Recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services includes U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening, counseling, and
preventive medication topics and includes clinical considerations for each
topic. This new pocket guide provides general practitioners, internists, family
practitioners, pediatricians, nurses, and nurse practitioners with an authoritative
source for making decisions about preventive services.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services. Sponsored since 1998 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Task Force is the leading independent panel of private-sector experts in prevention and primary care.
The pocket guide covers all USPSTF recommendations from 2001 through 2005. More recent recommendations are available through the A-Z Topic Index.
Recommendations are organized for quick reference and easy searching. One section matches recommended preventive services to patients—men, women, pregnant women, and children.
PDA Program: Another online option for accessing USPSTF recommendations
is its PDA program, the Electronic Preventive Services Selector. The program
lets users search USPSTF recommendations by age, sex, and selected behavioral
risk factors. The tool, updated as new recommendations are released,
can be downloaded to a PDA or used on the Web. Go to http://www.epss.ahrq.gov.
AHRQ Publication No. 06-0588
Current as of June 2006
Internet Citation:
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2006. AHRQ Publication No. 06-0588, June 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/pocketgd/pocketgd.htm