The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2007, which highlights recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 2001 through 2006. These evidence-based recommendations for clinicians address preventive services, including screening tests, counseling, and preventive medications in the primary care setting.
Task Force recommendations have been adapted for the pocket-size book so that clinicians can consult the recommendations in their daily practice. The recommendations are presented in an indexed, easy-to-use format, with an at-a-glance table for matching recommended services to patients—men, women, pregnant women, and children.
The Task Force, supported by AHRQ, is the leading independent panel of private-sector experts in prevention and primary care. Its recommendations are considered the gold standard for clinical preventive services. It conducts rigorous, impartial assessments of the scientific evidence for a broad range of preventive services.
Recommendation statements and supporting documents from the Task Force are available at the AHRQ Web site at www.ahrq.gov/clinic/prevenix.htm.
Single copies of the new guide are available free of charge:
Current as of September 2007
Internet Citation:
AHRQ's 2007 Guide to Clinical Preventive Services Now Available. September 2007. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. http://www.ahrq.gov/ppip/guideann.htm
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