The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is well-known for it’s authoritative evidence-based recommendations for patient screening, counseling, and preventive services. Their independent panel makes recommendations based upon careful evidence reviews that meet the criteria of the benefits out-weighing the harms.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has now created a wonderful app that delivers these USPSTF’s recommendations to your phone or ipad. It has a name that is hard to remember – ePSS!! This application provides a short form [see image below] to enter variables such as age, sex and more. Based upon your entries, you receive a list of “graded” recommendations: A & B (recommended),C (uncertain), D (not recommended) or I (uncertain).
For more information about ePSS, please visit their site: http://epss.ahrq.gov/PDA/index.jsp
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