Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked with making recommendations about clinical preventive services which could work to improve the health of all Americans.
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Joseph R. Pitts outlines the purpose of the Preventive Services Task Force.
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