United States Preventive Services Task Force

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is "an independent group of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services". The task force, a sixteen-member volunteer panel of primary care clinicians with methodology experience "including internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, behavioral health, obstetrics/gynecology, and nursing". Members typically serve for four-year terms and their recommendations were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine at one time, but now appear in JAMA. Members are appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.