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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-2-topic-selection-prioritization-and-updating
June 22, 2025 - The overall goal for topic selection and prioritization is to provide accurate and relevant recommendations … non-USPSTF source, efficiency of combining reviews or research teams on related topics, impending release of relevant … study, and age of relevant non-USPSTF review.
2.4 Inactivating a Topic
Inactive topics are topics … Task Force has decided to inactivate for one or more of the following reasons:
Topic is no longer relevant … audit of information sources is conducted to locate newly published research and/or guidelines that are relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-pregnant-women-screening-and-supplementation
July 07, 2022 - -relevant populations? … -relevant populations? … accidental overdose
Infant outcomes occurring after age 1 year
Settings
U.S. primary care–relevant … discontinuation; overtreatment
Infant outcomes >1 year of age
Settings
U.S. primary care–relevant … Current criteria specifies inclusion of U.S. primary care–relevant studies, including studies from relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-vi-criteria-assessing-internal-validity-individual-studies
July 01, 2017 - review with comprehensive sources and search strategies; explicit and relevant selection criteria; standard … Fair: Recent, relevant review that is not clearly biased but lacks comprehensive sources and search … Fair: Recent, relevant, and without major apparent selection or diagnostic workup bias, but response … Diagnostic Accuracy Studies
Criteria:
Screening test relevant, available for primary care, and … Fair: Evaluates relevant available screening test; uses reasonable although not best standard; interprets
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-iii-uspstf-litwatch-process
April 01, 2019 - regular audit of information sources to locate newly published research and/or guidelines that are relevant … Preventing Chronic Disease
Guidelines issued by the following USPSTF partner organizations and other relevant … Guideline Clearinghouse™ are also reviewed for any guidelines of relevance, as well as MedPage Today for relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/vxPM4Bo9RXZGUDH6MWnDht
May 01, 2013 - Screening for and Treatment of Suicide Risk Relevant to Primary Care: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF … Screening for and Treatment of Suicide Risk Relevant to Primary
Care: A Systematic Review for the … the
efficacy and safety of screening for and treatment of suicide risk in
populations and settings relevant … Evidence relevant to adoles-
cents, older adults, and racial or ethnic minorities was limited. … Analytic framework for suicide risk relevant to primary care.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-8-workgroups-task-force
July 08, 2017 - evidence from published studies on the differential effects of clinical preventive services within relevant … population subgroups defined by race/ethnicity, sex, age, and other clinically relevant characteristics … identifying meaningful health outcome measures for children and adolescents, and serving as consultants on relevant … makes recommendations related to the standards of evidence for behavioral counseling interventions, relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/standards-guideline-dev%20(1).pdf
September 06, 2019 - circumstances, a GDG may not be able to
perform its work without members who have COIs,
such as relevant … o A summary of relevant available evidence
(and evidentiary gaps) and a description of
the quality … External reviewers should comprise a full spectrum of
relevant stakeholders, including scientific and … External reviewers of USPSTF documents include
relevant stakeholders, such as scientific and clinical … funded by AHRQ, the literature is monitored regularly
to identify the release of new, potentially relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-xiv-decision-framework-assess-and-guide-need-searches-existing-decision-models
July 01, 2017 - Based on critical PICOTS factors, are there existing relevant models? … Is there more than one modeling group represented by the existing relevant models? … distributed to the topic leads and resource allocation decisionmakers to further inform the availability of relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/prevention-of-opioid-user-disorder-ehc-tech-brief.pdf
May 14, 2021 - Primary Care–Relevant Interventions to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder: Current Research and Evidence Gaps … Technical Brief
Primary Care–Relevant Interventions to Prevent
Opioid Use Disorder: Current … To describe the efforts of other organizations relevant to the prevention of OUD in
populations or … What primary care–relevant interventions to prevent OUD have been studied?
