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261. Archived: Evidence Summary: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/genital-herpes-screening-november-2016
     December 20, 2016 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Accuracy of screening tests, benefits of screening, harms of screening, … Eligible outcomes included reduced rates of symptomatic episodes and transmission (including measures … For KQ4 (effects of antiviral medication on subclinical HSV-2 shedding), we included any outcome measure … , Results Symptomatic Episodes Outcome Measure Results HSV-2 Transmission Outcome Measure Results … with no known history of genital herpes Studies are uncontrolled; due to study design and outcome measures

262. 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 … 18 and 24 months with later screening or case-finding on educational, behavioral, functional, and IQ measures … 294 children) reported that these interventions improved cognitive scores by 11 to 16 points (Mullen Scales … Twelve RCTs of play- or interaction-based interventions reported significant improvements in some measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. 3.

263. Recommendation: 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/recommendation/healthy-lifestyle-and-physical-activity-for-cvd-prevention-adults-without-known-risk-factors-behavioral-counseling
     July 26, 2022 - were associated with lower blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and adiposity measures … were associated with greater changes in intermediate outcomes, specifically lower LDL-C and adiposity measures … of life measures were reported in 15 trials; group differences were generally very small and of unclear … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

264. Archived: Evidence Summary: Blood Pressure in Adults (Hypertension): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary15/blood-pressure-in-adults-hypertension-screening-2007
     October 15, 2007 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Participants were followed for 24 weeks; quality-of-life measures were collected at randomization, 14 … However, there was a statistically significant difference among treatment groups on a summary measure … Preventive Services Task Force Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … received eplerenone 135 patients received amlodipine Patients were followed for 24 wk; QOL measures

265. Evidence Summary: Prevention of Dental Caries in Children Younger Than 5 Years: Screening and Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/prevention-of-dental-caries-in-children-younger-than-age-5-years-screening-and-interventions1
     December 07, 2021 - use of cluster randomization, follow-up duration, varnish frequency, use of additional oral health measures … preschool, baseline caries status, adequate community fluoridation, provision of additional oral health measures … A randomised controlled trial to measure the effects and costs of a dental caries prevention regime for … .22    No 6 30-32 , 38 , 41 , 43 −1.62 (−3.26 to −0.33) 81 Additional oral health measures … .57    No 5 30 , 31 , 38 , 40 , 43 0.74 (0.47 to 1.07) 79 Additional oral health measures

266. Recommendation: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 11, 2025 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … varies across practice settings. 28 Additionally, some health care systems use screening tools to measure … 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. … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.

267. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-for-abnormal-blood-glucose-and-type-2-diabetes-october-2015
     October 26, 2015 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Hemoglobin A 1c is a measure of long-term blood glucose concentration and is not affected by acute changes … Screening studies that follow larger numbers of participants for 20 years or longer and measure both … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2014. 3. … Effect of screening for type 2 diabetes on population-level self-rated health outcomes and measures of

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     August 09, 2016 - longitudinal studies have docu- mented an association between childhood lipid levels in this range and measures … hypercholesterolemia with stat- ins substantially lowers LDL-C levels and, based on 1 study, improves measures … maturation measures during the trial or long-term follow-up (18 years), suggesting that low-fat, low- … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016.

269. Screening Women and Elderly Adults for Family and Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2004 - ’s alpha = 0.80), and its results correlated with the previously validated 19-item Conflict Tactics Scales … descriptions of individual elder abuse programs, but none included comparison groups or health outcome measures … Study, Population/ Outcome Rating/ Year Design Setting Measure Results Comments McFarlane Randomized … Adults for Family and Intimate Partner Violence There are many gaps in the evidence.73 Definitions and measures … These outcomes should include not only measures of reduced violence, but also improved quality of life

270. Evidence for the Reaffirmation of the USPSTF Recommendaiton on Screening for High Blood Pressure (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - patients received eplerenone 135 patients received amlodipine Patients were followed for 24 wk; QOL measures … In addition, 2 studies examined the effects of antihypertensive medica- tions on quality of life. … Participants were followed for 24 weeks; quality-of-life measures were collected at ran- domization, … However, there was a statistically significant differ- ence among treatment groups on a summary measure … From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Mary- land.

271. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Multifactorial Dyslipidemia: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-screening-for-multifactorial-dyslipidemia/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-july-2016
     August 09, 2016 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Outcomes included dyslipidemia (TC ≥200 mg/dL or LDL-C ≥130 mg/dL) and atherosclerosis … For lifestyle modification, 1 good-quality trial (4 articles) 26-29 and 1 fair-quality treatment trial … Laboratory measures and macronutrient and micronutrient intake were measured at several time points. … Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. 33 c Sample weights were used to obtain prevalence estimates representative … point during trial or long-term follow-up for anthropometric, laboratory, psychosocial, or maturation measures

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     February 01, 2014 - Other studies indicated no sta- tistically significant changes in psychological or sexual ac- tivity measures … Five refer- ral models accurately estimated individual risk for BRCA mutations, with most sensitivity measures … Limitations of stud- ies included differences in designs and measures, dissimilar comparison groups, … case–control, pre–post No studies of other outcomes; high loss to follow-up; comparison groups and measures … Well- designed investigations using standardized measures and enrolling participants that reflect the

273. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     May 16, 2024 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … included ) Outcomes KQs 1a, 4a: Alcohol use ( required ), self-report and/or biologic measures … care unit admission, decreased length of neonate hospitalization, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders) Quality … were published prior to 1985 Publication language English Languages other than English Quality … Fair or good quality Poor quality (according to design-specific USPSTF criteria) Abbreviations

274. Evidence Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
     September 05, 2017 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Visual acuity, amblyopia, school performance, functioning, quality of life … To provide a consistent metric for visual acuity outcome measures, results were converted to logarithm … of the minimal angle of resolution (logMAR) measurements using established conversion charts. 31 Measures … of visual acuity are generally reported as Snellen (eg, 20/20, 20/25, 20/30, 20/40, 20/50) or logMAR scales … Improving the reliability of visual acuity measures in young children. 

275. Screening for High Blood Pressure: USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommnedation Statement (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - RECOMMENDATIONS OF OTHER GROUPS The JNC 7 calls for routine blood pressure measure- ment at least once … Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. … They should not be construed as an official posi- tion of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality support the operations of the USPSTF … Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be

276. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - Treatments can improve or delay the worsening of proximal and distal measures of vision. … - sory deficits, such as vision, are beneficial when there is evidence on improvements in objective measures … but a lack of evidence of improvements of subjective measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2009. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 1996.

277. Draft Recommendation: Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-recommendation/perinatal-depression-interventions-to-prevent
     April 22, 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 … Other health outcomes reported and reviewed included measures of quality of life, anxiety, healthcare … Twenty trials (n=2,880) reported continuous symptom score measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2025.

278. Archived: Modeling Study: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/modeling-study/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
     June 15, 2016 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Life-years gained compared with no screening (benefit), lifetime number … Seventh, the measures of the benefits and burden of screening used in the analysis were imperfect. … Utility weights have been estimated for diagnosed CRC states, 69 but utility weights have not been estimated … Future work should consider alternative measures of test burden that would enable direct comparison across … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. 13.

279. Recommendation: Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-depression-suicide-risk-children-adolescents
     October 11, 2022 - There were no statistically significant differences for other measures. 1 , 2 Pharmacotherapy, compared … The study reported no statistically significant benefits on measures of functioning. 1 Sixteen trials … Two additional studies were identified but provided no evidence of harm; outcome measures were limited … to very short-term measures of distress or emotion. … Screening for adolescent depression: a comparison of depression scales.

280. Archived: Evidence Summary: Dementia in Older Adults: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/dementia-older-adults-screening-2003
     June 03, 2003 - In most clinical research on Alzheimer's disease, function is measured by 1 or both of two scales: the … Both the ADAS-Cog and the CIBIC scales are stable and sensitive to clinical change over time. 106 The … The evidence is mixed, however, about the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on functional measures … taking placebo in the development of behavioral and psychological symptoms, although not all trials measure … an approximate 3 percent difference in cognitive scales between Ginkgo biloba and placebo groups.