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121. Recommendation: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 18, 2023 - Detection and Treatment The USPSTF reviewed 3 nonrandomized studies evaluating 2 skin cancer screening programs … (n = 187) used various scales to estimate patient-reported psychological harms (eg, anxiety, depression … Scores in both the screened and unscreened groups were within the normal range on all measures, indicating … Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2022. AHRQ publication 22-05297-EF-1. 9.

122. Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - • Other measures for preventing skin cancer include avoiding direct exposure to midday sun (between … sunlight by staying indoors or in the shade or by wearing protective clothing is the most effective measure … educational interventions have demonstrated effectiveness for increasing the use of skin protection measures … suggests that office-based counseling by physicians may be an effective component of a multi-modal program … Tracy Orleans, PhD (Senior Scientist and Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,

123. Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for CVD Prevention in Adults Without Known CVD Risk Factors: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     July 11, 2017 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Cardiometabolic health and intermediate outcomes, behavioral outcomes, and … Quality: Study was poor quality. USPSTF indicates US Preventive Services Task Force. … The standard- ized effect size when pooling 46 trials that reported any continu- ous measure of physical … variable levels of evi- dence of the reliability and validity of the measures. … The tools and summary variables used to measure physical activity were even more inconsistent.

124. Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Younger than Age 5 Years: An Update of the Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, 1999–2003 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2004 - LogMAR than 2 mos of lines amblyopia therapy in the past 2 yrs; aged 7 yrs or older; not able to measure … Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Younger than Age 5 Years Intention-to- Measures Equal … Rating Yes Yes Yes Yes Fair Yes Yes Yes Yes Fair Yes Yes Yes Yes Good Primary visual acuity outcome measure … Do formal screening No direct studies on this, but A fair-quality nested RCT comparing intensive programs … identify screening programs have screening with usual care in the UK indicated higher cases earlier

125. Archived: Final Research Plan: Preeclampsia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan109/preeclampsia-screening-april-2017
     August 14, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … high risk for preeclampsia KQs 2, 3: Maternal characteristics and routinely collected clinical measures … very high” or equivalent on the Human Development Index (as defined by the United Nations Development Program … eligible studies identified through a bridge search Studies published before 1990 Study quality … Good and fair quality Poor quality Language English Non-English

126. Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2025 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Food insecurity; dietary, physiologic, quality of life, health outcomes; sensitivity … However, there was no ap- parent impact on other quality-of-life measures; physiologic mea- sures of … Vegetable Prescription Program. … Feasibility of a home-delivery produce prescription program to address food insecurity and diet quality … Inadequacy of current screening measures for health-related social needs.

127. Final Recommendation Statement: Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 19, 2024 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … reported group differences. 1 , 21 Of 4 trials (n = 1638) evaluating outcomes based on the Bayley Scales … The US Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) support the operations … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2024. AHRQ publication No. 23-05307-EF-1. 2. … In addition, consistency in outcome measure definitions, outcome types, and outcome timing across studies

128. Draft Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 01, 2024 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Counseling interventions can vary in their approach (e.g., 12-step program, cognitive behavioral therapy … to primary care with a defined population (e.g., primary care clinic, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program … facility) Outcomes KQs 1a, 4a: Alcohol use ( required ), self-report and/or biologic measures … Fair or good quality Poor quality (according to design-specific USPSTF criteria) Abbreviations

129. Draft Research Plan: Enhanced Risk Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease: Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 25, 2024 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … coronary artery calcium scoring or the ankle brachial index to predict cardiovascular disease risk improve measures … categorized as “Very High” on the 2021 Human Development Index (as defined by the United Nations Development Program … and case-control studies for rare events   Language English language only   Study Quality … “Fair” or “Good” quality only   * eGFR <30 mL/min.

130. Evidence Summary: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 11, 2025 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Child and maternal health outcomes, prevalence, and duration of any and … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two reviewers independently assessed the methodological quality … 1 101 of the 90 included trials (N = 49,597) reported the effects of an intervention on at least 1 measure … “problems” between those in the intervention vs usual care groups in 22 studies that reported these measures … Quality: Study was rated as poor quality.

131. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults, Children, and Adolescents: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 01, 2003 - If performed correctly, it provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated with intra-arterial … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours rather … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA 1995;273(15):1211-8. 13. Birkett NJ. … Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory … Disability days associated with detection and treatment in a hypertension control program.

132. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 26, 2015 - 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 … Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group.

133. Archived: Intimate Partner Violence and Elderly Abuse: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … A randomized controlled trial with 15 years of follow-up indicated that nurse home visit programs (i.e … and postpartum mothers support these findings, although the outcomes in these studies were short-term measures … health examination, but recommended that physicians be alert for indicators of abuse and institute measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 2004.

134. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary19/high-blood-pressure-in-adults-screening-monitoring-october-2015
     December 22, 2014 - We identified 1 good-quality cluster RCT of a community pharmacy–based BP screening program targeting … Accessed at www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp on 21 January 2014. 20. … Weights are from random-effects analysis. … Weights are from random-effects analysis. … † Measure based on >1 visit or involved an additional confirmation step.

135. Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Children 5 Years Old and Younger: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2015 - .54 Both trials reported significant improvement on measures of language skills. … Similarly, measures of well-being of toddlers65 and health-related quality of life of preschoolers59 … Early language screening in city and Hackney: the concurrent validity of a measure designed for use with … Association between feeding difficulties and language delay in preterm infants using Bayley Scales of … Risk for poor performance on a language screening measure for bilingual preschoolers and kindergarteners

136. Archived: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipid Abnormalities: 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 … National Cholesterol Education Program. … How reliably can compact chemistry analyzers measure lipids? … National Cholesterol Education Program. … Results of a province-wide quality assurance program assessing the accuracy of cholesterol, triglycerides

137. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary46/skin-cancer-screening-2009
     February 15, 2009 - In the American Academy of Dermatology program, dermatologists performed screening examinations that … Many studies measure accuracy through the use of photographs of lesions of known histopathology. … Other studies measure accuracy by following the referral patterns and ultimate histopathology of lesions … Clinical outcomes from skin screening clinics within a community-based melanoma screening program. … The first 15 years of the American Academy of Dermatology skin cancer screening programs: 1985-1999.

138. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Breastfeeding: Counseling, July 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2003 - RCTs to examine the influence of specific components of counseling interventions on rates of 3 outcome measures … were interested not only on the isolated effect of support but also on the added benefit of supportive measures … when combined with educational programs. … initiation and support measures increased duration. … The effect of an educational program on the decision to breastfeed.

139. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - a health care setting, or be widely available in the community at a national level Community-based programs … (e.g., worksite programs, school programs); social marketing interventions (e.g., media campaigns); … Self-reported measures of STI outcomes should be interpreted cautiously. … Self-reported measures of STI outcomes should be interpreted cautiously. … Abstinence-only programs for HIV infection prevention in high-income countries.

140. untitled (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2016 - Other Considerations Research Needs and Gaps Randomized trials of screening programs are needed to assess … In the absence of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of screening programs, treatment studies in patients … 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. … National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP).