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AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS): Recommendations and Rationale
by Arthur B. Elster and Naomi J. Kuznets, 191 pp, $29, ISBN 0-683-02798-0, Baltimore, Md, Williams & Wilkins, 1994.
Nancy Eklund, MD, Reviewer
South Miami (Fla) Hospital
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(5):469.
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Caring for adolescent patients is a challenge that rivals any in the medical field. Any family physician who cares for adolescents would be interested in this compendium of recommendations for comprehensive clinical preventive care for patients, ages 11 through 21, who have historically been lost somewhere in the void between careful screening and prevention protocols for infants and young children and periodic health screening for adults. The pooled expertise of a multidisciplinary advisory board working with the American Medical Association (AMA) Department of Adolescent Health created Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS), a framework for annual adolescent visits that extends beyond the preparticipation physical examination and tentative inquiry into school performance, sexual activity, and substance use that characterizes many well-adolescent visits.
The 24 GAPS recommendations regarding immunization, screening, health guidance, and
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