With urine-based screening, do sexually active adolescent girls still need annual pelvic examinations? No: recommending annual exams is not evidence based.
Shafer
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Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine San Francisco, CA 94143-0503, USA. shafer@itsa.ucsf.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010808:Physical Examination; D014626:Vaginal Smears