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421. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/ovarian-cancer-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

422. Evidence Summary: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/ovarian-cancer-screening
     February 13, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Ovarian cancer mortality, false-positive screening results and surgery, … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two reviewers independently assessed the methodological quality … , blinded outcome assessment, reliable outcome measures, similar baseline characteristics between groups … Fair-quality studies were assessed as not meeting all of the quality criteria but did not have critical … Quality: Study was poor quality. Return to Table of Contents Table 1.

423. Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/hKRZFsG6c7Kq5ef32cCXa3
     February 12, 2019 - Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be … Measures of depression symptoms are useful in predicting future perinatal depression, although more data … this difference was not statistically significant.2 Thirteen trials reported continuous symptom score measures … compared with control groups.2 Trials reported other maternal or child outcomes; however, out- come measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019.

424. Archived: Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/update-on-the-methods-of-the-us-preventive-services-task-force-estimating-certainty-and-magnitude-of-net-bene%EF%AC%81t/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
     December 15, 2007 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Individual studies will continue to be judged as being of "good," "fair," or "poor" quality. … Evidence may be considered convincing when derived from several high-quality studies with consistent, … This last category refers to preventive measures that, if implemented in the general primary care population … To what extent are the existing studies of high quality? (i.e., what is the internal validity?)

425. Screening and Treatment for Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - identified by the screening results, interventions for those diagnosed with dyslipidemia, and outcome measures … and/or CHD-related events.66, 79-120 Thirty studies examined overweight or body fat composition measures … risk factor for dyslipidemia.79-82, 84-86, 89-95, 99, 101-104, 106-112, 114, 115, 117, 119 These measures … show the magnitude of the effect of overweight on lipids, or the impact that incorporating weight measures … Good quality studies with fair external validity for drug therapy.

426. Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     September 28, 2021 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Diagnosis of preeclampsia; adverse pregnancy health outcomes and complications … conducted among pregnant persons selected based on the presence of clinical risk factors or physical measures … Good-quality RCTs were those that met all or nearly all prespecified quality crite- ria. … A common reporting measure of adherence in the trials was the number of women who were found to be taking … determine whether the use of a risk prediction model that requires multiple historical and physical measures

427. Screening to Prevent Osteoporotic Fractures: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 26, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Incident fractures and related morbidity and mortality, diagnostic and predictive … 80 Ineligible or no comparator 186 Ineligible or no outcome 3 Could not obtain full text 19 Bone measure … Thirty-five studies reported other measures of diagnostic ac- curacy (ie, sensitivity, specificity), … Both suggest no advantage to repeated bone measure- ment testing (at 8 years86 and 3.7 years87 apart) … Although results from studies of accuracy of bone measure- ment tests or clinical risk assessments for

428. Depression and Suicide Risk Screening: Updated Evidence Summary and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     September 09, 2021 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Depression outcomes; suicidal ideation, attempts, and deaths; sensitivity … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two independent investigators rated the quality of studies as … For continuous outcomes, change from baseline in each group was the measure for analysis. … Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality. … comparing effects of various antidepressant classes on the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) as a measure

429. Lipid Screening in Childhood and Adolescence for Detection of Familial Hypercholerolemia: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2016 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke in adulthood; lipid concentrations … In general, a good-quality study met all quality criteria. … Outcomes No direct evidence supports a link between lipid concentrations or measures of atherosclerosis … .65,66 Reaching agree- ment on acceptable surrogate end points, such as CIMT and other atherosclerosis measures … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis.

430. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary11/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
     December 15, 2007 - reviewed the full articles and independently rated their quality. … studies (ACAS and ACST) and 1 fair-quality study (VACS). … between 1994 and 2000 on harms of carotid endarterectomy. 48 The primary perioperative complication measure … , that resulted in a fair-quality rating. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2001.

431. Archived: Modeling Report: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/modeling-report/lung-cancer-screening-december-2013
     July 30, 2013 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … We briefly describe how each model computes this measure. … Composite measures of the number of screenings per lung cancer averted and per life-year gained are also … number of screenings and lung cancer deaths averted but represents a noticeable tradeoff between the measures … Quality-of-life effects of prostate-specific antigen screening.

432. Archived: Evidence Summary: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
     January 15, 2011 - , 35 , 38 , 45 , 50 and the other 23 were rated fair quality; the degree to which studies met quality … No trial evaluated the effects of treatment on school performance or other measures of function. … No trial evaluated effects of treatment compared with no treatment on school performance or other measures … One fair-quality and 1 good-quality trial found that patching resulted in a statistically significant … 22%); mixed anisometropia and strabismus 34/97 (35%) Fair a Converted from Snellen metric measures

433. Archived: Visual Impairment: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/visual-impairment-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 … subjective improvements in a variety of vision-related functions, as well as improvements in objective measures … Development of a scale designed to measure functional distance vision loss using an interview technique … Validity of a survey question as a measure of visual acuity impairment.

434. Archived: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/diabetes-mellitus-type-2-in-adults-screening-2008
     June 15, 2008 - 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 … Data are limited, however, and studies vary in outcome measures, characteristics of the screened and … comparison populations, and methodological quality. … The researchers found that the former group had worse psychological measures, although the negative effects

435. Screening for Depression in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2002 - The wide variation in interventions tested, outcome measures used, and timing of follow-up assessments … between differences in outcomes and patient and provider characteristics, use of particular outcome measures … , varying duration of follow-up, or trial quality. … researchers chose not to combine the results in a meta-analysis because the studies used different outcome measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2002.

436. Using Nontraditional Risk Factors in Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2009 - Carotid IMT Fair-quality evidence indicates, on the basis of 1 fair- and 2 good-quality population-based … Three good-quality population cohort studies and 5 fair-quality studies reported that the highest CAC … The 5 studies rated as fair quality were primarily limited by their use of proxy measures to control … hs-CRP Level Ten good-quality studies, 13 fair-quality studies, and 2 meta-analyses provide fair-to-good … Predictive value of noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis for incident myocardial infarction: the Rotterdam

437. Recommendation: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening
     July 18, 2023 - 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 … Lipid panels measure different components of cholesterol metabolism, including total cholesterol, LDL-C … The USPSTF reviewed 4 fair- to good-quality trials (n = 1008) examining the effectiveness of various … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2023. AHRQ publication 22-05301-EF-1. 2.

438. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review52/ocular-prophylaxis-for-gonococcal-ophthalmia-neonatorum-preventive-medication-2011
     July 15, 2011 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … This report is based on research conducted by staff at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice guidelines and other quality … In the absence of preventive measures

439. Recommendation: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-anxiety-children-adolescents
     October 11, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Cognitive behavioral therapy was associated with improvement in anxiety outcomes across several pooled measures … of 1 or 2; RR, 2.11 [95% CI, 1.58 to 2.98]; n = 370; 5 trials; I 2 = 18%) but was inconsistent on measures … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2022. AHRQ publication No. 22-05293-EF-1. 2. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. AHRQ publication No. 17-EHC023-EF. 24.

440. Archived: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women and Young Children: Screening and Supplementation, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/iron-deficiency-anemia-pregnant-women-young-children-screening-supplementation-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 … infants randomized to nonfortified formula had significantly worse psychomotor development (Bayley Scales … indices and iron stores, but they do not improve birth weight, length of gestation, or other outcome measures