For 40 years, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF or Task Force) has improved the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations on preventive services. Clinicians, healthcare professionals, patients, families, and communities all look to the Task Force to help them know what works and what doesn’t in preventive care.
Join us as we celebrate 40 years of this important work!
Task Force first convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
First Guide to Clinical Preventive Services published; Task Force invites experts from the scientific community to provide input for the inaugural Guide.
1990sHHS convenes the second Task Force.
Congress gives authority to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to provide administrative, research, technical, and dissemination support to the Task Force in the 1998 Public Health Service Act [PDF].
Third Task Force convened and established continuous operations.
2000sTask Force leads the establishment of
methods to develop evidence-based guidelinesand creates a systematic process aligning with evolving evidence-based principles.
Task Force
solidifies partnershipswith national primary care and patient advocacy groups, Federal agencies, and other partners to help inform and disseminate the work of the Task Force.
Task Force launches the Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS), which is now called
Prevention TaskForce, an application tool to assist primary care clinicians with current recommendations on preventive services. Two years after Prevention TaskForce was created, it became the first app (on iOS) from a federal agency and popular among health and medical apps.
Task Force recommendations are integrated into the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s
MyHealthfinderplatform, a resource to help patients and families stay healthy.
To further its commitment to transparency, the Task Force began to pilot a public comment process on draft materials, which grew to include 4-week comment periods for all draft research plans, recommendation statements, and evidence reviews.
2020sTask Force rebrands and redesigns the ePSS application to
Prevention TaskForce. Key features of the redesign include a streamlined user interface, real-time data sync, and one-click access to clinical and full recommendation data.
Task Force reinforces and publishes its
commitment to addressing health equityin primary care.
As of this year, the Task Force has recommendations on more than 88 topics.
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