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 recommendations for each topic. This new pocket guide provides family physicians, internists, pediatricians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians with an authoritative source for making decisions about preventive services.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Section 1. Preventive Services Recommended by the USPSTF

Section 2. Clinical Summaries of Recommendations for Adults (alphabetical list)

Section 3. Clinical Summaries of Recommendations for Children and Adolescents (alphabetical list)

Section 4. Immunizations

Section 5. Topics in Progress

Appendixes

Appendix A. How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Grades Its Recommendations

Appendix B. Members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 2004-2014

Appendix C: Acknowledgements

Appendix D. About the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Appendix E. More Resources

Appendix F: 2002 Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation

*New recommendations released March 2012 to March 2014.

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The clinical summaries in this Guide are abridged versions of recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). To view the full recommendation statements, supporting evidence, or recommendations published after March 2014, go to http://www.USPreventiveServicesTaskForce.org.

The USPSTF Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) allows users to download the USPSTF recommendations to PDA, mobile, or tablet devices; receive notifications of updates; and search and browse recommendations online. Users can search the ePSS for recommendations by patient age, sex, and pregnancy status. To download, subscribe, or search, go to http://epss.ahrq.gov/.

Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. Government. They should not be construed as an official position of AHRQ or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.