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121. Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening
     July 18, 2023 - Results: Forty-three studies were included (n = 491,516). … test were sought; however, no included studies used a confirmatory test, and thus studies reporting … Poor-quality studies were excluded. … These studies were small, of short duration, and had few contributing studies for any one supplement. … Consistency in the use of FH criteria between screening studies and treatment studies would facilitate

122. Draft Research Plan: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
     October 28, 2021 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … Included Excluded Aim Studies targeting cervical cancer screening Use of HPV or cytology … with contemporaneous controls Population-based nested case-control studies KQ 2: Diagnostic … studies Case reports Case series Narrative reviews Editorials KQ 2: Diagnostic test … accuracy studies without a reference standard Setting Primary care (e.g., internal medicine

123. Final Research Plan: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
     March 17, 2022 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … Category Included Excluded Aim Studies targeting cervical cancer screening Use of HPV … and systematic reviews Randomized, controlled trials; controlled clinical trials Nonrandomized studies … with unbiased selection and contemporaneous controls KQ 2: Diagnostic test accuracy studies … Participation trials (for adherence only) KQs 1, 3: Pre-post studies Nonrandomized studies

124. Final Research Plan: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/genital-herpes-serologic-screening
     December 02, 2021 - Analytic Framework *Studies … KQs 2 and 3: Good-quality, recent (within 5 years) systematic reviews § ; trials or observational studies … : RCTs and multi-institution antiviral medication pregnancy exposure registries KQ 7: Treatment studies … with mixed populations (e.g., studies that enroll a subset of participants who are seropositive for … If no recent, good-quality systematic reviews are identified, all eligible primary studies that address

125. Final Research Plan: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening
     March 14, 2019 - effects of different risk- or prevalence-based methods for screening for HBV infection in modeling studies … ; and case-control studies; cross-sectional studies (KQ 3 only) KQs 4–6: Randomized, placebo-controlled … of harms not adequately evaluated in randomized trials KQ 7: Cohort studies examining the association … (e.g., case studies, treatment series) Abbreviations: anti-HBe = antibody to the hepatitis … outcomes, removed harms of liver biopsies, and expanded the study design criteria to include cohort studies

126. Evidence Summary: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary29/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening
     November 15, 2022 - Results: Eighty-six studies were included (N = 11,051). … ClinicalTrials.gov was searched for unpublished studies. … For KQ2, prospective cohort studies and cross-sectional studies assessing the accuracy of screening questionnaires … Second, studies that focused on the benefits and harms of treatment were limited to studies of interventions … per key question (KQ) exceeds the total number of studies because some studies were applicable to multiple

127. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     October 20, 2016 - Population All KQs: Adolescents and adults (age ≥12 years) KQs 1–3: Studies whose participants … are not selected on the basis of alcohol use or a related behavior or condition KQs 4, 5: Studies … , case control studies, time series studies, before-after studies with no comparison group, cross-sectional … studies, case studies, case series, and editorials/commentaries Country Studies conducted in … While screening studies may screen for all levels of unhealthy alcohol use, interventions targeted at

128. Archived: Evidence Summary: Harms of Screening for Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-harms-of-screening-for-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
     January 11, 2016 - (2 studies) No difference (2 studies) Higher with FP result (3 studies) Good Unclear whether … (15 studies) NR Higher with FP result (15 studies) Fair Unclear whether the quality of studies … ). 2 systematic reviews of 24 studies; 10 observational studies Fair Studies used different outcome … Radiation exposure No studies 2 modeling studies of radiation exposure Poor No studies directly … due to pain (2 studies): 2.7% and 17.5% Association (15 studies) Actual reattendance (10 studies

129. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/B73a4kJhxeaYyXK6gozbbY
     May 24, 2022 - RESULTS Twenty-five studies (N = 33 586) were included (13 trials, 11 diagnostic accuracy studies, and … Visual acuity tests (3 studies; n = 6493) and screening question (3 studies; n = 5203) were associated … Searches were supplemented by reference list review of rel- evant studies; studies from the prior USPSTF … Otherwise this report used primary studies. … The number of included studies does not sum to the number shown because some studies are included for

130. 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 - (e.g., small studies aimed at evaluating new endoscopy technologies, studies with operator or resource … ; or case-control studies KQ 2: Systematic reviews (of included study designs), trials, cohort or … well-conducted nested case-control diagnostic accuracy studies, screening registry studies KQ 3: … ; cohort studies; systematically selected case series Poor-quality studies with a fatal flaw … Diagnostic accuracy studies without colonoscopy as a reference standard, diagnostic accuracy studies

131. Evidence Summary: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary14/lung-cancer-screening
     March 09, 2021 - Clinical trial registries were searched for unpublished studies. … These studies evaluated general health-related quality of life (HRQoL; 3 studies), 101 , 104 , 107 anxiety … (8 studies), 62 , 101-107 depression (2 studies), 62 , 102 distress (3 studies), 62 , 104 , 107 and … Most findings from these studies also showed improved NNS Harms: studies of all models reported similar … most studies).

