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361. Draft Research Plan: Chronic Kidney Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 19, 2023 - *For screening, studies in which patients were selected on the basis of having conditions associated … However, studies are not required to exclude patients with these conditions. † For treatment, studies … plan to describe the participant characteristics and major intervention components of the included studies … KQs 3, 3a: Studies reporting diagnostic accuracy Study designs not described as included … Study Quality Good-quality or fair-quality; poor-quality only if better quality studies are lacking

362. Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 10, 2022 - DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and CINAHL for relevant studies … symptoms; studies of treatment in persons with mild or moderate, or minimally symptomatic, COPD. … , and citations provided by experts, to identify major studies published prior to 2015. … The last surveillance, conducted on March 25, 2022, identified no new studies that would meet inclusion … As in the previous review, no treatment studies were identified that were conducted in patients with

363. Final Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 11, 2024 - plan to describe the participant characteristics and major intervention components of the included studies … Human Development Index Study Design All KQs: Randomized, controlled trials; nonrandomized studies … studies of harms KQs 4, 5: Observational studies with or without comparison groups Other study designs … ; modeling studies Study Quality Good- and fair-quality studies according to U.S. … Preventive Services Task Force quality criteria Poor-quality studies * The population includes

364. Evidence Summary: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 23, 2019 - search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, critical appraisal criteria, and a list of excluded studies … No studies were identified for KQ1 or KQ2 that addressed the effects of screening programs on perinatal … Two fair-quality observational studies that compared perinatal transmission rates over time were included … No studies were identified for KQ4 to assess potential harms of case management. … The decreasing trend in perinatal transmission observed in the studies may be due to various factors,

365. JAMA (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2021 - STUDY SELECTION English-language comparative effectiveness studies comparing screening strategies in … The studies did not report statistically significant differences in maternal and infant complications … These searches were supplemented by examining reference lists of primary studies and reviews. … All studies were conducted dur- ing the prenatal period, with no studies examining screening for new- … Few or none of the partici- pants in the included studies were from these populations.

366. Final Research Plan: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 02, 2019 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … transmitted infection; patients undergoing management for HIV infection; children (age <13 years); studies … except for evidence on screening harms), case reports, small uncontrolled observational trials, and case studies … Study Quality Fair- and good-quality studies based on USPSTF criteria Poor-quality studies … the gold standard for testing as nucleic acid amplification testing (or other standards reported by studies

367. Recommendation: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 11, 2022 - Most studies included primarily adolescents (aged 12 to 18 years; mean age, 14.8 years); 4 studies included … Only 1 or 2 studies used each screening instrument for a given disorder. … Three studies included young children aged 3 to 7 years, 4 studies included adolescents aged 13 to 20 … years, and 22 studies focused on older children (aged 6 to 14 years [11 studies]) or children and adolescents … Studies are needed that provide more information on the following.

368. Recommendation: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 24, 2025 - Accuracy of Screening Tests   IPV Accuracy varied across 17 studies evaluating screening tools to … One study included women as young as 16 years, and 1 study recruited men. 1 , 35 Studies assessed 14 … Five trials reported on specific categories of IPV. 1 , 35 Generally, compared with studies enrolling … in older adults. 1 , 35 Abuse of Vulnerable Adults There were no identified studies on benefits … Due to an absence of studies of similar interventions in nonpregnant women of a similar age, evidence

369. Final Recommendation Statement: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 15, 2022 - Berlin Questionnaire, 4 studies the STOP-BANG questionnaire, and 2 studies the Multivariable Apnea Prediction … Study sizes ranged from 43 to 1033 participants, and studies were generally conducted in participants … In the 2 studies evaluating the original STOP-BANG questionnaire, both found good sensitivity (87% to … All studies recruited participants with known or suspected OSA from specialty clinics. … Follow-up in these studies was generally from 8 to 12 weeks.

370. Recommendation: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 25, 2020 - The MMSE was the most evaluated instrument (30 studies). … The other instruments were studied in fewer studies (2 to 9 studies), and cutoffs for screening instruments … often varied across studies. … n = 6209], galantamine [10 studies; n = 7464], rivastigmine [8 studies; n = 4569], and memantine [12 … studies; n = 4189]) on global cognitive function.

371. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: A Targeted Evidence Update for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - Included Studies Appendix C. Excluded Studies Appendix D. … studies (e.g., pre-post design). … (e.g., laboratory studies) were excluded. … No studies met inclusion criteria for this evidence update, but 2 studies addressed intervals of screening … with contemporaneous control groups KQ 2: Risk prediction studies KQs 1, 3: Observational studies

372. Final Evidence Summary: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 25, 2020 - No new studies were identified. … Case-control studies and studies that selectively recruited patients with known or clinically suspected … and the consistency and precision of results between studies. … More than 260 studies were identified that addressed these questions; more than one-fourth of those studies … Vascular dementia: diagnostic criteria for research studies.

373. Recommendation: Gestational Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 10, 2021 - ), NDDG (6 studies), or IADPSG (2 studies) criteria. … Four observational studies (1 case-control, 3 retrospective cohort studies) compared screening vs no … Of these, 2 studies included in the previous review found no benefit, and the 2 newer studies (1 study … However, the small number of studies, lack of consistency in effect between the studies, and the use … Race/ethnicity was fairly diverse in several studies, although 2 of the largest studies with treatment

374. Evidence Summary: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 04, 2024 - This article focuses on the 2 most studied intervention types: multifactorial (28 studies; n = 27,784 … ) and exercise (37 studies; n = 16,117) interventions. … Data are summarized narratively for outcomes precluding meta-analysis (<5 studies). … Most of the included studies investigated the effectiveness of multifactorial (28 studies) and exercise … (37 studies) interventions.

375. Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: US Preventive Services Task Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 24, 2025 - Studies report that the prevalence of IPV varies by sexual orientation.1,15 According to the 2016/2017 … Studies of interventions that provided brief counseling specific to IPV and the provision of information … Accuracy of Screening Tests IPV Accuracy varied across 17 studies evaluating screening tools to iden- … period.1,35 In the 3 studies that assessed intensive services, interventions were delivered in home … Caregiver abuse of older or vulnerable adults Studies are needed to assess the accuracy of screening

376. Final Evidence Summary: Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Primary Care-Based Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 03, 2020 - Studies conducted in most other school settings were excluded because of concerns that generalizability … Studies were rated as poor quality and excluded from the review if they had a major flaw, such as very … The DerSimonian and Laird model was used to calculate the pooled effect estimate across studies. … Twenty (69%) of the included studies addressed broad populations for universal prevention of drug use … However, these studies generally found benefits only in subgroup analyses, and the pattern of results

377. Interventions to Support Breastfeeding: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     April 08, 2025 - studies. … Just more than one-third of studies took place in the United States (33); the remaining studies took … place in settings in Europe (23 studies), Asia (17 studies), Australia or New Zealand (10 stud- ies), … or Canada (7 studies). … facility (29 studies).

378. Final Research Plan: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 04, 2020 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … and relevant to primary care   Study Designs KQs 1, 2: RCTs and controlled observational studies … screening with no screening, delayed screening, or usual care (i.e., targeted screening) KQ 3, 4: Studies … 7: RCTs comparing treatment with no treatment (including sham injection); controlled observational studies … Poor-quality studies Abbreviation: RCT=randomized controlled trial.

379. Screening for Lung Cancer With Low-Dose Computed Tomography: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     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 other psychosocial … Most findings from these studies also showed improved NNS Harms: studies of all models reported similar … from 0% to 4% in most studies; rates of 90-d mortality were slightly higher (range, 2%-5% in most studies

380. Routine Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy: Review Article (pdf file)
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     August 03, 2020 - Most of the studies are cross- sectional observational studies (grade II-2 evidence), in which neonatal … More recent cross-sectional studies have found similar results. … Studies in Europe have reported simi¬ lar results. … Observational Studies of Iron Supplementation and Obstetrical Outcomes Several observational studies … Many lacked statistical power, and interventions dif¬ fered widely between studies.