How to keep the annual visit annual

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September 2005 · Vol. 17, No. 9

How to keep the annual visit annual

Pap test or no Pap test, every woman needs a yearly exam, for reasons vital to her health—and to ObGyn practice.

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KEY SOURCES

For patients

Checklist for Your Next Checkup
www.ahrq.gov.ppip/healthywom.htm
For ObGyns

Human Papillomavirus. ACOG Practice Bulletin
Obstet Gynecol. 2005;105:905–918.

USPSTF Guidelines
www.ahrq.gov/clinic

Mark S. DeFrancesco, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, Women’s Health Connecticut, Avon, Conn, mark.defrancesco@womenshealthusa.com

An ObGyn in the audience steps up to the microphone after my lecture on cervical disease screening.

“Ever since the new recommendation that some women might need a Pap test only every 3 years, I’ve been concerned that a lot of my patients will just stop coming in. They won’t ask my opinion; they’ll read about it in one of their women’s magazines…and then I’ll notice that a lot of my regular patients who came in once a year just won’t be coming in.”

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