention trials found no group differences on mental health symptom scales … 0.08 (–0.16 to 0.00) Favors intervention Favors control Vertical dashed line indicates the overall measure

208. Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 18, 2024 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES BMI and other weight-related outcomes, cardiometabolic measures, quality of … , were reported in only 14 studies (n = 2558); 13 of these reported a measure of quality of life. … 1.9 [95% CI, 0.2-3.5]; 11 RCTs [n = 1922]; I2 = 48.4%) (eTable 5, eFigure 1 in the Supplement; most scales … of life (on mostly 100-point scales) in trials of semaglutide and high-contact behavioral interventions … The PedsQL 4.0 as a pediatric population health measure: feasibility, reliability, and validity.

209. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: USPSTF Recommendations Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - 1960 to 1995.1 Detection Previously, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI was an acceptable measure … Screening Tests In 2005, the USPSTF found adequate ev- idence that BMI was an acceptable measure for … in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) percen- tile for age and gender is the preferred measure … children and adolescents, because it is feasible and reliable and because it tracks with adult obesity measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Health- care Research and Quality; 2005.

210. Draft Research Plan: Prevention of Dental Caries in Children Younger Than 5 Years: Screening and Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 19, 2019 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Outcomes KQs 1, 3 (screening) and KQs 2–5 (preventive interventions): Dental caries, morbidity, quality … life, and function KQ 2 (screening) and KQ 1 (preventive interventions): Diagnostic accuracy and measures … ; uncontrolled intervention studies All KQs: Opinions, editorials, or case reports Study Quality … Good or fair quality Poor quality

211. Archived: Evidence Summary: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 26, 2014 - Good-quality studies generally met all criteria, whereas fair-quality studies did not meet all criteria … bias and whether the distribution of the effect sizes was symmetrical with respect to the precision measure … We included 11 good-quality and 63 fair-quality trials. … in a composite measure of all CVD events at 6.6 years of follow-up (relative risk, 0.71 [95% CI, 0.51 … Findings of benefit on self-reported QOL measures were mixed.

212. Recommendation: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 23, 2024 - the prevalence of speech and language delay and disorders have also been observed based on various measures … intensive parent-delivered, group training interventions found benefits for expressive language outcome measures … In general, results were inconsistent, with some studies showing improvement in some measures of receptive … 21 No individual study was replicated by a study using the same intervention and reporting similar measures … Four studies reported measures of early literacy, with only 1 trial demonstrating statically significant

213. Evidence Summary: Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 13, 2021 - differences between treatment and control as measured by various validated depression symptom rating scales … Weights are from random-effects analysis. … Weights are from random-effects analysis. … Weights are from random-effects analysis. … Weights are from random-effects analysis.

214. Archived: Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Adults (Cholesterol, Dyslipidemia): Screening, 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 09, 2001 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … These measures can be used alone to determine risk and the need for treatment. … cohort study, that directly incorporate age, the presence and magnitude of other risk factors, and measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2001 forthcoming. 18. … Analytical quality of near-patient blood cholesterol and glucose determinations.

215. Archived: Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening-2002
     September 17, 2002 - reporting radiographically verified, nontraumatic fracture outcomes, because fractures are a stronger measure … caffeine; not walking for exercise; lack of ambulation; inability to rise from a chair; poor scores on two measures … Bone Density Tests Several technologies are available to measure bone density, 55-58 although correlations … risk is determined not only by bone density, but also by bone characteristics that are difficult to measure … Meta-analysis of how well measures of bone mineral density predict occurrence of osteoporotic fractures

216. Recommendation: High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 18, 2024 - in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) is the currently accepted clinical standard measure … BMI is an imperfect measure of adiposity and is not an equivalent measure of adiposity across all racial … measures was 3.8 points (95% CI, 3.6 to 4.1) (most scales ranged from 0-100). 1 , 10 No studies reported … of life than placebo (mean difference, 5.3 [95% CI, 0.2 to 8.3]) (scales ranged from 0-100), which is … The PedsQL 4.0 as a pediatric population health measure: feasibility, reliability, and validity.

217. Final Research Plan: Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Primary Care-Based Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 30, 2018 - 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 … educational outcomes KQ 2 (Behavioral outcomes): Drug use ( required ) (self-reported and/or biologic measures … 2015 Human Development Index Publication language English Languages other than English Quality … rating Fair- or good-quality studies Poor-quality studies (according to design-specific USPSTF criteria

218. Screening for Glaucoma: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2005 - Additionally, there is no agreed-upon single standard to define and measure progression of visual field … The Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial, a good-quality trial, compared progression of visual field defects … Effects of the treatment on vision-related quality of life have not been reported. 3 In the … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthc Research and Quality. March 2005. … Evidence that [the service] is effective is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance

219. Archived: Osteoporosis: Screening 2011 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 15, 2011 - 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 … Because of limitations in the precision of testing, a minimum of 2 years may be needed to reliably measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2010. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2002.

220. Final Research Plan: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 26, 2019 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Disseminated intravascular coagulation Mental health diagnoses or symptoms Maternal mortality Measures … of well-being or quality of life Potential treatment harms: Abruptio placentae Postpartum … Editorials, narrative review, commentary, postmarketing surveillance, or case reports Study Quality … Good- and fair-quality studies Poor-quality studies Language English Languages other than