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  1. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary11/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
    December 15, 2007 - between 1994 and 2000 on harms of carotid endarterectomy. 48 The primary perioperative complication measure … Table 2 shows hypothetical outcomes of a screening program for asymptomatic CAS. … Risk of hospitalized stroke in men enrolled in the Honolulu Heart Program and the Framingham Study: A … Improvement Program. … Improvement Program, CVA = cerebral vascular accident, CABG = coronary artery bypass graft, ESRD = end
  2. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/VN82XmdDhcK74WtHxWBTqm
    May 01, 2004 - prevalence of current adult smokers remains high at 24%.10,11 In the clinical setting, smoking cessation programs … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the U.S. … Results of lung cancer screening programs in Japan. … Non-small-cell lung cancer: results of the New York screening program. … Preliminary report of the lung cancer detection program in New York.
  3. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/s2xawZNAWVC5qgGyTT6r8m
    October 01, 2015 - The USPSTF found no studies that evaluated the direct effect of routine screening programs on child health … However, these observational studies have limitations due to the types of measures reported and confounding … screening tools for iron deficiency anemia have not been well studied.11 Serum ferritin, often used to measure … have been reported between iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia and poorer neurodevelopmental measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015 4.
  4. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - Community prevalence provides only a crude measure of individual risk, however, and should not replace … Careful quality control measures and patient counseling are essential to limit the potential adverse … especially important for drug users, who may require assistance in gaining entrance to a drug treatment program … Measurement of the false-positive rate in a screening program for human immunodeficiency virus infections … State issues, policies, and programs. Vol 1. Assessing the problem.
  5. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening-2002
    September 17, 2002 - reporting radiographically verified, nontraumatic fracture outcomes, because fractures are a stronger measure … caffeine; not walking for exercise; lack of ambulation; inability to rise from a chair; poor scores on two measures … Trial results are not applicable to a screening program unless the trials included patients who would … risk is determined not only by bone density, but also by bone characteristics that are difficult to measure … Meta-analysis of how well measures of bone mineral density predict occurrence of osteoporotic fractures
  6. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/fbQmoAPKeBekmJ7aqmALe5
    June 01, 2014 - several drug therapies and nonpharmacologic interventions have a small effect on cognitive function measures … The USPSTF found adequate evi- dence that interventions targeted to caregivers have a small effect on measures … cognitive stimulation with or without cognitive training seems to improve global cog- nitive function measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2013. 2. … Implementing a screening and diagnosis program for dementia in primary care.
  7. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/2kM7LY6ccceVo8bmdUXhYm
    September 01, 2002 - reporting radiographically verified, nontraumatic fracture outcomes, because fractures are a stronger measure … caffeine; not walking for exercise; lack of ambulation; inability to rise from a chair; poor scores on 2 measures … Bone Density Tests Several technologies are available to measure bone density,55-58 although correlations … Trial results are not applicable to a screening program unless the trials included patients who would … Meta-analysis of how well measures of bone mineral density predict occurrence of osteoporotic fractures
  8. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/syphilis-infection-in-pregnancy-screening-september-2018
    September 04, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Incidence of congenital syphilis; any harms of screening or penicillin treatment … studies and large before-after or ecologic studies reporting the association of implementing a screening program … Each study was rated as good, fair, or poor quality. A good-quality study met all quality criteria. … does not include an historical comparator (ie, a time point before implementation of the screening program … ) because the screening program was initiated in 2001 and screening commenced in 2002, the authors also
  9. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/v7kgKfbWsEFnPY3wkvkRGc
    May 26, 2020 - improvement programs. … Most of the general prevention trials found no group-to-group differences on mental health symptom scales … • Several interventions such as the Familias Unidas program (a family- based intervention program focusing … Parent programs for reducing adolescent’s antisocial behavior and substance use: a randomized controlled … Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019. AHRQ Publication No. 19-05258-EF-1. 23.
  10. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/aSLgQ3VeNEmowQmpvPk_Xe
    March 01, 2004 - Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … estimated to be 230,000 cases per year and has declined to 25,000 cases in 2001 with the advent of measures … Studies are also needed to evaluate the effect of diagnosis and treatment on the quality of life. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2004. … Performance characteristics and results of a large-scale screening program for viral hepatitis and risk
  11. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/diabetes-mellitus-type-2-in-adults-screening-2003
    February 04, 2003 - The report of the Adult Treatment Panel III of the National Cholesterol Education Program recommends … Intensive programs of lifestyle modification (diet, exercise, and behavior) should also be considered … (Senior Scientist and Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ);   * … Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. … Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program Cooperative Research Group.
