The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative Well-Woman Chart: A Helpful Tool for the Practice of Internal Medicine.

Clinical preventive services continue to be underutilized in the United States, despite evidence which shows that these interventions improve health outcomes.1,2 Lack of awareness, limited time, disagreement among guidelines, and the burden of acute care encounters are among the reasons that recommendations are not adopted by physicians and patients. The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI) is a national coalition of 21 professional organizations and patient representatives (Table 1) that develops, reviews, updates, and disseminates evidence-based clinical recommendations for women’s preventive health care services, from adolescence into the post reproductive years.