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81. Archived: Exercise Tolerance Testing to Screen for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review: Coronary Heart Disease (Electrocardiography): Screening (2004) | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 03, 2004 - Exercise tolerance testing is widely used as a diagnostic test in the initial evaluation of patients … Although exercise tolerance testing has been applied and studied as a screening or prognostic test in … Five-year follow-up of maximal treadmill stress test in asymptomatic men and women. … Accurate detection of coronary heart disease by new exercise test. … result 1.3% * Abnormal exercise test result 5.4% * 3.6 (2.4-5.4) * 36% 5% Age.

82. Draft Research Plan: Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 08, 2021 - Expand All Proposed Analytic Framework *Studies that screen using an HSV-2 serologic test … alone or a “paired” (HSV-1 and HSV-2) serologic test will be included if they meet other eligibility … criteria; however, only the accuracy of test characteristics related to HSV-2 serologic tests will be … discord, or distress or anxiety around the meaning of HSV-1 results when screening involves a “paired test … criteria; however, only the accuracy of test characteristics related to HSV-2 serologic tests will be

83. Draft Research Plan: Helicobacter Pylori Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    November 17, 2022 - What is the adherence to H. pylori eradication therapy and posttreatment test of cure in asymptomatic … What are barriers and facilitators to adherence to H. pylori eradication therapy and posttreatment test … What is the prevalence of H. pylori recurrence after eradication therapy and of posttreatment test … trials, nonrandomized studies of screening programs with contemporaneous controls KQ 2: Diagnostic test … accuracy studies; systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy KQ 3: Randomized trials, controlled

84. Final Recommendation Statement: Screening for Cervical Cancer | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    August 21, 2018 - The Task Force recommends the Pap test for women aged 21 to 29 years and three strategies to screen women … aged 30 to 65 years: Pap test, HPV test, or both in combination (cotesting).

85. Archived: How Did the USPSTF Arrive at This Recommendation?: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 11, 2012 - My doctor says I need a PSA screening test. Should I get one? … , the USPSTF recommends that men not get the PSA test to screen for prostate cancer. … How should I decide whether to have a PSA screening test? … If you choose to get a PSA test, talk with your physician about the results of your test and whether … My doctor says I need a PSA screening test. Should I get one?

86. Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Clinical Summary of U.S. Preventive Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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    May 14, 2008 - uncertain benefits and harms as well as the frequency and uncertain meaning of a positive screening test … Screening Tests If a decision is made to screen for GDM: The screening test most commonly used in … the United States is an initial 50-gram 1-hour glucose challenge test (GCT). … the result on the GCT is abnormal,, the patient undergoes a 100-gram 3-hour oral glucose tolerance test

87. Evidence Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 05, 2017 - focusing eye Ocular alignment test Simultaneous red reflex test (Bruckner test) Equal … c Cover-uncover test; Cardiff cards at ages 8 and 12 months; Cardiff and Kay picture test at ages 18 … , 25, and 31 months; Kays picture test and HOTV crowded symbols distance visual acuity test at age 37 … d Cover-uncover test; Kays picture test and HOTV test; noncycloplegic autorefraction. … or stereopsis test (or both).

88. Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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    March 15, 2021 - Screening involves a test in which a pregnant person drinks a sugar solution and then has her blood … It includes an initial, shorter test for all pregnant people followed by a longer second test for those … who have high sugar levels on the initial test. … During the second test, sugar levels are measured several times after taking the sugar drink. … (I Statement) Notes 1 screening A test in which a pregnant person

89. Final Evidence Summary: Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnant Persons to Prevent Preterm Delivery: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 07, 2020 - When at least 3 studies using the same index test and test threshold were available, a quantitative synthesis … Twenty-five cross-sectional diagnostic test accuracy studies (n = 15,785) reported test accuracy for … A validation study of genzyme diagnostics OSOM Trichomonas rapid test and BVBlue test [NCT00682851]. … BVBlue test for diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis. … Clinical validation of a test for the diagnosis of vaginitis.

90. Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults (pdf file)
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    December 27, 2022 - There are two ways to screen for LTBI, either with a skin test or a blood test. … B Grade Notes 1 screening A skin test or … a blood test to detect TB bacteria. latent tuberculosis infection When a person is infected with TB … /tb/publications/factsheets/general/ltbiandactivetb.htm#:~:text=What%20is%20Latent%20TB%20Infection,test

91. Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults - Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    August 10, 2012 - tests are used in primary care settings to detect hearing loss in adults, including: Whispered voice test … Finger rub test Watch tick test Single-item screening (for example, asking “Do you have difficulty

92. Update on Methods: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 01, 2019 - , the possibility of adverse events from the test, the accuracy and potential for adverse events of any … subsequent confirmatory diagnostic tests, and the inevitable failure to follow through on the test or … If the test is falsely positive and the patient does not have confirmatory angiography, he or she may … ,  n 100,000 100,000 Patients with CAS in population,  n 1,000 5,000 Positive screening test … results go to surgery; 6) the perioperative stroke or death rate with CEA (whether the test result was

93. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: A Reaffirmation Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2018 - and a quantitative nontreponemal test. … Typically, EIA or CIA tests are used at the initial test. … the initial EIA or CIA test. … If the second treponemal test is negative, the initial EIA or CIA positive test may be a false-positive … Sixty-two percent of these states require only one test, and 84 percent specify that the test should

94. Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2008 - The majority of positive screening test results are probably false positive. … challenge test. … Test performance can be evaluated only in the context of how accurately the test identifies people with … glucose tolerance test . … Reproducibility of the oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy.

95. Recommendation: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 05, 2017 - , the cover-uncover test, the corneal light reflex test, visual acuity tests (such as Snellen, Lea Symbols … (for visual acuity), the red reflex test (for media opacity), and the corneal light reflex test (for … , the cover-uncover test (for strabismus), the corneal light reflex test, visual acuity tests (eg, Snellen … Computer-generated moving stereotest dots Ocular alignment test Corneal light reflex test … cataracts and tumors Cover-uncover test (cross cover test) Alignment changes when covering or

96. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - but its test performance has not been fully evaluated. … glucose tolerance test, is the screening test recommended by expert panels in the U.S. … Criteria for the oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy. … Impact of time since last meal on the gestational glucose challenge test. … How reliable is the fifty-gram one-hour glucose screening test?

97. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/diabetes-mellitus-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - but its test performance has not been fully evaluated. … glucose tolerance test, is the screening test recommended by expert panels in the U.S. … Criteria for the oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy. … Impact of time since last meal on the gestational glucose challenge test. … How reliable is the fifty-gram one-hour glucose screening test?

98. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    June 14, 2016 - sigmoidoscopy, alone or combined with FIT; colonoscopy; and CT colonography), and serology tests (SEPT9 DNA test … Abbreviations: CT=computed tomography; FIT=fecal immunochemical test; FIT-DNA=multitargeted stool DNA … test; gFOBT=guaiac-based fecal occult blood test.

99. Recommendation: Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 04, 2018 - Research Laboratory [VDRL] test or rapid plasma reagin [RPR] test), followed by a confirmatory “treponemal … ” antibody detection test (ie, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test or Treponema pallidum … particle agglutination test). … If the test results are discordant, a second treponemal test is performed. … Laboratory test or rapid plasma reagin [RPR] test) to detect biomarkers released from damage caused

100. Archived: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 07, 2016 - If the test results are discordant in the reverse sequence algorithm, a second treponemal test (preferably … , negative nontreponemal test, and positive second treponemal test). … A nontreponemal test (RPR or VDRL) is performed first, followed by a treponemal test (TPPA or FTA-ABS … test result is positive. … If the result of the automated treponemal test is positive but the nontreponemal test result is negative