Bright Futures: Health Care Professionals Tools and Resources

To successfully provide health supervision care to infants, children and adolescents, clinics and practices will want to access current information about health supervision content and practice management. Bright Futures and AAP resources can guide health care providers and administrators to tested management techniques.

	Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit
	This new tool and resource kit provides materials for health supervision care from infancy through adolescence. It is designed to accompany and support Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Third Edition. The tools contained in the kit were developed reviewed, and piloted by multidisciplinary teams of pediatric health professionals. The tool and resource kit includes forms to streamline health supervision visits, documentation forms to reflect the richness of a Bright Futures visit and document work done, practice management tools, and additional tools designed to aid in screening and developing community linkages. Patient and parent handouts are also included to help the practitioner reinforce important topics discussed during the visit and deliver additional information.
	View Sample Forms: 18 months
	Bright Futures Previsit Questionnaire – 18 Month Visit
	Bright Futures Documentation Form – Well Child/18 Months
	Bright Futures Parent Handout – 18 Month Visit
	View Sample Forms: 15 to 21 Years
	Bright Futures Previsit Questionnaire – 15 to 17 Year Visit
	Bright Futures Adolescent Supplemental Questionnaire 15 to 17 Year Visits
	Bright Futures Patient Handout – 15 to 17 Year Visits
	Bright Futures Parent Handout 15 to 17 year Visits
	To order your Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, visit the AAP Bookstore.

	Bright Futures Training Intervention: Implementing Systems to Support Preventive and Development Services in Practice.
	This article published in Pediatrics, July 2008 reports on the results of the Bright Futures Training Intervention Project which assessed the feasibility of implementing a bundle of strategies to facilitate the use of Bright Futures recommendations and to evaluate the effectiveness of a modified learning collaborative in improving preventive and developmental care.
	Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (1.32 MB)
	These guidelines represent a consensus by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Bright Futures for pediatric preventive care
	Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care 2010 (792 KB)
	The Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care has been newly updated to reflect all of the 2010 changes in both the ICD-9-CM and CPT codes. This coding resource is organized for easy access and accurate reference and contains comprehensive listings of all the current CPT and ICD-9-CM Codes that are commonly reported by pediatric health care practitioners in providing preventive care services. Order the print version of this convenient spiral bound tool through the AAP Bookstore.
	Practice Management Online: A Centralized, Online Practice Management Resource for Pediatricians
	Practice Management Online (PMO) is a resource for pediatricians to support them in running a practice that is fiscally sound, efficient, and provides quality health care to children and families. Housed on the AAP Web site, this resource is a virtual home for pediatricians seeking information on practice management activities. The site is accessible directly at http://practice.aap.org.
	Building Your Medical Home Toolkit
	Brought to you by the AAP/MCHB/National Center for Medical Home Implementation, the Building Your Medical Home Toolkit supports the primary care pediatrician's development and improvement of a pediatric Medical Home. It also prepares a pediatric office to apply for and potentially meet the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) Recognition program requirements. The Toolkit can help a practice assess and improve its medical home capacity with resources and downloadable tools organized into six building blocks that provide guidance for implementation.