Filling in the Gaps Through Research

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In their Commentary in this issue of theArchives, Knishkowy and Palti1offer a thoughtful critique of theAMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS): Recommendations and Rationale.2This Editorial is not intended to respond to their critique on a point-by-point basis. Rather, I wish to support their call for a vigorous adolescent preventive health services research agenda as there is much that remains unknown about this subject. Pediatricians and others who provide care to children and adolescents have long recognized the importance of preventive services as an essential component of what we do. With the publication ofGAPSandBright Futures: National Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents,3and with the increased pediatric input into the second edition of theGuide to Clinical Preventive Services,4we now have 3 scholarly works that focus our attention on specific components of the preventive services

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