AMA guidelines for adolescent preventive services (GAPS) : recommendations and rationale

Author(s)

• American Medical Association
• Elster, Arthur B.
• Kuznets, Naomi J.

Bibliographic Information

AMA guidelines for adolescent preventive services (GAPS) : recommendations and rationale

[edited by] Arthur B. Elster, Naomi J. Kuznets

Williams & Wilkins, c1994

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Focusing on the "well child exam", this book offers recommendations for practitioners who see adolescent patients. It provides a framework for the organization and content of routine health care for 11-21 year olds. Recommendations include those directed at: dietary habits, eating disorders and obesity; sexual development; physical fitness; use of alcohol, other drugs and anabolic steroids; need for immunizations; treatment of severe or recurrent depression; and risk of hypertension and hyperlipidemia.

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Details

• NCID: BA24520290
• ISBN:
  • 0683027980
• LCCN: 93004701
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xxxviii, 191 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RJ102
  • NLM : WS 460 A512a 1994
  • DC20 : 362.1/0835
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Preventive health services for teenagers -- United States -- Standards
  • MESH : Preventive Health Services -- standards
  • MESH : Adolescent Medicine -- standards
  • MESH : Delivery of Health Care -- standards