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201. Recommendation: Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 02, 2020 - The USPSTF also suggests that clinicians consider screening persons younger than 18 years and older than … 18 years and in adults older than 79 years who are at high risk (eg, past or current injection drug … the cause of the abnormality often includes testing for HCV infection and is considered case finding rather … than screening; therefore, it is outside the scope of this recommendation. … The treatment of HCV continues to evolve, resulting in greater benefits and fewer harms than when the

202. Archived: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - experience recurrent infections. 2 Asymptomatic bacteriuria in adulthood is more prevalent in women than … within the domain of diagnostic studies for patients with existing medical or surgical conditions, rather … than a part of routine screening tests for asymptomatic persons. … detecting asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy, prenatal testing should be carried out by urine culture (rather … than by urinalysis) to reduce the risk of false negatives.

203. Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 11, 2025 - higher risk of bias and focused on process (eg, receipt of referral) or food-insecurity status outcomes, rather … generally reports of pragmatic programs in which the primary aim was to implement the intervention rather … than providing robust research findings. … improvements in health outcomes could be due to medical management or improved diet quality, for example, rather … than the receipt of food aid.

204. Recommendation: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 13, 2018 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-opener (CAGE) tool is well known but only detects alcohol dependence rather … dependence). 45 In accordance with the ASAM, the current recommendation uses the term “unhealthy use” rather … than “misuse.” … 3 drinks/d and no more than 7 drinks/wk  For men (21-64 y): No more than 4 drinks/d and no more than

205. Archived: Evidence Summary: Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/depression-in-children-and-adolescents-screening
     February 08, 2016 - harms, and sparse evidence on long-term outcomes of screening and treatment among children younger than … No study included children younger than 11 years. … subthreshold depression, dysthymia, and depression, we chose to focus on screening for existing MDD rather … than prevention. … no trials included children under the age of 12; potential for contamination because of individual rather

206. Grnjnsmqzvbc-Dnhgrmgg3 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2014 - rhea and chlamydia in asymptomatic, sexually active women (in- cluding pregnant women) who are younger than … comparison concerned outcomes related to the overall approach of screening compared with nonscreening rather … than the characteristics of the individual tests. … criteria because they did not provide results for asymptomatic participants or reported infection rates rather … than health outcomes.

207. Recommendation: Oral Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 15, 2013 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … Any abnormality that lasts for more than 2 weeks should be reevaluated and considered for biopsy 1 , … or currently use tobacco (more than 1 pack of cigarettes per day) 8 . … It is unknown what percentage of these examinations were conducted by dentists rather than physicians … More than one half of all persons with oral and pharyngeal cancer have regional or distant metastases

208. Screening for Carotid Artery Stenosis: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2007 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical or policy deci- sions involve more considerations than this body … For the general primary care population, the benefits are judged to be no greater than small. … These harms are judged to be no less than small. … The estimated relative risk reduction was greater for men than for women (0.66 and 0.17, respectively … If positive tests are not followed by confirmatory angiogra- phy but rather by magnetic resonance angiography

209. Evidence Summary: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     November 13, 2018 - week, such as when provided with other time frames (eg, drinks per month) or with grams of ethanol rather … than drinks. … The 9 trials in pregnant women were most likely to report the odds of abstinence rather than the aforementioned … In the current review, original studies were examined rather than existing systematic reviews, and at … While this is primarily relevant to individuals being treated for more severe disorders rather than to

210. JAMA JATS (pdf file)
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     June 18, 2018 - Screening women older than 65 years who have had adequate prior screening and women younger than 21 years … False-positive rates are also higher among women younger than 30 years than among older women because … follow-up.25 The evidence review did not address whether screening for cervical cancer is effective but rather … However, screening with hrHPV testing alone starting at age 25 years rather than age 30 years increased … Women Older Than 65 Years None of the screening trials enrolled women older than 65 years, so direct

211. Second Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - It does not conduct research studies, but rather it reviews and assesses published research. … Clinicians may choose to selectively counsel patients rather than Prevention in adults incorporate … Clinicians may choose to selectively counsel patients rather than incorporate counseling into the care … cancer in women younger than age 21 years. … for colorectal cancer in adults older than age 85 years.

212. Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2017 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more con­ siderations than evidence alone. … interven­ tions involving 52 or more contact hours rarely took place in pri­ mary care settings but rather … In comparison, control groups showed small increases or reductions in BMI z score of less than 0.10 … Only 3 of the 24 trials with less than 26 contact hours showed 2422 JAMA June 20, 2017 Volume 317, … two-thirds of the participants were girls.3 None of the trials were conducted in a primary care setting; rather

213. Recommendation: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 30, 2024 - recommendation, the USPSTF recommends biennial screening mammography for women aged 40 to 49 years, rather … than individualizing the decision to undergo screening for women in this age group. … The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … The USPSTF recognizes that race, ethnicity, and gender are all social rather than biological constructs … This is because the net benefit estimates are driven by sex (ie, female) rather than gender identity,

214. Archived: Final Modeling Report: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-modeling-report/breast-cancer-screening-2009
     November 15, 2009 - 50 years or older than 74 years or to test different screening schedules. … measure, 3 of the models conclude that benefits are greater from extending screening to the younger rather … than the older age group ( Table 3 ). … in those that initiate screening at age 50 years or later and those that include annual screening rather … than biennial screening.

215. Archived: Evidence Summary: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary4/lung-cancer-screening-december-2013
     July 30, 2013 - Former smokers must have quit after age 50 years and less than 10 years before enrollment. … RRs were calculated with the reported person-months of follow-up appropriate for each study group (rather … study and DANTE trial markedly changed results, with the DANTE trial suggesting a benefit of screening rather … than a neutral effect. … In many institutions, current practice involves following nodules with LDCT rather than high-resolution

216. Prevention of Dental Caries in Preschool Children - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2004 - prescribe oral fluoride supplementation at currently recommended doses to preschool children older than … • Dental fluorosis (rather than skeletal fluorosis) is the most common harm of either oral fluoride … or fluoride toothpaste use in children younger than 2 years in the United States. … statistically significant reductions in the number of tooth surfaces with cavitated lesions in children younger than

217. Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse of Elderly and Vulnerable Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - The associated harms are deemed no greater than small. … Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 158 • Number 6 www.annals.org assessed current or past abuse rather … than risk factors for future abuse. … The overall associated harms were deemed no greater than small. … The evidence on screening for IPV is based on a bio- psychosocial framework rather than a pure biological

218. Recommendation: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 07, 2015 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … It does not apply to children younger than age 6 months or older than 24 months, children who are severely … deficiency anemia on health outcomes (diagnosis of neurodevelopmental, cognitive, or behavioral disease rather … than hematologic indexes) are needed. … Poorer behavioral and developmental outcome more than 10 years after treatment for iron deficiency in

219. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Adults (Cholesterol, Dyslipidemia): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-adults-cholesterol-dyslipidemia-screening-2008
     December 30, 2013 - Interventions Drug therapy is usually more effective than diet alone in improving lipid profiles … Treatment decisions should take into account a person's overall risk of heart disease rather than lipid … tools that simply count numbers of risk factors. 1 Drug therapy is usually more effective than diet … The 2002 age-adjusted death rate for heart disease was 59% lower than the rate in 1950. 2 The lifetime … cholesterol to HDL-C (total cholesterol/HDL-C) or LDL-C to HDL-C (LDL-C/HDL-C) classify risk better than

220. Screening for Breast Cancer: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2009 - Digital mammography is more expensive than film mammography. Current Practice. … In these studies, MRI detected more cases of cancer than did mammography. … Of the 8 screening strategies found most efficient, 6 start at age 50 years rather than age 40 years. … conclusion, the USPSTF reasoned that the addi- tional benefit gained by starting screening at age 40 years rather … than at age 50 years is small, and that moderate harms from screening remain at any age.