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1 Introduction
Pages 19-24

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... since 1989, recommending for or against clinical preventive services, including screenings, behavioral counseling, and preventive medication. In addition to providing recommendations for or against the use of specific interventions, the USPSTF highlights current gaps in the evidence base for a particular topic.
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From page 20...
... discuss novel research methodology that is needed to inform evidence gaps; and (4) propose new opportunities for collaboration among prevention researchers, funders, and guideline developers to accelerate prevention research that will close priority evidence gaps.
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From page 21...
... . Furthermore, discussions with AHRQ staff supporting the USPSTF and the USPSTF chair indicated that other goals for the committee are to provide immediate and long-term solutions that will help: • Organizations that develop preventive services recommenda tions, such as the USPSTF, to more clearly communicate evidence gaps; • Funding agencies, including NIH, to understand, assess the rela tive importance of, and use evidence gaps from preventive ser vices recommendations in order to ultimately support research to fill the gaps; • Members of the research community to focus their research on high-priority areas that have evidence gaps; and • All stakeholders, including patients, to accelerate the translation of evidence gaps into funding opportunities and other initiatives that ultimately use innovative methods to close evidence gaps related to clinical preventive services (Bierman, 2020)
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From page 22...
... The committee believes that the taxonomy and report's recommendations will play an important but singular part in this undertaking. Knowing that the long-term outcome is to identify and close evidence gaps in clinical prevention research (particularly those gaps informed by letter grade recommendations and I statements issued by the USPSTF)
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... Chapter 4 includes the taxonomy developed by the committee and describes how it can be used as part of a process to develop an actionable research agenda for USPSTF evidence gaps. Chapter 5 contains the committee's recommendations, which are focused on three areas: using the taxonomy, fostering clinical prevention research, and advancing the work of the USPSTF.
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