United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
There are no randomized controlled trials that support the United States Preventive Services Task Force guideline on screening for depression in primary care: a systematic review
... the cost of screening. Beyond administering depression symptom questionnaires, the cost of depression screening would include follow-up assessments to determine which patients are true positive screens and which are ...
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Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating among Inner City Youth through Community Health Workers: From Clinic to Neighborhood
... clinic-based preventive care efforts with community-based programming among children and adolescents have not been carried out ...the United States Preventive Services Task ...
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Detecting type 2 diabetes and prediabetes among asymptomatic adults in the United States: modeling American Diabetes Association versus US Preventive Services Task Force diabetes screening guidelines
... The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts that conducts scientific reviews of preventive health care services, ...
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A national strategic plan for reducing the burden of sexually transmitted infections in Israel by the year 2025
... Community Preventive Services Task Force; CRR: Comprehensive risk reduction; CSW: Commercial sex work; ECDC: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; ELISA: Enzyme-linked ...
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Universal Newborn Hearing Screening: Systematic Review to Update the 2001 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation
... the United States to track children through these processes to ultimately obtain language outcomes from a birth cohort, as was done in the United Kingdom study, 35 although approaches to do so are ...
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Evaluation and Referral for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Infants
... US Preventive Services Task Force “inconclusive” determination regarding usefulness of DDH screening, several prospective studies supporting observation over treatment of minor ...
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Screening for Elevated Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: An Updated Summary of Evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force
... the United States, like that in the general population, continues to decline sharply, primarily be- cause of marked reductions in environmental exposure to lead (eg, gasoline, air, dietary sources, and ...
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Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
... In 2009, 8.2% of middle school students and 23.9% of high school students reported current use of any tobacco product (3). Although younger children may be susceptible to smoking, research indicates that adolescents may ...
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Screening for Primary Hypertension in Children and Adolescents: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
... As reported in The Wall Street Journal (August 8, 2013), purchasing orders for perfumes have fallen, with one major US mass-market retailer sharply curtailing orders. The reason for the drop in purchase orders is not ...
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Screening for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: A Systematic Literature Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force
... the United States will achieve an equivalent rate of follow- up, given access barriers and less robust efforts at con- tacting those who initially miss scheduled ...the United States, examined ...
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Community Housing Task Force Services
... The real difference in Housing Services since transfer is the improved integration of the different aspects of the service. The section has been restructured, and significant progress is being made to provide a ...
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Pediatrics Digest
... The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends primary care clinicians apply fl uoride varnish to the teeth of all young children, but no studies have examined the effect of compre- hen[r] ...
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THE US NATIONAL SECURITY SPENDING AND THE AMERICAN NATIONAL INTEREST: A SOUTHEAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
... The Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, 2007 highlights the damaging effect of the increasing military spending on the nation’s ...the United States is ...
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Use of prostate-specific antigen testing in Medicare beneficiaries
... In contrast, the multivariate results of PSA testing among men without previous screening differed across many para- meters (Table 3). In this group, there was a pronounced decline with older ages, but an increase in PSA ...
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Impact of an educational intervention on provider knowledge, attitudes, and comfort level regarding counseling women ages 40–49 about breast cancer screening
... Strengths of our study include our sample of primary care providers and staff from 13 VA community-based clinics. This provides a picture of nonacademic settings and allows for the assessment of the entire ...
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Vision Screening for Children 1 to 5 Years of Age: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
... the preventive service on health outcomes, but confidence in the estimate is constrained by factors such as (1) the number, size, or quality of individual studies; (2) inconsistency of findings across individual ...
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An approach to addressing subpopulation considerations in systematic reviews: the experience of reviewers supporting the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
... screening, preventive interventions, and ...a preventive or medical intervention is likely to benefit some patients more (or less) than the average and to understand which patients are at greatest (or ...
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Screening for Child and Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Evidence Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force
... of Studies Design Limitations Consistency Applicability Overall Quality Summary of Findings 1 None — — — — — — 1a None — — — — — — 2 9 Screening accuracy studies using a valid reference [r] ...
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Food security and policy coherence – including FAO reform and the World Summit on Food Security. Conclusions of the Council of the European Union. 12481/09, 19 October 2009
... Member States are of the conviction that this situation is unacceptable and that it calls for strong coordinated and holistic action from the international ...
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Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children: Systematic Evidence Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force
... Key Question 3: What Are the Adverse Effects of Screening? No studies addressed this question. Potential adverse effects include false-positive and false-negative results. False-positive results can erroneously label ...
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