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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 program … Quality: Study was poor quality. Unable to Locate: Review staff was unable to locate article.
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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
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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.