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41. 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

42. Nontraditional Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/_nVeFxDCT9L-_cnDf_V3fK
    July 17, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Cardiovascular events, mortality, risk assessment performance measures (calibration … KQ2 studies were re- quired to include a measure of calibration, discrimination, or reclas- sification … Quality: Study was poor quality. … This analysis uses the change in C statistic to measure discrimination. … Across all 3 nontraditional risk factors, less than half of studies reported a measure of calibration

43. 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

44. Final Research Plan: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/impaired-visual-acuity-screening-older-adults
    June 04, 2020 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … older adults versus no screening on visual acuity, morbidity or mortality, general or vision-related quality … of life; functional capacity, including ability to drive and driving outcomes; other measures of morbidity … specificity, positive and negative predictive values, areas under the receiver operating curve, and other measures … Fair- or good-quality studies Poor-quality studies Abbreviation: RCT=randomized controlled

45. Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/reconsidering-approach-prevention-recommendations-older-adults
    February 01, 2014 - Studies that evaluate the efficacy of these multifactorial interventions often measure more than 1 type … These measures offer important and relevant considerations for setting goals of care, but they are not … Many outcomes are continuous or ordinal measures, designed to be sensitive across a continuum, that are … of the potential differences in benefits and harms, patient preferences, and reported health status measures … ," because of the diversity in domains and measures used to identify patients at risk for falls.

46. Archived: Screening and Interventions for Childhood Obesity: Where Is the Evidence? A Commentary by the Childhood Obesity Working Group of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening, July 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/screening-and-interventions-for-childhood-obesity-where-is-t/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2005
    July 11, 2005 - Physicians also seem to take high BMI more seriously than weight and height measures; 2 when documentation … It is important to note that the USPSTF did not recommend that primary care clinicians not weigh and measure … Although BMI is a convenient and widely agreed-upon measure of obesity, it is not clear what BMI at any … screening (and intervention) for overweight in childhood improves age-appropriate behavioral or physiologic measures … interventions lead to improved intermediate outcomes, including behavioral, physiologic or weight-related measures

47. 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

48. 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

49. Evidence Summary: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary23/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-young-children-screening
    March 30, 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 … status measures but no differences between groups in measures of weight or height after 9 and 18 months … Based on this evidence, benefits were shown only for some iron status measures in the short term. … The Bayley-III cognitive and language scales: how do scores relate to the Bayley II?

50. 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.

51. Final Evidence Summary: Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Primary Care-Based Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/other-supporting-document19727/drug-use-illicit-primary-care-interventions-for-children-and-adolescents
    September 03, 2020 - Nineteen trials reported a continuous measure, most commonly the number of times illicit drugs were used … Dichotomous measures were selected over continuous measures, 1-month time frames were selected over longer … trials. 26 , 28 , 56 Most general prevention trials found no group differences on mental health symptom scales … Quality: Study was poor quality. Non–English-language: Publication not in English. … ) in general prevention trials Group differences were rarely found for a variety of mental health scales

52. Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/skin-cancer-counseling
    March 20, 2018 - Each study was rated as good, fair, or poor quality. A good-quality study met all quality criteria. … , age, sex, race/ethnicity), intervention details, length of follow-up, measure descriptions, and outcomes … The individual items and scales measuring sun protection behaviors were variable across trials and make … Measures were heterogeneous enough to preclude pooling of results. … However, a more expansive measure of skin awareness did appear to be a significant independent predictor

53. 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

54. Archived: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-adults-with-high-risk-of-cvd-august-2014
    August 26, 2014 - One trial, the Risk Factor Intervention Study, showed a reduction in a composite measure of CVD events … The results for self-reported quality-of-life measures were mixed. … Three trials of combined lifestyle counseling showed improvement in selected measures of quality of life … with reductions in measures of weight and sustained improvements in healthy lifestyle behaviors. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2014.  U.S.

55. Evidence Summary: High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening
    June 18, 2024 - Main Outcomes and Measures: BMI and other weight-related outcomes, cardiometabolic measures, quality … , were reported in only 14 studies (n = 2558); 13 of these reported a measure of quality of life. … CI, 0.2-3.5]; 11 RCTs [n = 1922]; I 2 = 48.4%) (eTable5, eFigure 1 in the  JAMA  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.

56. 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

57. 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.

58. Final Evidence Summary: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/cognitive-impairment-in-older-adults-screening
    February 25, 2020 - in which continuous outcomes were measured using a variety of different instruments with differing scales … Functional assessment scales in detecting dementia. … The IQCODE versus a single-item informant measure to discriminate between cognitively intact individuals … Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality. … across studies, with many providing little data on precise scales used Moderate evidence of small

59. Screening and Routine for Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/g-b8KbTXYe2vnW2zJKGoPU
    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?

60. Screening for Obesity and Intervention for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Jz4WcZ2Wy3-nV6jNUrwUzX
    June 20, 2017 - Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality (ie, was poor quality) using study-design … When pooling any weight measure, standardized mean differences in change between groups were used. … Orlistat Only 1 orlistat trial reported quality-of-life measures. … From From Mean Difference Through End of Baseline, Baseline, in Change From 12 moSource Treatment) Measure … Fasting plasma glucose was the only insulin or glucose measure with sufficient data to pool.