a. … What primary care–relevant evidence-based efforts on acute and chronic pain management
exist or are
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/Clinical%20Practice%20Guidelines%202011%20Insert_0.pdf
September 06, 2019 - circumstances, a GDG may not be •
able to perform its work without members
who have COIs, such as relevant … • A summary of relevant available evi-
dence (and evidentiary gaps), descrip-
tion of the quality … STANDARD 7
External review
7.1 External reviewers should comprise a full spectrum
of relevant stakeholders … should be monitored regularly following
CPG publication to identify the emergence of new,
potentially relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-section-3-topic-work-plan-development
June 22, 2025 - Table of Contents
3.1 Determining Topic Scope and Review Approach
3.2 Methods Relevant to Work … In order to answer the relevant questions about a clinical preventive service, the EPC review team usually … When data are available and relevant to decisions about the preventive service delivery, the Task Force … that are essential in order to focus the review on a manageable and clinically relevant topic and to … The goal is to identify the highest-quality evidence relevant to making an accurate determination of
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-xiii-template-scoping-decision-problem-address-through-decision-modeling
July 01, 2017 - These interrelated issues establish the framework for locating relevant existing models, selecting modeling … Setting: In which countries would models based on their practices and policies be relevant to the United … Time horizon: Minimal time horizon to capture relevant differences across strategies (this may or may
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/hbSopN6uA9u-4EQuKtRGDP
October 01, 2011 - Effectiveness of Primary Care–Relevant Treatments for Obesity in Adults: A Systematic Evidence Review … for the USPSTF
Effectiveness of Primary Care–Relevant Treatments for Obesity in
Adults: A Systematic … Purpose: To summarize effectiveness and harms of primary care–
relevant weight-loss interventions for … We
supplemented our searches with experts’ suggestions and
reference lists from relevant publications … KQ 2: Do primary care–relevant interventions (behaviorally based interventions and/or
pharmacotherapy
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/intimate-partner-violence-abuse-older-vulnerable-adults
February 09, 2023 - Nations Human Development Index (as defined by the United Nations Development Programme)
Research not relevant … related to abuse (e.g., physical injuries) will have evaluations outside the scope of screening. ‡ Relevant … identified in database searches and used for hand searches to ensure the databases have captured all relevant … ‡ Relevant systematic reviews will be identified in database searches and used in handsearches to ensure … the databases have captured all relevant studies. § This includes community-dwelling, assisted living
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/cjWWvkNrCHGUqu4jScs8Ak
Roadblocks, and Repetition
RELEVANCE
Encourage the patient to indicate why
quitting is personally relevant
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treatment for
screen-detected populations) improves maternal
and infant health outcomes in settings relevant … outcomes:
Examples include
perinatal mortality,
respiratory distress,
and NICU admission
Settings
relevant … outcomes,
additional evidence
would be needed to
link intermediate
outcomes to health
outcomes
Relevant … related quality of
life; hypertensive
disorders of
pregnancy; blood
transfusion;
postpartum
Relevant … outcomes,
additional evidence
would be needed to
link intermediate
outcomes to health
outcomes
Relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/current-members/sandra-millon-underwood-rn-phd
January 01, 2023 - Her work reinforces the need to understand and apply principles and science relevant to health determinants … effectiveness of tools used in genetics, genomics, and personalized and precision medicine; and issues relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/intimate-partner-violence-abuse-older-vulnerable-adults
April 20, 2023 - related to abuse (e.g., physical injuries) will have evaluations outside the scope of screening. ‡ Relevant … identified in database searches and used for handsearches to ensure the databases have captured all relevant … Nations Human Development Index as defined by the United Nations Development Programme)
Research not relevant … that are specific to pregnancy apply to vulnerable adults who are pregnant or may become pregnant. ‡ Relevant … identified in database searches and used in handsearches to ensure the databases have captured all relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
April 20, 2023 - related to abuse (e.g., physical injuries) will have evaluations outside the scope of screening. ‡ Relevant … identified in database searches and used for handsearches to ensure the databases have captured all relevant … Nations Human Development Index as defined by the United Nations Development Programme)
Research not relevant … that are specific to pregnancy apply to vulnerable adults who are pregnant or may become pregnant. ‡ Relevant … identified in database searches and used in handsearches to ensure the databases have captured all relevant
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/behavioral-counseling-interventions-promote-healthy-diet-physical-activity-weight-loss-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-adults
November 02, 2023 - Reviewed
Do primary care–relevant … Do primary care–relevant behavioral counseling interventions to promote healthy diet, physical activity … Do primary care–relevant behavioral counseling interventions to promote healthy diet, physical activity … What are the harms of primary care–relevant behavioral counseling interventions to promote healthy diet