The Task Force is committed to using a clear, consistent, and transparent recommendation development process so that health care professionals, partners, and the American public can understand and trust its work. The Task Force documents its methods in a procedure manual and other resources to ensure that the recommendations and evidence reviews are consistently of high quality, methodologically sound, scientifically defensible, reproducible, and unbiased. This page includes links to resources and published articles about Task Force methods.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Procedure ManualLearn about the methods used by the Task Force to ensure that the recommendations and evidence reviews are scientifically sound, reproducible, and well documented.
Standards for Guideline DevelopmentLearn how the Task Force’s processes align with the National Academy of Medicine's recommendations for trustworthy, evidence-based guideline development.
General Methods Articles | Health Equity and Specific Populations Articles | Technical Briefs and Other Evidence Reports
General Methods ArticlesRead articles that provide further details on the Task Force’s methodology.
5/26/2023 Establishing and Maintaining Trust: How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Uses Strategic Communications to Build Confidence in and Disseminate Its Evidence-Based Recommendations (Commentary, PDF) 3/27/2023 Putting Evidence Into Practice: An Update on the US Preventive Services Task Force Methods for Developing Recommendations for Preventive Services 3/22/2022 Collaboration and Shared Decision-Making Between Patients and Clinicians in Preventive Health Care Decisions and US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations 1/1/2022 Preventing Opioid Use Disorder and Misuse in Primary Care Patients: A Call for Relevant Primary Prevention Intervention Research (Abstract) 9/24/2019 Improvements to the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (Fact Sheet, PDF File, 45 KB; 1 Page) 12/15/2017 AJPM Supplement: Advancing the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 7/05/2016 Use of Decision Models in the Development of Evidence-Based Clinical Preventive Services Recommendations (PDF File, 202 KB) 11/17/2015 Evidence-Based Clinical Prevention in the Era of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 9/01/2015 Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care: Perspectives in Enhancing the Evidence Base 3/18/2014 Behavioral Counseling Research and Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations 6/1/2009 USPSTF: An Evidence-Based Prevention Resource for Nurse Practitioners (PDF File, 510 KB) 2/03/2009 Update on Methods: Insufficient Evidence (PDF File, 229 KB) 12/18/2007 Update on Methods: Estimating Certainty and Magnitude of Net Benefit (PDF File, 90 KB) 7/17/2007 Current Processes: Refining Evidence-Based Recommendation Development (PDF File, 101 KB) 7/17/2007 Update on Methods: How to Read the New Recommendation Statement (PDF File, 302 KB) 3/01/2007 Integrating Evidence-Based Clinical and Community Strategies to Improve Health (PDF File, 378 KB) 1/01/2004 Shared Decision Making About Screening and Chemoprevention (PDF File, 106 KB) 5/01/2002 Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-Based Approach (PDF File, 178 KB) 4/01/2001 Current Methods of the USPSTF: A Review of the Process (PDF File, 274 KB) 4/01/2001 AJPM Supplement: Introducing the Third U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Health Equity and Specific Populations ArticlesRead articles related to the Task Force’s focus on addressing health equity and systemic racism and articles relevant to the development of recommendations for specific populations based on sex, age, race and ethnicity, and other factors. A summary of the Task Force's approach to specific populations is available on the Specific Populations page.
Technical Briefs and Other Evidence ReportsRead evidence reports that are not associated with USPSTF recommendations.
Note: All publications are reflections of the Task Force’s methods at the time of publication. For current Task Force methods, please refer to the Task Force’s Procedure Manual.
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Current as of: December 2023
Internet Citation: Methods and Processes. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. June 2019.
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