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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/bladder-cancer-in-adults-screening
August 15, 2011 - effectiveness of specific clinical preventive services for patients without obvious related signs or symptoms … Although adults with mild lower urinary tract symptoms (such as urinary frequency, hesitancy, urgency … , dysuria, or nocturia) are not strictly asymptomatic, these symptoms are quite common and are not believed … Adults with gross hematuria or acute changes in lower urinary tract symptoms are not included in this … The American Cancer Society states that prompt attention to bladder symptoms is the best approach for
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
December 15, 2007 - This recommendation applies to adults without neurological symptoms and without a history of transient … USPSTF) makes recommendations about preventive care services for patients without recognized signs or symptoms … Patient Population
This recommendation applies to adults without neurologic signs or symptoms … carotid endarterectomy plus medical management to medical management alone in participants without symptoms … disabling and fatal strokes by successful carotid endarterectomy in patients without recent neurological symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-testing
January 18, 2024 - risk-reducing medications (thromboembolic and cardiovascular events, metabolic disorders, musculoskeletal symptoms … of life, and others); risk-reducing surgery (surgical complications, sexual dysfunction, menopausal symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/prostate-cancer-screening-adults
October 12, 2023 - identification of men with clinically significant prostate cancer (i.e., cancer that is more likely to cause symptoms … diagnostic accuracy
Other study designs
* We will consider asymptomatic men to be those without symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-adults-screening-1996
January 01, 1996 - have included elderly ambulatory men have reported no differences in mortality, chronic genitourinary symptoms … , or systemic symptoms such as anorexia, fatigue, or malaise between those with and without asymptomatic … girls aged 5-15 years, treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria did not significantly reduce emergence of symptoms … bacteriuria. 8 However, these infants might have been detected outside the screening program as their symptoms … Lack of association between bacteriuria and symptoms in the elderly.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/depression-screening-2002
May 07, 2002 - Recurrent screening may be most productive in patients with a history of depression, unexplained somatic symptoms … newly detected cases of depression and patients already under treatment, showed improvement in patient symptoms … Two trials showed improved symptoms at 12 months; one of these also showed more employment retention … The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that clinicians should be alert to symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/ahrq-support-of-the-uspstf-2021_0.pdf
January 01, 2021 - counseling
l Preventive medications
These recommendations only apply to people who have no
signs or symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/B_Ae7DdLL7DNauBLXC-ptu
June 01, 2003 - † Patient outcomes included cognitive, functional, and behavioral symptoms. … ‡ Included caregiver burden, depressive symptoms, and reaction to patients’ behavioral problems in … Hebert et al. trial; caregiver
burden, depressive symptoms, sleep problems, and reaction to patients’ … Patients
suffer from progressive cognitive and functional
dependence, psychotic and depressive symptoms … Although caregiver burden, increased use of health
care, problem behaviors, psychiatric symptoms, and
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/genital-herpes-serologic-screening
February 14, 2023 - current history of genital herpes, which may include individuals with unrecognized genital herpes because symptoms … Studies of individuals previously diagnosed with genital herpes who are not currently experiencing symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-06/understanding-how-USPSTF-works_TF101_Updated-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - referred by a primary care clinician
• Recommendations apply to adults and children with no signs or symptoms … (or unrecognized signs or symptoms)
Overview, cont’d.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-01/understanding-how-uspstf-works-tf101-2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - referred by a primary care clinician
• Recommendations apply to adults and children with no signs or symptoms … (or unrecognized signs or symptoms)
Overview, cont’d.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2025-06/understanding-how-uspstf-works-tf101-updated_2025.pdf
January 01, 2025 - referred by a primary care clinician
• Recommendations apply to adults and children with no signs or symptoms … (or unrecognized signs or symptoms)
Overview, cont’d.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan138/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions
December 18, 2014 - of menses); child health outcomes associated with breastfeeding intervention (e.g., gastrointestinal symptoms … , atopic dermatitis, respiratory symptoms, otitis media, asthma, obesity)
KQ 2: Breastfeeding initiation
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan138/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions-october-2016
December 18, 2014 - of menses); child health outcomes associated with breastfeeding intervention (e.g., gastrointestinal symptoms … , atopic dermatitis, respiratory symptoms, otitis media, asthma, obesity)
KQ 2: Breastfeeding initiation
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/perinatal-depression-preventive-interventions
August 11, 2016 - outcomes for both the mother and infant/child, including decreased incidence of perinatal depression and symptoms … comparative effectiveness)
Outcomes
KQ 1: Maternal health outcomes:
Depression incidence or symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary20/depression-in-adults-screening-2009
December 15, 2009 - The severity of depressive symptoms in patients who receive treatment in primary care is equivalent to … Another small, fair-quality RCT reported improved depressive symptoms but had a highly selected participant … Major depression symptoms in primary care and psychiatric care settings: a cross-sectional analysis. … The limited effect of screening for depressive symptoms with the PHQ-9 in rural family practices. … It points to a rectangle on the right side that reads:
"Diagnosis of a depressive illness
Symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/2fycG-t73pJzd9fZgtc-mg
This screening recommendation applies to healthy adults who do not recognize or report respiratory symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/nKXBrHEeNwh37DFKTXapt8
RECOMMENDATION
Population Community-dwelling adults who are older than age 65 years and have no signs or symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
January 23, 2024 - Population
Recommendation
Grade
Children 5 years or younger without signs or symptoms … Children 5 years or younger without signs or symptoms of speech and language delay and disorders: The … Clinicians should also be aware of signs and symptoms of speech and language delays and disorders and … the effectiveness of specific preventive care services for patients without obvious related signs or symptoms … screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children who do not present with signs or symptoms
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-testing
April 11, 2024 - risk-reducing medications (thromboembolic and cardiovascular events, metabolic disorders, musculoskeletal symptoms … quality of life, others); risk-reducing surgery (surgical complications, sexual dysfunction, menopausal symptoms