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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/anxiety-adults-screening
August 27, 2020 - KQ 2 (Diagnostic accuracy):
Reference standard (structured or semistructured diagnostic interview … KQ 2: Maximum of 2 weeks between screening and reference standard.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-screening-for-women-and-elderly-adults/intimate-partner-violence-and-elderly-abuse-screening-2004
March 08, 2004 - Study uses a credible reference standard, performed regardless of test results. … Reference standard interpreted independently of screening test. … standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test; reliability of test assessed … Poor: Has important limitations such as: uses inappropriate reference standard; screening test improperly … administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; small sample size of narrow selected spectrum
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
March 17, 2022 - or assay, mode of collection, or interval of testing
KQ 2:
Clinician-collected hrHPV sample
Reference … standard
No screening
Outcomes
KQ 1:
Precancerous lesions (i.e., CIN2+, CIN3+)
Invasive … Case series
Narrative reviews
Editorials
KQ 2: Diagnostic test accuracy studies without a reference … standard
Setting
Primary care (e.g., internal medicine, family medicine, orobstetrics/gynecology
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary14/bladder-cancer-in-adults-screening
October 15, 2010 - Studies of diagnostic accuracy that did not perform the reference standard in patients with negative … standard and is done regardless of test results
Reference standard is interpreted independently of … test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets a reference standard independently of the screening … Poor: Has an important limitation, such as use of an inappropriate reference standard; the screening … test is improperly administered; has a biased ascertainment of the reference standard; and includes a
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
February 01, 2024 - Pharmacotherapy
Comparators
KQs 1, 3: No screening or usual care KQ 2: Comparison with reference … standard (i.e., structured or semistructured clinical interview) KQs 4, 5:
No intervention
Usual
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/ERu8RYv5CbbB-3WKgRdXFg
March 01, 2011 - For diagnostic ac-
curacy, we included studies that compared a screening test
with a reference standard … standard, performed regardless of test results
Reference standard interpreted independently of screening … test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening test … Standard
Reference
Standard
Applied to
and
Analysis
Includes
All Patients
or a
Random
Subset
Same … Reference
Standard
Applied
to All
Patients
Reference
Standard and
Screening
Examination
Interpreted
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/screening-atrial-fibrillation
July 16, 2020 - Placebo, no treatment
KQs 1, 2, 4: No comparison, nonconcordant historical control
KQ 3: No reference … standard, reference standard other than 12-lead ECG, continuous ambulatory ECG monitoring, or implantable … cardiac monitoring are excluded from KQ 3 (diagnostic accuracy) because these tests are considered the reference … standard.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/atrial-fibrillation-screening
July 16, 2020 - Placebo, no treatment
KQs 1, 2, 4: No comparison, nonconcordant historical control
KQ 3: No reference … standard, reference standard other than 12-lead ECG, continuous ambulatory ECG monitoring, or implantable … cardiac monitoring are excluded from KQ 3 (diagnostic accuracy) because these tests are considered the reference … standard.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/r_MgZHrtyHRn7rZoCPS6MT
February 01, 2011 - preschool
vision screening tests (Tables 6 and
7).27–58 Cycloplegic refraction was in-
cluded in the reference-standard … standard (ie, cy-
cloplegic refraction)
● Exclude studies that do not attempt
to perform the reference … standard, performed regardless of
test results
● Reference standard interpreted in-
dependently of … Standard
Reference Standard
Applied to All
Screened Patients
Same Reference
Standard
Applied to All … Patients
Reference Standard
and Screening
Examination
Interpreted
Independently
High Rate of
Uninterpretable
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan105/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening
September 25, 2014 - The USPSTF also removed any indication of a preferential order of sequential testing or of TST as a reference … standard, as there is no gold standard test for LTBI.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan105/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
September 25, 2014 - The USPSTF also removed any indication of a preferential order of sequential testing or of TST as a reference … standard, as there is no gold standard test for LTBI.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/4BpSYQnx9MYzmKJSWQxrbC
April 13, 2021 - Most of the trials reviewed for this
recommendation precede this standardization program. … Sempos CT, Vesper HW, Phinney KW,
Thienpont LM, Coates PM; Vitamin D
Standardization Program (VDSP). … Vitamin D status
as an international issue: national surveys and the
problem of standardization. … Binkley N, Sempos CT; Vitamin D
Standardization Program (VDSP). … Vitamin D measurement standardization: the
way out of the chaos.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/SvB6EjoVaaQxQr4vpCRtWp
March 01, 2004 - Vol 1-Standards. 1992. … • Study uses a credible reference standard,
performed regardless of test results. … • Reference standard interpreted independently of
screening test. … standard; interprets
reference standard independently of screening
test; reliability of test assessed … administered; biased ascertainment
of reference standard; small sample size of
narrow selected spectrum
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-2009
December 15, 2009 - Screening Tests
Standardization of film mammography has led to improved quality. … Refer patients to facilities certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), listed at … No standard approach or reporting standards are in place. … Standardization of mammography practices enacted by the Mammography Quality Standards Act have led to … Clinicians should refer patients to Mammography Quality Standards Act-certified facilities, a listing
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening
January 15, 2011 - standard (ie, cycloplegic refraction)
Exclude studies that do not attempt to perform the reference … standard, performed regardless of test results
Reference standard interpreted independently of screening … screening test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening … standard; screening test improperly administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; very small … Standard
Reference Standard Applied to All Screened Patients
Same Reference Standard Applied to
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
January 15, 2011 - standard (ie, cycloplegic refraction)
Exclude studies that do not attempt to perform the reference … standard, performed regardless of test results
Reference standard interpreted independently of screening … screening test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening … standard; screening test improperly administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; very small … Standard
Reference Standard Applied to All Screened Patients
Same Reference Standard Applied to
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/9NRLVTCmyqJyVf7xba3z28
April 01, 2019 - accuracy of urine survivin tests for bladder cancer,
using cystoscopy and/or histopathology as the reference … standard.1 A 2015 Cochrane review of
screening with urinary dipsticks (search through September 2014
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/L5UwXoftg4JHw4buVDhjUT
October 01, 2010 - Studies of diagnostic accuracy that
did not perform the reference standard in patients with
negative … standard (cystoscopy)
Excludes case series and nonsystematic reviews
www.annals.org 5 October 2010 … standard and is done regardless of test results
Reference standard is interpreted independently of the … test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets a reference standard independently of the screening … standard; the screening test is improperly administered; has a biased
ascertainment of the reference
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
October 23, 2018 - Only studies that compared a screening tool with an acceptable reference standard, such as the Conflicts … standards to establish screening test accuracy: Composite Abuse Scale, CTS or CTS-2, and Index of Spousal … One study 25 used a semistructured interview as the reference standard to determine the presence of … standard negatively, since disclosure of violence may be uncomfortable. … standards; handling of missing data was unclear (incomplete questionnaires) was often not reported;
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/colorectal-cancer-screening3
January 03, 2019 - screening or alternate screening strategy
KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies must use colonoscopy as a reference … standard
KQ 3: No comparator necessary
Outcomes
KQ 1: Colorectal cancer incidence … Poor-quality studies
KQ 1: Decision analyses *
KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies without a reference … standard or without representation of a full spectrum of disease (e.g., case-control studies, excluded