SCREENING & PREVENTION
The age range in which the AAFP and USPSTF recommend biennial mammography for average-risk women.
What is 40 to 74 years?
The evidence rating AAFP assigns to "antibiotics are ineffective for the common cold."
What is SORT A?
The equation now recommended for staging CKD, notable for what it omits.
What is the CKD-EPI creatinine equation without the race variable?
Pearl: Pair with a first-morning urine albumin/creatinine ratio for albuminuria.
The two-item tool used for initial depression screening.
What is the PHQ-2?
The population in whom USPSTF/AAFP recommend screening for abnormal glucose and type 2 diabetes.
Who are adults 35–70 (historically 40–70) years of age who are overweight or obese?
The age at which average-risk colorectal cancer screening should now begin.
What is 45 years?
First-line antibiotic for group A strep pharyngitis.
What is penicillin V (or amoxicillin)?
The lab that, added to creatinine, improves eGFR accuracy over either alone.
What is cystatin C?
The depression screening tool of choice in the perinatal period, besides the PHQ.
What is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale?
The step required after an elevated office BP before starting antihypertensive therapy.
What is confirmation with ambulatory (or home) blood pressure monitoring?
The eligibility triad for annual low-dose CT lung cancer screening.
What is age 50–80, ≥20 pack-years, and currently smoking or quit within 15 years?
First-line antibiotic for acute bacterial rhinosinusitis, and duration in adults.
What is amoxicillin/clavulanate for 5 to 7 days?
The systolic BP target in CKD when tolerated.
What is ≤120 mm Hg?
Pearl: SORT B, from high-quality RCT data and KDIGO — the strongest-graded recommendation in the AAFP CKD review.
The preferred screening tool in older adults with depressive symptoms.
What is the Geriatric Depression Scale?
The 10-year ASCVD risk threshold at which statins are recommended for primary prevention in adults 40–75 with a risk factor.
What is 10% or greater?
The AAFP/USPSTF age to stop cervical cancer screening in women with adequate prior negative screening.
What is older than 65 years?
The window within which watchful-waiting children with acute otitis media must be reassessed and started on antibiotics if not improving.
What is 48 to 72 hours from symptom onset?
The two first-line agents for CKD stages 1–3 with type 2 diabetes.
What are SGLT2 inhibitors and metformin?
The validated 7-item instrument for generalized anxiety disorder.
What is the GAD-7?
The T-score defining osteoporosis, and the two FRAX thresholds prompting treatment.
What is a T-score of −2.5 or less, with FRAX ≥3% for hip fracture or ≥20% for major osteoporotic fracture?
The exam the AAFP explicitly recommends AGAINST in asymptomatic non-pregnant women.
What is the screening pelvic examination?
The stewardship strategy that reduces antibiotic use but lowers patient satisfaction and lengthens symptom duration.
What is delayed prescribing?
The SpO2 threshold below which supplemental oxygen improves survival in COPD.
What is less than 89%?
The drug class not recommended as first-line or long-term therapy for GAD or panic disorder.
What are benzodiazepines?
The two organisms for which routine STI screening is recommended in all sexually active women under 25.
What are gonorrhea and chlamydia?