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101. Evidence Summary: Food Insecurity: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 11, 2025 - specificity above 82%, although most studies did not administer the screener separately from the reference standard … sections of a single questionnaire. 28 All of the remaining studies administered only the reference standard … or without additional items, and examined the agreement of subsets of items with the full reference standard … but was also the only instance of the screener being administered independently from the reference standard … but was also the only instance of the screener being administered independently from the reference standard

102. Draft Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     February 01, 2024 - application in primary care in adolescents, and new versions of previously established instruments adapted to standard … Pharmacotherapy Comparators KQs 1, 3: No screening or usual care KQ 2: Comparison with reference standard

103. Archived: Final Research Plan: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan54/colorectal-cancer-screening-june-2016
     April 17, 2014 - alternate screening strategy KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies that use colonoscopy as a reference standard … KQ 1: Decision analyses KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies without colonoscopy as a reference standard

104. Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2022 - The prevalence of MDD based on reference standard diagnos- tic clinical interviews ranged from 3% to … SRS).49 The prevalence of increased suicide risk ranged from 19% to 22%, depending on the reference standard … , and were 0.87 and 0.60 against another reference standard.49 Harms of Screening Key Question 3. … Depression The standard of evidence for test accuracy was rated as low to mod- erate for sensitivity … being used in practice Suicide: 1 study (n = 581) Sensitivity, 0.87 and 0.91 (varies by reference standard

105. Final Research Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening
     June 17, 2021 - disease because of underlying immunosuppression or for whom LTBI screening and treatment would be part of standard … KQs 2, 4: TST using Mantoux method with intermediate strength dose of PPD and standard thresholds for

106. Archived: High Blood Pressure in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/high-blood-pressure-in-adults-screening-monitoring-october-2015
     October 12, 2015 - is not as substantial as it is for ABPM. 1 Therefore, the USPSTF considers ABPM to be the reference standard … The USPSTF did not find evidence for a single gold standard protocol for HBPM or ABPM. … comparing manual (ausculatory) versus automated office blood pressure measurement with a reference standard … found that office blood pressure variably predicted true hypertension, as defined by the reference standard … to 65% of study participants ( Figure 1 ). 1 Positive predictive values (with ABPM as the reference standard

107. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     Screening Tests Abdominal duplex ultrasonography is the standard approach for AAA screening.

108. The Audit (pdf file)
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     To reflect standard drink sizes in the United States, the number of drinks in question 3 was changed

109. Archived: Evidence Summary: Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 08, 2004 - for active infection) or RIBA (a reference standard for exposure). … c Difference in standard deviation of change from baseline. … Fair Using viremia as the reference standard, sensitivity of third-generation ELISA testing appears … Limited data found a specificity of 97% or greater using viremia as the reference standard. 4. … HCV infection.90 PCR testing, aminotransferase testing, and liver biopsy were considered the standard

110. Screening Older Adults for Impaired Visual Acuity: A Review of the Evidence for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - A visual acuity test (for example, the Snellen eye chart) is the standard for screen- ing for vision … For diagnostic accuracy, we included studies that com- pared a screening test with a reference standard … applied the refer- ence standard to all patients (23, 24), and 1 study reported sufficient information … because it is often considered the clinical standard for evaluating visual acuity. … Used Reference Standard Applied to All Patients Screening Test Adequately Described Reference Standard

111. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary50/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2009
     July 15, 2009 - For diagnostic accuracy, we included studies that compared a screening test with a reference standard … Only 1 study clearly reported independent interpretation of the reference standard, 23 2 studies clearly … applied the reference standard to all patients, 23 , 24 and 1 study reported sufficient information … Used Reference Standard Applied to All Patients Screening Test Adequately Described … Reference Standard Interpreted Independently Quality Score Ariyasu et al,

112. Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2019 - Abdominal duplex ultrasonography is the standard approach for AAA screening. a.

113. Final Research Plan: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/prostate-cancer-screening-adults
     December 21, 2023 - of later-stage cancer) Comparisons KQs 1, 2: Usual care; no screening KQ 3: Reference standard … for prostate cancer KQ 4: Reference standard for clinically important prostate cancer KQs 4a, 4b

114. Archived: Final Research Plan: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan97/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
     July 17, 2014 - KQs 7, 8: Studies lacking comprehensively applied reference standard. … Test Characteristics KQs 7, 8: Diagnostic accuracy studies with reference standard, meta-analyses … and stability of measures over time (e.g., training sets, diagnostic accuracy studies with reference standard

115. Final Research Plan: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
     December 17, 2015 - study designs not listed as eligible KQ 2: Studies that do not attempt to perform the reference standard … vision, measured by the ability to discern letters or numbers at a given distance according to a fixed standard

116. Ykjvkfmv5Jf8Bl3Rbx8Bp7 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - The evidence review assessed the benefits and harms of aspirin use and intensive versus standard control … Benefits of Intensive Versus Standard Control of Blood Glucose Levels, Blood Pressure, and Lipid Levels … intensive blood pressure control was associated with less cardiovascular mortality and morbidity than standard … However, a consistent benefit of stroke reduction was found in study groups with in- tensive versus standard … The USPSTF found no studies on the effects of in- tensive versus standard lipid control in persons with

117. Archived: Evidence Summary: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary11/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-in-adults-screening-2008
     July 15, 2008 - is common, and screening for this condition in pregnant women is a well-established, evidence-based standard … The previous review relied on the standard definition of preterm delivery from the 1960s, birthweight … Although urine culture remains the gold standard … performed at routine prenatal visits if a leukocyte esterase-nitrite test result was positive; the gold standard

118. Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Clinical Summary of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - The combination of pegylated interferon (α-2a or α-2b) and ribavirin is the standard treatment for HCV

119. 6Ngc3Byq9Jeby Pwyvd6Or (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2014 - Incremental Benefit of Additional Medications Beyond Current Standard Medical Therapy We found no eligible … studies that assessed benefits of additional medications beyond current standard medical therapy. … Current standard therapy to reduce stroke risk in- cludes use of statins, antihypertensives (including … asymp- tomatic CAS who are at decreased or increased risk for stroke caused by CAS despite current standard … Changes in technology, standard medical therapy, surgical procedures, and stroke rates may not be reflected

120. Evidence Summary: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     November 13, 2018 - The conversion factor of 14 g of ethanol was used for 1 standard drink, since this is the definition … of a standard drink in the United States. … of 6 or more drinks per occasion tended to have lower sensitivity than the 5/4 or more drinks standard … Sensitivity was relatively high (0.82) in young adults at the standard score cutoff of 8 or higher, but … Use of the USAUDIT and USAUDIT-C, designed to use the United States’ standard drink size and to return