Climate change. Covid. Anxiety itself. There’s a lot we worry about in Seattle these days, which makes a recent, unprecedented health recommendation all the more notable.
This September, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—an independent panel of primary care experts—released a draft of new guidance that all patients under 65 be screened for anxiety. Back in April, the group made the same draft recommendation for children eight and up.
USPSTF usually sets guidelines for routine preventative care and cancer screenings. Think mammograms, colonoscopies, and pap smears. These two recommendations, if finalized, would add to the task force’s growing category of mental health screenings and would be the broadest in scope.
According to woefully out-of-date statistics
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