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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/tfcongresstestimony%20(3).pdf
November 30, 2016 - Evidence-based Practice Centers located at universities around the country who conduct
the evidence reviews … We take these systematic
reviews of the evidence and use them to formulate a recommendation with a letter
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/benefit.pdf
December 01, 2007 - In this
article, the USPSTF updates and reviews the process by which it
evaluates evidence, determines … To accomplish this goal, the USPSTF systematically
reviews the evidence concerning both the benefits
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
January 15, 2011 - 2009 and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews … We supplemented electronic searches with reviews of reference lists and by consulting experts. … --Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
amblyopia.mp. … with populations not similar to that of the United States
Study Designs
Exclude systematic reviews … Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Ann Intern Med 2008;149(12):889-897.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-june-2017
June 20, 2017 - Data Sources and Searches
In addition to evaluating all studies from the previous USPSTF reviews 11 … , 12 and selected studies from other reviews identified through an initial search for existing systematic … reviews, we searched for newly published literature in MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register … metformin drug approval package, because it is a generic name and the Food and Drug Administration reviews … Other reviews have reported similar favorable effects of lifestyle-based weight management interventions
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
June 15, 2016 - supplemented with expert suggestions and by reviewing reference lists from all other relevant systematic reviews … for Health and Care Excellence methodology checklists, 17 A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews … (AMSTAR) for systematic reviews, 18 Newcastle Ottawa Scales for cohort and case-control studies, 19 … Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews. … QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews