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421. Archived: Final Research Plan: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan151/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-july-2016
     January 15, 2015 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … : RCTs, CCTs, cohort studies, systematic reviews, registry studies, long-term trial followup, high-quality … : RCTs, CCTs, cohort studies, systematic reviews, registry studies, long-term trial followup, high-quality … hypercholesterolemia Diseases KQs 5–8: Dyslipidemia, as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program … case-control studies All KQs: Studies rated as poor quality KQs 1–3, 5, 6, 8: Qualitative

422. Recommendation: Weight Loss to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Behavioral Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-adults-interventions
     September 18, 2018 - of weight and provided tools to support weight loss or weight loss maintenance (eg, pedometers, food scales … while other trials provided referral and free access to commercially available group-based weight loss programs … In the good-quality Diabetes Prevention Program trial (n = 1295), the estimated cumulative incidence … of life outcomes. 1 Many trials showed improvement in obesity-specific quality of life measures among … Fifteen trials were good quality and 15 trials were fair quality.

423. Primary Care–Relevant Interventions for Tobacco and Nicotine Use Prevention and Cessation in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/p6k4ooduXN8RQoVGS9H5Sx
     March 01, 2011 - Two investigators independently assessed study quality. … MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Tobacco use initiation; tobacco use cessation; health outcomes; harms. … 7.4) 994/10 817 (9.2)Total Heterogeneity: I2 = 14.9%, P = .30 0.82 (0.73-0.92) Box sizes represent weights … Influence of a family program on adolescent smoking and drinking prevalence. … The influence of a family program on adolescent tobacco and alcohol use.

424. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: An evidence-based prevention resource for nurse practitioners (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/epbnursep.pdf
     November 01, 2007 - measures, and national health objectives. … The AHRQ-supported Put Prevention into Practice program, created almost 20 years ago shortly after the … Tobacco cessation programs offer examples that demon- strate how clinical and community strategies can … computer linked systems, where referrals are automatically made from a clinician to a community-based program … The CTF can be searched for information about public health programs to promote healthy behaviors.

425. Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/m_E9nFrmxuS5-surqVHK2u
     November 13, 2018 - No studies examined benefits or harms of screening programs to reduce unhealthy alcohol use. … Quality: Study was poor quality. … Summary of Meta-analysis Results, Primary Drinking Outcomes for Key Question 4a Outcome (Effect Measure … Comparing alcohol screening measures among HIV-infected and -uninfected men. … Implementation and quality improvement of a screening and counseling program for unhealthy alcohol use

426. Archived: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/gestational-diabetes-mellitus-screening-2003
     February 01, 2003 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … diagnosis of GDM may influence provider decisionmaking and could increase cesarean delivery rates, despite measures … (Senior Scientist and Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ); Jeffrey … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2002. 4. … Clinical experience with a screening program for gestational diabetes.

427. Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening
     July 18, 2023 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Health outcomes, diagnostic yield, intermediate outcomes, behavioral outcomes … Identifying familial hypercholesterolemia using a blood donor screening program with more than 1 million … Cardiometabolic risk factors in siblings from a statewide screening program. … Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality. … Prevalence: Consistent; reasonably precise for total cholesterol and LDL-C but imprecise for other measures

428. Screening for Prostate Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/zYdjLaTCTBVUwgJTnzpVXr
     May 08, 2018 - Asian and Pacific Islander men).1 Detection Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures … Screening Tests Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures the amount of prostate-specific … The USPSTF identified 3 good-quality and 1 fair-quality random- ized trials and 7 large fair-quality … measures compared with conservative management in cohort studies. … transrectal ultrasound-guided sextant biopsies of the prostate within a population-based screening program

429. Procedure Manual Section 6. Methods for Arriving at a Recommendation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-6-methods-arriving-recommendation
     July 06, 2017 - tests, the efficacy and harms of early treatment, and the association between changes in intermediate measures … impairment, in which there was adequate evidence that some interventions resulted in improvements in some measures … the Task Force can infer that at least some harms will result from implementation of the screening program … is typically derived from RCTs of the targeted screening or preventive intervention that adequately measure … The Task Force ultimately seeks to weight its recommendations with "effectiveness" trials, which measure

430. Screening for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
     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

431. Recommendation: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-screening
     May 10, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The National Institutes of Health’s “Learn More Breathe Better” program provides information about the … The National Institutes of Health “Learn More Breathe Better” program provides information about the … of life, difficulty breathing, exercise or physical performance measures, mental health, and smoking … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2022. AHRQ publication 21-05287-EF-1. 14.

