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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent panel first convened in 1984 to review evidence supporting preventive interventions and to issue guidelines on prevention for practicing clinicians. The first and second editions of the USPSTF's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services were published as monographs in 1989 and 1996. Now, the third USPSTF is updating its previous guidelines and creating new ones. This time, however, guidelines will be released as they are completed, and Journal Watch plans to review them as they become available.
USPSTF 3 concludes each of its guidelines with a recommendation, graded as follows:
A -- The intervention is strongly recommended.
B -- The intervention is recommended.
C -- The USPSTF makes…