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361. Screening for HIV Infection: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     March 29, 2019 - significantly following the implementation of routine prenatal HIV screening and the use of effective therapies … significantly following the implementation of routine prenatal HIV screening and the use of effective therapies … Initiation of antiretroviral therapy at high CD4+ cell counts is associated with positive treatment outcomes … Risk of cardiovascular events associated with current exposure to HIV antiretroviral therapies in a US … highly active antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy.

362. Archived: Iron Deficiency Anemia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/iron-deficiency-anemia-screening-2006
     May 15, 2006 - Harms of detection and early treatment: The USPSTF found no evidence addressing the harms of screening … The likelihood that iron deficiency anemia identified by screening will respond to treatment is unclear … Children Intervention—Treatment The USPSTF found poor evidence (conflicting studies) that treatment … Unintentional overdose is a known potential harm of treatment with oral iron, as are gastrointestinal … Iron therapy for improving psychomotor development and cognitive function in children under the age of

363. Final Research Plan: Oral Health in Children and Adolescents Aged 5 to 17 Years: Screening and Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 17, 2021 - for oral health conditions and prevention of oral health conditions, to more clearly distinguish treatment … adolescents with existing dental caries identified by screening (screening Analytic Framework) from treatment … deemed at high risk for oral diseases by a primary care provider to a dental health care provider Treatment … for existing oral health issues Comparisons No intervention or placebo Active treatment … incidence and severity) Tooth loss Morbidity Quality of life Functional status Harms of screening and treatment

364. Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Clinical Summary of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Treatment Antiviral treatment prevents long-term health complications of HCV infection (such as cirrhosis … The combination of pegylated interferon (α-2a or α-2b) and ribavirin is the standard treatment for HCV … Food and Drug Administration approved the protease inhibitors boceprevir and telaprevir for the treatment

365. Screening for Coronary Heart Disease: Clinician Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2009 - than later treatment. … This means that good studies have shown that early treatment, compared with later treatment, helps patients … In patients at low risk for CHD, these harms outweigh any potential benefit of early treatment. … diagnostic evaluations, and may be subjected to overtreatment with medical/and or invasive surgical therapies … y Consider aspirin therapy for men at increased CHD risk.

366. Screening for Unhealthy Drug Use: Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2020 - Screen when services for accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate care can be offered … • Settings and people for which services for accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate … currently diagnosed drug use disorder or are currently undergoing or have been referred to drug use treatment … o Settings and people for which treatment cannot be provided or the result of screening is punitive.

367. Archived: Obesity: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - may cause palpitations, dizziness, insomnia, headache, and gastrointestinal discomfort. 120 Surgical therapies … Conservative treatments for obesity. Am J Clin Nutr . 1987;45:1142–1154. [ PubMed ] 76. … Treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination: a five-year perspective … Five year follow-up of family-based behavioral treatments for childhood obesity. … Exercise therapy and hypocaloric diet in the treatment of obese children and adolescents.

368. Archived: Evidence Update: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2008 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 05, 2008 - Two recent systematic reviews of the comparative effectiveness and harms of therapies for localized prostate … cancer concluded that no single therapy is superior to all others in all situations. 10 , 11 In 2002 … an uncertain surrogate for mortality because of high initial response rates to androgen deprivation therapy … review found that prostate cancer treatments cause clinically significant harms, including erectile … Systematic review: comparative effectiveness and harms of treatments for clinically localized prostate

369. Recommendation: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 23, 2024 - for childhood speech and language delays and disorders vary widely and can include speech-language therapy … Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics … , the school or classroom, the home, and via telehealth. 6 , 9 Therapy may be administered on an individual … Persons administering therapy may be speech-language pathologists, educators, or parents. … usually depend on the severity of the speech or language disorder and the child’s progress in meeting therapy

370. Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 23, 2024 - for childhood speech and language delays and disor- ders vary widely and can include speech-language therapy … Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics … , the school or classroom, the home, and via telehealth.6,9 Therapy may be administered on an individual … administering therapy may be speech-language pathologists, edu- cators, or parents. … ally depend on the severity of the speech or language disorder and the child’s progress in meeting therapy

371. 827Cwgymvawpvovg Syjpf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - Treatment Treatment of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women is similar to that in nonpregnant women … Effectiveness of Early Detection and Treatment Screening and Treatment No good- or fair-quality studies … Potential Harms of Early Detection and Treatment Screening and Treatment No good- or fair-quality studies … The USPSTF also clarified that intravenous iron treatment is a potential therapy that is offered in current … Treatments for iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011:CD003094.

