-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/announcements/us-preventive-services-task-force-publishes-article-addressing-sex-and-gender-primary-care-prevention
October 25, 2021 - The article calls for all clinical research to adopt a more inclusive approach to considering and reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/bacterial-vaginosis-in-pregnancy-to-prevent-preterm-delivery-screening
April 07, 2020 - Among trials reporting findings from general obstetric populations (n = 7953), no significant association … Among 5 trials reporting findings among women with a prior preterm delivery, findings were inconsistent … Among the 6 studies reporting all-cause preterm delivery, the pooled ARD comparing active treatment with … Among the 8 studies reporting spontaneous preterm deliveries, the pooled ARD comparing active treatment … Study Characteristics of Randomized Clinical Trials Reporting Benefits of Treating Bacterial Vaginosis
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening
November 10, 2020 - For KQ2, studies reporting diagnostic test accuracy of blood pressure measurements that used a confirmed … Studies reporting multiple outcomes may have been assigned different quality ratings for different outcomes … Reviews , which specifies the assessment of study limitations, directness, consistency, precision, and reporting … Abnormal blood pressure defined as SBP greater than 120 mm Hg and DPB greater than 80 mm Hg or self-reporting … Consistency unknown (single study body of evidence)/precise
Body-of-evidence limitations: high
Reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions-november-2018
November 27, 2018 - Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act sets minimum standards for state laws overseeing the reporting … in the incidence of maltreatment, but it is unclear as to whether this represents true disparity or reporting … statistically significant differences and 1 reporting no difference. 20
Five trials reported on removal … The USPSTF recognizes the important role clinicians play in identifying and reporting child maltreatment … Telling their stories: primary care practitioners’ experience evaluating and reporting injuries caused
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/4NUuvS6nmzTdBgjBg3ELkE
January 01, 2020 - Limitation: Sparse reporting of patient health outcomes, longer-
term follow-up of outcomes, and harms … In general, the limitations for the fair-quality studies in-
cluded lack of reporting of randomization … However, sparse reporting of both CVD events
and self-reported measures of depression symptoms or
QOL … Adverse
effects
Trials: 10
Participants:
6381
Fair: sparse reporting of
harms
Consistent findings … Fourteen trials could not be included in meta-
analyses due to limitations in reporting at the primary
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/oral-health-children-adolescents-screening-preventive-interventions
November 07, 2023 - evidence was rated as “good,” “fair,” or “poor” based on study limitations, consistency, precision, reporting … Baseline age and caries burden varied, and reporting of fluoride exposure, socioeconomic status, and … 6 to 10 years at baseline in all trials but 1 (12-13 years). 72 Baseline caries burden varied, and reporting … , 0.83-0.93) for untreated caries
Unable to assess consistency (1 study)
Reasonably precise
Reporting … bias, as few trials reported harms
Poor
Few trials reported harms or harms reporting was suboptimal
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/behavioral-counseling-research-and-evidence-based-practice-recommendations-us-preventive-services-task-force-perspectives
March 01, 2014 - development of feasible, replicable, and generalizable behavioral counseling interventions; improved reporting … of specific intervention components, which would probably be helped by more thorough and consistent reporting … Investigators found no studies reporting on illegal substance use, stigma, labeling, discrimination, … CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. … Improving the reporting quality of nonrandomized evaluations of behavioral and public health interventions
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prevention-of-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-pre-exposure-prophylaxis
June 11, 2019 - overall quality of studies, consistency of results between studies, precision of findings, and risk of reporting … other recent meta-analyses that found PrEP to be effective at reducing risk effectiveness in trials reporting … Some inconsistency in stratified analyses (may be explained by level of adherence); precise
No reporting … 18,282)
RR, 0.93 (95% CI, 0.77-1.12); I 2 = 56%
Some inconsistency; some imprecision
No reporting … RCTs (n = 10,563)
RR, 1.25 (95% CI, 0.99-1.59); I 2 = 0%
Consistent; some imprecision
No reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prevention-of-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-june-2019
June 11, 2019 - overall quality of studies, consistency of results between studies, precision of findings, and risk of reporting … other recent meta-analyses that found PrEP to be effective at reducing risk effectiveness in trials reporting … Some inconsistency in stratified analyses (may be explained by level of adherence); precise
No reporting … 18,282)
RR, 0.93 (95% CI, 0.77-1.12); I 2 = 56%
Some inconsistency; some imprecision
No reporting … RCTs (n = 10,563)
RR, 1.25 (95% CI, 0.99-1.59); I 2 = 0%
Consistent; some imprecision
No reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/gJQj_6nEHZ7XAhYPfhVR33
January 01, 2016 - Purpose: To perform a systematic review of reproducibility of
Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System … Study Selection: Studies reporting BI-RADS density reproduc-
ibility or supplemental screening results … The American College of Radiology's
(ACR's) Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-
RADS) classifies … Mandatory reporting laws frame notification of women
as dense/nondense, so this review focused on this … for breast density
reporting legislation.
