The US Preventive Services Task Force: What Is It and What Does It Do?
Author(s) -
Virginia A. Moyer,
Kirsten BibbinsDomingo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
north carolina medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.283
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2379-4313
pISSN - 0029-2559
DOI - 10.18043/ncm.76.4.238
Subject(s) - task force , task (project management) , primary care , preventive care , preventive healthcare , work (physics) , primary prevention , medicine , medline , family medicine , health care , nursing , public health , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , systems engineering , public administration , law , disease , pathology
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent body comprised of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. The primary audience for the USPSTF's work is primary care clinicians, and many consider the Task Force's recommendations to be definitive standards for preventive services.
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