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181. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 15, 2009 - There is adequate evidence that teaching BSE is associated with harms that are at least small. … By this metric, the USPSTF concludes that there is moderate evidence that the net benefit is small for … The potential harms of CBE are thought to be small but include false-positive test results, which lead … The frontier curves for the mortality outcome show only small gains but larger numbers of mammograms … For women aged 40 to 49 years, the USPSTF had moderate certainty that the net benefits were small.

182. Evidence Summary: Anxiety Disorders in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 20, 2023 - For example, psychological interventions were associated with a small pooled standardized mean difference … Cohen rules of thumb were used to characterize standardized effect sizes of 0.20 as small, 0.50 as medium … Psychological interventions showed a relatively small but statistically significant reduction in anxiety … antidepressants are addressed in a separate publication. 8 Evidence in the RCTs was limited due to small … on antidepressant use for depression also apply to antidepressant use for anxiety, including a very small

183. Effects of Mammography Screening Under Different Screening Schedules: Model Estimates of Potential Benefits and Harms (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2009 - Model W also assumes that some cases of small invasive cancer are nonprogressive. … In all models, some reductions in breast cancer mor- tality, albeit small, were seen with strategies … Our results also highlight the need for better primary data on the natural history of DCIS and small … We found that the benefits of screening from ages 40 to 49 years were small. … Sensitivity, in turn, has a small effect on screening benefits.

184. Final Research Plan: Gestational Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 06, 2019 - treatment of GDM, including severe maternal and fetal/neonatal hypoglycemia, delivery of neonates who are small … yield (i.e., prevalence) KQ 7: Severe maternal or neonatal hypoglycemia, delivery of neonate who is small

185. Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 18, 2020 - of low- to moderate-dose statins reduces the probability of CVD events and mor- tality by at least a small … dia- betes, hypertension, or smoking) and a calculated 10-year CVD event risk of 7.5% to 10% has a small … There is at least moderate certainty that the net benefit is small. … However, re- sults were not reported separately for this age group, and it com- prised a small part of … As such, any cut point for assessing where the net benefit of statin use shifts from small to moderate

186. Figure. Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     moderate certainty that initiating use of low- to moderate-dose statins in this population has a small

187. Opportunity for Public Comment | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 05, 2025 - Counseling Aug 5, 2025 10:30 AM EDT Sep 2, 2025 11:59 PM EDT Research Plans A small

188. Archived: Screening and Interventions for Childhood Obesity: Where Is the Evidence? A Commentary by the Childhood Obesity Working Group of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening, July 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 11, 2005 - Most studies are so small that an important effect of intensive counseling cannot be ruled out. … studies suffer from a number of weaknesses that future studies should be designed to overcome, including small

189. Archived: Breast and Ovarian Cancer: BRCA Genetic Testing, September 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 15, 2005 - of these women for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, or routine referral for genetic counseling, would be small … The USPSTF estimated that the magnitude of these potential harms is small or greater. … The USPSTF estimated that the magnitude of these potential harms is small. … Conclusions are difficult to draw because of the small number of breast cancer cases in this analysis … Overall, the USPSTF estimates that the magnitude of these potential harms is at least small.

190. Z -5Hklbgepqpayfchveyf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2013 - to prevent tobacco use; however, it believes that the magnitude of these potential harms is probably small … cluded 2328 children and adolescents and examined inter- ventions to promote smoking cessation, found a small … interventions tar- geted children, adolescents, or their parents; were delivered individually or in small … harms of behavior-based interventions is insufficient, the USPSTF believes that the potential harms are small … There is at least moderate certainty that the net benefit is small.

191. Archived: Obesity in Adults: Screening and Management | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 15, 2012 - Adequate evidence indicates that the harms of screening and behavioral interventions for obesity are small … that the harms of screening and providing behavioral interventions for obesity are no greater than small … levels. 7 , 8 Behavioral weight-loss interventions had a minimal effect on lipid outcomes and showed small … Adequate evidence indicates that the harms of screening and behavioral interventions for obesity are small

192. Screening and Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2009 - inadequate evidence about the harms of screening and psychotherapy in adolescents, which are probably small … There is moderate or high certainty that the net benefit is small. … Harms of psychotherapy are felt to be small. … selection, excessive delays between screening and diagnostic interviews, poor reporting of methods, small

193. Primary Care Screening for and Treatment of Depression in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     January 26, 2016 - Infant harms included neonatal death, major malformations, small for gestational age and low birth weight … samples.21 Funnel plots and the Egger test were used to examine the risk of small study effects. … The absolute increase in risk for most infant outcomes was very small, given the rarity of the events … Furthermore, the literature on the English-language ver- sion was limited by small study sizes. … Furthermore, bias related to small sample sizes has been reported in the psychotherapy literature90,91

194. Final Research Plan: Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 14, 2019 - analyses KQs 1–3: All study designs other than randomized, controlled trials KQ 4: Case reports; small

195. Archived: Aspirin Prophylaxis in Pregnancy: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - This study found a significant, small reduction in preterm deliveries in the aspirin group (12% reduction … have not generally been reported at low doses (60-150 mg/day), 28-30 although most trials were too small … This study did not differentiate constitutionally small infants with progressive intrauterine growth

196. Counseling and Interventions to Prevent Tobacco Use and Tobacco-Caused Disease in Adults and Pregnant Women: Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2009 - use in adults or pregnant women, the USPSTF judged the magnitude of these harms to be no greater than small … In nonpreg- nant adults, the USPSTF judged these harms to be small. … There is moderate or high certainty that the net benefit is small.

197. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Obesity in Adults: Screening and Management | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary38/obesity-in-adults-screening-and-management-2012
     October 15, 2011 - Effects on intermediate outcomes (for example, lipids and blood pressure) were mixed and small. … Although some trials did find statistically significant results, effect sizes were consistently small … We concluded that behavioral weight-loss interventions had low or very small effects on low-density and … Although summary measures showed small blood pressure reductions, absolute reductions of 2 to 5 mm Hg … Reductions in diastolic blood pressure of 5 to 6 mm Hg over 5 to 10 years have been associated with small

198. Interventions to Prevent Illicit and Nonmedical Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     December 17, 2018 - to Hedges g values using standard formulae.20 Hedges g can be interpreted as a Cohen d, for which a small … and Laird method is prone to insufficient coverage of the full 95% CIs when the number of studies is small … Despite the small pooled result, some interventions did show statistically significant reductions in … −0.16 to 0.001]; 24 effects [from 23 studies]; n = 12 801; I2 = 57.0%) Pooled estimates showed very small … However, the relatively small overall evi- dence base and inconsistencies across studies indicate a need

199. Procedure Manual Section 6. Methods for Arriving at a Recommendation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 06, 2017 - The magnitude of benefit is categorized as substantial, moderate, small, or zero. … for harm, the magnitude of harm is assessed using the following categories: substantial, moderate, small … The Task Force rates net benefit as substantial, moderate, small, or zero/negative. … Many of these often take years to achieve and may only accrue to a small percentage of individuals. … Net benefit, however, would only be substantial if the harms of the intervention are zero or small.

200. Genetic Risk Assessment and BRCA Mutation Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2005 - screening of these women for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, or routine referral for genetic counseling, would be small … The USPSTF estimated that the magnitude of these potential harms is small or greater. … The USPSTF estimated that the magnitude of these potential harms is small. … Conclusions are difficult to draw be- cause of the small number of breast cancer cases in this analysis … Overall, the USPSTF estimates that the magnitude of these poten- tial harms is at least small.