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/prevmethods.pdf
December 01, 2010 - . . . . 815
Web-Only
Conversion of graphics into slides
Annals of Internal Medicine Research and Reporting … Research and Reporting Methods Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults … framework may re-
main unattainable for some time because of the lack of
standardized measurement or reporting … Research and Reporting MethodsReconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults … [PMID: 18490690]
Research and Reporting Methods Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/9AtjNaSwTXonz49w_DEbNz
November 07, 2023 - Baseline age and caries burden varied, and reporting of fluo-
ride exposure, socioeconomic status, and … 6 to 10 years at baseline in all trials but 1 (12-13 years).72 Base-
line caries burden varied, and reporting … studies;
study design
(No. of participants) Summary of findings by outcome
Consistency/
precision;
reporting … (95% CI,
0.83-0.93) for untreated caries
Unable to assess
consistency (1 study)
Reasonably precise
Reporting … bias, as few trials
reported harms
Poor Few trials reported
harms or harms
reporting was
suboptimal
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/sexually-transmitted-infections-behavioral-counseling
August 18, 2020 - No harms were identified in 7 studies (n = 3458) reporting adverse outcomes. … bias (potential for bias related to publication, selective outcome reporting, or selective analysis … reporting), and study quality (ie, study limitations). … Like the studies reporting STI outcomes, most of included evidence (30/34 [88%]) was from studies of … ), and for the few studies reporting extended follow-up beyond 1 year, effects tended to diminish.
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/breast-cancer-screening1
January 21, 2021 - *Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System
Proposed Research Approach … Abbreviations: ADH=atypical ductal hyperplasia; ALH=atypical lobular hyperplasia; BI-RADS=Breast Imaging-Reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/breast-cancer-screening-adults
January 21, 2021 - *Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System
Proposed Research Approach … Abbreviations: ADH=atypical ductal hyperplasia; ALH=atypical lobular hyperplasia; BI-RADS=Breast Imaging-Reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/cardiovascular-disease-risk-screening-with-electrocardiography
June 12, 2018 - Study Selection: English-language randomized clinical trials (RCTs); prospective cohort studies reporting … For studies reporting rates of harms from exercise ECG or subsequent interventions, large registries … All 3 of the studies reporting discrimination for the addition of exercise ECG variables to traditional … Masking of outcome assessors and amount of missing data NR in 1 trial. 11 Reporting bias not detected … , and may have included many symptomatic participants. e Reporting bias not detected.
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/oral-health-adults-screening-preventive-interventions
November 07, 2023 - evidence was rated as "good," "fair," or "poor" based on study limitations, consistency, precision, reporting … Reporting of harms of oral health preventive interventions was very limited. … questionnaire) and low interrater reliability (oral health examination)
Some imprecision present
Reporting … with caries (RR, 0.23 [95% CI, 0.10-0.49]) in young adults
No inconsistency
Some imprecision
Reporting … bias (1/9 trials of preventive interventions reported harms)
Poor
Suboptimal reporting of harms
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/RcckGKJEfBSus5YG89yVpt
November 10, 2020 - For
KQ2, studies reporting diagnostic test accuracy of blood pressure
measurements that used a confirmed … Studies reporting multiple outcomes may
have been assigned different quality ratings for different outcomes … Reviews,
which specifies the assessment of study limitations, directness,
consistency, precision, and reporting … mo
Consistency unknown
(single study body of
evidence)/precise
Body-of-evidence limitations:
high
Reporting … ) in obese adolescent
girls after 3 mo
Consistent/imprecise Body-of-evidence limitations:
moderate
Reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/hjLgUHBe4P-SJ2Um-gfh2V
November 01, 2021 - benefits or harms of screening asymptomatic non-pregnant adults for thyroid dysfunction and no studies reporting … RCT of levothyroxine treatment in older persons with subclinical hypothyroidism10 and three articles reporting
-
www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-pregnant-women1/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening
June 11, 2019 - highly effective at reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission, with some new cohort studies reporting … is highly effective at reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission, with some cohort studies reporting … RCT reported a rate of mother-to-child transmission of 0.5%
Consistent; no imprecision
No reporting … a boosted PI associated with increased risk of preterm birth
Inconsistent; no imprecision
No reporting … new RCT and 3 cohort studies found mixed results for neonatal death
Consistent; imprecise
No reporting