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The US Preventive Services Task Force

What Is It and What Does It Do?

Virginia Moyer and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
North Carolina Medical Journal September 2015, 76 (4) 238-242; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.76.4.238
Virginia Moyer
past chair, US Preventive Services Task Force; vice president, Maintenance of Certification and Quality, American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
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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vol. 76 no. 4 238-242
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.76.4.238
PubMed 
26509516

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North Carolina Medical Journal
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0029-2559
History 
  • Published online September 21, 2015.

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©2015 by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and The Duke Endowment. All rights reserved.

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  1. Virginia Moyer, MD, MPH⇑
  1. past chair, US Preventive Services Task Force; vice president, Maintenance of Certification and Quality, American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  1. Address correspondence to Dr. Virginia Moyer, American Board of Pediatrics, 111 Silver Cedar Ct, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (vmoyer{at}abpeds.org).
  1. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS
  1. 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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