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81. Screening for Unhealthy Drug Use: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/R3y9LSud52CGL8mG4wvxoT
    June 09, 2020 - methods that pose questions about drug use or drug-related risks, not laboratory testing of biologic samples … drug use disorders) compared with a structured or semistruc- tured clinical interview or biological samples … Studies evaluating the accuracy of biological drug screening tests (eg, urine samples) were not included … Low Most studies conducted in US-based primary care population, although included studies represented samples … numbers of known drug users, and some of the larger studies were conducted among non–clinic-based samples

82. PII: S0749-3797(01)00255-0 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2001 - Reliability of Screening Tests TC measurements from venous blood samples gener- ally have good reliability … Capillary blood samples that are used to measure total and HDL-C (so-called “point of care” testing) … appear to have similar reliability under optimal condi- tions to venous samples but may be less reliable

83. Archived: Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Adults (Cholesterol, Dyslipidemia): Screening, 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/lipid-disorders-in-adults-cholesterol-dyslipidemia-screening-2001
    April 09, 2001 - Reliability of Screening Tests TC measurements from venous blood samples generally have good reliability … Capillary blood samples that are used to measure total and HDL-C (so-called “point of care” testing) … appear to have similar reliability under optimal conditions to venous samples but may be less reliable

84. Archived: Evidence Summary: Depression in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/depression-in-children-and-adolescents-screening
    February 08, 2016 - Nationally representative samples have indicated a past-year prevalence of approximately 8% for adolescents … 15 years). 3 The prevalence of depression in primary care settings may be twice that of community samples … outcomes as suicidality occur at much lower rates in the control group and may require even larger samples

85. Screening for Major Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/9H5mgkBCjNQVZZ4pnkNo6B
    February 01, 2016 - Nationally representative samples have indicated a past-year prevalence of approximately 8% for adolescents … The prevalence of depression in primary care settings may be twice that of community samples of children … outcomes as suicidality occur at much lower rates in the control group and may require even larger samples

86. Final Recommendation Statement: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/skin-cancer-counseling
    March 20, 2018 - and print materials for parents promoting child sun protection with sun protection aids (sunscreen samples … follow-up telephone counseling sessions by a health educator over 18 months; mailed materials and sunscreen samples

87. Archived: Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
    September 06, 2016 - However, clinicians should be aware of processing requirements for blood samples and ensure that venous … blood samples are drawn and can reach the laboratory for processing within the appropriate time frame

88. Task Force Resources | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    June 22, 2025 - Task Force Resources Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print   Resources for Using Recommendations in Practice Prevention TaskForce App The Prevention TaskForce is an application that includes all Task Force recomm…

89. Archived: Rh(D) Incompatibility: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/rhd-incompatibility-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - fetal mortality rates of 0.5-1%. 23 , 51 , 52 DNA amplification in amniotic cells and chorionic villus samples

90. Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for CVD Prevention in Adults Without Known CVD Risk Factors: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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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 … 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 … provided on the underlying so- cial conditions (ie, risks and inequities) present among the in- cluded samples

91. Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/kGvn_HBPEEdfu2rs38VN8_
    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 Bu- reau, including very large samples that are representative … studies would add potentially valuable information, given their large size and carefully constructed samples

92. Archived: Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary30/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
    July 07, 2015 - The negative LRs were small and equivalent for both younger and older samples. … However, many studies included potentially inappropriate populations, such as "samples" of children identified … Using such "predetermined" samples hampers investigators from determining certain accuracy statistics

93. Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
    January 23, 2024 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print Evidence Summary Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening January 23, 2024 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. Th…

94. Procedure Manual Appendix VI. Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/procedure-manual/procedure-manual-appendix-vi-criteria-assessing-internal-validity-individual-studies
    July 01, 2017 - Procedure Manual Appendix VI. Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print The USPSTF Methods Workgroup developed a set of criteria by which the internal va…

95. Archived: Evidence Summary (Pregnant and Postpartum Women): Screening for Depression in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-primary-care-screening-for-and-treatment-of/depression-in-adults-screening
    January 26, 2016 - analysis using a restricted maximum likelihood model with the Knapp-Hartung modification for small samples … Generalizability of clinical trial results for major depression to community samples: results from the … approaches with no replication of any interventions were included that reported minimal descriptions of the samples … no replication for any specific version, scoring method, cutoff, and comparator; studies had small samples

96. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Multifactorial Dyslipidemia: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-screening-for-multifactorial-dyslipidemia/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-july-2016
    August 09, 2016 - ) cut points of 200 mg/dL for TC and 130 mg/dL for LDL-C. 3 Participants provided nonfasting blood samples … for TC testing; 12- to 19-year-olds also provided fasting blood samples for LDL-C testing.

97. Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/Wx_w92ukxeDvNShoRQXbhP
    September 06, 2016 - However, clinicians should be aware of processing requirements for blood samples and ensure that venous … blood samples are drawn and can reach the laboratory for processing within the appropriate time frame

98. Recommendation: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-counseling
    March 20, 2018 - and print materials for parents promoting child sun protection with sun protection aids (sunscreen samples … follow-up telephone counseling sessions by a health educator over 18 months; mailed materials and sunscreen samples

99. Archived: Chlamydial Infection: Screening, 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/chlamydial-infection-screening-2001
    January 01, 2001 - Self-administered vaginal and vulval-introital swabs using PCR and LCR, including submitting samples

100. Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/KdQef_VDT2kmHDX4ddNWmR
     August 01, 2022 - However, clinicians should be aware of processing require- ments for blood samples and ensure that venous … blood samples are drawn and can reach the laboratory for processing within the appropriate time frame