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361. Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations about the effectiveness of specific clinical … Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision making to the specific patient or … Screening tests were not a specific focus of this review. … Although the USPSTF could not deter- mine the effectiveness of other specific intervention com- ponents … More specific areas for further research include determining whether weight-loss interventions lead to

362. Evidence Summary: Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/syphilis-infection-in-pregnancy-screening
     September 04, 2018 - These studies found that false-positives with treponemal-specific enzyme or chemiluminescent immunoassays … fair-quality retrospective studies evaluated the proportion of false-positive results using treponemal-specific … Evidence from this review confirms concern for false-positives with treponemal-specific screening tests … Positive or Negative Results (%) Quality Reported Harm: False-Positive Results Treponemal-specific … Reflex testing of TPPA+ samples with CIA NR 4/139 (2.9) (prozone phenomenon) Fair Treponemal-specific

363. Recommendation: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 18, 2020 - However, it was difficult to isolate specific effects because the most effective intervention format … Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision-making to the specific patient or … https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/hpv.html . 41. … 120 minutes and multiple sessions over 1 to 12 mo Group counseling interventions often focused on specific … personalized text messages or emails. c The US Preventive Services Task Force does not endorse any specific

364. Final Evidence Summary: Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 09, 2020 - study was assigned a quality rating of “good,” “fair,” or “poor” according to the USPSTF study design–specific … Specific screening instruments were generally not examined in more than 1 or 2 studies. … these, the majority included an assessment of nonmedical use of prescription drugs, either through a specific … In studies that examined unhealthy use of specific drugs, the ranges of sensitivity were lower and less … Instruments were less accurate in detecting unhealthy use of prescription opioids or sedatives then other specific

365. AHRQ’s Support of the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     January 01, 1998 - Preventive medications These recommendations only apply to people who have no signs or symptoms of the specific

366. Archived: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 24, 2013 - Tests for BRCA mutations are highly sensitive and specific for known mutations, but interpretation of … Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision making to the specific patient or … Tests for BRCA mutations are highly sensitive and specific for known mutations, but interpretation of … Another unresolved question is what specific training is needed (for persons other than trained genetic … Breast cancer risk for noncarriers of family-specific BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations: findings from the

367. Individualizing Cancer Screening in Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 01, 2021 - review of prognostic indices for mortality in older adults concluded that currently available nondisease-specific … adults are underrepresented in screening trials, and subgroups by age are rarely reported, so harms specific … An 80-year-old man with a high prostate-specific antigen level and biopsy-proven prostate cancer (true … The impact of potential harms of treatment on overall health and functioning are of specific concern … treatment were significant predictors of HRQL in all domains; treatment had a greater impact on disease-specific

368. Archived: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening-january-2017
     January 24, 2017 - The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations about the effectiveness of specific … Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision making to the specific patient or … Few studies evaluated the accuracy of specific screening tools to identify persons at high risk for OSA

369. Archived: Syphilis Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - be falsely positive, all reactive results in asymptomatic patients should be confirmed with a more specific … persons, making it difficult to confirm the adequacy of treatment. 17 , 18 At the same time, treponema-specific … Specific syphilis serological tests may become negative in HIV infection.

370. Screening for Syphilis: A Brief Update (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2004 - Full-text articles were retrieved and reviewed using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria (Appendix … over 1,300 women presenting to clinics in Africa.19 The clinic RPR test was 77.5% sensitive and 94.1% specific … ; the RST was 75% sensitive and 95.2% specific. … regimen appropriate for the stage of syphilis, despite the lack of evidence to determine whether the specific … Preliminary evaluation of an immunochromatographic strip test for specific Treponema pallidum antibodies

371. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Syphilis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review93/syphilis-infection-screening-2004
     July 15, 2004 - Full-text articles were retrieved and reviewed using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria ( Appendix … presenting to clinics in Africa. 19 The clinic RPR test was 77.5 percent sensitive and 94.1 percent specific … ; the RST was 75 percent sensitive and 95.2 percent specific. … regimen appropriate for the stage of syphilis, despite the lack of evidence to determine whether the specific … Preliminary evaluation of an immunochromatographic strip test for specific Treponema pallidum antibodies

372. AHRQ’s Support of the USPSTF (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Home/GetFile/6/91/ahrqsupportfact/pdf
     January 01, 1998 - Preventive medications These recommendations only apply to people who have no signs or symptoms of the specific

373. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 04, 2021 - are referred to current products of the  USPSTF  (1-800-358-9295) for systematic evidence reviews of specific … Moreover, 93 percent of children and youth and 84 percent of adults 18 years of age and older have a specific … contains the logic and critical questions to systematically evaluate the evidence for recommending specific … For detailed evidence-based consideration of behavioral counseling interventions for specific behaviors … Lifestyle-specific outcome measures.

374. Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults (pdf file)
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     Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults Population Adults, including pregnant women Adolescents …

375. Evidence Summary: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/genital-herpes-serologic-screening
     February 14, 2023 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends serologic screening for specific asymptomatic … respectively; KQ, key question. a Studies that screened using an HSV-2 serologic test alone or a type-specific

376. Archived: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/colorectal-cancer-screening-2008
     October 15, 2008 - *These recommendations do not apply to individuals with specific inherited syndromes (Lynch Syndrome … Consideration These recommendations apply to adults 50 years of age and older, excluding those with specific … Current data are insufficient to predict adherence to any specific screening regimen at the population … Fecal DNA Potential Preventable Burden Fecal DNA has potential as a highly specific test, and it … Information is needed about the age-specific and biopsy-related harms of colonoscopy.

377. Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes: An Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - Several US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved type-specific HSV serologic tests are available … 11 good- or fair-quality studies (n = 7129; range, 61-3290) assessing the accuracy of 1 or more type-specific … Detection of herpes simplex virus type 2–specific immunoglobulin G antibodies in African sera by using … Performance of HSV-2 type specific serological tests in men in Kenya.

378. Archived: Drug Use, Illicit: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/drug-use-illicit-screening-january-2008
     January 15, 2008 - Clinicians and policymakers should understand the evidence but individualize decisionmaking to the specific … The specific adverse events noted to occur more frequently in the treatment arm of trials (compared to … Treatment Although drug-specific pharmacotherapy (e.g., buprenorphine for opiate abuse) and/or behavioral … providers screen adolescents for substance abuse during annual preventive services visits, using age-specific … from questionnaires initially developed for use in detecting alcohol abuse is suggested, although no specific

379. Screening For Illicit Drug Use: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 15, 2008 - Clinicians and policy- makers should understand the evidence but individualize decision- making to the specific … The specific adverse events noted to occur more frequently in the treatment arm of trials (compared … Treatment: Although drug-specific pharmacotherapy (e.g., buprenorphine for opiate abuse) and/or behavioral … providers screen adolescents for substance abuse during annual preventive services visits, using age-specific … from questionnaires initially developed for use in detecting alcohol abuse is suggested, although no specific

380. Archived: Evidence Summary: Supplemental Screening in Women With Dense Breasts: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-supplemental-screening-in-women-with-dense-/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
     January 11, 2016 - Most states require specific language distinguishing dense (BI-RADS c and d) from nondense breasts, and … Preventive Services Task Force's (USPSTF's) design-specific criteria, 17 supplemented with the National … However, although we examined subsets of women without specific risk factors, we suspect that, … Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Michigan, Ohio, Louisiana, Delaware, North Dakota Requires specific