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What is the purpose of the United States Preventive Services Task Force?
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF or Task Force) works to improve people’s health across the country by making evidence-based recommendations on preventing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life.
What role does the Task Force play in assisting primary care clinicians and their patients?
Every visit to a primary care clinician is an opportunity to prevent disease and promote good health. On the other hand, individual clinicians face a daunting challenge in understanding what the evidence says about each preventive service that could be applied to individual patients. Every year, the Task Force reviews findings from thousands of scientific studies on various preventive services—screenings, counseling, and medications—and develops evidence-based recommendations that clinicians can confidently implement.
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The Task Force assists people of all ages in doing what is most important: staying healthy and living well for many years. Its evidence-based recommendations enable patients and clinicians to make educated decisions about what works and do not in preventive care. Patients can be confident that the Task Force’s recommendations will benefit their overall health.
Why is the USPSTF the authority on disease prevention and health promotion?
Each Task Force recommendation is a trusted, valuable evidence-based resource on which primary care clinicians can rely due to the Task Force’s rigorous and objective approach. For more than 80 health topics, the Task Force follows a rigorous, multistep process that begins with a research plan that guides the review of existing evidence, culminating in a recommendation or a call for more research based on that evidence. The Task Force recommendations are the gold standard in preventive medicine.
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How does the Task Force’s composition support its mission?
The Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national prevention and evidence-based medicine experts, the majority of whom are practicing primary care clinicians; no one is paid for their work on the Task Force. All Task Force members’ external work is routinely vetted to ensure no significant conflicts of interest could jeopardize the scientific integrity of the Task Force’s recommendations.
What is the Task Force’s contribution to primary care practices?
Because Task Force recommendations are supported by research and are not influenced by outside or industry interests, clinicians can be confident that implementing them will help prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life. The Task Force identifies which preventive services may cause more harm than good. Task Force recommendations are valuable tools for clinicians and patients to use in making informed preventive care decisions.