GAPS (AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services). Where are the gaps?
B. Knishkowy and H. Palti
Family Medicine Unit, Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel.
The AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS):
Recommendations and Rationale is a major breakthrough in the evolution of
preventive health services in general and of adolescent preventive services
in particular. GAPS is a comprehensive guide for adolescent health
professionals that contains several pioneering elements. These elements
include (1) providing a framework for the organization and content of
"well-adolescent care," (2) offering guidance for parents and families as
an essential part of adolescent health care, and (3) dealing with a wide
range of adolescent health problems, with an appropriate focus on the
behavioral, emotional, and developmental aspects.
