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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
June 24, 2025 - Benefits of Screening
Key Question 1. … Accuracy of Screening for IPV
Key Question 2. … Harms of Screening
Key Question 3. … Harms of Interventions
Key Question 5. … STaT: a three-question screen for intimate partner violence.
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December 01, 2007 - New terms have been added to describe the USPSTF’s judg-
ment about the evidence for each key question … The overarching question that the Task Force seeks to
answer for every preventive service is whether … Each arrow in the
framework defines a key question, and each key question
represents a link in the chain … Do the studies have the appropriate research design to answer the key
question(s)?
2. … How many studies have been conducted that address the key question(s)?
How large are the studies?
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October 21, 2021 - Abbreviations: KQ=key question … quality
Poor quality
Language
English
Non-English studies
Abbreviations: KQ=key question
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October 23, 2018 - Benefits of Screening for IPV
Key Question 1. … Harms of Screening for IPV
Key Question 3. … Harms of Interventions
Key Question 5. … This may indicate a misunderstanding of the screening question; alternatively, women experiencing IPV … STaT: a three-question screen for intimate partner violence.
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August 01, 2008 - Evidence for Key Question 1: Effect of Prostate Cancer Screening on Morbidity and Mortality
Author, … The USPSTF did not directly examine this question in
2002. … Key question 1: stages of article review. … Key question 2: stages of article review. … Key question 3: stages of article review.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan108/folic-acid-for-the-prevention-of-neural-tube-defects-preventive-medication-january-2017
October 16, 2014 - Moving from left to right, the figure illustrates the overarching question: To what extent does folic … supplementation reduce the risk for neural tube defects (first occurrence) in women of childbearing age (key question … Folic acid supplementation may result in harms (key question 2).
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions
May 19, 2022 - systematic reviews
Editorials, commentaries, and narrative reviews
Abbreviations: KQ=key question … The USPSTF added “worsening of inequities” as a potential harm in key question 2. … The USPSTF added a contextual question to explore this issue.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/reconsidering-approach-prevention-recommendations-older-adults-figure-2
December 01, 2010 - population undergoing risk evaluation is adults aged 65 years and older; the subpopulation for key question … KQ = key question; USPSTF = U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Current as of: December 2010
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/syphilis-infection-pregnant-persons
March 02, 2023 - fair-quality studies
Poor-quality studies
Abbreviations: HIV=human immunodeficiency virus; KQ=key question … In response, the USPSTF updated the wording of the Contextual Question to more clearly signify the retesting
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March 02, 2023 - fair-quality studies
Poor-quality studies
Abbreviations: HIV=human immunodeficiency virus; KQ=key question … In response, the USPSTF updated the wording of the Contextual Question to more clearly signify the retesting
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2016
March 01, 2016 - Key Question 2. Are there harms of vision screening? … Treatment
Key Question 4. … Validity of a survey question as a measure of visual acuity impairment. … Utility of a patient-response screening question for visual impairment. … Fair
Key question 2: Harms of
screening
See Key Question 1 for evidence on falls.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/benefit.pdf
December 01, 2007 - New terms have been added to describe the USPSTF’s judg-
ment about the evidence for each key question … The overarching question that the Task Force seeks to
answer for every preventive service is whether … Each arrow in the
framework defines a key question, and each key question
represents a link in the chain … Do the studies have the appropriate research design to answer the key
question(s)?
2. … How many studies have been conducted that address the key question(s)?
How large are the studies?
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June 24, 2025 - Benefits of Screening
Key Question 1. … Accuracy of Screening for IPV
Key Question 2. … Harms of Screening
Key Question 3. … Harms of Interventions
Key Question 5. … STaT:
a three-question screen for intimate partner
violence.
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May 01, 2013 - addressed key question 1. … Health (Key Question 4) and Intermediate (Key Question
5) Benefits of Treatment
Appendix Table 3 (available … Articles reviewed
for key question 1
(n = 46)
Articles excluded
for key question 1:
Relevance: 15 … 1
(n = 1 [1 study])
Articles reviewed
for key question 2
(n = 89)
Articles excluded
for key question … 2
(n = 4 [4 studies])
Articles reviewed
for key question 3
(n = 93)
Articles excluded
for key question
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June 07, 2016 - Effectiveness of Screening
Key Question 1. … Fair
Key question 2:
Effectiveness of risk
assessmentc
No studies No studies No studies No studies … No studies No studies No
studies
Key question 3:
Screening accuracyd
Included studies
conducted in … Diagnostic Accuracy of Currently Used Screening Tests
and Strategies
Key Question 3. … Comparison of Traditional and Reverse Algorithms for Syphilis Testing (Key Question 3)a
Source No.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-update-2004/oral-cancer-screening-2004
February 04, 2004 - Questions and Results
Key Question … Key Question 2: Is there new evidence of harms associated with screening for oral cancer? … Key Question 3: Are there effective treatments for mitigating the morbidity/mortality of oral cancer
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June 04, 2020 - Abbreviation: KQ = key question. … usual care (i.e., targeted screening)
KQ 3, 4: Studies evaluating diagnostic accuracy of a screening question
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening
June 17, 2021 - Contextual Question
The contextual … question will not be systematically reviewed and is not shown in the Analytic Framework. … Administration; HIV=human immunodeficiency virus; IGRA=interferon gamma release assay; INH=isoniazid; KQ=key question
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary14/lung-cancer-screening
March 09, 2021 - Key Question 1b. … Key Question 1c. … Key Question 1d. … Key Question 3b. … Key Question 3c.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/brief-evidence-summary/bladder-cancer-screening-2004
June 07, 2004 - Questions and Results
Key Question … Two cohort studies addressed this question but provided insufficient evidence to judge the effectiveness … Key Question 2: What are the accuracy and reliability of feasible screening tests for bladder cancer? … high-quality evidence about the accuracy of screening tests in the general primary care population. 18
Key Question