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461. Archived: Letter to the Editor and Response from the Evidence-Based Practice Center: Human Papillomavirus Testing to Screen for Cervical Cancer: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 15, 2012 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … European Guidelines for Quality Assurance on Cervical Cancer Screening. 2nd ed. … round screening and followup, perhaps with linkage to registries) and for a larger array of process measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2011. 4. Rebolj M, Lynge E. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2011. 16.

462. Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 24, 2021 - glucose level of 140 to 199 mg/dL (7.77- 11.04 mmol/L) are consistent with prediabetes.14 HbA1c is a measure … Both fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c levels are simpler to measure than performing an oral glucose … Neither trial found statistically significant differences in cardiovascular events, quality of life … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2021. AHRQ publication 21-05276-EF-1. 3. … Effect of screening for type 2 diabetes on population-level self-rated health outcomes and measures

463. Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes: An Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Accuracy of screening tests, benefits of screening, harms of screening, reduction … Only stud- ies rated as good or fair quality were included. … Eli- gible 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 … with no known history of genital herpes Studies are uncontrolled; due to study design and outcome measures

464. Screening for Skin Cancer in Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     July 26, 2016 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Melanoma incidence and mortality, harms from cancer screening, diagnostic … outcomes relating clinician skin examination to other risk factors (eg, sun-protection behaviors); or measures … Good- and fair-quality studies were included in the summary of evidence; poor-quality studies were ex … Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality (ie, it was poor quality). … differences in time to ascer- tainment of cancer outcomes that affect screening examination per- formance measures

465. Recommendation: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     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.

466. Recommendation: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     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.

467. Screening Adults for Bladder Cancer: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - Limitation: High-quality evidence was not available for any of the key questions. … Primary Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … We resolved discrepancies in quality ratings by discussion and consensus. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.) … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2004.

468. Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - Individual studies will continue to be judged as being of “good,” “fair,” or “poor” quality. … Evidence may be considered con- vincing when derived from several high-quality studies with consistent … To what extent are the existing studies of high quality? (i.e., what is the internal validity?) 3. … This last category refers to preventive measures that, if implemented in the general primary care population … Barton, MD, MPP, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Primary Care, Prevention

469. Benefits and Harms of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Programs for High Risk Populations (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2013 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2013. … 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 … 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.

470. Archived: Drug Use, Illicit: Primary Care Interventions for Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/drug-use-illicit-primary-care-interventions-for-children-and-adolescents-march-2014
     March 11, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Research to develop and validate tools to measure current and past substance use is needed. … The studies used an unusual and difficult-to-interpret measure of drug use. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2014. 5. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008. 12.

471. Archived: Evidence Summary: Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Preexposure Prophylaxis | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prevention-of-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-june-2019
     June 11, 2019 - Main Outcomes and Measures:  HIV acquisition, mortality, and harms; adherence to PrEP; and diagnostic … All trials were rated good quality except for 1 trial 31 rated fair quality because of unclear allocation … One study was rated good quality 18 and the others were rated fair quality. … fmol/punch or greater on dried blood sampling (consistent with ≥4 doses/wk). 52-54 Using the same measure … Accuracy of self-report and pill-count measures of adherence in the FEM-PrEP clinical trial: implications

472. Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/benefit.pdf
     December 01, 2007 - Individual studies will continue to be judged as being of “good,” “fair,” or “poor” quality. … Evidence may be considered con- vincing when derived from several high-quality studies with consistent … To what extent are the existing studies of high quality? (i.e., what is the internal validity?) 3. … This last category refers to preventive measures that, if implemented in the general primary care population … Barton, MD, MPP, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Primary Care, Prevention

473. 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

474. Archived: Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication-september-2014
     September 09, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … preeclampsia, such as serum biomarkers, uterine artery Doppler ultrasonography, and clinical history and measures … Clinical measures, such as uterine artery Doppler ultrasonography, are not included. … Potential Harms of Preventive Medication The USPSTF considered 19 RCTs (12 good-quality) and 2 good-quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2014. 2.

475. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 1996 | 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 … ranges. 28 , 29 Current evidence is inadequate to determine the relative superiority of any of these measures … reports without internal controls, usually involving carefully selected patients and surrogate outcome measures … Quality-of-life outcomes in men treated for localized prostate cancer.

476. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Announces Addition of Three New Members: Experts in primary care, evidence-based medicine, and health disparities join the Task Force (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - University of California, San Francisco, and the Senior Scholar for the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Quality … Lee also chairs the American Geriatrics Society Quality and Performance Measurement Committee.

477. Shared Decision-Making About Screening and Chemoprevention: A Suggested Approach (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - At that time, the central question was whether there was high-quality evidence showing that a preventive … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. … The measure of an informed and joint decision, however, should not vary (Figure 2). … Patients’ perceptions of the quality of informed consent for common medical procedures. … Envisioning the National Healthcare Quality Report. 2000.

478. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 06, 2017 - of benefits and harms in CISNETmodeling when lifetime number of colonoscopies is used as the proxy measure … and amore efficient balance between life-years gained and lifetime number of colonoscopies (a proxy measure … burden of screen­ ing, it is efficient; if cathartic bowel preparations are considered as the proxy measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015.

479. Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2008 - More recently, wide- spread adoption of standardized hemoglobin A1c measure- ments has occurred, and … newer techniques for measure- ment are generally highly reproducible (10). … Data are lim- ited, however, and studies vary in outcome measures, char- acteristics of the screened … and comparison populations, and methodological quality. … The re- searchers found that the former group had worse psycho- logical measures, although the negative

480. Archived: Rh(D) Incompatibility: Screening, 1996 | 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 … D-positive fetus, which occurs in up to 9-10% of pregnancies, depending on race. 1 , 2 If no preventive measures … disease is now low, the incidence was at least 10/1,000 live births before the introduction of preventive measures