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21. Draft Research Plan: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 16, 2025 - What clinical risk assessment tools or guidance can be used to help primary care clinicians identify … individuals at higher risk for STIs? … Studies limited to populations requiring specialized healthcare or interventions to address STI health risks … reduction or risk avoidance, which can feasibly be implemented in or referred from primary care. … measures of infection, attitude, knowledge, ability, or self-efficacy, including: Knowledge of risks

22. Final Research Plan: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 01, 2025 - What clinical risk assessment tools or guidance can be used to help primary care clinicians identify … individuals at higher risk for STIs? … exclusively in populations requiring specialized healthcare or interventions to address STI and other health risks … reduction or risk avoidance, which can feasibly be implemented in or referred from primary care. … measures of infection, attitude, knowledge, ability, or self-efficacy, including: Knowledge of risks

23. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Issues Draft Recommendation Statement on Screening for Food Insecurity (pdf file)
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    July 22, 2024 - Native people; LGBT people; older adults; individuals with disabilities; and veterans, are at higher risk … reviewed this topic and the first topic to come out of our recent work on how best to incorporate social risk … “The Task Force recognizes the complexities of addressing social risks like food insecurity in primary … evidence, challenges of addressing this issue in primary care, and unique aspects of mitigating social risks

24. Task Force Issues Draft Recommendation Statement on Interventions to Prevent Falls in Older Adults (pdf file)
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    January 08, 2024 - recommends exercise interventions to prevent falls in adults 65 years or older who are at increased risk … with their older patients about whether additional interventions might be helpful to reduce their risk … Other risk factors include sensory problems, medications that may increase fall risk, hazards at home … Multifactorial interventions are a way to assess and address the risks of falling that are tailored to … , developed to help address the individual’s specific risks.

25. Individualizing Cancer Screening in Older Adults - Figure 1 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 01, 2012 - The analytic framework shows older adults at risk being screened for early detection of the target condition … decreased health-related quality of life and functioning; potential use of proxy decisionmakers; weighing risks … and benefits of screening and treatment and accounting for patient preferences; increased risk of adverse

26. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Review (pdf file)
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    July 01, 1994 - Using the relative risks reported by Kerlikowske and colleagues (16), we can estimate that a family … Calculated from relative risk estimates and ovarian cancer incidence data from the SEER (Surveillance … associated with contraceptive pill use; both found similar relative risks of approximately 0.65 associated … ; both studies found a relative risk of approximately 0.5 after 5 years of use. 3.11 Parity has also … 50% (that is, a relative risk of 0.5) for any pregnancy, with decreasing risk associated with an increasing

27. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Vitamin D and Calcium to Prevent Fractures: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 10, 2011 - (pooled relative risk, 0.88 [CI, 0.78 to 0.99]) in older adults, but the effects differed according … to study setting: institution (relative risk, 0.71 [CI, 0.57 to 0.89]) versus community-dwelling (relative … (pooled relative risk, 1.03 [CI, 0.84 to 1.26]), with high heterogeneity across studies ( I 2 = 60% … reduction among institutionalized elderly persons (relative risk, 0.71 [CI, 0.57 to 0.89]). … fracture (relative risk, 1.02 [CI, 0.89 to 1.16]) ( Figure 2 ).

28. Archived: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 15, 2009 - significant relative risks that ranged from 1.36 to 1.90. … factors in asymptomatic persons (1300 to 16 000 men and women who showed a relative risk of 1.19 to … In summary, although the 8 included studies consistently reported statistically significant relative … risks for coronary events with increasing CAC scores, no study uniformly met all 3 of the following conditions … risk variables (including diabetes), the summary estimate of relative risk for incident CHD was 1.58

29. Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    September 28, 2021 - Aspirin use was significantly associated with lower risk of preeclampsia (pooled relative risk [RR], … Pooled estimates of the relative risks of health outcomes associ- ated with aspirin use were generated … Pooled analysis, No. of studies (No. analyzed)a Pooled RR, random-effects model (95% CI)b I2, % τ2 Relative … risk, range ARD Relative risk, median (IQR) ARD (range) Perinatal mortality 15 (15 527) 11 (13 860 … ), or fetal intracranial bleeding (P = .34), and the relative risks in the increased-risk population

30. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population Asymptomatic women without known genetic mutations that increase risk … nonpolyposis colon cancer), or a family history of ovarian cancer are at increased risk for ovarian … Women with an increased-risk family history should be considered for genetic counseling to further evaluate … their potential risks. … “Increased- risk family history” generally means having 2 or more first- or second-degree relatives with

31. Draft Research Plan: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 09, 2023 - risk of abuse and neglect? … and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios, diagnostic odds ratios, and relative … risks for future abuse KQ 3: Psychosocial harms, including labeling and stigma; false-positive and … and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios, diagnostic odds ratios, and relative … risks for future abuse KQ 3: Psychosocial harms, including labeling and stigma; false-positive and

32. Screening for Skin Cancer: Clinical Summary of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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    ” Statement: Insufficient Evidence No recommendation due to insufficient evidence Risk … Assessment Skin cancer risks: family history of skin cancer, considerable history of sun exposure … and sunburn Groups at increased risk for melanoma: ▪ fair-skinned men and women over the age of … Features associated with increased risk for malignancy include: asymmetry, border irregularity, color

33. Screening for Coronary Heart Disease: Clinician Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2009 - A patient’s 10-year risk for CHD is determined based on age, gender, and conventional CHD risk factors … A variety of electronic or on-line risk calculators that use risk scoring algorithms derived from the … The added value of novel risk factors (e.g., CRP, homocysteine) above and beyond conventional risk … careful discussion with the patient about the risks and benefits of screening. … y If so, consider screening for this patient but only after a discussion of the risks and benefits.

34. Final Research Plan: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    August 02, 2018 - What patient characteristics or risk behaviors (e.g., substance use or STI history) are important for … identifying persons at higher risk for STIs who may benefit from targeted interventions? … Studies limited to populations requiring specialized health care or interventions to address STI health risks … reduction or risk avoidance, that can feasibly be implemented in or referred from primary care. … measures of infection, attitude, knowledge, ability, or self-efficacy, including: Knowledge of risks

35. Screening for HIV: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    Grade: A Risk Assessment Men who have sex with men and active injection drug users are at very … high risk for new HIV infection. … Behavioral risk factors for HIV infection include: Having unprotected vaginal or anal intercourse … is on a continuum, and individuals may not be aware of their sexual partners’ risk factors for HIV … However, appropriately timed interventions in HIV-positive persons can reduce risks for clinical progression

36. Chemo and Couns/2nd instal (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2002 - The relative risk reduction was similar across all age groups and all risk levels. … was concentrated in women aged 50 and older; the relative risks for women younger than age 50 were smaller … Considerations of Risk of Developing Breast Cancer The relative risk reduction for estrogen receptor … for recruitment into the study.40 Given a constant relative risk reduction across breast cancer risk … and the relative risk by which the baseline risk is multiplied for tamoxifen users.

37. Archived: Bladder Cancer in Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - Cigarette smoking markedly increases the risk for bladder cancer (relative risk among smokers vs. nonsmokers … chemicals used in dye, leather, and tire and rubber industries has also been associated with increased risks … diagnostic workups for false-positive test results and will be subjected to the costs, discomforts, and risks … cancer (or other urologic cancers), and whether the benefits are sufficient to justify the costs and risks … A review and biological risk assessment of sodium saccharin.

38. Clinical Summary: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults (pdf file)
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    Grade: D Risk Assessment Low bone mass, older age, and history of falls are major risk factors … Other risks factors for low bone mass and fractures include female sex, smoking, use of glucocorticoids … Absolute fracture risk is very low in premenopausal w omen compared w ith postmenopausal w omen. … recommends exercise interventions to prevent falls in community-dw elling older adults at increased risk … recommends screening for osteoporosis in w omen 65 years or older and in younger w omen at increased risk

39. Archived: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - suggesting that lower-dose therapy is as effective as higher dose regimens in reducing cardiovascular risks … while reducing the risk of side effects. … Association has recently stated that the use of aspirin seems prudent in middle-aged and older men whose risks … of ischemic cardiovascular events have been balanced against the potential risks associated with prolonged … aspirin therapy is considered, physicians and patients should understand the potential benefits and risks

40. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    The risks and benefits of these screening methods vary.