Summary
Details
- Resources for adolescent preventive services recommendations
- Sexual maturity rating scale
- Health guidance for parents
- Early adolescence (ages 11-14 years; sexual maturity rating 1-4)
- Early adolescence healthcare visit: males
- Early adolescence healthcare visit: females
- Middle adolescence (15-17 years; sexual maturity rating 4-5)
- Middle adolescence healthcare visit: males
- Middle adolescence healthcare visit: females
- Late adolescence (age 18-21 years; sexual maturity rating 5)
- Late adolescence healthcare visit: males
- Late adolescence healthcare visit: females
Contributors
Authors
William P. Adelman, MD, FAAP
Executive Director
Student Health and Counseling
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Pediatrics
Adjunct Faculty
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Disclosures
WPA declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Elisabeth Stafford, MD, FSAM, FAAP
Program Director
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
Division Chief
Adolescent Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Brooke Army Medical Center
San Antonio
TX
Disclosures
ES declares that she has no competing interests.
Alain Joffe, MD, MPH, FAAP
Director
Student Health and Wellness Center
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
MD
Disclosures
AJ declares that he has no competing interests.
References
Key articles
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Guide to clinical preventive services, 2014: recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force. 2014 [internet publication].Full text
American Medical Association. Guidelines for adolescent preventive services: recommendations monograph. Chicago, IL: AMA; 1997:1-12.Full text
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Depression and suicide risk in children and adolescents: screening. Oct 2022 [internet publication].Full text
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence. Contraception for adolescents. Pediatrics. 2014 Oct;134(4):e1244-56.Full text Abstract
Reference articles
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