Highlights in Preventive Services

• AHRQ Seeks Scientific Director of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• Decisionmaker Brief and White Paper: Improving PCMH Evidence and Evaluations

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Access to scientific evidence, recommendations on clinical preventive services, and information on how to implement recommended preventive services in clinical practice.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)

Introduction

The AHRQ Prevention and Care Management Portfolio fulfills AHRQ's Congressionally mandated role to support the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The USPSTF is an independent panel of non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine and is composed of primary care providers (such as internists, pediatricians, family physicians, gynecologists/obstetricians, nurses, and health behavior specialists).

The USPSTF conducts scientific evidence reviews of a broad range of clinical preventive health care services (such as screening, counseling, and preventive medications) and develops recommendations for primary care clinicians and health systems. These recommendations are published in the form of "Recommendation Statements."

AHRQ's Prevention and Care Management Portfolio provides ongoing administrative, research, technical, and dissemination support to the USPSTF.

Please go to http://www.USPreventiveServicesTaskForce.org for Recommendation Statements and supporting evidence, Opportunities for Public comment, and more information about the USPSTF.

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