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61. Recommendation: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 18, 2021 - Stool-Based Tests Stool-based screening requires persons to collect samples directly from their feces … high-sensitivity gFOBT requires some dietary and medication restrictions prior to collecting stool samples … and sDNA-FIT 33 , 34 (sDNA-FIT involves collecting an entire bowel movement), while collection of samples … from colonoscopy to follow up abnormal gFOBT results Requires dietary restrictions and three stool samples

62. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: A Targeted Evidence Update for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - The traditional algorithm utilizes a nontreponemal test as the initial screen and reactive samples … In comparison, the reverse algorithm uses a treponemal test as the initial screen and reactive samples … A 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis found that programs offering self-collection of samples … Self-collection of samples as an additional approach to deliver testing services for sexually transmitted … self-reported sexually transmitted bacterial infections from 2010 and 2017 in two large European samples

63. Recommendation: Syphilis Infection During Pregnancy: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 13, 2025 - chemiluminescence immunoassay) for the initial screening, followed by a nontreponemal test for reactive samples … pallidum are available that can be performed in a clinical setting or at home using fingerstick blood samples

64. Archived: Final Research Plan: Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 15, 2013 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Final Research Plan Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening September 15, 2013 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. T…

65. Archived: Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Counseling, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 06, 2003 - more likely to have educational materials in the waiting room (70.4% vs. 34%) and to have sunscreen samples … simple reminder systems for clinicians and office staff and making instructional materials and sunscreen samples … Single 60-minute visit by study personnel to each office to provide free patient materials and sunscreen samples

66. Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2003 - more likely to have educational materials in the waiting room (70.4% vs. 34%) and to have sunscreen samples … simple reminder systems for clinicians and office staff and making instructional materials and sunscreen samples … Single 60-minute visit by study personnel to each office to provide free patient materials and sunscreen samples

67. Grnjnsmqzvbc-Dnhgrmgg3 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2014 - previous trials, although significance varies Study conducted in the United Kingdom using self-collected samples … Female urine samples tested with TMA, PCR, and SDA provided sensitivities of 72.0% to 98.2% (24, 27, … Lower sensitivities for urine samples using TMA (72.0%) and PCR (84.0%) were reported in a study that

68. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2021 - chemiluminescence immu- noassay) for the initial screening, followed by a nontreponemal test for reactive samples … Differences in testing protocols, training, and specimen collection (eg, sera vs whole- blood samples

69. Recommendation: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 27, 2022 - chemiluminescence immunoassay) for the initial screening, followed by a nontreponemal test for reactive samples … Differences in testing protocols, training, and specimen collection (eg, sera vs whole-blood samples)

70. Archived: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - rapid tests (<15 minutes) using colorimetric assays, 30 and to an EIA-based test using oral fluid samples … control survey of 140 laboratories 26 most errors involved misclassification of positive or negative samples … 43 In a survey of over 1 million newborn specimens for maternal HIV antibody, <1 in 4,000 screened samples … Serologicaldiagnosis of HIV infection using oral fluid samples.

71. Evidence Summary: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary19/colorectal-cancer-screening
    May 18, 2021 - Diagnostic yield improves with collection of 2 samples in fecal immunochemical test screening without … Number of samples in faecal immunochemical test screening: more might be less. … Fresh vs frozen samples and ambient temperature have little effect on detection of colorectal cancer … Estimates apply to Hemoccult SENSA; test is no longer widely used in the US and requires 3 stool samples … Estimates apply to Cologuard (sDNA-FIT) In the largest study, 6% of people had inadequate stool samples

72. Evidence Summary: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    March 11, 2025 - insecurity were included if they were either conducted in a health care setting or included very large samples … These were studies using data from the US Census Bureau, including very large samples that are representative … studies would add potentially valuable information, given their large size and carefully constructed samples

73. Final Evidence Summary: Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 09, 2020 - and drug use disorders) compared with a structured or semistructured clinical interview or biological samples … Studies evaluating the accuracy of biological drug screening tests (eg, urine samples) were not included … high numbers of known drug users, and some of the larger studies were conducted among non–clinic-based samples … methods that pose questions about drug use or drug-related risks, not laboratory testing of biologic samples … Most studies conducted in US-based primary care population, although included studies represented samples

74. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 26, 2022 - The mean age of the samples ranged from 18.5 to 79.5 years, and most trials included both men and women … provided on the underlying social conditions (ie, risks and inequities) present among the included samples … comers” or those recruited based on a sociodemographic characteristic alone; “suboptimal behavior,” samples … they were not meeting specific thresholds for dietary or physical activity behaviors; “elevated risk,” samples

75. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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    July 31, 2020 - arise from colonoscopy to follow up abnormal gFOBT results • Requires dietary restrictions and 3 stool samples … Stool-Based Tests Stool-based screening requires persons to collect samples directly from their feces … high-sensitivity gFOBT requires some dietary and medication restrictions prior to collecting stool samples … FIT and sDNA-FIT33,34 (sDNA-FIT involves collecting an entire bowel movement), while collection of samples

76. Archived: Genital Herpes Simplex: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/genital-herpes-simplex-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - 27 EIA, however, had a concordance of only 59% with conventional viral culture in a large study of samples … 88% compared to conventional culture, 22 and 43% and 71%, respectively, compared to cytology, 29 on samples

77. Archived: Drug Abuse: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - urine testing: water loading, diuretic use, ingestion of interfering substances, or adulterating urine samples … compounds in foods. 48 To prevent falsely implicating persons as users of illegal drugs, screen-positive samples

78. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Evidence for the Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2009 - Sera samples tested by using TPHA (serial dilutions, considered reactive at �1:80) and VDRL (diluted … Samples were considered to have biological false-positive results if they were VDRL-positive but TPHA

79. Genetic Risk Assessment and BRCA Mutation Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2005 - Studies were conducted in highly selected samples of women, and re- sults may not be generalizable to … In Monte Carlo simulation, random samples for the esti- mate of P�D��G� are obtained as follows. … First, random samples of logit(P) are drawn from the following normal distribution: N�logit̂(P), var̂ … Then, by transformation, random samples for estimates of P�D��G� are obtained as: P�D �G�� � exp(logit … Random samples of RR are obtained by first drawing random samples of ln(RR) from N�ln(RR̂), var̂�ln(

80. Screening for Syphilis Infection During Pregnancy: USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    April 24, 2023 - chemiluminescence immunoassay) for the ini- tial screening, followed by a nontreponemal test for reactive samples … pallidum are available that can be performed in a clinical setting or at home using fingerstick blood samples