Decision Models in Clinical Preventive Services Recommendations
2016
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) develops evidence-based recommendations about preventive care based on comprehensive systematic reviews of the best available evidence. Decision models provide a complementary, quantitative approach to support the USPSTF as it deliberates about the evidence and develops recommendations for clinical and policy use. This article describes the rationale for using modeling, an approach to selecting topics for modeling, and how modeling may inform recommendations about clinical preventive services.
Decision Models in Clinical Preventive Services Recommendations
Source:
Owens DK, Whitlock E, Henderson J et al. Use of Decision Models in the Development of Evidence-Based Clinical Preventive Services Recommendations: Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine 2016; 165 (7): 501-508. https://doi.org/10.7326/m15-2531