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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 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 and Implementation Materials
As an outgrowth from the Bright Futures Training Intervention With Office Staff (BFTI) project (reported on in Volume 4, Issue 1 of the Bright Ideas newsletter), AAP has developed a 3-volume set of materials entitled Tools for Working with Practices to Improve Care Using Bright Futures (available Winter 2010). The year-long pilot project funded by the Commonwealth Fund, tested a framework that included 6 office system components — use of a structured developmental assessment; use of a parental strengths and needs assessment form; development of recall and reminder system; development of linkages to community resources; identification of children with special health care needs; and use of a preventive services summary sheet. Lessons learned from the BFTI project has served as the foundation for the new EQIPP ("Educating Quality Improvement in Pediatric Practices" module also due for release in 2010).

The 3 volume set of materials described below will help office staff, facilitators, and trainers establish a system at the practice level that will support implementation of the Bright Futures Guidelines in the office setting.

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, and adolescents. 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 BFTI.

Volume 3: Training Materials to Improve Preventive Care in Office Practices:
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 under age 5.
Look for these new tools in early 2010 to help you implement and teach Bright Futures! The full journal article published in Pediatrics, July 2008 outlining the findings of the Bright Futures Training Intervention With Office Staff is available for download:

Bright Futures Training Intervention: Implementing Systems to Support Preventive and Development Services in Practice.

Adolescent Health Update, Volume 22, No. 1, November 2009.

Published by the AAP Section on Adolescent Health, this issue, entitled Bright Futures for the Busy Clinical Practice by Paula Duncan, MD, FAAP and Amy E. Pirretti, MS, provides practical strategies for implementing the Bright Futures Guidelines for adolescents. The objectives of this article are to prepare pediatricians to: 1) efficiently integrate Bright Futures principles in the busy patient care setting; 2) prioritize prevention strategies/interventions based upon the individual adolescent’s strengths and needs; 3) use Bright Futures tools to more efficiently meet the preventive health care needs of their adolescent patients; 4) code appropriately to ensure optimal reimbursement for providing adolescent preventive services. The article also includes a Family Resource handout for distribution to parents and adolescents, and Hot Topics in Adolescent Medicine, Counseling Adolescents Concerning Military Service.

Bright Futures / AAP Periodicity Schedule

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

2010 Coding Manual Now Available

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.

Other Relevant AAP Practice Management Resources

Practice Management Online: A Centralized, Online Practice Management Resource for Pediatricians 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.