Problems with comments may need to resubmit. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)

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Reopening of the Public Comment Period for Coronary Heart Disease, Hearing

Loss, and Prostate Cancer Screening

The USPSTF discovered technical issues with its Web site that resulted in

the loss of a portion of the public comments submitted electronically for

its recent draft recommendation statements on screening for coronary heart

disease, hearing loss, and prostate cancer.

Comments submitted were affected as follows:

* For screening for coronary heart disease with electrocardiography:

comments submitted between September 27 and October 11, 2011.

* For screening for hearing loss in older adults: comments submitted

between October 4 and October 11, 2011.

* For screening for prostate cancer: comments submitted on October 11,

2011, before the late afternoon.

Individuals who submitted comments electronically during these periods

received messages confirming that their comments were submitted even though

the USPSTF was not receiving them.

While this technical issue was immediately resolved, and many public

comments on all of these topics have been received, the Task Force wants to

ensure that anyone who submitted comments that may have been lost has the

opportunity to resend them. To this end, the public comment period for these

three topics will be reopened from November 30 to December 13.

The USPSTF regrets this inconvenience, but believes it is most important to

allow everyone's voice to be heard. The Task Force will carefully review all

comments from the public it receives and will use them to craft its final

recommendation statements.

Link to comment:

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/draftrec3.htm

Kathy Meade Goulait

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