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Preventive Health Recommendations

During pre-visit chart reviews create alerts for patients not meeting the following criteria:

  1. Mammography
    • Yearly in women from age 50 – 69
  2. Pap smear
    • Every 3 years in women age 18 – 64
      (not in women with a hysterectomy)
  3. Colon Cancer
    • Colonoscopy every 10 years from age 50 – 80
  4. Osteoporosis
    • DXA at least once in all women age 65 or older
  5. Preventive Health Exam
    • Every 2 years after age 40