  12. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening-october-2018
    October 23, 2018 - The National Hotline on Domestic Violence has information about local programs and resources across the … Compared with the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) (violence/verbal aggression scales combined), the H-S/ … groups in rates of overall IPV exposure 49 , 50 or combined physical and sexual violence; 51 , 52 measures … One RCT developed a specific tool, the Consequences of Screening Tool (COST), to measure the consequences … Intimate partner violence (IPV) assistance program. VA website.
  13. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/aHH-PY8unwJXW5NqJhRUz6
    May 01, 2014 - Information from a clinical evaluation also has been proposed, as well as qualitative or quantitative measure … effective- ness in reducing dental caries.18 It also recommends school-based dental sealant delivery programs … The evidence is limited in that measures of early childhood fluoride exposure were based on parental … Systemic fluoride also provides some measure of topical effects, as it is found in the saliva and bathes … The caries-inhibiting ef- fect of a fluoride drop program: a 3-year study on Chinese kindergarten children
  14. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/d8DVjQhw6JgjWaBtED97s6
    of life, weight- related quality of life, psychosocial functioning outcomes; improvement in depressive … compared with those who did not participate (controlling for subsequent participation in weight-loss program … of life, weight- related quality of life, psychosocial functioning U.S. primary care settings or … of life outcomes, especially weight-related quality of life, psychosocial functioning outcomes; … is typically derived from RCTs of the targeted screening or preventive intervention that adequately measure
  15. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Lm94jySKCYrG3zsUP8Jd8E
    February 16, 2016 - interventions can be delivered in a home or school setting and are generally time-intensive, with some programs … website pro- vides links to training resources for professionals (available at http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs … 18 and 24 months with later screening or case-finding on educational, behavioral, functional, and IQ measures … children) re- ported that these interventions improved cognitive scores by 11 to 16 points (Mullen Scales … Twelve RCTs of play- or in- teraction-based interventions reported significant improvements in some measures
  16. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/_q6ZTL2Yg6f6rLp-Re9whD
    June 24, 2025 - coordinated support for caregivers (https://acl.gov/programs/support-caregivers/national-family-caregiver-support-program … ACL is focused on developing systems and programs that prevent abuse from happening, protecting persons … coordinated support for caregivers (https://acl.gov/programs/support-caregivers/ national-family-caregiver-support-program … randomized clinical trial (n = 591) developed a specific tool, the Consequences of Screening Tool, to measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2025. AHRQ publication 24-05315-EF-1. 2.
  17. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/ngSKuH6MP9L_BSuX-Pp2K6
    January 01, 2010 - Linking primary care patients to community-based physical activity and fitness programs may enhance the … potential harms related to physical activity counseling.6 This trial, in which initially sedentary program … , improving access to places for physical activity, and individually-adapted behavior change programs … The latter programs generally recruited groups of volunteers at community sites, work sites, or schools … or evaluated, and may reflect a failure to distinguish patients who were ready to begin an exercise program
  18. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/cervical-cancer-screening
    August 21, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Invasive cervical cancer; cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN); false-positive … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Two investigators independently assessed the quality of included … false-positive rate was reported to quantify the extent to which women in a cervical cancer screening program … reported on outcomes by age corresponding to the introduction of a population-based hrHPV immunization programQuality: Study was poor quality. Unable to Locate: Review staff was unable to locate article.
  19. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Wezro6zTSfAWxCrneF-nxB
    May 01, 2005 - , substance abuse treatment programs). … (duration, type of testing, follow-up), and outcome measures. … Outcome measures included sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive … , and job training programs. … Social capital was significantly correlated to all outcome measures including GC; poverty was significantly
  20. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary35/lung-cancer-screening-2004
    May 15, 2004 - Study Selection: Studies that evaluated mass-screening programs for lung cancer involving the tests … Results of lung cancer screening programs in Japan. Recent Results Cancer Res 1982;82:163-73. … Non-small-cell lung cancer: results of the New York screening program. … The National Cancer Institute Cooperative Early Lung Cancer Detection Program. … Lung cancer screening: the Mayo program. J Occup Med 1986;28(8):746-50.

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