432. Archived: Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     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

433. Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1–5 Years: Update for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/r_MgZHrtyHRn7rZoCPS6MT
     February 01, 2011 - rating: fair measures of function besides vision outcomes patching resulted in a statistically significant … Third, a number of studies evaluated diagnostic accuracy of screening tests or screening programs in … Lions Clubs International Foundation Core Four Photoscreening: results from 17 programs and 400,000 preschool … PlusOptix vision screener: the accuracy and repeatability of refractive measure- ments using a new autorefractor … 21/97 (22%); mixed anisometropia and strabismus 34/97 (35%) Fair a Converted from Snellen metric measures

434. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
     January 11, 2016 - together to critically evaluate and ultimately agree on uniform definitions and standards to optimally measure … and monitor overdiagnosis and overtreatment in breast cancer screening programs. … Unfortunately, these types of cancer may be the least likely to be positively affected by screening programs … Commenters stressed that it is impossible to directly measure overdiagnosis, and that there are multiple … National Committee for Quality Assurance.

435. Tjdzc7Rzm3Wzcdhfc4Sjhq (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2015 - There was also no difference in self-reported measures of general and diabetes-specific quality of life … screening is sparse, although limited evidence showed no clear long-term negative effects on psychological measures … Effect of screening for type 2 diabetes on population-level self-rated health outcomes and measures of … Ratner R, Goldberg R, Haffner S, Marcovina S, Orchard T, Fowler S, et al; Diabetes Prevention Program … Sakane N, Sato J, Tsushita K, Tsujii S, Kotani K, Tsuzaki K, et al; Japan Diabetes Prevention Program

436. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/n4sdjxShTApRE6UxvyYuzG
     November 01, 2008 - As- surance of performance of high-quality endoscopy should be part of all screening programs. … In this context, the best measure for the morbidity that results from any screening program for colorectal … Screening programs incorporating fecal occult blood testing, sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy will all be … Modeling evidence suggests that population screening programs between the ages of 50 and 75 years using … Fi- nally, randomized trials are needed to compare screening programs using different modalities in order

437. Screening to Prevent Osteoporotic Fractures: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/jmCXJwxefa67VY4NfD8gUg
     June 26, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Incident fractures and related morbidity and mortality, diagnostic and predictive … Thirty-five studies reported other measures of diagnostic ac- curacy (ie, sensitivity, specificity), … [software program] Englewood, NJ: Biostat; 2014. 20. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Leslie WD, Morin S, Lix LM, et al; Manitoba Bone Density Program. … Leslie WD, Lix LM; Manitoba Bone Density Program.

438. Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/mggnaKHr496c8QCgHe9-tm
     May 01, 2021 - The National Institutes of Health “Learn More Breathe Better” program provides information about the … • Black adults have more hospitalizations and worse COPD-related quality of life than White adults, … all-publications-and-resources/copd-national-action-plan • The National Institutes of Health’s “Learn More Breathe Better” program … of life, difficulty breathing, ex- ercise or physical performance measures, mental health, and smok- … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2022. AHRQ publication 21-05287-EF-1. 14.

439. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary4/colorectal-cancer-screening-2008
     October 15, 2008 - report, we discuss lack of new data on the mortality benefits of colorectal cancer screening beyond FOBT programs … commissioned a separate, simultaneous decision analysis comparing different colorectal cancer screening programs … fecal tests with improved sensitivity but reduced specificity and to compare results from screening programs … [PMID: 15061598] Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. … Development of a colonoscopy screening program. Can Fam Physician 2005;51:1224-8.

440. Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care to Promote Physical Activity - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
     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