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381. Announcements | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 12, 2012 - Cancer 2012-03-14 Public Comment on Draft Research Plan: BRCA Mutation Risk Assessment and Testing

382. Screening for Skin Cancer (pdf file)
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     September 06, 2013 - Screening Tests1 Spirometry can be performed in a primary care physician’s office or a pulmonary testing

383. Current Processes: Refining Evidence-based Recommendation Development - Table 3 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 01, 2007 - Genetic testing for  BRCA Updated Full or targeted The USPSTF has made a recommendation

384. Archived: Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 15, 2012 - Clinical tests used to screen for hearing impairment include testing whether a person can hear a whispered … The incremental benefits and costs of screening asymptomatic adults compared with only testing and treating … Several screening examinations for hearing loss can be used in primary care settings, including clinical testing … hearing-loss screening with a tone-emitting otoscope (AudioScope), the HHIE-S questionnaire, or combined testing … Because screening and confirmatory testing for hearing impairment are noninvasive and serious harms of

385. Procedure Manual Appendix VI. Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 01, 2017 - selection of cases/controls, with exclusion criteria applied equally to both Response rate Diagnostic testing

386. Vision Screening for Children 1 to 5 Years of Age: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - Steroacuity testing often is omit- ted and may be performed incor- rectly when attempted. … difficult and often yields false-positive re- sults because of the child’s inability to cooperate with testing … Cyclo- plegic refraction testing was included in the reference standard examination in 21 studies.

387. Archived: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 14, 2004 - 3 years for visual acuity is more challenging than screening older children and typically requires testing … Traditional vision testing requires a cooperative, verbal child and cannot be performed reliably until … Any child failing a screening test was referred to the hospital eye service for further testing and treatment

388. Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment With the Ankle-Brachial Index in Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - The review focused on resting ABI as the sole screening method; the diagnostic perfor- mance of ABI testing … care populations, unselected pop- ulations, and asymptomatic populations; the predictive value of ABI testing … Other harms resulting from testing may include false- positive results, exposure to gadolinium or contrast … Other harms resulting from testing may include false-positive results, exposure to gadolinium or contrast … Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease With Ankle Brachial Index Testing: A Systematic Evi- dence Review

389. Evidence Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 05, 2017 - n = 3490) compared intensive orthoptist screening (clinical examination, age-specific visual acuity testing … , and cover-uncover testing) before age 3 years (at 8, 12, 18, 25, 31, and 37 months) with 1-time orthoptist … ranging from 21%-36%), study participants may have experienced fatigue from the number of tests, and testing … The amblyopia treatment study visual acuity testing protocol.  … Field testing of the PlusoptiX S04 photoscreener.  J AAPOS . 2009;13(1):51-57.

390. Recommendation: Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 24, 2022 - alone is inadequate to detect cases of open-angle glaucoma. 7 With the exception of visual acuity testing … screening by an optometrist that included components relevant for glaucoma diagnosis (ie, visual acuity testing … , IOP measurement, direct ophthalmoscopy, and visual field testing) with no screening. … Detection Adequate evidence that screening tests such as imaging (e.g., optical coherence testing … ), tonometry, and visual field testing can identify open-angle glaucoma; however, these tests are not

391. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 07, 2016 - for investigating incident cases of syphilis and identifying potential contacts who may need further testing … Other Considerations Implementation Although testing for syphilis in persons living with HIV may be part … Recommendations of Others The CDC recommends at least annual screening for sexually active MSM with confirmatory testing

392. Vision Screening in Children Aged 6Months to 5 Years: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     September 05, 2017 - cooperate with some of the clinical screening tests performed in clinical practice, such as visual acuity testing … visual acuity, or strabismus.1,33 Phase 1 of the study compared the accuracy of 11 screening tests.33 Testing … clinically significant nonamblyogenic refractive error.1 In phase 1 of the VIP study, visual acuity testing … The studies assessed prevalence of amblyopia at age 7.5 years (using visual acuity testing); school

393. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2009 - Detection There is adequate evidence that visual acuity testing does not accurately identify early age-related … Screening questions are not as accurate as visual acuity testing for identifying visual acuity impairment … Evidence is limited on the use of other vision tests, including pinhole testing, the Amsler grid (a chart … Although visual acuity testing is adequate for identify- ing refractive errors, it might be inadequate … Additional risk factors include: Screening Tests Visual acuity testing (e.g., by the Snellen eye chart

394. Evidence Summary: Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 23, 2021 - Potential harms include falsepositive results that lead to unnecessary testing and/or treatment, labeling … are likely to be minimal because screening is noninvasive, and the reference standard (audiometric testing … Tablet-based screening for hearing loss: feasibility of testing in nonspecialty locations. … Participants from 1 VA general medicine clinic invited for hearing screening and follow-up diagnostic testing … institution with hearing impairment referred by primary care providers Aged >64 y; formal audiologic testing

395. Archived: Syphilis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 15, 2004 - For women in high-risk groups, repeat serologic testing may be necessary in the third trimester and at … for central nervous system infection in infants, placenta histopathology, and umbilical cord blood testing … Seven cost studies done in different countries support continued universal testing during pregnancy.

396. Screening for Syphilis Infection - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2004 - For women in high-risk groups, repeat serologic testing may be necessary in the third trimester and at … for central nervous system infection in infants, placenta histopathology, and umbilical cord blood testing … Seven cost studies done in different countries support continued universal testing during pregnancy.7

397. Archived: Syphilis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 15, 2004 - For women in high-risk groups, repeat serologic testing may be necessary in the third trimester and at … for central nervous system infection in infants, placenta histopathology, and umbilical cord blood testing … Seven cost studies done in different countries support continued universal testing during pregnancy.

398. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Studies have shown that routine ultrasound testing of asymptomatic women has a low yield in detecting … cancer in the population by less than 0.0001%. 50 Modeling studies that have examined annual CA-125 testing … The pelvic examination, including palpation of the adnexae, is mentioned in a recommendation on Pap testing … Although Pap testing may be performed less frequently once three annual smears have been normal, the … Given the risks, inconvenience, and substantial costs of follow-up testing, and the current lack of evidence

399. Draft Research Plan: Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 13, 2020 - settings (including funduscopic examination performed by an eye professional and specialized diagnostic testing

400. Screening for Preeclampsia US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     April 25, 2017 - The USPSTF found adequate evidence that testing for protein in the urine with a dipstick test has low … Further evaluation of the accuracy of the protein to creatinine ratio in point-of-care urine testing … in general populations and re- peat testing could better determine the optimal role of the ratio for … The time of day of testing is not predictive of performance for the protein to creatinine ratio test.4 … Indicated vs. routine prenatal urine chemical reagent strip testing.