The NIH was the single largest financial contributor to the systematic reviews that led to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations, according to data recently published in JAMA.

“At the NIH Office of Disease Prevention, we regularly seek innovative ways to measure the impact of NIH funding in prevention research,” Jennifer Villani, MD, PhD, of the NIH Office of Disease Prevention, told Healio Family Medicine. “This study was undertaken to measure the NIH contribution to clinical preventive service guidelines.”