By LEE BOWMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
June 27, 2005
- Professional guidelines don't endorse them, but a new survey of family doctors shows that most still see value in adults getting an annual checkup even if the patients have no specific symptoms.
The survey, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that 65 percent of respondents believe an annual physical examination is necessary, and 88 percent said they do them for at least some patients.
The study, done in 2002, was based on responses of a random sample of 763 primary-care doctors in and around Boston, Denver and San Diego. Dr. Allan Prochazka and colleagues at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center led the research.
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