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441. Final Research Plan: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan142/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening
     October 30, 2014 - polysomnography; studies on reliability of screening must include measures of reproducibility (e.g., test-retest … discrimination, calibration KQ 3: Sensitivity and specificity; measures of reproducibility (e.g., test-retest … tools, and tests not validated in a group of participants separate from the sample used to develop the test

442. Archived: Final Research Plan: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan142/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening-january-2017
     October 30, 2014 - polysomnography; studies on reliability of screening must include measures of reproducibility (e.g., test-retest … discrimination, calibration KQ 3: Sensitivity and specificity; measures of reproducibility (e.g., test-retest … tools, and tests not validated in a group of participants separate from the sample used to develop the test

443. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2016 - tests was limited and consistent with previous findings that screening questions or a visual acuity test … Although the Snellen test remains the most widely used tool to measure visual acuity in primary care … for overall effect: z = 8.09; P <.001 1 Test for overall effect: z = 3.96; P <.001 Heterogeneity: … τ2 = 0.00; χ2 = 3.46; P = .18; I2 = 42% Test for overall effect: z = 6.13; P <.001 Test for subgroup … for overall effect: z = 2.36; P = .02 Test for subgroup differences: χ2 = 0.00; P = .99; I2 = 0% 2

444. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2018 - Test positivity for CA-125 was defined by a fixed serum level cutpoint or by a proprietary risk algorithm … metastasized.2 Screening trials have shown no effect on mortality and have documented harms; positive test … to surgery for investigation of suspected ovarian cancer based on positive screening and follow-up test … Summary of Evidence Test No. of Studies (No. of Participants) Summary of Findings Consistency and … Women with abnormal test results (n = 32) compared with women with no abnormal results more likely to

445. Archived: Addendum to Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/addendum-to-screening-for-ovarian-cancer-evidence-update-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force-reaffirmation-recommendation-statement/ovarian-cancer-screening-2012
     April 15, 2012 - The PLCO Trial also confirmed the risk of potential harms associated with false-positive screening test … result within 9 months of the screening test. … Abnormal screening test results were repeated and, if abnormality persisted, clinically evaluated and … Women were censored 1 year after their last CA-125 test or ultrasound. … The detection rate for the first screening test was 0.31 per 1,000 women and increased to 0.38–0.74 per

446. Addendum to Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Evidence Update for the USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     December 31, 2014 - The PLCO Trial also confirmed the risk of potential harms associated with false-positive screening test … result within 9 months of the screening test. … Abnormal screening test results were repeated and, if abnormality persisted, clinically evaluated and … Women were censored 1 year after their last CA-125 test or ultrasound. … The detection rate for the first screening test was 0.31 per 1,000 women and increased to 0.38–0.74

447. Archived: Letter to the Editor and Response from the Evidence-Based Practice Center: Human Papillomavirus Testing to Screen for Cervical Cancer: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/letter-to-the-editor-and-response-from-the-evidence-based-practice-center--human-papillomavirus-testing-to-screen-for-cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-screening-2012
     February 15, 2012 - types of HPV-based primary screening due to their heterogeneity in approaches to screening and abnormal test … When is measuring sensitivity and specificity sufficient to evaluate a diagnostic test, and when do we

448. Recommendation: Peripheral Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Disease: Screening and Risk Assessment With the Ankle-Brachial Index | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/peripheral-artery-disease-in-adults-screening-with-the-ankle-brachial-index
     July 10, 2018 - have atypical symptoms and because population screening studies that use a gold standard diagnostic test … Other harms may include false-positive test results, exposure to gadolinium or contrast dye if magnetic … False-positive test results, false-negative test results, anxiety, labeling, and exposure to gadolinium … Only 1 fair-quality study evaluated the ABI as a screening test compared with a reference standard in … Harms resulting from testing may include false-positive test results (about 1%), false-negative test

449. Screening for Celiac Disease: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     March 28, 2017 - In a higher-risk population, the positive predictive value is 40% to 80%, depending on the serologic test … The standard method of diagnosing celiac disease is the tissue transglutaminase IgA test, followed by … celiac disease in symptomatic persons older than 2 years is the tissue transglutamin- ase (tTG) IgA test … Sen- sitivity was 71% for both the tTG and EMA IgA tests and specificity was 93% for the tTG test and … 96% for the EMA IgA test.25 The second study was conducted in the Czech Republic among children and

450. Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2006 - Research on the test characteristics of brief, formal screening instruments has a number of limitations … Evaluation of a structured test and a parent led method for screening for speech and language problems … Uses of the Levett- Muir Language Screening Test. Health Visitor. 1983;56(12):454-456. 7 20. … The Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test: a population-based validation study using … Preschool speech and language screening: further validation of the sentence repetition screening test

451. Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - the quality and strength of the evidence about the potential benefits and harms of the screening test … If you do get a screening test, talk with your health care professional about the results of your test

452. Archived: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
     July 07, 2015 - LDS, the CDI, the Speech and Language Parent Questionnaire, and the Ward Infant Language Screening Test … Texas, the Denver Articulation Screening Exam, DENVER II (formerly the Denver Developmental Screening Test … Screening Test, the Structured Screening Test (formerly known as the Hackney Early Language Screening … Test), and Rigby’s trial speech screening test. … Test performance characteristics varied widely.

453. Draft Research Plan: Anal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/anal-cancer-screening
     December 08, 2022 - Anal cytology involves a Pap test sampling cells inside the anus.

454. Archived: Folic Acid/Folate Prophylaxis to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Ultrasound examination is used both as a screening test and as a follow-up test after positive MSAFP … -20 but for a number of reasons, the likelihood of a neural tube defect given a positive screening test … , 15 , 17 Another risk of screening is the harmful psychological effect on parents of a positive test … There is evidence that expectant parents with normal fetuses who are informed of an abnormal MSAFP test … Ultrasound has not yet been adequately evaluated as a routine screening test for neural tube defects.

455. Archived: Visual Impairment: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - tests for detecting strabismus and amblyopia in the 3-5-year-old child include simple inspection, cover test … it is widely recommended, 24 reports are not available of sensitivity or specificity of the cover test … the tumbling E, the Allen picture cards, grating cards, and others. 25 The specificity of any acuity test … Snellen letters are estimated to have a sensitivity of only 25%-37%. 26 Refractive screening is not a test … , in which the child wears Polaroid glasses while viewing the test cards, takes about 1 minute.

456. Archived: Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hepatitis-c-virus-infection-screening-2004
     March 08, 2004 - Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) is the initial screening test for anti-HCV antibodies. … Chain Reaction (PCR) is considered the gold standard in HCV-infection testing, as it is the only blood test … infection (2 percent), approximately 59 percent of all positive tests using the third-generation EIA test … The RIBA has 100 percent sensitivity when compared with EIA, but is a more expensive test. … The CDC guidelines for reporting HCV test results can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/

457. Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease Using the Ankle-Brachial Index: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     July 10, 2018 - the US Preventive Services Task Force on PAD screening with the ABI, the diagnostic accuracy of the test … The most commonly used screening test for PAD is the ankle- brachial index (ABI), which is the ratio … [1 – specificity]) and false- negative rates (negative test result given the presence of the dis- ease … Evidence for the diagnostic accuracy of the ABI as a screening test for PAD in asymptomatic adults is … Diagnostic test accuracy may vary with prevalence: implications for evidence-based diagnosis.

458. Archived: Pancreatic Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/pancreatic-cancer-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - , but there is little information on the efficacy of abdominal ultrasound as a screening test for pancreatic … CA19-9 has probably achieved the widest acceptance as a serodiagnostic test for pancreatic carcinoma … alone or CA19-9 plus elastase-1, found the likelihood of pancreatic cancer given a positive screening test … The predictive value of a positive test could be improved if a population at substantially higher risk … of pancreatic cancer, the invasive nature of diagnostic tests likely to follow a positive screening test

459. Archived: Final Research Plan: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 2014 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan23/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening-may-2014
     March 15, 2013 - KQs 1, 2 Screening   KQ 3 Screening strategies Laboratory test …   KQs 5–7 No treatment   KQ 3 Gold standard diagnostic test

460. Information for Professionals | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     Adult AUDIT - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test … Adolescents The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test