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241. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     October 07, 2008 - Screening Test Intervals Intervals for recommended screening … Practice shared decision-making; discussions with patients should incorporate information on test quality

242. Screening for HIV: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     April 23, 2013 - Screening Tests The conventional serum test for diagnosing HIV infection is repeatedly reactive immunoassay … Conventional HIV test results are available within 1 to 2 days from most commercial laboratories.

243. Archived: Final Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 15, 2012 - True negative test = known confirmed deleterious genetic mutation in relatives, and none detected in … Uninformative negative test = no known deleterious genetic mutations in relatives, and none detected … patient's relationships with family, false reassurance, incomplete testing, misinterpretation of the test … relationships with family members; false reassurance; incomplete testing; misinterpretation of the test

244. Archived: Evidence Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 05, 2005 - Characteristics of HIV Antibody Test Strategies? … Predictors of failure to return for HIV test result and counseling by test site type. … KQ 3: What are the test characteristics of HIV antibody test strategies? … Studies of diagnostic test accuracy Good for standard and OraQuick rapid test † ; fair for other testing … Administration of reliable screening test.

245. Archived: Evidence Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 05, 2005 - Characteristics of HIV Antibody Test Strategies? … Predictors of failure to return for HIV test result and counseling by test site type. … KQ 3: What are the test characteristics of HIV antibody test strategies? … Studies of diagnostic test accuracy Good for standard and OraQuick rapid test † ; fair for other testing … Administration of reliable screening test.

246. Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Clinician Summary (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2021 - NAATs can test for infection at urogenital and extragenital sites, including urine, endocervical, vaginal … Abbreviations: NAAT, nucleic acid amplification test; STI, sexually transmitted infection, USPSTF, US

247. Archived: Syphilis Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - , all reactive results in asymptomatic patients should be confirmed with a more specific treponemal test … All test results should be evaluated in concert with a clinical diagnosis and history. … They should be performed using the same test initially used to document infection (e.g., VDRL or RPR) … The asymptomatic patient with a positive VDRL test. Am Fam Phys . 1988;37:185–190. [ PubMed ] 13. … Comparison of a hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis (HATTS) with other serologic methods for

248. Archived: Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 15, 2005 - Potential harms of screening and treatment for gonorrhea include false-positive test results, anxiety … Potential harms of screening and treatment for gonorrhea include false-positive test results, anxiety … Vaginal culture remains an accurate screening test when transport conditions are suitable. … Issues that were not fully reviewed include choice of test for screening at rectal and pharyngeal sites … Nucleic acid probes may also be used to test for gonorrhea and chlamydia in a single specimen and may

249. USPSTF Analytic Framework for Child and Adolescent Health Topics | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 01, 2017 - screening (for example, identifying low- and high-risk populations, or recording normal and abnormal test … What are the harms of the screening test?

250. Screening for Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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     August 03, 2020 - High-risk adults should be screened every year with a test called low-dose computed tomography (LDCT … Facts About Screening for Lung Cancer The main test used to detect lung cancer is low-dose computed … A test can suggest that a person has lung cancer when none is present (this is known as a “false positive … Once-a-year testing. low-dose computed tomography A test

251. Draft Recommendation: Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 22, 2022 - apparent symptoms, do not feel sick, cannot spread TB to others, and usually have a positive TB skin test … or positive TB blood test reaction. … types of screening tests for LTBI are currently available in the United States: the tuberculin skin test … Accuracy of Screening Tests There is no direct test for the diagnosis of latent infection with M. … In the absence of a reference standard for detection of LTBI, screening test performance is based on

252. Recommendation: Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 23, 2021 - of hearing problems. 9 In one study, 1 in 5 persons who reported hearing loss had a normal hearing test … rub) were evaluated in 9 studies. 8 , 27 Six of these assessed the accuracy of the whispered voice test … 40 dB, ranged from 30% to 60% and specificity from 80% to 98%. 8 , 27 One study of whispered voice test … Basic audiometric test results. Ear Hear . 1990;11(4):247-256. … The effect of experience on the sensitivity and specificity of the whispered voice test: a diagnostic

253. Screening for Syphilis: A Brief Update (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2004 - Reactive nontreponemal tests require confirmation with a treponemal test. 1. … The ICS test was found to be more sensitive than the RPR test, giving positive test results for a number … ICS test reactivity did not appear to correlate with RPR titers. Line immunoassay (LIA). … RPR card and rapid syphilis test (RST). … Evaluation of INNO-LIA syphilis assay as a confirmatory test for syphilis.

254. Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults (pdf file)
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     October 19, 2020 - Facts About Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency Screening for vitamin D is done through a blood test … There is also potential that other compounds in the blood may affect blood test results. … Screening for vitamin D is done through a blood test.

255. Procedure Manual Appendix IX. Factors to Consider When Recommending Starting and Stopping Times for Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - biological or epidemiological knowledge suggesting that the risk for disease, the accuracy of the screening test … biological or epidemiological knowledge suggesting that the risk for disease, the accuracy of the screening test

256. Clinical Summary: Screening for HIV Infection (pdf file)
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     June 03, 2019 - indeterminate (or if acute HIV infection or recent exposure is suspected or reported), an HIV-1 nucleic acid test … is recommended to differentiate acute HIV-1 infection from a false-positive test result.

257. Procedure Manual Appendix IX. Factors to Consider When Recommending Starting and Stopping Times for Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - biological or epidemiological knowledge suggesting that the risk for disease, the accuracy of the screening test … biological or epidemiological knowledge suggesting that the risk for disease, the accuracy of the screening test

258. Summary of USPSTF Draft Recommendation: Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Persons (pdf file)
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     December 23, 2024 - Screening for syphilis involves a blood test taken by a healthcare professional. … However, harms may include anxiety due to false positive test results, which show someone has syphilis

259. Modeling Study: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 21, 2018 - emerged, contributing to the US Food and Drug Administration approval of the first stand-alone hrHPV test … Sensitivity analyses assessed the effect of test performance characteristics on the main results. … Test Characteristic a Screening Test Sensitivity Analysis Base-Case Value Source … Name b Test Interval, y Start Age, y Test Interval, y Start Age, y 1 CYTO-3Y, 21 … b Strategy name indicates SCREENING TEST 1–interval (years), start age (years)/SCREENING TEST 2–interval

260. Clinical Summary: Screening for Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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     April 30, 2018 - Screening Tests Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures the amount of prostate-specific … Men with a positive PSA test result may undergo a transrectal ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy of