Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps by Committee on Preventive Services for Women

Author:Committee on Preventive Services for Women
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2014-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

WELL-WOMAN PREVENTIVE VISITS

Provision of Preventive Services

The committee examined existing guidelines, available evidence, and current clinical best practices to identify effective provision of services that, when provided to women through dedicated clinical encounters, have been shown to promote optimal well-being. Primary care office visits that are dedicated to preventive care may facilitate increased access to health care services that are shown to identify chronic disease risk factors, promote well-being, and/or decrease the likelihood or delay the onset of a targeted disease or condition. Box 5-2 contains examples of terms that are commonly used to label the prevention-oriented clinical encounter; this report uses the term “well-woman preventive visit” to describe the provision of prevention services in an office visit or clinical encounter.

BOX 5-2

Common Terms Used for Well Visits

Preventive pediatric health care visit (AAP/Bright Futures)

Well-child checkup (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program and Medicaid)

Well-adult checkup (Medicaid)

Health risk assessment (Medicaid)

“Welcome to Medicare” visit (Medicare)

Annual wellness examination (Medicare)

Health maintenance visit (MHQP)

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