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41. Screening for Suicide Risk - Recommendation and Rationale (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2004 - The USPSTF found no evidence that screening for suicide risk reduces suicide attempts or mortality. … The USPSTF found insufficient evidence that treatment of those at high risk reduces suicide attempts

42. Archived: Evidence Summary: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening-january-2017
    January 24, 2017 - Trials of CPAP and other treatments have not established whether treatment reduces mortality or improves … levels, reduces excessive sleepiness, and reduces blood pressure. … Trials of CPAP and other treatments have not established whether treatment reduces mortality or improves … Nasal CPAP reduces systemic blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and mild sleepiness … CPAP reduces hypercoagulability, as assessed by thromboelastography, in severe obstructive sleep apnoea

43. Archived: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/cervical-cancer-screening-2003
    January 07, 2003 - good evidence from multiple observational studies that screening with cervical cytology (Pap smears) reduces … high-grade cervical lesions and cancer fall with age; that a history of prior normal Pap tests further reduces … will survive distant disease. 24 Introduction of screening programs to populations naïve to screening reduces

44. Archived: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/colorectal-cancer-screening-2002
    June 13, 2002 - The USPSTF found good evidence that periodic fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) reduces mortality from … colorectal cancer and fair evidence that sigmoidoscopy alone or in combination with FOBT reduces mortality … Hydration of specimen increases sensitivity (60%) but reduces specificity (90%). 9 Of patients who have

45. 75Ftpgw4Rz-3Tdmqpstvdg (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - of Magnitude of Net Benefit The USPSTF found convincing evidence that exercise or physical therapy reduces … The USPSTF found adequate evidence that vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk for falling by a moderate … that multifactorial clinical assess- ment with comprehensive management of identified risk factors reduces … Alfacalcidol reduces the number of fallers in a community- dwelling elderly population with a minimum

46. Archived: Chlamydial Infection: Screening, 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 2001 - Recommendation The USPSTF found good evidence that screening women at risk for chlamydial infection reduces … the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease and fair evidence that community-based screening reduces

47. Archived: Final Research Plan: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/osteoporosis-screening-june-2018
    November 05, 2015 - osteoporosis to prevent fractures in adults without low-trauma fractures, endocrinopathies, or steroid use reduces

48. Screening for Cervical Cancer - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - good evidence from multiple observational studies that screening with cervical cytology (Pap smears) reduces … high-grade cervical lesions and cancer fall with age; that a history of prior normal Pap tests further reduces … will survive distant disease.24 Introduction of screening programs to populations naïve to screening reduces

49. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Trials of CPAP and other treatments have not established whether treatment reduces mortality or improves … This review found consistent evidence from RCTs that CPAP ef- fectively reduces AHI to normal (<5) or … near-normal levels, reduces excessive sleepiness, and reduces blood pressure. … Trials of CPAP and other treatments have not established whether treatment reduces mortality or improves … CPAP reduces hypercoagulability, as assessed by thromboelastography, in severe obstructive sleep apnoea

50. Archived: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd-screening-2008
    March 15, 2008 - And although fair evidence suggests that influenza vaccination reduces COPD exacerbations, no studies … Fair evidence also shows that supplemental oxygen reduces mortality in individuals with resting hypoxia

51. PII: S0749-3797(01)00255-0 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2001 - Data Synthesis: There is strong, direct evidence that drug therapy reduces CHD events, CHD mortality … designed with sufficient power or duration to address confidently the question of whether drug therapy reduces … Drug therapy for lipid disorders reduces the relative risk for CHD events by 30%. … Even if treatment of lipid disorders in young adults reduces risk to the same or greater extent that … good that identifying middle-aged men with lipid disorders and treating those with sufficient CHD risk reduces

52. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
    January 11, 2016 - Harms of Screening and Early Treatment The USPSTF found adequate evidence that mammography screening reduces … method to generate synthetic reconstruction of 2-dimensional images from 3-dimensional views, which reduces … in the number of cancer cases detected does not allow for the conclusion that adjunctive screening reduces … It is an independent risk factor for developing (but not dying of) breast cancer, and it reduces mammography … Commenters noted that studies have shown that DBT increases the detection of breast cancer and reduces

53. Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - Harms of Screening and Early Treatment The USPSTF found adequate evidence that mam- mography screening reduces … method to generate synthetic reconstruction of 2-dimensional images from 3-dimensional views, which reduces … Primary Screening Test Performance Characteristics Increased breast density reduces the sensitivity and … in the number of cancer cases detected does not allow for the conclusion that adjunctive screening reduces … Commenters noted that studies have shown that DBT increases the detection of breast cancer and reduces

54. Evidence Summary: Bladder Cancer in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary14/bladder-cancer-in-adults-screening
    October 15, 2010 - Is There Direct Evidence That Screening for Bladder Cancer Reduces … Applicability Overall Quality Findings Is there direct evidence that screening for bladder cancer reduces … to the right, represents Key Question 1: "Is there direct evidence that screening for bladder cancer reduces … Key Questions Is there direct evidence that screening for bladder cancer reduces morbidity or mortality

55. Archived: Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening-october-2018
    October 23, 2018 - inadequate evidence that screening or early detection of elder abuse or abuse of vulnerable adults reduces … inadequate evidence that screening or early detection of elder abuse or abuse of vulnerable adults reduces … Primary prevention reduces intimate partner violence and sexual violence among youth. … https://www.thecommunityguide.org/content/primary-prevention-reduces-intimate-partner-violence-and-sexual-violence-among-youth

56. Archived: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-screening-july-2016
    July 26, 2016 - reliably conclude that early detection of skin cancer through visual skin examination by a clinician reduces … evidence to reliably conclude whether screening for skin cancer with a clinical visual skin examination reduces … Clinical whole-body skin examination reduces the incidence of thick melanomas.

57. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    June 06, 2017 - TheUSPSTF found convincing evidence that screening for colorec­ tal cancer in adults aged 50 to 75 years reduces … clinical trials (RCTs) have shown that screen­ ing with the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) reduces … Direct Visualization Tests Several RCTs have shown that flexible sigmoidoscopy alone reduces deaths … or biennial screen­ ing with gFOBT as well as 1-time and every 3- to 5-year flexible sig­ moidoscopy reduces … substantial morbidity and mortality, and the evidence is convincing that screening for colorectal cancer reduces

58. Archived: Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/skin-cancer-screening-july-2016
    July 26, 2016 - the direct evidence that visual skin cancer screening by a primary care clinician or dermatologist reduces … Clinical whole-body skin examination reduces the incidence of thick melanomas. … following questions: whether visual skin cancer screening by a primary care provider or dermatologist reduces … direct evidence that visual screening for skin cancer by a primary care clinician or dermatologist reduces

59. Archived: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2014
    June 23, 2014 - Men Ages 65 to 75 Years Who Have Never Smoked Screening men overall reduces AAA-specific death, rupture … However, the lower prevalence of AAA in men who have never smoked approximately 2%) 5 substantially reduces … 5.5 cm or larger on repeated ultrasonography. 1 , 2 Although early open surgery for smaller AAAs reduces … There continues to be no direct experimental evidence that screening female ever-smokers reduces AAA

60. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2008 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2008
    August 05, 2008 - Screening Intervals If PSA screening reduces mortality, screening every 4 years may be as beneficial … determined that a focused evidence update 5 should systematically review direct evidence that PSA screening reduces