This concise reference encompasses the full spectrum of current policy and management issues relating to women’s health care. Updated guidance is provided on the provision and organization of quality women’s health care services, on well-woman preventive care and screenings, and on the management of common gynecologic issues. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive topic-specific list of professional and patient print and online resources for further information.

This completely revised manual provides the latest guidance and updated recommendations on topics vital to ob-gyns and other women’s health care providers:

• Well-woman care such as breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention, as well as management of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and menopause
• Reproductive care such as family planning, preconception care, and interconception care
• Gynecologic conditions such as abnormal uterine bleeding, abnormal cervical cytology, common
  cancers in women, vulvar skin disorders, and chronic gynecologic pain
• Special concerns such as depression, sexual dysfunction, premenstrual syndrome, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder
• Women’s health care policy and administration in both inpatient and outpatient settings

 his fourth edition of Manual is a concise reference that encompasses the full spectrum of Guidelines for Women’s Health Care: A Resource current policy and management issues relating to women’s health care. The book was developed under the direction of the Editorial Committee for Guidelines for Women’s Health Care, a diverse group of obstetrician– gynecologists and women’s health care providers that represent academic and private practice, as well as general and subspecialty medicine. Although some of the information in Guidelines for Women’s Health Care is specific to obstetrician–gynecologists, much of the information covered in this volume is equally appropriate for others involved in the delivery of women’s health care, such as nursing staff, physician assistants and other allied health care providers, health care administrators, and health plan decision makers.

Contents

PART 1 GOVERNANCE and ADMINISTRATION
PART 2 ORGANIZATION of SERVICES
PART 3 WELL-WOMAN CARE
PART 4 GYNECOLOGIC CARE