The US Preventive Services Task Force: What Is It and What Does It Do?
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.
past chair, US Preventive Services Task Force; vice president, Maintenance of Certification and Quality, American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina vmoyer@abpeds.org.
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Moyer
co-vice chair, US Preventive Services Task Force; Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine, professor, Department of Medicine, and professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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Bibbins-Domingo
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