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Training and Implementation Materials: Table of Contents Go to: |
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Introduction: Tools for Working With Practices to Improve Preventive Care Using Bright Futures
These Bright Futures training and implementation materials funded by the Commonwealth Fund with support from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, have been developed to facilitate implementation of the Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd Edition, at the practice system level (for tools and resources to use in conjunction with health supervision visits, see the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit).
1. Use of a Preventive Services Prompting System 2. Use of structured developmental assessment 3. Evaluation of parental strengths and needs 4. Development of a recall and reminder system 5. Development of linkages to community resources 6. Identification of children with special health care needs
Practices that have systems to support these 6 components are ones that embody the Bright Futures philosophy.
The office systems concept is important as well. All practices have office systems in which staff work together to accomplish a common purpose. Billing is an example of a system in which the entire health care team communicates to ensure that patients receive an accurate bill for services. Applying these office system principles to preventive care helps to overcome the sheer number of recommended services by using tools, training, and data to ensure that appropriate services are provided to patients at every visit.
For more information about the year-long pilot project funded by the Commonwealth Fund and the 15 participating practices that led to the development of these training and implementation materials see this article, published in Pediatrics (Lannon CM, Flower K, Duncan P, Moore KS, Stuart J, Bassewitz J. The Bright Futures Training Intervention Project: implementing systems to support preventive and developmental services in practice. Pediatrics. 2008;122 e163-e171):
For your convenience, the Training and Implementation Materials are available online with navigation for each volume appearing in the left-hand column. You can also download:
See below for a description of each volume, links to the online version, and PDFs/Word documents for each volume and for each component within a volume.
Volume 1: Improving Preventive Care in Your Office-Tools for Office Improvement
This volume is designed to guide physician offices and other clinical teams through the development and implementation of Bright Futures to enhance the preventive care for infants, children, younger than 5 years. These tools can be adapted by clinical sites for the age of the child, the patient population, and the local community.
Volume 2: Working With Practices to Improve Preventive Care: A Leader’s Guide
This step-by-step guide will help individuals, facilitators, or other project staff plan and implement the Bright Futures Training Intervention With Office Staff (BFTI).
Volume 3: Training Materials to Improve Preventive Care in Office Practice: Bright Futures Workshop Materials
This volume contains the workshop binder contents, slide presentations, and worksheets from the two 1-day workshops held during the pilot project of the BFTI, which focused on delivery of screening and preventive services for children younger than 5 years.
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