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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
November 13, 2018 - required to enroll participants through screening for unhealthy alcohol use for at least half of their sample … Studies of participants with alcohol dependence or severe AUD (or >50% of the enrolled sample having … participating in an in-depth interview on his or her alcohol use, and/or lack of assurance that the study sample … intervention for young men with unhealthy alcohol use: a randomized controlled trial in a general population sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/anxiety-adults-screening
June 20, 2023 - antidepressants are addressed in a separate publication. 8 Evidence in the RCTs was limited due to small sample … Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD), the total number of participants includes extrapolation to a larger sample … 9750) based on direct measurement of 528 participants (all those who screened positive and a random sample
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October 11, 2019 - Data from a
nationally representative sample showed a prevalence of maternal
IMPORTANCE Screening for … Data from a nationally representative sample
showed a prevalence of maternal HBV infection of 85.8 cases
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-in-adults-screening
September 24, 2019 - is the established method for diagnosis. 2 A culture obtained using a midstream, clean-catch urine sample … participants who had 2 consecutive positive screening urine cultures using a midstream, clean-catch urine sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary47/speech-and-language-delay-in-preschool-children-screening-2006
February 15, 2006 - Sample size.
Administration of reliable screening test. … reasonable although not best standard; interprets reference standard independent of screening test; moderate sample … standard; screening test improperly administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; very small sample … A study of language development in a sample of 3 year old children. … Young adult academic outcomes in a longitudinal sample of early identified language impaired and control
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June 01, 2012 - Hurley et al,
2005 (64)
Convenience sample of 514 adults visiting an
ED in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland … MOSAIC
(MOthers’ Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a
cluster randomised
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September 01, 2002 - One group (FIT-I) included a higher-
risk sample of 2,027 women who had T-scores of -
1.6 or lower and … A second
study from FIT (FIT-II) included a lower-risk
sample of 4,432 women who also had T-scores of … provided the
most detailed description of recruitment and
results.107 In FIT-II, researchers recruited the sample … indeterminate results in a reasonable manner.
• Spectrum of patients included in study.
• Adequate sample
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February 25, 2020 - interventions for tobacco cessation in school-
aged children and adolescents because many studies had small
sample … for cessation
of tobacco use in school-aged children and adolescents because many
studies had small sample … interventions
to prevent tobacco use in children and adolescents is robust, fewer
studies with smaller sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/tobacco-and-nicotine-use-prevention-in-children-and-adolescents-primary-care-interventions
April 28, 2020 - interventions for tobacco cessation in school-aged children and adolescents because many studies had small sample … interventions to prevent tobacco use in children and adolescents is robust, fewer studies with smaller sample … for cessation of tobacco use in school-aged children and adolescents because many studies had small sample
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November 01, 2012 - Sample sizes ranged
from 57 to 8793 participants. … 32
Wrong outcome: 84
Wrong study design for key question: 30
No original data: 106
Out of scope: 10
Sample … Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Rates While Using ART
Study, Year
(Reference)
Setting Intervention Sample … Study, Year
(Reference)
Setting Prenatal Intervention Peripartum Intervention Postpartum Intervention Sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/screening-for-hiv-in-pregnant-women-evidence-summary/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening-2013
November 15, 2012 - Sample sizes ranged from 57 to 8793 participants. … Study, Year
(Reference)
Setting
Intervention
Sample … (Reference)
Setting
Prenatal Intervention
Peripartum Intervention
Postpartum Intervention
Sample … outcome (84), wrong study design for key question (30), no original data (106), out of scope (10), sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/decision-analysis-for-aspirin/aspirin-to-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-and-cancer-april-2016
April 11, 2016 - Model simulations were independently conducted with a 100,000-person sample for each age, sex, and baseline … study: stochastic heterogeneity from the variability in outcomes experienced by a randomly selected sample … Model simulations were independently conducted with a 100,000-person sample for each age, sex, and baseline … 0 per bootstrap sampling with replacement 100,000 times from within the original modeled population sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/osteoporosis-screening-2002
September 17, 2002 - One group (FIT-I) included a higher-risk sample of 2,027 women who had T-scores of -1.6 or lower and … A second study from FIT (FIT-II) included a lower-risk sample of 4,432 women who also had T-scores of … the most detailed description of recruitment and results. 107 In FIT-II, researchers recruited the sample … Adequate sample size.
Administration of reliable screening test.
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September 06, 2016 - participants had discordant results (none had indeterminate results); κ values of pairwise laboratory sample … unlikely to be clinically relevant and can be explained by the number of included studies with large sample … TB case: 131 (31)
Recent immigrant: 29 (7)
Canadian participants (who comprised 80% of the sample … TB case: 135 (32)
Recent immigrant: 33 (8)
Canadian participants (who comprised 80% of the sample
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February 01, 2010 - our
previous USPSTF review, in which we
found study concerns echoed by oth-
ers,45 including small sample … Either (1) entire sample was overweight or obese (85th percentile for age and gender-specific BMI or … meet previously accepted criteria for overweight
on the basis of ideal body weight) or (2)�50% of the sample … were overweight or obese and�80% of the sample had 1 of the following risk factors for
overweight or … Excluded trials in which the sample was limited to youth: (1) with eating disorders; (2) pregnant/postpartum
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/alcohol-misuse-screening-and-counseling-2004
April 06, 2004 - significantly reduced binge drinking. 51 , 53 In trials with at least 49% binge users in the study sample … At-risk drinking in an HMO primary care sample: prevalence and health policy implications. … Small sample (n = 36), short follow-up (30 days), very-low-intensity computer-based intervention. … groups that could affect results, even though not statistically significant, possibly because of small sample … Adults age 18–64 y in Sweden
Poor quality: Randomization process was not simple but rather a quota sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/hepatitis-c-screening
March 02, 2020 - Sample sizes ranged from 20 to 706, mean age ranged from 45 to 68 years, and the proportion of women … antiviral treatment vs no SVR and clinical outcomes (eTable 15 in the Supplement). 63-66 , 68-82 , 84-94 Sample … Sixth, formal assessment for small sample effects (a potential marker of publication bias) using graphical … screening meeting inclusion criteria were identified
Low consistency and precision
Poor
Small sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/problem-drinking-screening-1996
January 01, 1996 - Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the SMAST-13: predictive validity in a rural primary care sample … The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in a college sample. … The natural history of drug use from adolescence to mid-thirties in a general population sample.
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February 01, 2023 - Sample sizes were
small, and overall attrition was
>20% in both trials.
No new evidence. … • Sample size: Although this is one of the criteria listed in the current procedures manual,
we … did not consider sample size when assessing study quality, because sample size
affects precision of … Coping strategies and behavioural
changes following a genital herpes
diagnosis among an urban sample
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prostate-cancer-screening
May 08, 2018 - For KQ4 (treatment harms), uncontrolled observational studies with sample sizes of at least 100 men were … reports on differences in outcomes by race/ethnicity within the PLCO or ERSPC trials were found, and the sample … Small sample sizes inhibit ability to detect increased mortality after biopsy. … Few studies; small sample sizes; varying outcome definitions; inconsistent timing of follow-up measurements … No studies compared HIFU with conservative management; only 1 study had a sample size exceeding 1000