372. Overview of Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2018 - start or stop screening, interval length between PSA testing, PSA thresholds to guide biopsy, and treatments … number of sources, including the ERSPC trial, cost-effective analyses for various prostate cancer treatments … a predisposition to more aggressive cancers (and thus help personalize surveillance strategies or treatments … shorter interval of PSA screening if the cancer is more likely to progress faster, and assuming that treatments … Primary treatments for clinically localised prostate cancer: a comprehensive lifetime cost-utility analysis

373. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2007 - Efficacy of Treatment Treatment of childhood dyslipidemia has been shown to be effective in lowering … effects of drug, diet, exercise, and combination therapy in children and adolescents.2 Lipid-lowering … Efficacy and safety of cholestyramine therapy in peripubertal and prepubertal children with familial … Garlic extract therapy in children with hypercholesterolemia. … Drug therapy of high-risk lipid abnormalities in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from

374. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     Treatment and Interventions Treatment with continuous positive airway pressure or mandibular advancement … apnea-hypopnea index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale score, and blood pressure) in populations referred for treatment

375. Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 05, 2016 - include long-acting β-agonists, inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting anticholinergics, and combination therapy … Long- term trials of treatment of COPD in screen-detected patients are also needed. … β-agonists (LABAs), inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting anticholinergics (tiotropium), and combination therapy … One trial of combination therapy with corticosteroids and LABAs found decreased exacerbation of COPD … To date, treatment trials of COPD have found modest treatment ben- efits in patients with mild to moderate

376. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 2014 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 18, 2014 - Treatment HBV treatment consists of antiviral regimens. … Approved first-line treatments are pegylated interferon α2a, entecavir, and tenofovir. … Approved first-line treatments are pegylated interferon-α2a, entecavir, and tenofovir. … Combination therapies have been evaluated but are not approved by the U.S. … antiviral therapy and placebo or no treatment in risk for serious adverse events (12 trials; RR, 0.8

377. Archived: Final Research Plan: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 15, 2013 - adverse events, they may be diagnosed with a gonococcal or chlamydia infection, and they may go through treatment … The treatment could lead to reduced complications of the gonococcal or chlamydial infection, and it may … The treatment could lead to reduced complications of the gonococcal or chlamydial infection and to reduced … The treatment could also lead to reduced tramsmission of the infection to the newborn, and it may lead … Treatment harms will be discussed in the background section of the systematic review.

378. Archived: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 15, 2008 - Benefits of Detection and Early Treatment The detection and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria … Harms of Detection and Early Treatment Potential harms associated with treatment of asymptomatic … Harms of Detection and Early Treatment: Potential harms associated with treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria … predictive value in pregnant women to replace the urine culture as the preferred screening test. 2 Treatment … Pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria should receive antibiotic therapy directed at the cultured

379. 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 - can include speech-language therapy sessions and assistive technology (if indicated). … Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics … Therapy may be administered on an individual basis and/or in groups, and may be child-centered and/or … , treatment type, and treatment duration, is needed. … Studies of treatment and/or intervention outcomes were not restricted by age at treatment but focused

380. Final Research Plan: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
     June 09, 2022 - Are there disparities in the provision and utilization of treatment for speech and language delay or … screening instruments that do not include a separate component for speech and language skills Treatment … quality Language of published study English Non-English * Age criteria for studies of treatment … children as old as age 6 years given that children who would be screened at age 5 years and referred for treatment … The USPSTF added minor edits to make clear that screening and treatment for speech disorders, language