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621. Archived: Modeling Study: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/modeling-study/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
     June 15, 2016 - The models use all-cause mortality rates from the 2009 US life table 25 and stage-specific CRC relative … Prior to age 75 years, the models reproduced age-specific CRC incidence rates from SEER from 1975–1979 … Currently there is limited empirical evidence on test-specific adherence over multiple rounds of screening … c See eFigure 1 in the Supplement for details on age-specific risks. … The model-predicted age-specific adenoma prevalence generally falls within the range of prevalence estimates

622. Archived: Final Research Plan: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/osteoporosis-screening-june-2018
     November 05, 2015 - Criteria are overarching as well as specific to each of the key questions (KQs).  

623. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - generation age, the number of breast cancer cases and deaths will increase substantially unless age-specific … benefits of mammography and CBE may be best considered as changing on an age continuum rather than at a specific … Quantitative interpretation of age-specific mortality reductions from the Swedish breast cancer-screening

624. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Gestational Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary26/gestational-diabetes-screening-2008
     May 15, 2008 - versus postprandial glucose monitoring to guide insulin treatment in gestational diabetes did not report specific … Age-specific risk of fetal loss observed in a second trimester serum screening population.

625. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/ovarian-cancer-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Final Recommendation Statement Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 January 01, 1996 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They s…

626. Screening for Preeclampsia US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2017 - T he 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 … The specific etiology of preeclampsia is unclear.2-6 Preeclampsia can lead to poor health outcomes in … This trial was an opportunity to evaluate a specific screening approach compared with the standard of … to pre- eclampsia diagnosis and birth outcomes when targeted urine pro- tein screening was used for specific

627. 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 - Study Selection: Eligibility was determined by inclusion criteria specific to key questions about risk … Specific BRCA mutations are clustered among certain ethnic groups, such as Ashkenazi Jews (9–11), and … Several clinical laboratories in the United States test for specific mutations or sequence-specific exons … It is not known whether testing for BRCA mutations reduces cause- specific or all-cause mortality and … The risk of cancer associated with specific mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 among Ashkenazi Jews.

628. Screening for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2002 - Specific instruments to assess risk for low bone density or fractures generally have moderate-to-high … women aged 65-69 without risk factors.2 These estimates rely on many assumptions that may not apply for specific

629. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-2009
     December 15, 2009 - be an individual one and take patient context into account, including the patient's values regarding specific … have evaluated MRI screening of average-risk women; in theory, because MRI could be considerably less specific … This recommendation updates the 2002 recommendation by providing specific

630. Archived: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication-november-2016
     November 13, 2016 - Furthermore, no statin clinical trials enrolled patients based on a specific risk threshold calculated … Clinicians should understand the evidence but individualize decision making to the specific patient or … The decision to initiate therapy in this population should reflect an assessment of patients’ specific … Other advantages are that it can generate sex- and race-specific risk predictions and that it includes … Instead of treating to a specific LDL-C target, the ACC and AHA recommend fixed-dose statin therapy using

631. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/diabetes-mellitus-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - A single fasting glucose above 140 mg/dL is specific for diabetes (>99%) but sensitivity varies widely … Presence of glucose in the urine is fairly specific but less sensitive than most blood tests for NIDDM … screening pregnant women in certain high-prevalence populations (e.g., Native Americans) and those with specific … suffers from two important limitations: the lack of a practical screening test that is both sensitive and specific … Immune markers are not sufficiently specific to recommend their use in the general population at this

632. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach - Table 1 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 01, 2013 - d  ≥ 95th percentile of gender- and age-specific BMI from year 2000 U.S. growth charts.

633. Screening for Skin Cancer (pdf file)
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     Interventions Effective treatment of depression in adults generally includes antidepressants or specific

634. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening, April 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/skin-cancer-screening-2001
     April 01, 2001 - totalbody skin examinations were performed on all participants; in others, the examination focused on specific … examination found that skin cancer specialists’ decisions about biopsy were more sensitive and much more specific … For these patients who originally came in with specific lesions, an additional total-body skin examination … Volunteers for skin cancer screening in the Netherlands Patients with skin cancer risks 1961 Lesion-specific … following a public campaign on melanoma and risk factors Patients with melanoma risks 4,146 Lesion-specific

635. Screening for Skin Cancer: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2001 - total- body skin examinations were performed on all participants; in others, the examination focused on specific … examination found that skin cancer specialists’ decisions about biopsy were more sensitive and much more specific … For these patients who originally came in with specific lesions, an additional total-body skin examination … Volunteers for skin cancer screening in the Netherlands Patient with skin cancer risks 1961 Lesion-specific … following a public campaign on melanoma and risk factors Patients with melanoma risks 4,146 Lesion-specific

636. Archived: Evidence Summary: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-screening-2016
     April 05, 2016 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Evidence Summary Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening April 05, 2016 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They sh…

637. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary11/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
     December 15, 2007 - This specific review did not receive separate funding. … None of the observational studies that we evaluated gave specific rates of other complications for asymptomatic … Its reported accuracy is approximately 94% sensitive and 92% specific for CAS of 60% to 99%. … It is possible that the benefit of carotid endarterectomy will be limited to a specific period and will … on clinical experience; descriptive studies or case reports; reports of expert committees Design-specific

638. Archived: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-adults-with-high-risk-of-cvd-august-2014
     August 26, 2014 - 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 … and physical activity that include a combination of 2 or more of the following strategies: setting specific … Cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity.

639. Screening for Syphilis: A Brief Update (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/USPSTF_Admin/Home/GetFile/1/996/syphilup/pdf
     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

640. Braidwood-Bulletin-033023 (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/braidwood-bulletin-033023.pdf
     March 30, 2023 - recommendations, we review the results of well-designed research studies to determine whether use of a specific