132. Archived: Final Research Plan: Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/syphilis-infection-in-pregnancy-screening-september-2018
     August 31, 2017 - or adult women, at any time during pregnancy, who are not known to have syphilis infection KQ 3: Studies … in women living with HIV KQ 3: Studies of penicillin treatment in nonpregnant women or men; studies … on psychosocial harms; studies on screening test inaccuracy must define their criteria for false-positive … Programme)   Study design KQ 1: Randomized, controlled trials; before-after and ecologic studies … ; case-control studies; diagnostic accuracy studies; large case series; systematic reviews and meta-analyses

133. Evidence Summary: Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Assessment With Nontraditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary--html/cardiovascular-disease-screening-using-nontraditional-risk-assessment
     July 10, 2018 - The addition of the ABI (10 studies), hsCRP level (25 studies), or CAC score (19 studies) can improve … Published coefficient model studies are risk prediction studies evaluating the added prognostic value … Ten studies evaluated the ABI, 25 studies evaluated hsCRP level, and 19 studies evaluated CAC score ( … level (9 studies), or CAC score (8 studies) can improve agreement between predicted and observed events … c Evidence from published coefficient studies only; no model development studies available.

134. Final Research Plan: Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening
     November 14, 2019 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … care (e.g., statins, antiplatelet medications) KQ 4: Medical treatment/usual care or noncomparative studies … reporting rates of harms KQs 3, 4: Comparative studies of CEA vs. … All study designs other than randomized, controlled trials KQ 4: Case reports; small observational studies … Countries Studies conducted in countries categorized as “very high” on the Human Development

135. Archived: Final Research Plan: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan151/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-july-2016
     January 15, 2015 - , systematic reviews, registry studies, long-term trial followup, high-quality case-control studies … KQs 1–3: RCTs, CCTs, cohort studies, systematic reviews KQs 4, 7: RCTs, CCTs, cohort studies … reviews, cohort studies, registry studies, long-term trial followup, high-quality case-control studies … All KQs: Studies rated as poor quality KQs 1–3, 5, 6, 8: Qualitative studies, case reports … , cost-effectiveness studies KQs 1, 2, 5, 6: Cohort studies KQs 4, 7: None Settings

136. Archived: Reducing Risk for Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Hepatitis C: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/reducing-risk-for-mother-to-infant-transmission-of-hepatitis-c-virus-a-systematic-review-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/hepatitis-c-screening-2013
     November 15, 2012 - Fourteen studies (2 good-quality, 4 fair-quality, and 8 poor-quality studies) found no clear association … Fourteen studies (2 good-quality, 2 fair-quality, and 10 poor-quality studies) found no association between … We selected for full review randomized trials, cohort studies, and case–control studies that evaluated … Labor Management Internal Fetal Monitoring Three studies (2 good-quality 5 , 16 studies and … shortcomings in the studies.

137. Primary Care Interventions to Support Breastfeeding: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Of 211 full-text articles reviewed, 52 studies met inclusion criteria. … Thirty-one studies were newly identified, and 21 studies were carried forward from the previous review … , 1.16 [95% CI, 1.02-1.32]; 17 studies [n = 7690]). … included poor- quality studies). … b Two studies were reported in a single publication.

138. Grnjnsmqzvbc-Dnhgrmgg3 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2014 - In 2005, on the basis of epidemiologic studies of screen- ing and studies of the diagnostic accuracy … Inclusion criteria were less restrictive for effec- tiveness studies than diagnostic accuracy studies … studies predating the searches. … in 3 studies (24, 26, 27). … Studies were lacking for most key questions, and the number, qual- ity, and applicability of studies

139. Serological Screening for Genital Herpes: A Reaffirmation Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2023 - For studies of diagnostic test accuracy, we assessed the quality of studies as good, fair, or poor … We focused on studies comparing a serologic test with the Western blot and did not include studies … Studies"[MeSH] OR "Follow-Up Studies"[MeSH] OR "observational study" OR "observational studies" OR … Studies"[MeSH] OR "Follow-Up Studies"[MeSH] OR "observational study" OR "observational studies" OR … † Eligible studies with mixed populations (e.g., studies that enroll a subset of participants who

140. Final Research Plan: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-in-adults-screening
     December 28, 2017 - with a comparator of no screening or no treatment KQs 2, 4: RCTs, observational cohort studies … with and without a comparison group, registry studies KQs 1, 3: Nonpregnant adults: Study designs … other than RCTs Pregnant women * : Study designs other than RCTs or observational cohort studies … with a comparator of no screening or no treatment KQs 2, 4: Case control studies, case series and … case reports, qualitative studies Countries Nonpregnant adults: Studies conducted in countries