As in its draft recommendation released a few months earlier (which I wrote about), the USPSTF “concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing in older adults.”
Preventative Health Screenings Based on Data
The USPSTF recently considered whether the federal government should recommend screening for hearing loss in adults. In many ways, hearing loss is similar to hypertension. It doesn’t cause any pain and people often don’t know they have it, but neither condition is benign.
Should the Federal Government Recommend Screening Adults Ages 50 and Older for Hearing Loss?
That’s the question currently being asked by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which just posted its draft recommendations for public comment, along with this statement: “[The USPSTF] concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing loss in older adults.”