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181. Overdiagnosis in Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Home/GetFile/1/16812/prostate-models-overdiagnosis/pdf
     May 01, 2018 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2018. … Both of these measures will be higher than a measure of overdiagnosis based on the third denominator … All models were calibrated to data from the SEER program. … The exact measures being reported can be difficult to glean from a publication.10 Related to the issue … ¶Base program Abbreviation: MISCAN-PRO = Microsimulation Screening Analysis Prostate Cancer; NR =

182. Archived: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
     June 15, 2016 - colorectal cancer, the sensitivity of the test over time is more important in an ongoing screening program … analysis of data from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program … inferences about the ultimate performance of these tests as intended in a real-world setting (ie, in a program … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016. 2. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. 3.

183. Archived: Final Research Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan105/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
     September 25, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … For adults with latent tuberculosis infection, treatment may improve health outcomes, such as quality … of chemotherapy KQ 1: Workplace settings that screen for LTBI as part of a formal surveillance program … with low risk for TB and without known exposure to TB; studies on screening reliability must include measures … † Workplace settings that screen employees for LTBI as part of a formal surveillance program for

184. Archived: Oral Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/oral-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 … alcohol, may have a greater impact on the morbidity and mortality associated with oral cancer than measures … Persons with increased exposure to sunlight should be advised to take protective measures when outdoors … Reproducibility of an oral cancer and precancer detection program using a primary health care model in

185. 14th Annual Report to Congress: High-Priority Evidence Gaps Across the Lifespan, in All Communities (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program. … Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program. … Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program. … Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program. … clinician with 40 years of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based programs

186. Archived: Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/speech-and-language-delay-in-preschool-children-screening-2006
     February 15, 2006 - to 42 months of age who had expressive, receptive, or phonological impairments. 25 Only one outcome measure … Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850. … Concurrent and predictive validity of an early language screening program. … Screening effectiveness of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory Expressive and Receptive Language Scales … Early language screening in City and Hackney: The concurrent validity of a measure designed for use with

187. Screening for Dementia in Primary Care: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - In most clinical research on Alzheimer’s disease, function is measured by 1 or both of 2 scales: the … Both the ADAS-Cog and the CIBIC scales are stable and sensitive to clinical change over time.66 The … taking placebo in the development of behavioral and psychological symptoms, although not all trials measure … an approximate 3% difference in cognitive scales between ginkgo biloba and placebo groups.16, 86 Note … Boustani would like to thank the Program on Aging, John A.

188. Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2006 - 42 months of age who had expressive, receptive, or phonological impairments. 25 Only one outcome measure … Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Concurrent and predictive validity of an early language screening program. … Screening effectiveness of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory Expressive and Receptive Language Scales … Early language screening in City and Hackney: The concurrent validity of a measure designed for use

189. Evidence Summary: Weight Loss to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Behavioral Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/obesity-in-adults-interventions
     September 18, 2018 - maintenance interventions and selected based on an above-normal BMI (eg, ≥25) or other weight-related measure … weight loss and maintenance trials (n = 7120), with 14 showing no differences between groups on any measure … Comparison of commercial and self-initiated weight loss programs in people with prediabetes: a randomized … Effects of four maintenance programs on the long-term management of obesity. … Quality: Study was poor quality.

190. Screening for Depression in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2002 - of patient education materials, physician education programs, telephone-based treatment coordination … 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 … researchers chose not to combine the results in a meta-analysis because the studies used different outcome measures … Impact of disseminating quality improvement programs for depression in managed primary care: a randomized

191. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) measures … Screening using family history as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) and the … Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … National Cholesterol Education Program. … The Lipid Research Clinics Program. Population studies data book , Vol. I. The prevalence study.

192. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: A Brief Evidence Update (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2004 - the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … the identification of women who carry these genes by genetic testing for the purposes of initiating measures … Framework The analytic framework indicates the target population, interventions, and health outcome measures … trial is recruiting women aged 50 to 64 from population registries or from breast cancer screening programs … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2004.

193. Evidence Summary: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-screening
     May 10, 2022 - Main Outcomes and Measures: COPD-related morbidity or mortality, measures of health-related quality … Outcomes of interest included mortality, morbidity from COPD, measures of health-related quality of life … of life, dyspnea, exercise or physical performance measures, mental health, smoking cessation) at 26 … AHRQ had no role in study selection, quality assessment, or synthesis. … Long-term effects of an internet-mediated pedometer-based walking program for chronic obstructive pulmonary

194. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2021 - The mean or median baseline AHI (or similar measure) for most trials was in the severe OSA range (AHI … d Study quality rating refers to quality of the systematic reviews, not the quality of individual trials … United Nations Development Program; 2020. 15. … sleepy patients with milder obstructive sleep apnea: results of the CPAP Apnea Trial North American Program … Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure; National High Blood Pressure Education Program

195. Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care to Promote a Healthy Diet in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - (eg, weight, proportion of body fat) with no direct measure of dietary behavior. … , based on randomized design, high retention rates, and use of appropriate outcome measures. … of fat intake, including grams of saturated or total fat consumed or study-specific outcome scales.10 … Second, identifying the appropriate measure of dietary change is difficult. … Our main outcome measure, self-reported change in dietary behavior, relies on individual self-report,

196. Behavioral Interventions to Promote Breastfeeding - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - own in increasing breastfeeding rates.13 Effectiveness of Other Breastfeeding Education and Support Measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2003. … Program to increase incidence and duration. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1995;149(7):798–803. 13. … The effect of a culture-specific education program to promote breastfeeding among Vietnamese women in … Office for Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program, San Antonio, TX) C.

197. Sbmxphuqwo-Dc85Fj5Whf (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2015 - We identified 1 good-quality cluster RCT of a community pharmacy–based BP screening program targeting … We examined direct evi- dence of benefits and harms of screening programs to identify adults with high … Accessed at www .ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp on 21 January 2014. 20. … /clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp http://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp 45. … the Oscar 2 ambulatory blood pressure monitor among research participants: a cross-sectional repeated measures

198. Archived: Final Research Plan: High Blood Pressure in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan6/high-blood-pressure-in-adults-screening-monitoring-october-2015
     September 15, 2013 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … drug-induced blood pressure changes; measurement of blood pressure as part of a disease management program … hospitalization for coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, transient ischemic attack; composite measures … concordance for hypertension (e.g., r, r 2 , p-value for comparison of or difference of means) KQ 3a:  Measures … review   Language English Other languages than English Study quality

199. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Women and Elderly Adults: Intimate Partner Violence and Elderly Abuse: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-screening-for-women-and-elderly-adults/intimate-partner-violence-and-elderly-abuse-screening-2004
     March 08, 2004 - Study Quality Rating Criteria Appendix 3. … Cronbach's alpha = 0.80), and its results correlated with the previously validated 19-item Conflict Tactics Scales … or health outcome measures. … These outcomes should include not only measures of reduced violence, but also improved quality of life … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (AHRQ). Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs .

200. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2017 - One such trial could implement a systematic screening and treatment program in 1 set of clinics and … and 34 were fair quality. … Ten of these trials were fair quality, and the remaining trial was good quality. … One trial reported quality-of-life measures and found no differences between intervention and pla­ cebo … Four trials were good quality and 6 were fair quality.