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Grade
Release Date of
Current
Recommendation
Abdominal aortic
The USPSTF recommends one-time screening for
aneurysm screening: abdominal aortic aneurysm by ultrasonography in men
men
ages 65 to 75 years who have ever smoked.
February 2005
Alcohol misuse:
screening and
counseling
May 2013*
Anemia screening:
pregnant women
May 2006
Aspirin to prevent
cardiovascular
disease: men
March 2009
Aspirin to prevent
cardiovascular
disease: women
March 2009
Bacteriuria
screening: pregnant
women
July 2008
Blood pressure
screening in adults
December 2007
BRCA risk
assessment
and genetic
December 2013*
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counseling/testing
Breast cancer
preventive
medications
September 2013*
Breast cancer
screening
September 2002
Breastfeeding
counseling
October 2008
Cervical cancer
screening
March 2012*
June 2007
Chlamydial infection
screening: pregnant
women
June 2007
Cholesterol
abnormalities
screening: men 35
and older
June 2008
Cholesterol
abnormalities
screening: men
younger than 35
June 2008
Cholesterol
abnormalities
screening: women
45 and older
June 2008
Cholesterol
abnormalities
screening: women
younger than 45
June 2008
Colorectal cancer
screening
October 2008
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Dental caries
prevention:
preschool children
April 2004
Depression
screening:
adolescents
March 2009
Depression
screening: adults
December 2009
Diabetes screening
June 2008
Falls prevention in
older adults:
exercise or physical
therapy
May 2012
Falls prevention in
older adults: vitamin
D
May 2012
Folic acid
supplementation
May 2009
January 2014
Gonorrhea
prophylactic
medication:
newborns
July 2011*
Gonorrhea
screening: women
May 2005
Healthy diet
counseling
January 2003
Hearing loss
The USPSTF recommends screening for hearing loss in
screening: newborns all newborn infants.
July 2008
September 2007
Hepatitis B
screening: pregnant
women
June 2009
Hepatitis C virus
June 2013
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infection screening:
adults
HIV screening:
nonpregnant
adolescents and
adults
April 2013*
HIV screening:
pregnant women
April 2013*
Hypothyrodism
The USPSTF recommends screening for congenital
screening: newborns hypothyroidism in newborns.
March 2008
Intimate partner
violence screening:
women of
childbearing age
January 2013
Iron
supplementation in
children
May 2006
Lung cancer
screening
December 2013
Obesity screening
and counseling:
adults
June 2012*
January 2010
Osteoporosis
screening: women
January 2012*
Phenylketonuria
The USPSTF recommends screening for
screening: newborns phenylketonuria in newborns.
March 2008
Rh incompatibility
screening: first
pregnancy visit
February 2004
Rh incompatibility
screening: 2428
weeks' gestation
February 2004
Sexually transmitted
October 2008
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infections
counseling
Skin cancer
behavioral
counseling
May 2012
Tobacco use
counseling and
interventions:
nonpregnant adults
April 2009
Tobacco use
The USPSTF recommends that clinicians ask all
counseling: pregnant pregnant women about tobacco use and provide
women
augmented, pregnancy-tailored counseling to those who
smoke.
April 2009
Tobacco use
interventions:
children and
adolescents
August 2013
Syphilis screening:
nonpregnant
persons
July 2004
Syphilis screening:
pregnant women
May 2009
January 2011*
Visual acuity
The USPSTF recommends vision screening for all
screening in children children at least once between the ages of 3 and 5 years,
to detect the presence of amblyopia or its risk factors.
The Department of Health and Human Serv ices, in implementing the Af f ordable Care Act under the standard it sets out in rev ised Section 2713(a)(5) of the
Public Health Serv ice Act, utilizes the 2002 recommendation on breast cancer screening of the U.S. Prev entiv e Serv ices Task Force. To see the USPSTF
2009 recommendation on breast cancer screening, go to http://www.usprev entiv eserv icestaskf orce.org/uspstf /uspsbrca.htm.
* Prev ious recommendation was an A or B.
Current as of January 2014
Internet Citation:
USPSTF A and B Recommendations. U.S. Prev entiv e Serv ices Task Force. http://www.usprev entiv eserv icestaskf orce.org/uspstf /uspsabrecs.htm
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