Understanding the Methods Used by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations

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1. Understanding the Methods Used by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations
2. Acknowledgement
3. Target Setting and Audience
4. Educational Objective
5. Case
6. Introduction
7. Introduction (Continued)
8. Introduction (Continued)
9. What is the US Preventive Services Task Force?
10. What is the USPSTF Mission?
11. Who Supports the USPSTF?
12. What are US Preventive Services Task Force Activities?
13. What are US Preventive Services Task Force Activities?
14. USPSTF Grades of Recommendations
15. What the Grades Mean: Suggestions for Practice
16. The USPSTF Steps: Brief and Generic
17. The USPSTF Steps: Brief and Generic
18. The USPSTF Steps: Brief and Generic
19. The USPSTF Steps: Brief and Generic
20. Systematic Reviews by EPCs
21. Meta-Analysis by EPCs
22. The USPSTF Steps (continued): Brief and Generic
23. Breast Cancer Screening
24. Returning to the Patient Case
25. Devising Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations: The USPSTF Approach
26. Analytic Framework: Screening for Breast Cancer
27. Analytic Framework: Key questions in Screening for Breast Cancer
28. Analytic Framework: Key questions in Screening for Breast Cancer (Continued)
29. Breast Cancer Screening: Benefits
30. Breast Cancer Screening: Harms
31. Evidence of Benefit: Mammography by Age Group
32. Evidence of Harms: Other Evidence Related to Mammography
33. Evidence of Harms: False Positive Testing with Mammography
34. Judging Evidence of Benefit of Mammography
35. Judging Evidence of Harm of Mammography
36. Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography
37. Decision Analysis
38. Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography
39. Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography
40. Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography
41. Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography
42. Evidence of Net Benefit of Mammography
43. Evidence of Net Benefit of Mammography
44. Further
45. Back to the Case: Talking to Patients About Mammography
46. Summary
47. Summary
48. Questions and Comments

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Internet Citation:

Understanding the Methods Used by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations. Text version of slide presentation, August 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/kt/webinars/tfmethodspres.htm