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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/sexually-transmitted-infections
January 16, 2025 - For key questions, we will describe the population characteristics of the included studies to assess … Depending on the study design and timing of studies, descriptions of study populations vary in their … Category
Included
Excluded
Aim
Studies targeting sexual behavior change to prevent STIs … Studies aimed solely at targeting behavior change to prevent unintended pregnancy or to change behaviors … Poor-quality studies (according to design-specific USPSTF criteria)
Abbreviations : AIDS =
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September 24, 2019 - RESULTS Nineteen studies (N = 8443) meeting inclusion criteria were identified. … No studies examined screening in nonpregnant populations. … as
well as registry studies. … Comparator: Ineligible comparator, including comparative effectiveness
studies. … Two studies of adult women recruited in-
dividuals from medical centers,21,32 with 1 of these studies
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions
July 14, 2022 - When adequately delineated in source studies, precise language (feeding at the breast or feeding expressed … Study design
Randomized, controlled trials. §
Nonrandomized studies of interventions. … Language
Studies published in English. … Studies published in any language other than English. … Quality rating
Fair or good-quality studies.
Poor-quality studies.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions
March 19, 2024 - Almost one-third of the studies recruited young mothers (age <20 years). … of studies included a population that was more than 25% Hispanic or Latina/o. … All but 2 studies evaluated home-visiting interventions. … All but 3 studies compared interventions with usual care. 17 , 25 , 29 These 3 studies compared child … Two studies did not report statistically significant adverse events between study groups.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/anxiety-adults-screening
June 20, 2023 - reviews (including ≈483 studies [N≈81,507]). … Two screening studies found no benefit for screening for anxiety. … Most studies used CBT-based interventions, and few studies directly involved primary care clinicians … New primary evidence includes 2 studies for KQ1 evidence, 25 studies for KQ2, 0 studies for KQ3 evidence … , 45 studies for KQ4 evidence, and 8 studies for KQ5 evidence.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
May 16, 2024 - For Key Questions, we will describe the population and intervention characteristics of the included studies … We will also examine selected subgroup or stratified analyses reported in the included studies to explore … Studies in which the only aim is targeting another behavior (e.g., drug or tobacco use) such that change … All KQs: Adolescents and adults (age ≥12 years), including individuals who are pregnant KQs 1–3: Studies … with concurrent comparisons groups) KQ 2: Studies of screening accuracy reporting sensitivity and
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
June 09, 2022 - , RCTs, and nonrandomized, controlled trials
KQs 2: Cross-sectional or cohort studies
KQ 4, 5: … RCTs
Case-control studies, case reports, case series, or systematic reviews
Country
Studies … rated fair or good quality
Studies rated poor quality
Language of published study
English … Non-English
* Age criteria for studies of treatment includes children as old as age 6 years … Studies enrolling an unselected population may include children with conditions listed as excluded who
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary19/colorectal-cancer-screening
May 18, 2021 - In observational studies, receipt of screening colonoscopy (2 studies, n = 436,927) or fecal immunochemical … Included studies were English-language studies of asymptomatic screening populations of individuals 40 … Studies whose design was subject to a high risk of bias were excluded, including those studies subject … Only 3 gFOBT studies included adults younger than 50 years at recruitment, and none of these studies … Of the studies evaluating CT colonography, 7 studies 102 , 105 , 117 , 138 , 202 , 203 , 253 (n = 3365
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-and-genetic-testing
August 20, 2019 - = 43,813), 15 RCTs (n = 4132), 59 cohort studies (n = 41,300), 2 case-control studies (n = 481), 12 … Most studies used results of BRCA1/2 mutation testing as the reference standard, although 2 studies … Results of the 4 new studies 42 , 44 , 47 , 51 were consistent with the 10 previous studies 38-41 … Twenty observational studies (22 articles; n = 4322), including 6 new studies 82 , 89 , 93 , 95 , … Twelve observational studies (13 articles; n = 2684), including 8 new studies (n = 750), of surgical
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/sexually-transmitted-infections-behavioral-counseling
August 18, 2020 - The last surveillance on May 22, 2020, identified no new studies. … Studies rated as poor quality were excluded from the review. … Analyses to assess the sensitivity of pooled effects to individual studies or types of studies—for example … No studies reported intervention effects on STI morbidity or mortality, but 21 included studies 16 , … Like the studies reporting STI outcomes, most of included evidence (30/34 [88%]) was from studies of
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
