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261. Screening for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - People who have, or ask for testing for, another sexually transmitted infection also may be at increased … Department of Health and Human Services) AIDSInfo (National Institutes of Health) HIV Testing … www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/index.html http://www.aids.gov/ http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/testing

262. Screening for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - People who have, or ask for testing for, another sexually transmitted infection also may be at increased … Department of Health and Human Services) AIDSInfo (National Institutes of Health) HIV Testing … www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/index.html http://www.aids.gov/ http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/testing

263. Draft Recommendation: Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 16, 2022 - seroprevalence in the U.S. population (since 2016) likely further limit test predictive value. 20 Confirmatory testing … suggestive of HSV without laboratory confirmation, HSV screening may be helpful, and repeat serologic testing … genital HSV in adolescents, adults, and pregnant persons, including consideration of HSV-2 serologic testing … There is also a lack of widely available confirmatory testing. … seropositivity for HSV-1 does not indicate the site of infection, limiting usefulness of serological testing

264. Draft Research Plan: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 16, 2025 - focused on biomedical prevention interventions (e.g., HPV vaccination, doxy PEP, PrEP for HIV) STI testing … ., comparative effectiveness) Outcomes KQ 1 (Health outcomes) : STI incidence (based on testing

265. Final Research Plan: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 01, 2025 - exclusively on biomedical prevention interventions (e.g., HPV vaccination, doxy PEP, PrEP for HIV) STI testing … ., comparative effectiveness) Outcomes KQ 1 (Health outcomes) : STI incidence (based on testing

266. Screening for Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     April 04, 2019 - Diagnosis of IFG, IGT, or type 2 diabetes should be confirmed with repeated testing (the same test on

267. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening with Electrocardiography | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 15, 2011 - No study estimated harms from subsequent testing or interventions, although rates of angiography after … Persons who have an abnormal screening result and undergo additional testing, but do not have coronary … Is exercise testing useful to improve the prediction of coronary events in asymptomatic subjects? … Prognostic value of exercise EKG testing in asymptomatic normotensive subjects. … Can serial exercise testing improve the prediction of coronary events in asymptomatic individuals?

268. Draft Research Plan: Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 30, 2020 - * or diabetes; tests include hemoglobin A1c, FPG, and the OGTT All other tests, such as genetic testing … for the risk of prediabetes or diabetes or testing for autoantibodies, which may be used for further … Labeling, anxiety, harms from false-positive results, burden, inconvenience, depression, and unnecessary testing

269. Draft Research Plan: Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 30, 2020 - * or diabetes; tests include hemoglobin A1c, FPG, and the OGTT All other tests, such as genetic testing … for the risk of prediabetes or diabetes or testing for autoantibodies, which may be used for further … Labeling, anxiety, harms from false-positive results, burden, inconvenience, depression, and unnecessary testing

270. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 31, 2020 - Requires dietary restrictions and 3 stool samples • Requires good adherence over multiple rounds of testing … The benefits of stool-based testing accrue over frequent, repeated testing, thus requiring commit- ment … Nottingham trial of faecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer: a 20-year follow-up. … Performance of multitarget stool DNA testing in African American patients. … Multitarget stool DNA testing for colorectal-cancer screening.

271. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     July 31, 2020 - Requires dietary restrictions and 3 stool samples • Requires good adherence over multiple rounds of testing … The benefits of stool-based testing accrue over frequent, repeated testing, thus requiring commit- ment … Nottingham trial of faecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer: a 20-year follow-up. … Performance of multitarget stool DNA testing in African American patients. … Multitarget stool DNA testing for colorectal-cancer screening.

272. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: A Targeted, Updated Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2008 - , high- sensitivity guaiac FOBT, and fecal DNA testing) and CT colonography. … Fecal DNA testing done only in subsample based on histopathologic and colonoscopic results (n � 2507 … Food and Drug Administration; FOBT � fecal occult blood testing; NR � not reported. * Left-sided tumors … Both fecal DNA testing and Hemoccult II had poor sensitivity for advanced carcinoma. … Fecal DNA testing for colorectal cancer screening and monitoring. Lansdale, PA: HAYES; 2002. 137.

273. Draft Research Plan: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Falls and Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 12, 2023 - years or younger; pregnant or lactating persons; studies for which patient eligibility is determined by testing … to identify vitamin D deficiency or bone measurement testing, with selection based on low vitamin D

274. Screening for Osteoporosis: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Be- cause of limitations in the precision of testing, a minimum of 2 years may be needed to reliably … Medicine Volume 154 • Number 5 www.annals.org causes of osteoporosis would undergo bone density testing … for all women �65 y and postmenopausal women �65 y, based on risk factor profile BMD testing for all … RECOMMENDATIONS OF OTHERS The National Osteoporosis Foundation recommends bone density testing for all … It also recommends bone density testing for postmenopausal women younger than 65 years and men aged 50

275. Screening for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2002 - For example, most guidelines recommend using risk factors to select patients for bone density testing … Testing in the forearm, hip, spine, or heel generally identifies different groups of patients. … Less frequent testing for younger postmenopausal women when prevalence is lower (for example, 5- year … Bone Mineral Density Testing: Does the Evidence Support its Selective Use in Well Women? … Selective Testing with Bone Density Measurement.

276. Archived: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/genital-herpes-screening-november-2016
     December 20, 2016 - population-based screening, based on its low specificity, the lack of widely available confirmatory testing … population-based screening, based on its low specificity, the lack of widely available confirmatory testing … 10 These estimates, however, should be interpreted with caution; because of a lack of confirmatory testing … Diagnostic testing, however, in persons with recurrent atypical genital symptoms may be helpful. … The CDC recommends consideration of serologic testing for HSV-2 in persons presenting for STI evaluation

277. Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2021 - Clinicians should use their clinical judgement about hearing testing for patients who have symptoms

278. Update on Methods: Insufficient Evidence - Table 2 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 01, 2009 - Could include a range of harms from minor (e.g., anxiety associated with further testing after positive

279. Draft Research Plan: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 30, 2023 - were previously taking antiretroviral therapy Interventions KQs 1–3: Rapid or standard HIV testing … virus, or tuberculosis coinfection Interventions KQs 1, 2: Rapid or standard HIV antibody testing … with confirmatory testing KQ 3: Currently recommended, initial antiretroviral therapy regimens 1 for

280. Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: An Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2019 - Serologic testing within 24 months of birth also increased across the time period (p=0.001). … Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Testing Among Pregnant Women, United States 2014. … Postvaccination serologic testing completed† N with serologic testing/ N case managed 1994–2008 … Selected serology: pregnancy testing, hepatitis A and B, and infectious mononucleosis. … Testing pregnant women for HBsAg: a pilot study in Manitoba.