February 01, 2024 - For Key Questions, we will describe the population and intervention characteristics of the included studies … We will also examine selected subgroup analyses reported in the included studies to explore whether broad … interventions for unhealthy alcohol use, with or without addressing other substances or behaviors
Studies … All KQs: Adolescents and adults (age ≥12 years), including individuals who are pregnant KQs 1–3: Studies … with concurrent comparisons groups) KQ 2: Studies of screening accuracy reporting sensitivity and
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August 20, 2019 - )
included for
KQ2a
4 New
(4 studies)
10 Prior
(10 studies)
30 Articles
(28 studies)
included for … KQ2b/KQ3b
1 New
(1 study)
29 Prior
(27 studies)
22 Articles
(20 studies)
included for
KQ3c
6 New … (6 studies)
16 Prior
(14 studies)
15 Articles
(14 studies)
included for
KQ4
7 New
(7 studies)
8 Prior … (7 studies)
28 Articles
(21 studies)
included for
KQ5
14 New
(13 studies)
14 Prior
(12 studies) … (Table 1),38-51 including 4 new
studies that evaluated existing tools.42,44,47,51 No studies evalu-
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/anxiety-adults-screening
August 27, 2020 - Included studies may address these conditions individually or in combination. … Studies limited to populations that are not broadly generalizable to primary care (e.g., persons with … Studies of physician-assisted suicide in patients who are terminally ill. … after identified systematic reviews that include observational studies. … KQ 2: If unable to limit to existing systematic reviews, case-control studies will be used (i.e., studies
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/screening-depression-suicide-risk-adults
September 03, 2020 - Included studies may address these conditions individually or in combination. … Studies limited to populations that are not broadly generalizable to primary care (e.g., persons with … Studies of physician-assisted suicide in patients who are terminally ill. … after identified systematic reviews that include observational studies. … KQ 2: If unable to limit to existing systematic reviews, case-control studies will be used (i.e., studies
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening
December 15, 2020 - Studies that compared the yield of alternative screening strategies, large (n >1000) cohort studies of … Twenty-two studies 30-33 , 40-52 , 59-61 , 63 , 64 were new for this update, and 28 studies 16-29 , … , 50 , 51 Studies typically adjusted for age, sex, and fibrosis stage; some studies also adjusted for … No studies
No evidence
NA
No studies
No evidence
NA
KQ3: What is the yield (number of … Prior report: 6 observational studies 53-58 (n = 1385)
Update: 3 observational studies 59-61
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November 01, 2021 - Although several potentially relevant new studies were
identified,7-9 none of these studies would substantively … ) included for KQ1 113 Articles (98 studies) included for KQ344 Articles (33 studies) included for KQ2 … Because of the limited number of studies and the clinical hetero-
geneity of studies, the analyses were … These studies included 14 studies of screening programs using stool
testing or SIG, 55 studies of colonoscopy … Empirical studies, trials, or well-designed cohort studies with av-
erage-risk populations are still
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April 27, 2021 - All included studies in the prior review and a subset
of previously excluded studies were also evaluated … No new studies were identified. … For KQ4 (harms), RCTs, nonrandomized controlled interven-
tion studies, and cohort studies were included … )
included for KQ2
27 Articles (18 studies)
included for KQ3
16 Articles (13 studies)
included for … (12 new)
(n = 57 128)
Repeat OBPM: 13 studies
(n = 55 759)
HBPM: 4 studies
(n = 1001)
Self-OBPM: 2 studies
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October 11, 2022 - RESULTS Twenty-one studies (N = 5433) were included for depression and 19 studies
(N = 6290) for suicide … For depression, no studies reported on the direct effects of
screening on health outcomes, and 7 studies … 43 Articles (29 studies)
included for KQ4b
18 Articles (13 studies)
from previous review
25 Articles … (16 studies)
from current review
13 Articles (9 studies)
included for KQ5b
6 Articles (4 studies) … from previous review
7 Articles (5 studies)
from current review
54 Articles (49 studies) included for
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary27/screening-depression-suicide-risk-children-adolescents
October 11, 2022 - Results: Twenty-one studies (N = 5433) were included for depression and 19 studies (N = 6290) for suicide … For depression, no studies reported on the direct effects of screening on health outcomes, and 7 studies … Fourteen studies enrolled adolescents based on elevated suicide risk, 52-55 , 57-72 , 74 and 2 studies … Depression
Seven studies (described in 12 articles) were included (n = 1408 from primary studies). … No studies reported on the direct benefits or harms of screening.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-nonpregnant-adolescents-and-adults1/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening
June 11, 2019 - Results: Eighteen new studies (5 RCTs, 11 cohort studies, and 2 systematic reviews; N = 266,563) were … included, and 11 studies (2 RCTs and 9 cohort studies; N = 218,542) were carried forward from the prior … Randomized clinical trials (RCTs), cohort studies, and case-control studies of adolescents (13 to <18 … Eighteen new studies (5 RCTs, 11-17 11 cohort studies, 18-37 and 2 systematic reviews; 38 , 39 29 … articles; N = 266,563) were included, and 11 studies (2 RCTs 40 , 41 and 9 cohort studies; 42-50 N